River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-09-28


THOMAS SMITH. the negro whose
crime was the occasion of the riot at
Roanoke. Va. that resulted in nine
men being killed by the state militia
and nineteen wounded. was finally
| lynched by mob and his body burned.
Mrs. MARIA PETERSON, who died at
Fort Dodge, Ia. aged s5 years, had
never been inside of a railway car or
/, ridden on a train.
+, THE forest fires in Wisconsin were
extinguished by rain.
AT its annual meeting in Cleveland
the Society of the Army of the Cumber-
land reelected Gen. w. ). Rosecrans as
president. Ex-President Harrison was
chosen orator for the next meeting.
THE sash and door factory of the
Charles Betcher Lum Der company and a
large amount of dry lum Der were burned
at Red Wing, Mimi, the loss being
tlT5. 900.
DANIEL JONES was given thirty mine
lashes at Frederick. Md. on the bare
back for wife-beating
The populist candidate for lieutenant
governor in Iowa. f. A. OFT. resigned
because he is only 2s years old. while
the law insists candidate must be 80
or over TO be eligible.
A GRAND jury indicted fourteen mem
bers of the mob which killed Solomon
I. bradshaw at Kingston. Ill.
IN Chicago Prof. ;. A. King and Miss
| Josie Morris, who made an ascension
in balloon, were rescued from the
lake after an exciting experience.
i 0N tho Wabash trasno
lided near Kingsbury, Ind, and eleven
persons were killed and twenty-four in
| jured. some of them fatally
HENRY BEHRENs and his son were
killed by foul gases in an old well on a
farm near Friedville. la.
AT Eureka. Cal Charles A. Bowden
was hanged for the murder of Mrs Lii
lie NJ. Price. who had discarded him for
Price.
FoRFEITURE of the Ohio & Mississip-
! PTS Indiana charter is asked because IL
conveyed trainloa6 of sports to Law
renceburg TO witness prize fight.
In was decided at a meeting in Mil
waukee of the Sovereign Grand Lodge
of Odd Fellows topermit the formation
of a grand lodge in Sweden.
IN Chicago and Springfield, Ill, the
thirty-first anniversary of Abraham
Lincoln's proclamation freeing the
slaves was celebrated.
IN San Francisco five nonunion sail
ors were killed by a dynamite bomb
| fired in front of their boarding house.
Members of the Seamen's union were
charged with the crime.
NEAR Jacksonville. H., T.. A. Kurtz.
farmer. and his wife were killed by
gas from a well.
AN attempt to rob a train on the Kan
sas City, st. Joe & Council Bluffs rail-
road was foiled. two of the bandits were
killed and three others were captured
at Francis, Mo.
THE death was announced of w. l..
Malone, proprietor of the Fort Worth
Daily Gazette, and the pioneer editor
of Texas
A CENSUS shows nearly so, 900 idle per.
sons in Chicago.
AFTER eight years absence Lafayette
Leroy, to whom a monument had been
erected at Saginaw, Mich, returned.
FRED DUDLEY, and his father and
another men lost their lives in an effort
TO recover ball that had fallen into a
well at Hazard, Mo.
AT Petoskey, Mich. Abe Wilsey
fatally shot his wife and was in turn
shot and killed by Henry Six
IN Chicago Frank Ives defeated John
Roberts, the English champion, in
match games of billiards, the score
standing; Ives, 5000; Roberts, 5.SOs.