River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-11-17

IN mine at Pekay. Ia, an explosion
killed three men and injured severa
others.
AN aged couple, Mr.. and Mrs Johr
Doyle. who registered at the Interna
tional hotel in San Francisco from Dav
export, Ia, were asphyxiated by gas.
The death of Uncle Jack" Hook
the oldest driver and trainer on the
turf, occurred at his home in Paris
KY, aged 81 years
Ar Big Rock Creek, n. C., i'm an cleo
ton row knives were freely used, anc
fourteen men were wounded, SIX
fatally.
IL session at Baltimore the genera
committee on missions of the Methodist
Episcopal church appropriated si,275,
600 for missions in the coming year.
A THROUGH freight train dashed into
the caboose of the local freight which
was standing on the track at Highland
Center, Ia, telescoping the caboose
and four cars. The caboose caught
fire and Miss Lizzie Battordoff. Mrs
Jones, Joseph Thornton and an un
known woman were burned TO death.
A PASSENGER and freight train on the
Missouri Pacific collided near Pleasant
Hill. Mo-, and several persons were in
iured.
IN New Orleans the amalgamated
council virtually surrendered and the
great strike is over They abandoned
the demand for rec 1gnition of the union
and agreed to arhitrate the questions OF
time and wages and to allow the mer
chants to re ain the men employed.
FLAMES in the large peanut factory
of the Merchants and Farmers Com
pany at Norfolk. Va, caused loss OF
500, 900.
a STATEMENT of worlds fair finances
shows that the total receipts TO Novem
Der l were Sl1.4l6 677.s1 and the dis
bursements Sll, O63,3l3.lS.
IL Cleveland Arthur w. Wuellmeas.
Frenchman. will begin fifty-day
fast on December 3. under the auspices
of the western reserve university med
ical college.
NEAR Farnam, Neb., a prairie fire
burned three houses, nearly 100 wheat
stacks and thousands of tons of hay.
The supreme court of Utah, in the
the church escheatment case, involving
81, OO0. 200. decided that the funds
should be handed over to the Mormon
church.
By the death of his father in Ger.
many Carl w. Amendorf, porter in a
saloon in Kansas City, Mo-, is heir to
81. 600, GOO.
Mr. AND MEs. DALLAS were drowned
by the boat overturning while attempt
ing to cross a mill pond near Webb
City. Mo-, IN skiff
The proposition to annul the enforce
ment OF the prohibitory laws in Kan.
sas was carried at the recent election
and saloons were opening all over the
state.
IN Chicago Charles Ryan fatally shot
Susie Huff ard Frank Whitaker and
then shot himself dead. Jealousy was
the cause.
UNLESS the government interferes in
their behalf it is said the remnants of
the Arapahoe and Cheyenne tribes in
oklahoma will come to starvation.
FLAMES destroyed the horse and mule
market of Sparks Brothers in Kansas
City and forty mules and ten horses
were burned to death.
IL one dav Miss Leona Lott, of Pur-
Wis, Miss, elOped with three men and
finally married Wilbur Griffin.
KREMLIN lowered the worlds mile
record for stations to 2:O7s{ at Cum Der.
land park in Nashville, Tenn.
Ar Cleveland, o., ten persons were
injured in a collision between a passen-
ger train and motor car.
THE town of Groveton, the county
seat of Trinity county, Tex, was al
most entirely destroyed by fire.