River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-02

SIX men were burned. two fatally, by
an explosion in pulpInill at Ashland
Wis. and the Others will be crippled
for life.
An Ann Arbor freight train plungina
into sink hole near Hamburg, Mich.
caught fire and Engineer Beaulieu,
Fireman Albers and Head brakeman
Mulligan were burned to death.
The Illinois supreme court says the
weekly pay law passed by the last leg
islature is unconstitutional.
FLAMES in the foundry house of the
state penitentiary at Lincoln, Neb..
caused loss of 500. COO
a PsacEL containing So. 900. con
signed from New York TO the Whitney
national bank of New Orleans, via
American express, was stolen by some
one unknown.
The Michigan matricide, J. lrv-
ing Latimer, was placed with the other
prisoners after nearly seven months
confinement
PETER ADAMS and Mrs. Lizzie Lee, of
Richmond, Ind, were arrested for
grave robbing. Adams was caught in
the act.
KID WILSON. Henry Starr and All
Clancy were found guilty of train rob
berry at Fort Smith, Ark.
The largest battle-ship in the United
States navy, the Oregon, was launched
at San Francisco.
IT was said that Louis ]. Silva. cash
Ter for the Rainwater Hat company
in st. Louis, was a defaulter for over
nd L = =.
lions the firm was forced to assign.
Word was received at Milwaukee
from Rome that the Order of Good
TeInplars had been placed under the
Dan, 50 far as Catholics are concerned.
WTra good health Mrs. Christina
Rordner, of Lewiston, Ill. attained the
104th year of her age.
IKE WILLIAMS (colored) was executed
at Madison, Ga, for the murder of Har-
riet William S; DIR. +. Vincent, a wife
murderer, as hanged at Fresno. Cal,
and Marshall Il. Taylor was executed
at Wise Court House. Va, for killing
Ira Mullins and his wife and daughter
and brother. John Mullins.
WHILE drunk at Continental, o.. 10.
seph Miller shot and killed George Nc.
Donald aud fatally wounded Andy
Hamilton.
MARSHALL. FIELD will give 81, OoO 600
toward a fund to assure for Chicago
Column pian museum.
The house of representatives passed
Till prohibiting the sale of cigarettes
in Georgia.
SEVERAL tons of wild sunfiowers were
H.
was far superior to straw paper
DELEGATIONS from fifty-four Ameri-
can cities and towns assisted at the re-
union of American cities of the nation
At the worlds fair.
The mayor of Chicago, Carter II.
Harrison, was shot and killed at his
home at about S o'clock on the evening
of the 2sth by Patrick T. Prendergast,
a newspaper carrier. who was thought
TO be insane. MIR. Harrison was IS
years of age, and was serving his fifth
term as mayor of Chicago. He was a
widower and leaves four children lie
was to have been married November
Is to Miss Annie Howard. of New Or
leans.
AT Columbus, o.. Rev. y. s. Holmes
created a stir by declaring in his pulpit
that foreigners control the labor unions
of this country.
DELEGATION appointed by a con-
vention of negro lawyers recently held
in Chattanooga, Tenn, arrived in
Washington to urge upon congress the
recommendation of the convention, in
case the government does not protect
the negro, that 81. 600, 900. 600 be appro-
priated with which the eolored people
of this country may be colonized They
seem TO favor some part of South or
Central America.
THE saloonkeepers at Eureka. s d.,
angered because they were black balled,
set fire to the masonic and pythian
lodge rooms.
THE smallest living man." Mai.
Decker. died in Chicago. lie was a
years old, weighed seventy-five pounds
and was 81 inches high
DURING the week ended October 2s
the paid admissions TO the worlds fair
were !, 55s, i72; total since May /, a.
322, 422.
). f. NORTH. of Carbonate, Ill.
claims TO have discovered the secret for
welding copper.
THE death of Mrs Harriet Van Der
burg (coloredl occurred at sheffield.
IL. at the age of 10 years.
IN Philadelphia the NTH annivers-
airy of the landing of William Penn
was celebrated.