River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-07-27

THF doors of the Commercial bank 10
Milwaukee were closed with liabilities
of q. $50, $50. Other banks closed their
doors as follows: The Union at Gree
ley. Col. Bank of Crested Butte, Col,
and the Traders at Tacomah Falls,
Wash. The First national at San Ter
nardino, Cal, resumed business. as did
also the Second national at Ashland,
Ky.
The death of James ID. Rawlins, a
veteran of the Blackhawk war of 1882,
and father of the distinguished Gen.
John A. Rawlins, chief of staff to Gen.
Grant, died at Guilford, ILL.,, aged 81
years.
the three sons of Frank Lundgren,
of Geneseo, Ill. aged respectively Is.
20 and %. were drowned in Green river
by the capsizing of boat
Four soldiers were killed and six
outlaws were mortally wounded dur
ing fight in Wise county, Va, be-
tween state troops and outlaws.
FoR not working out his poll tax M.
]. Bowling, editor of the Star at Ben
vile, Mimi, man with neither legs
nor hands, was arrested by order of the
village council.
FIRE swept away the entire business
portion of Edgerton, o., town of 1000
inhabitants. the loss being 100000.
A LAWSUIT caused w. II. Shoemaker,
of Metropolis. ILL.,, TO kill George and
Richard Lulxens and then commit sui
eide
IL Cincinnati defective sewerage was
causing a dangerous landslide and
many houses had already been com
pletely wrecked.
IN Detroit Mascot defeated Hal Point
er and Flying Jib, pacing tive heats in
less than pos and breaking the worlds
record.
A MOB in Lafayette county, Fla,
hanged negro who assaulted and muir
dered the 9-year-old daughter of Carr
Elliott
FLAMES burned block at Paulding,
o., and part of another, causing a loss
of 5000. 900.
The death of Gen. William Vandever
occurred at his residence in Ventura,
Cal, aged rs years. He was elected to
congress from Iowa in 1858 and re-
elected in 1860, but resigned his seat to
enter the army.
Ex-Gov. GEORGE c. PERKINS. of San
Francisco, has been appointed United
States senator TO succeed the late Lee
land Stanford.
A MOB lynched Lee Walker, a negro
who assaulted Miss Mollie McCadden
twhite) and four colored girls at Mem
phis, Tenn, and then his body was
burned.
WHILE temporarily insane Allen L.
Jones, aged 40 years, living near Tex
arkana. Ark, beat out the brains of
his wife and three children with an AK
and then hanged himself.
Two SISTERS named Plant, of Nuncia,
Mich, arrived at the worlds fair
grounds, after walking all the wav
from Muskegon, Mich, 220 miles. The
journey was made in ten DAYS.
A FIRE in the Keifer building in New
Orleans caused a loss of 100000 and
j. E. Mcdonald, a fireman, was suffo-
Gated.
C. w. DE PAW. the millionaire man
ufacturer at New Albany, Ind, made
al NAAh VI
$500. 600
IL Detroit Frank Waller, of Indiana,
broke the 25-mile bicycle record, max
ing the distance in hour minutes and
10 seconds
IN San Francisco ground will be
broken this week for the California
Midwinter exposition which is to fol
low the worlds fair.
IN the records of the state auditor OF
Kansas an apparent shortage of $40, 0Oo
was discovered in connection with the
sale of public school lands.
THE Milwaukee national and the
South Side savings banks in Milwaukee
closed their doors, and the State ma
tional bank at Knoxville, Tenn, an6
First national at Russell, Kan, were
forced to suspend.
The worlds fair gates were closed or
Sunday.
THE sawmill owned by Duncan
Bremen & Co. at Duluth, Mimi, wa,
burned, causing loss of 100000
Mrs. MCDONALD and her two chill
dren were carried away by masked
men from farmhouse near Fort Wayne
Ind