River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-07-13
WEST AND SOuTH.

PATsEY DALEY. Alexander Frazer,
James Morris and J. A. Carlson were
capsized in a sailboat on Lake Tahoe,
at Glenbrook. New, and all were
drowned
Paullin, Is years old. were killed by
lightning at Kansas CITY, Mo.
AT the worlds fair the largest at
tendance on any one day since its open
ing was on the Fourth, when 302, 906
admissions were recorded.
II a runaway at Menington, w Va,
w II. former and his wife and 4
months-old child were thrown from a
wagon and Mrs. former and the child
were killed and Mr.. former was fatally
injured.
President WARNER, of the Bimetallic
league, has called a convention of
friends of silver to meet in Chicago
August 1.
The following bank failures were re
ported: The American savings at Pueb-
10. Col; Everett national at Everett,
Wash; Findley county at Garden City,
Kan. and Mobiles county at Worthing-
ton. Mimi.
IL Chicago the National Amateur
Press association held its eighteenth
annual convention and J. l.. Tomlinson
was elected president
ANDaEw FARMER shot and killed Wal
lace Deskins at Nolan, Va, during a
drunken row. The assassin was pur-
sued by posse, but he fired on his pur-
suers and fatally wounded George
Geskins and a man named Thompson.
john RAYS two daughters, aged 1s
and years respectively, were muir
dered by an unknown tramp while
picking berries near their home near
Wickliffe. Nv. The lower part of the
the elder girls body was horribly mu-
tilated, after the manner of the White
chapel murders IN London.
IL a fire that partly destroyed the
Bethel boat 1T ST Paul, Mimi, three
persons were burned to death.
Ar Oregon City, Ore, a team driven
by NJ. z. Bradley ran away and upset a
wagon, throwing Bradley. his wife and
Jour children over a preeipice 40 feet
high. Mrs. Bradley was killed and two
children fatally injured.
FIRE wiped out the copper plant of
the Pueblo Coll Smelling company,
inflicting a loss of $3.50. 900.
PRESIDENT PALMER said at meeting
in Chicago of the National Columbian
commission that the opening of the
gates Of the fair on Sunday was in viola
ton of faith. was done without warrant
OF law and had injured the good name
of the commission. and asked for the
adoption of restitution declaring that
the gates were open in defiance of a rule
of the commission. The matter was
postponed until the next meeting
THE farmhouse of A. Roberts near
GagetOwn. Mich. was burned by light
ming and five of the ten occupants per
ished IN the flames
NEAR CIarks, Neb.. Andrew Debney,
a farmer. fatally shot his wife and then
jumped into the Loup river and
drowned himself
An assignment was inside by the
Haskell Show Printing company. of
kansas City. one of the largest concerns
of the kind in the middle and western
states.
II Iowa a cyclone did great damage
in the counties of Calhoun. Cherokee.
Buena Vista. Ida, Sac and Pocahontas-
The village OF Pomeroy was almost en-
tirely swept away and over fifty per-
sons were reported killed. At Quimby
two aged women were killed, and 1T
Aurelia over dozen persons lost their
lives Manson was half destroyed and
several persons were killed, and at
Fonda ten or more lives were lost In
addition to the above scores OF persons
were injured The property loss was
enormous.
\ TORNADO passed over the central
part Of Rogers county, Neb.. destroying
barns. houses. windmiils and fruit trees.
Several persons were injured.
a TRAIN - Galesville, Wis, killed
Anton Falls and Ida Johnson, a young
couple soon 10 be married