River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-05-18

CHARLES LUTTREIL and John H. Car
Isle were hanged at Sherman, Tex. Cor
the murder of w. T. sherman at Deni-
son on April - 1892
AT Grand Ridge Ill. r. J. Horinclx,
conductor of a general store and,private
bank, failed for $500. 900. and scores of
farmers are ruined by the disaster
THE members of the local worlds
fair directory passed a resolution that
the fair should be open Sundays on and
after May II. the admission to the
grounds to- be twenty-five cents. and
the big exhibit buildings to be closed.
This action may be annulled by the ma
tional commission.
AT Charleston, :. C., Toe Brannon,
aged 10. was hanged for tie murder of
stephen Kearney on the 3lsi of August
last
The Columbia national bank collapse
IN Chicago caused the failure of banks
at Russiaville, GreentOwn. oxford, Nor
ristown, Arcadia. Spiceland. Orleans,
Hebron, Brookston. Dunkirk. Geneva.
Boswell, Knox West Lebanon and
Greenwood in Indiana, the Richland,
Johannesburg. Lawton. Rockford and
CharlevoiX banks i'm Michigan. the bank
OF Oregon in Wisconsin, the bank of Ca
sey in Illinois and the bank at Clear
mount in Ohio.
TWENTY-FIVE ringleaders of the mob
that took from Jail at Chattanooga,
Tenn, Alfred Blount, negro assaulter,
and hanged him, have been indicted
for murder.
EAST of Pinckncy, Mich. several
farms were swept by cyclone and
buildings were wrecked and several
persons were hurt but not seriously,
though many horses and sheep were
killed.
OEIo prohi5itiOnists will meet IN state
convention at Cleveland June % and rs.
TIrE firm of Kendall & Smith, the
largest millers in Nebraska, failed at
Lincoln for $3.50. 900
IL Milwaukee the big department
store of Frank \. Lappen q Co. and
the furniture store Of the Lappen Fur
niture company failed for 5000, 600.
W. IL. THOMAS q Son, the largest
dealers in old Kentucky whisky in the
world, suspended at Louisville with
liabilities of 5000, 600
Is session at Louisville. XIV, the Ma
tional Republican College league elected
L. L. Hawkins, of Syracuse university,
as president.
THE Illinois and Sangamon rivers i'm
Cass county, H.. overfiowed and several
thousand acres of rich farming lands
were flooded, entirely destroying the
wheat sOwn last fall.
THE doors of the 1IisSamee fila City
hank were closed with liabilities of
500. 900.
l.. +. PRICE. a conductor on train
at Seymour, Ind, was shot and killed
by John Turley and a mob took the
murderer from Jail at Bedford and
lynched him.
The founder and principal of the
Hampton institute for negroes and In
dians near Fort Monroe, Va, Gen. Sam
uel c. Armstrong, died at Hampton,
aged - years.
IL the ease Of w G. Rippey, accused
of assau. ting John W. Mackay in san
Francisco with intent to kill, the jury
was dismissed, having failed to reach
an agre ,ment.
Ar Brooks mill in Arkansas crew
asse gave way causing the destruction
of crops in eight or nine parishes
NEAR Kenova. w. Va. an extensive
tin-o~e mine was found. the ANALYSIS
showing 20 per cent. pure tin.
\ FICK"OCKET robbed y. H. Martans,
20 years of age. of Woodland, Cal, of
-, 100 on the worlds fair grounds in
Chicago.
FIRE destroyed the Standard Oil COM
pany's works at Whiting, Ind, the loss
being 100000.
Ar Calumet. Mich. ten men fell 5000
feet to their death down the Red
Jacket shaft of the Calumet and Hecla
mine