River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-06-15

The republicans of Ohio In convention
at Columbus nominated William McKin.
ley for governor, A. L. Harris for lieu.
tenant governor, w. Il. Cope for state
treasurer, j. X. Richards for attorney
general and ). p Bradbury for suprems
Judge. The platform favors protection
TO American labor and industries; pro-
lection against the influx of vicious and
criminal classes; favors pensions to dis
abled soldiers and sailors of the late
war and the widows and orphans of
such as are deceased, and favors honest
money composed of gold, silver and
paper, maintained at equal value and
under national and not state regulation.
MOB lynched l.. c. Dumas. young
colored man, at Gleason, Tenn, for as
saulting a daughter of farmer.
The men and women whose official
positions make their duty the caring for
the unfortunate in the public institu-
tions of the country inaugurated a con-
gress of charities and corrections in
Chicago.
SIX masked men held up the Mobile
& Ohio New Orleans express train at
Forest Lawn, Ill, and robbed the ex-
press car of $4,000.
The Nebraska state building on the
worlds fair grounds was dedicated with
great enthusiasm.
In Chicago the congress of vegetari-
ans was opened and papers setting forth
the benefits to bee obtained from Austen
ton from eating flesh were read.
A wINDsToRM swept Rice county,
Mimi, doing fully $50, 900 damage. The
village of Dundas suffered the most
severely.
AT the annual meeting in Peoria, Ill,
John a. Lee, of st. Louis, was elected
president of the Travellers Protective
association.
THE recent fire in Fargo. N D.,
caused a loss of 81. 900, and an APP
peal for aid for the many persons left
destitute has been made.
AT Mayfield, KY. Bob Brown, a ne
gro. was hanged for the murder of AL
bert Colley, a well-to-do farmer, on the
night of December 10, 1892.
BANKS failed at Mascoutah, ILL.,. Hud-
son, Wis. Ellenburg, Wash, Missoula,
Mont, Gillespie, ILL.,, and two private
banks in Chicago.
AT the session of the Women's Chris
tian Temperance union congress in
Chicago the worlds fair directory was
denounced for permitting the sale of
liquor on the grounds.
ON the line of the new drainage ca
nal at Lemont. ILL.,, sheriff's posse
met and put to rout 400 striking quar-
rvmen, killing seven of the number
and seriously injuring a score of 9TH
ers. Gov. Altgeld ordered troops to the
scene of the strife
TIE supersedeas sued out by the
Worlds Columbian Exposition COM
pany was granted by Chief Justice
Fuller, of the United States supreme
court, and the gates of the fair were
open on Sunday. All the eastern state
buildings and many of the exhibits in
the public hui dings were closed.
Mrs. q. J. WEAVER while temporar-
lily insane drowned herself and two
children in a creek in Fultonham. O.
WILLIE and Laurie Osborne (broth-
ers) were drowned while bathing in
the Mississippi river at Fort Madison,
la.
On the Santa Fe road the California
express was held up by five men near
Cimarron, Kan, and robbed of money
and jewelry amounting to g., 600.
At Austin, Tex. Oarsman Gaudaur
won the Smile professional race in
1906, which breaks the worlds record.
Az inccndiary fire almost destroyed
the little town of Liberal, Mo.
FIRE destroyed Savage's livery stable
at Charlestown, w. Va, and thirty-One
valuable horses persisted i'm the flames
l.. C. SToRRs, of Michigan. was elected
president at the conference of charities
and corrections in Chicago.
THE firm of A. L. Baclxus & Sons. of
Toledo, o., grain dealers, failed for
$500, 900.
DWIGHT L. MOODY preached to a con-
gregation of 10000 persons in the big
tent of the Forepaugh circus in Chi
cago.
AT Sioux City, Ia, the Union stock
yards bank, with assets of S4s2, 667 and
liabilities of s163, 40, made an assign
ment.
AT st. Cloud, Mimi, Annie f. Muir
ply, aged -, was convicted of forgery
and sentenced to ten years imprison-
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