River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16
NEST AND sOIIrH

BICYCTIsT JOHNSON rode a mile with
flying start Ia 1:56 3-5, on the kite track
at Independence, Ia, lowering Win
dies record.
TME superintendent of the worlds
fair grounds reports that 1929 patrol
calls. - fire alarms ana 2,3O7 ambu-
lance calls were responded to during
the fair.
The general committee of the Freed
mans Aid society after appropriating
$500. OO0 To- institutions under its con-
troll closed its session in St Paul
IN the Elrod mills at Sand Mountain,
Ala, boilers exploded. killing two men
and injuring two others
On Lake Huron the steamer Albany
of the Western Transit company and
the steamer Philadelphia of the Anchor
line collided off Point aux Barques and
twenty-four seaInen were drowned.
TIE death of James ). Lawson, one
of the oldest officers in the United
States coast and geodetic survey. bav-
ing been in the service for the last for
ty-six years, occurred in San Fran
cisco.
II the First district of Michigan Levi
II. Griffin tdem. }, II Detroit, was elect
ell 10 congress to succeed J. L. Chip
mGu. deceased.
FIRE destroyed the Ilyceum theater
at Memphis. Tenn the loss being 1885,
GOO, and other property burned made
the total loss $500. Coo
REPUBLICANS of Chicago and Ccol.
county reelected Joseph Z. Cary judge
of the superior court by about 1l.OOG
majority and also elected the entire
ticket with one exception
DURING the next two years Mrs L.
;. Grant viii reside in Santa Barbara,
Cal
IL Chicago Mrs Martin 0'Neill, of
Buffalo y. Y, died of heart disease
while sitting between her two chill
dren in the ladies room of the Union
depot.
AT Jackson park during the worlds
fair there We're i.S9i arrests for differ
ent ofienses, a. follows: Smoking, "a;
d,sOrderly conduct, zoo; drunkenness.
$50; pocket-bicl1ing, 1852; jumping the
fence. So; theft. $40, and miscellaneous,
sal.
AT Sedalia, Mo. six men were killed
by the cars
ALMOST 500. 600 per9ons paid TO ride
IN the Ferris wheel during the worlds
fair II earned cI5O. 900 for stockhold-
ers above ali debts.
BOB kEssNEDY tcolored) was captured
at Gafney, :. G.. 10y a mob and hanged
His crime was attempted assault.
AT Independence. Ia, John 5. John
son again broke the worlds bicycle rec
ord, going his mile, flying start, in
1855 S-5.
FoUR persons were killed and thirty.
three were injured in a rear-end COLI
sion on the Rock Island road az Eggles-
ton, a Chicago suburb.
FIRE broke out in the mail car In a
railway wreck at HuttO, Tex, aud
2.0O0 letters were burned.
OK the eth Gov. Mckinley was re-
elected in Ohio by plurality of SO. OOO.
II Iowa jackson rep for governor
has plurality of $1,000. Both repub-
licaus and pOpulists claim Kansas The
democrats were successful in Maryland,
kentucky and Virginia In Nebraska
the populists carried the day.
II Minneapolis Mimi, at the seven
ty-tifth annual session OF the general
missionary committee of the Methodist
Episcopal church. il was decided 20
spend $3.50. 600 for mission work the On
suing year.
SAM JOHNSON, annoyed by persistent
collector at Duluth. MINI, seized aim
and panied him a fiery red
4 MOB killed Henry Bogue. a negro
VINO took part in the murder of Y j.
Duncan. al Lake Gil. junction. Fla
JOHNSON broke we standing starts
world bicycle records. The t,vo-thirds
and full mile. at Independence. Ia. ,e
going the mile in I;5S ID anc the Two
thirds in l-2i.
II Kansas City Peter Parker. nee a
wealthy man, was arrested for snatch
ing wOmen's pOckctboo,rs on crowded
streetS
TrRE destroyed the barns of the
N~.vr Side Street Car company il Chi
cago. .he loss tei-r 500. coo.
D. =" RrcDEr rs So pODoint al re-
csiver ~ She Phuea;~ uoiel = ,.rps ~ at
lexington Sy- II had a capital 81
ss!5. OO0.