River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-12-22
FLAMES in St Paul. Mimi. caused

FLAMES in St Paul, Mimi. caused
500. 900 loss to the occupants of the
John Mann block.
IL Idaho the official count compiled
by the secretary of state gives Weaver
l0,43O; Harrison, s,709; plurality of Me-
Conpell trep.) for governor. l,4o9.
DURING fire in boarding house at
Union Park, suburb of ST. Paul, Mrs.
Jennie Eames and her son and daugh-
ter, aged respectively and years.
were burned to death.
AN aged couple. Rodericl Crisp and
his wife, living near Mounds. Ill, both
died suddenly on the same day.
FIRE destroyed the factory of the
Higgins Cracker Company at Kansas
CITY. Mo-. the loss being SITS. 600.
THE wife of William jackson, aged
GO. living near Springfield, o., pulled a
needle out of her left shoulder. which
has been sore for years. Mrs. jackson
swallowed the needle when Il years
old.
AUGUST GRossNAN was found guilty
at Alpena, Mich. of murder in the
first degree in having caused the death
of Albert Molier. Rogers City lumber
man. seventeen years ago. There are
twelve others charged with the same
crime and their trials will follow
shortly.
IL his cell at Los Angeles, Cal, All
Yung. condemned for the murder of
Ferdinand Iniiado, committed suicide
by hanging himself with his queue.
IL South Carolina the official vote at
the recent election for president is as
follows: Cleveland, 54.69s; Harrison,
1854; Weaver, 2,4lO; Bidwell, none.
In the Jail at Batavia. H., Cyrus
Mitchell and another prisoner were
smothered to death bv escaping steam
from coil of steampipes which had
burst.
THE failure is announced of Charles
Haltimies, a stockman at Shesbrook,
\. D.. for 100000.
THE death of Charles Balmer. one of
the best known musical composers IN
America, and musical director of the
funeral of Abraham Lincoln. occurred
at his residence in St Louis, aged IS.
AT West Superior, Wis, Dick Ed
wards, alias Texas Jack" was ar
rested and will be sent to Texas, where
he is wanted for numbering four women
at Denison.
WHILE walking from his Office to his
residence j. w. Hoy, aged so years. a
leading physician at Bloomville. O.,
dropped dead.
JOSEPH JENKINS (colored) was hanged
at Mount Pleasant, :. c., for the muir
der of John Morgan. and John Burns,
the murderer of Maurice Higgins, was
executed at Missoula, Mont.
THE caboose of wreclling train on
the Great Northern railway was tele-
scoped by freight train at Nelson.
Mimi, and eight men were killed and
Eve more were badly injured
THE firm of Freiberg. Klein & Co.,
wholesale liquor dealers at Galveston,
Tex, failed for $3.50, 600
NEAR Leicester. \. c., n. r. Jones
was shot and instantly killed and his
son Jesse shot and fatally wounded
while resisting arrest for refusing to
work on the public roads.
A MOB near Bristol, Tenn, lynched
Irwin Roberts (colored), charged with
the murder OF Landon Crosswhite.
THE death of Henry W. Hillard, ex-
minister of Belgium and fifty years ago
a member of congress, occurred in Au-
gusta, Ga.
CHARLES FAeIN, baggage master, and
Express Messenger Kinney were killed
and several passengers were injured
in wreck on the Cincinnati, New Or
leans & Texas Pacific road near Dan
Vile, Ky.
IL Michigan the official canvass of
the vote for president gives-iIarrison
222, TOs; Cleveland, 202, 296; Bidwell,
30. $50, and Weaver, 10, 792. Harrison's
plurality. 2 ,4l2.
The supreme court of Indiana has
decided unconstitutional the apportion-
ment act passed by the legislature two
wears ago.