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

2y collision on the Hooking w.
ley rcso near Fostoria, o., four lives
we're lost
LATER -etsrhs from the election ia
Nebraska show that the entire repub-
lican ticket was elected. In Kansas
the republicans were also successful
THE viii of Carter II. Harrison was
fled in the probate court in Chicago by
q son. The estate is estimated at $780,
COO
E.vs rcrs persons have died as
resllt o. the Rock island railway wreck
at EgglestOn. Chicago suburb, making
a total of eleven killed.
The abscondipg president of the
Northwestern Guaranty Loan company
at Minneapolis, Louis T. Menage, is
said TO have stolen sl,65O, 900.
TIE four tn gift of John d. Rockefel-
Ter to the University of Chicago is $500
900. With his previous donations this
makes Mr.. Roclxefeller's gifts to the
university s.. $50, OOO
AT the gates the Worlds Columbian
exposition received mp 10 November I
sl0,576,2Os There is now in the treas
ury 81, 1873. l2s. not including souvenir
coins.
An assignment was made by the Mid
dleton (O) Paper company with liabiI-
tiles of about s20O. 900
AT his home in Toledo, O., Senator :.
Parker was found dead with his heart
broken, literally as we'll as figuratlve-
~ broken, for the organ was rent in
twain. Grief over a sons misdeeds was
the cause
WILLIAM LAWRENCE POOLE. of New
Orleans, the oldest editor in the United
States. died at the age of 90 His jour
nalistie career began in 1928.
IL Iron county. Wis, the situation of
the miners was said to be deplorable,
and they had petitioned to GOV. Peck.
Tar death of Judge Richard Parker
oi Winchester, Va. occurred in the SD
year of his age. lie was noted for hav-
ing presided at the trial of John Brown
and his rnca at Charleston.
The execution of Miller Davis, con-
victed of numbering Sheriff Dollarhide
near Chapel Hill, October %, took
place at Center Point. Ark
The Gunckel Banking company at
Middletown, o.. assigned with habili-
ties of $500, 900.
FIRE wiped out the entire rolling mill
plant of the Whitaker Iron and Steel
cJmpany at Wheeling, W. Va, the loss
being 100000.
Is the 2:25 trot at Holton, Kan, Pa
sy McGregor broke the yearling rec I'd,
making the distance in 2:25l5
ADAd BRIGHT. a farmer near Troy,
o., was beaten out of $500 by gold
brick swindlers, and his wife died from
the shock produced by the loss.
Is oklahoma the chief of the Usage
nation issued an edict ordering all
negroes 10 leave the reservation in
thirty days.
The Fire Brick company plant at
Utica, ILL, was destroyed by fire, the
loss being 5000. 600.
FRANK KNOX, an ex-slave who had
been a barber in Liberty. Ind, for a
great many years, was found dead in
bed He was over 100 years old
FLAMES swept away the Academy of
Music and other property at Fort
Wayne. Ind, the total loss being $780,
600
A NOR at Bardstown, XIV, blew up
the home of Phil Evans, colored Grim
inal, killing his mother, wife and
daughter
TIE foreign commissioners 10 the
worlds fair gave banquet in Chicago
TO Director General Davis, for whom all
had words of praise.
TIRE representatives of Corbe.t and
Mitchell have agreed to their fighting
at Jacksonville, Fla, January 4, 1894.
AT the age OF = years Dr. David judi
kins. chief of Liucoln's medical staff
during the war, died at Cincinnati.
AT Yates Center. Kau., +. D. Ber-
nsrd, aged 80, tired of life. killed his
wife. daughter and himself
NEAR Bardwell. Ky, FIVE masked
men held up an Illinois Central train
and robbed the express car of some
$1,000.
Mrs. DAVIS and her daughter were
killed by masked rohber at Riverton,
Ala, who was then shot by a son.
J. SALMON. of New York, and Il.
Perry Collins, of Washington. were
asphyxiattd in st. Louis hotel.
ADMISSION to the worlds fair grounds
has been reduced 10 TWENTY-FIVE cents