River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-06-08
WEST AND SOUTH.

LOGAN III. ROOTS, member OF the
I F0rtisth and Forty-first congresses,
I died from congestion of the brain at
\ his home in Little Rock, Ark, aged 81
/ years.
4 CYCLONE in southwestern Arkansas
destroyed large number of houses
and at Hope seven persons were injured,
/ two fatally.
IL Tennessee the Big Stone Gap Land
/ company, capitalized at s2,00O,0O0, has
been forced into liquidation.
THE creditors of ex-Gov. Foster in
cents on the dollar.
/ THE national bank of North Dakota
at Fargo and the bank at Beresford,
/ :. D., closed their doors.
Ina collision between suburban trains
at Austin, Tex, two persons were
killed and ten injured.
On the worlds fair grounds Mon
/ tana's statue of Justice, made of silver
worth SIS, 900. and standing on a gold
/ pedestal valued at 100000, was I'M
yelled.
AT South Upatoc. Ga. a cyclone
/ wrecked several houses, destroyed plan
/ tations and killed Mrs. George Parker
and her daughter.
THE Capital national bank at Indian
apolis has been given permission to re-
sumo business, but the request of the
\ Chemical bank of Chicago to resume
has been refused.
/ JAKE CAUDAUE, Of Canada. and James
! Stansbury, of Australia, will row for
the championship of the world August
I Il at Pullman, I'll.
THE men discharged at Davenport,
I Ia. from the Rock Island & Pacific rail-
Y road for visiting saloons while on duty
\ viii not be reinstatcd.
/ MUTHLEIsEN & Co, wholesale lum-
Der dealers at ST. Joseph, Mo-. failed
for sl5O.ooo-
THE town of Rosedale. Miss, was de-
stroyed by a cyclone and five persons
were killed and many hurt.
/ 4 LARGE colony of Mohammedans
will settle in Georgia. They have,
/ through an agent. secured $4,000 acres
of land in that state and the option
I upon as much more.
! OK account of the recent foods there
We're said to be 10. 600 homeless and hun
! CRY people in East Carroll. Mocrehouse,
NJ hESk AdIfOAA anu 41dAAASoA HhA ASAACN
I Louisiana, and the sufferings and pri-
vations they were undergoing were APP
/ palling.
/ THE prohibitionists at Cheney, Kan.
raided the saloons and hotel bars, de-
I stroying the fixtures and splitting the
/ liquors.
/ FLAMES destroyed the sugar refinery
at Baltimore, Md, the loss being 81 ,OO0.-
/ 600; insurance, $685., 900.
! Ar jefferson Springs. Ark. John
Wallace (eolored) was lynched by a
I mob of his own race. He had assaulted
I Ida Warren. 9-year-old colOred girl
/ PRoBABIY the oldest man in Ohio.
I Daniel Larkins, died in Bellevue, aged
I iO7 years.
FIRE at Columbus. O.. destroyed the
Case Manufacturing company and Neil
/ wheel works plants; loss, $3.50, 600.
/ The doors Of the White county bank
I at Beebe. Ark. We're closed.
THE courthouse and seven churches
I at Smithland, Ky, were unrcofed by a
\ tornado.
The attendance at the worlds fair
/ during the month of May was 1,557. 22S
/ and the paid admissions numbered -
I o.. 3SS
Ten persons have met tragic death
at indianapolis in less than ten months.
JEFFERSON DAVIS remains were rein
teEred in Hollywood cemetery 1T Rich
| mOnd. Va
The prohibitionists of Iowa in state
1 convention At Des Moines made nomi-
nations as follows: For governor, Il. q.
I Aylesworth. of Des Moincs; lieutenant
I governor, J. c. Reed, of Delta; superin-
tendent of public instruction, Miss
/ Belle II. Mix, of Danville; supreme
/ Judge. J. A. Harvey. of Polk City; rail-
road commissioner. E. II. Gillette. of
Des MoineS. The resolutions favor
woman suffrage, declare the liquor
Z issue the paramount one. and denounce
Sunday opening of the worlds fair.
By cave-in at the Ivanhoe tunnel
near Leadville. Col. three men were
killed. two others fatally and one seri-
ously injured.
II Cincinnati the Victoria Cordage
company failed for S400. 900.