River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-02-04

RICHARD CHRISTIAN, aged 90. muir
dered his father at Wheeling, w. Va,
because he called him up TO build a
fire. The murdered man was the IA
Their of eighteen children.
GEORGE STILLwELL and wife. of Will
mington, ILL.,, died of the grip within
an hour of each other. They were 20
years old
RoBBERs made a raid on the Union
bank of Wilton, la. and secured 81. 900.
AT the age of 90 years Solomon Hanks,
a cousin of A braham Lincoln, died near
Wapakoneta, o.
FLAMES destroyed the Queen &
Crescent railway shops at Birmingham.
Ala Loss. $3.50. O00
INDIANA democrats have changed the
date of their state convention from
April IA to April 81.
IN Oklahoma territory large numbers
of the Pawnee, Otoe and Missouri In
dams were dying daily of la grippe.
WILLIAM MYERS and his uncle, John
Owen. were burned to death at Ken
dallville. Ind.
An Indian named William Tyndall,
living near Bancroft, Neb., will file an
application for a pension. He served
in the civil war.
THE tenth attempt within the past
year was made to set fire to Burling-
ton, la.
A MOB took Lee Gibson (colored)
from Jail at Owenton, Ky, and hanged
him for the murder of Frank Leggerns.
In North Dakota the wheat crop for
:. ~ 4 Il
or % IS bushels to the acre.
THE Farmers National Alliance in
session in Chicago reelected ID. f.
Ravens, of Washington, president for
the ensuing year.
AT Charlestown, Md, Thomas Thomp-
son (colored) was hanged for the muir
der on August %. 1891, of William
Adams. also colored.
TANDY You've and his two children,
aged and 6 years, were burned to
death by the burning of a house at
GEeenville, Ga. Mrs. Young escaped.
GEORGE CRAMER's home near Brain
erd, Mimi, was burned during his
absence, and Mrs Cramer and three
children persisted in the flames
AT Thompsons, Tex, four men cap
tured and hung Joe Shields to tree.
No cause was known.
LEE DAVIS and Bob Jones, members
of the Parton faction, were waylaid
and killed by Perry Turner and his
men near Pineville, Ky.
In Oklahoma a man named Rurdette
and his wife and two children froze to
death.
THE business portion of Milan, Mo-,
was swept away by flames.
THE Ohio republican association in
Washington gave a reception to Sen.
ator John Sherman in honor of his
sixth election to the United States
senate.
AT Terre Haute, Ind. b. r. Mus
grave, who attempted to swindle in
surance companies by burning log
cabin containing a skeleton, was con-
victed and sentenced to pay fine of
$500 and to be confined in the peDiten-
tiary ten years.
In Sumner county, Kan, John w.
Wise, a grandson of John Wise, de-
ceased, while digging for the FONDA
tion of a new structure on the farm on
which the old man died, found S35. 900
which had been secreted dozen years
THE house and barns on the farm oc-
cupied by Charles Leonhardt near Ma
rengo. III, was destroyed by fire, and
thirteen horses were burned and all the
farm implements. In the house con-
cealed in a bed was 81, 200 in bills, which
were also burned.
A BAND of citizens killed four horse
thieves near Helena, Mont
DURING a gale the British ship Fern
dale, coal laden, went ashore near the
entrance to Gray's Harbor. Ore, and
twenty of the crew, including the Off
GERS. were drowned, only three per-
sons reaching shore alive.
The family of r. V. Burnett were
taken with the grip while enroute from
Missouri to the Pottawatamie reserva-
ton in oklahoma territory, and MIR.
Burnett, his wife and two children died
from the effects of the disease.
A GANG of expert counterfeiters were
flooding Ohio with spurious silver coin
dated 1877.