River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-03-09
The chicago democrat. nominated

THE Chicago democrats nominated
Carter II. Harrison for mayor.
Or the Iron Mountain railroad train
was wrecked near Hope. Ark, and
sixteen passengers were injured, some
fatally.
CYRUS LEES house near Greenville.
Ky, was burned aud Cyrus Lee and
his sister and brother. wife and child
persisted in the flames There was no
one left to tell how the fire originated.
A GRAND JURY in Chicago indicted
Charles ID. Law, of Fort Wayne, Ind,
general superintendent of the Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad
company on a charge of murder. The
indictment is based on an accident in
which four lives were lost.
THE legislature of Washington passed
a dill making it unlawful in the state
~ manuract1re, ouy. sell or give away,
or to have in ones possession cigar
cites or cigarette paper.
WITHOUT electing a United States
senator to succeed w. F. Saunders. the
Montana legislature adjourned and the
governor will appoint his successor.
THE death of Il. NJ. Bishop, who was
EOfCi Va oAtlO III 1870 anu lCtbt W
Cured at Jacksonville, Fla, where he
had been lying i'll for several weeks.
FIRE destroyed the Arkansas Bap-
tist college buildings established at
Little Rock six years ago by the col
ored Baptists for the education of girls,
aud the twenty inmates had narrow
escapes.
AT Marksville, La 4, cyclone caused
great destruction, scattered timber
and uprooted trees marking the place
where once handsome residences stood.
Two persons were killed.
AT Marion. Miss, cyclone de-
stroyed a large amount of property.
killed Mrs. Meader and her daughter
and fatally injured Mr.. and Mrs. w. j.
Harrison and severely injured several
other persons
NEAR Mascoutah. ILL.,, Lorenz Zeis and
of eating apple butter cooked in a cop
per kettle.
Ar Birmingham. Ala, Bob" Sims,
aged 20, was hanged for the murder of
Ebender Jordan year ago. and Jose
Gabriel. an Indian. was executed at
San Quentin, Cal, for the murder of
Mr.. and Mrs. Geiser. an old couple.
HENRY LAURENs HAMMOND. aged as.
one of the oldest Congregational min
listers in Chicago, dropped dead from
heart disease.
In New Orleans Joe Goddard, .the
Australian. was knocked out in the
eighteenth round in n fight for purse
of SO, 900 by Ed Smith. of Denver.
THE Associated Press organization
was completed in Chic GO with Mel
Vile f. stone of that city. as general
manager, succeeding William Henry
Smith.
GOV. RICHARDS has appointed Lee
Mantle (rep.), of Butte, United States
senator from Montana.
FLAMES ruined the works Of the kirk
ham Art Tile .S Pottery company at
Barberton, o.. the loss beng S24O, 0OO;
insurance. SlG5. 600.
THR firm of Brewster & Denike, cola
mission merchants at Laredo, Tex,
failed for SIP. 500.
FURTHER advices from the cyclone in
Georgia say that two persons were
killed at Piedmont, fourteen at Bar
nett. six at Odessa. five at Miner. three
at Woodbury. and three at GAINESVILLE.
\ large number of persons were also
badly injured
4 FEUD between the Ross and Morri-
son families at Whitehall, Tenn, re-
suited in one of the former and two of
the latter family being killed.
a FIRE at Covington, Ky, destroyed
hardware factory, tobacco houses
and other buildings, the total loss be-
ing $3.50, 900.
LATER news says that the cyclone at
Marion, Miss. destroyed nearly every
building in the place, killed seven per-
sons and injured eight others.
JOSEPH LEE, Charles Walker and Pat
rick Donnelly were fatally injured in
smash-up in the Little Miami railway
yards in Cincinnati.