River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-06-01
MESH AND SOuTA

WEST AND SOUTH.
A TERRIFIC windstorm in Ohio killed
four men at Cleveland, destroyed prop
erty valued at $1,000, 600 in Lima and
vicinity and did great damage at Find
lay, Fremont and other places.
BERNAED GoODE, of Detroit, Mich.
has teen appointed superintendent OF
the dead letter Office in Washington
vice ID. +. Leibhardt. resigned.
The worlds fair national commits
si0ners, by a vote of 81 to p. decided to
sustain the local directory in its decision
10 open the exposition ON sunday, and
unless legal process restraining the di-
rectors from acting otherwise is resorted
to the gates of the fair will be thrown
open Sundays TO visitors
FIRE destroyed the eastern portion of
the town of Carbonate, Col, the loss
being over 100000.
A FIRE in the new city of Belden,
Mich, wiped out a full third of the
business houses of the town. Loss,
sl75.00O. William Young. John Porter
and three other men who worked at the
fire drank some liquor and died soon
after. Some kind of poison was thought
to have been in the whisky.
SToCKMEN in South Dakota have suf-
fercd great losses by recent storms in
that state.
EX-TREAsURERN VINCENT, of Alabama,
who was sentenced six years ago to
twenty years for embezzling 500. 600 has
been pardoned.
EPHRAIM MUCHLER. who murdered ].
J. Brown, prominent business man at
Nichols, Ga. and another negro who
was quarreling with Brown when he
was killed were lynched 10y mob.
wINDsToRN in Michigan did greal
damage in Detroit and at many points in
Wayne. Monroe and Lenawee counties.
WILLIAM SULLIVAN, the farmland
who brutally murdered his employer.
Layton Leech, and murderOusly as
saulted the latter's wife near Durand,
Mich. last January, was taken from
Jail by an immense mob and lynched.
sullivan was captured in Detroit re-
Gently.
Two MAD dogs bit twenty persons in
Chicago in the neigh borhood of Forty
eighth and West Lake streets.
MAYOR Il ULMAN. wholesale grocers
at Brunswick. Ga, failed for $3.50. 900.
HEAVY frosts were reported along
the line of the Central Branch railway
in kansas. and it was thought the
growing crops were greatly damaged.
BY the breaking of levee in Louisi-
ana the greater part of East Carroll,
Madison and Concordia parishes were
overiiowed, causing the destruction of
growing crops
THE newly appointed consul TO Vera
+ Cruz, Charles Schaeffer, of Sedgwick.
Kan, was made consul before he was a
citizen of the United States.
A HEAVY windstOrm blew down or
unroofed twenty-five houses in the
eastern part of Louisville, Ky.
FIRE destroyed the Latterer pump
and box factory at Middletown, o., the
loss being 100000.
The management of the Penusyl-
vania railroad system and the Lake
Shore x Michigan Southern railroad
have informed their employees that be-
tween now and October 80 every en-
ploye. irrespective of his or her depart
ment. viii be given two weeks vaca-
[ ton Ia see the fair.
FLAMES among tobacco factories at
I Winston, y. G, caused a loss of $780,
600
STUDENTS at Grant university, Chat
| tanooga. Tenn, hauled down the stars
and stripes and substituted flag of the
confederacy.
BY decision of the courts at Omaha
the Union Pacific company will be COM
PEELED to build fine railway station at
Omaha, as it agreed to do more than
I ten years ago.
4 TRAIN on the Wabash road made
I the run from Kansas City to Centralia,
Z Mo, t53 miles. in los minutes. breaking
Z the record west of the Mississippi for
! long-distance running.
4 TORNADO in Indiana wrecked houses
and did other damage at Jacksonville,
Z Elwood. Marion and Columbus.
AN extensive gang of counterfeitefs
has been unearthed in southwest Mis-
souri, by government secret service
officers.
AT their home near Plymouth, Ia,
Charles Towne. a farmer, and his
young wife were probably fatally shot
while eating supper by some person
unknown who fired through a window
No motive was known for the crime.
IL Denver the American Baptist Pub
LEGATION society held its sixty-ninth an
nual session. The reports showed that
more than 81. OOO. 900 copies of books,
+ tracts. pamphlets and periodicals had
[ been printed during the year.
TIBE commissioners representing all
I the European nations and Brazil have
I withdrawn their exhibits at the worlds
fair from competition for awards under
T the single judge system
Miss MARY SNUTZ ANA James Brown
I were killed by the cars while walking
I on a high trestle near Bluefield, W. Va
+ EvAN OWEN and Griff Harris, en-
ploves of the steel works at Pueblo.
/ Col. during a drunken fight fell in
I front of an electric car and were in
I stantly killed.
ANoNG Kansas farmers a new secret
I political society has been formed.
ON the Missouri Pacific an express
I train was held up and robbed of 81 600
4 by four unmasked men just beyond the
( suburbs of st Louis
/ Is Chicago IIugh Etter, a colored
man. shot and killed another eolored
man named Dewitt Sherrell in a quar-
rel over a woman. and Etter was fatally
shot while resisting arrest.
4 Because she was seeking a divorce
I John Mario. of Green Bay, Wis. killed
+ his wife and then took his own life.
Il At Lamar Mo-. Amos Avery was
f hanged for the murder of James A.
Niles on September -. 1891. He made
q speech on the gallOws proclaiming his
innocence.
TIE list OF foreign nations repre-
scented at Washington has been in
creased by the establishment of
/ Siamese legation.