River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-05-25

The viii of Bishop Ames, Of the
Methodist church, after standing four
teen years was broken at Baltimore.
and the estate. valued at between $780,
600 and s200, 900, will now be divided ac-
cording to law.
The Brunswick national bank and
oglethorpe national bank, both of
brunswick. Ga, suspended, and NJ. Ull-
man. president of the oglethorpe. com
mitted suicide.
FLAMES OF an incendiary origin swept
away seventeen business houses and
residences at Montfort, Wis. Loss,
500. 000
The doors of the Evanston Qll.) ma
tional bank, with capital of 500, 900,
were closed.
FIRE IN the building occupied by the
DIR Price Baking Powder company in
Chicago caused damage of Sis, 900.
The King Iron Bridge company's
works at Cleveland, o., were damaged
10 the extent of $500 by FIRE
IN the Jail yard at Lake Charles, La,
Lewis Taylor (colored) was hanged for
assaulting negro woman some months
ago.
FREDERICK C. ScHENcK. for seven
teen years consul TO Barcelona, Spain,
beginning in Hayes administration,
died at Lafayette, Ind. aged SO years.
The death of James +. Murdoch, the
famous tragedian, aged IS years. oc-
CURED at his suburban home near Gin
cinnati of various ailments combined
with old age.
IN session in st. Paul the internation-
al convention of press clubs elected
John A. Cockerell, of New York, az
president 1t was decided ta establish
home for aged and infirm journalists.
AT Bellaire, o., Ethelinda Mayhue
has brought suit for divorce against
Oliver Mayhue, a grocer They were
married April 20, 1854, and have four
teen children. Cruelty was the charge.
The directory of the worlds fair
adopted rule that for the future all
children under IL and over years of
age viii be admitted to the fair for
twenty-five cents.
IL the southeastern Kansas coal
fields 5000 miners struck for higher
wages
FRS suffocated twenty-five horses
belonging to the Peoples Quitting
company in Chicago.
FIVE distilleries withdrew from the
whisky trust and the monopoly was
said to be on the verge of dissolution.
The headquarters are at Peoria, Ill
IN st. Louis the stable of the Crum
Livery company was destroyed by fire
and $50 horses were burned to death
and Eddie Quinn, 7-year-old boy, lost
his life in the flames. The total loss
was 5000, 900.
FOREST fire wiped out the town of
Bryant. Wis, not single house of any
description being left to mark the town
site. No lives were lost.
FLAMES destroyed Needs sawmill,
planning mill, boarding house and thirty
or forty residences in the south part of
Amigo, Wis, the loss being slOO, 900.
FLAMES that started in the mill prop
erty of Sample & Cump in Saginaw.
Mich, burned district a mile in length
and four or five blocks wide, destroying
275 buildings and other property, the
total loss being 5000, 900; insurance,
5000. 600 Robert Turner, aged 50. lost
his life, and several other persons were
injured.
AT the National Editorial association
in Chicago Walter Williams, of Column
bia, Mo, was elected president for the
ensuing year.
A CONCERT of sacred music closed
the Woman's Worlds Fair Aux
iliary congress. No less than twenty
six nations and 40 women's organiza-
tions were represented in the congress,
and every line of woman's work, from
household economy to woman in ma
tional politics. was discussed.
THE forest fires raging in Michigan
reached Louis Sands lumber camp near
Lake City and resulted in burning to
death eleven men.
DOMESTIC trouble caused George
Landlord to shoot and instantly kill his
wife at Marietta, o.. and then TO kill
himself.