River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-10-26
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MASHED men DOuuus gagged Gnu tor
tured Mrs McMichael. a lone widow
near South Bend, Ind, and robbed heI
of $40.
W. Is. HATHAWAY committed suicide
at Cincinnati because he could not gel
work. lie had been disinherited by
his father. a retired millionaire of Mer
iden, Conn.
NATHANIEL r. THOMPSON was hanged
in the Jail at DE Smet, s. d., for tn.
murder of his wife.
AT ~. Paul. Mimi, William Maenggi
a carpenter. brutality murdered his wifi,
after she had retired for the night 10y
shooting her. The murdered woman
was the mother of sixteen children.
HENRY SrAaR, a notorious outlaw
was found guilty of murder by a jury
at Fort Smith, Ark, and sentenced q
he hanged
c. A. HANKS and William y. Evars
formerly cashier and assistant cashiei
respectively Of the Seven Corners banl
at st. Paul, Mimi, have been arrested
Cor embezzling sos, 600.
AT Walton. Ind. Mrs. Charles Smith
shot and instantly killed Oscar Walton
as the result of dispute over the pos
session of property.
Miss FRANCES T. WILLARD was re
elected president at tine session of the
National Women's Christian Temper
ance union in session at Chicago
THE Western Traffic association ha.
decided To cancel worlds flir rates al
midnight October 81.
PATRICK BURK, living near Sterling,
ILL.,. was found dead in a corn field anc
il was supposed that he had been mur
dered by tramps
II southwestern Kansas six counties
have been almost depopulated by croI
failures and opening of the Cherokee
strip.
TIE employees of the Indiana Mid
land railway who struck because o
non-payment of wages spiked switches
burned bridges and tool houses, anC
tore up many miles of track
On a Texas road, near Longview.
thieves went through a sleeping cal
and one man lost $4,000 in negotiable,
bonds and notes Other passenger.
lost money, jeselry and wearing APP
parel.
THE firm of Stratton & White. cleo
trical and general implement deal
ers at Fort Worth. Tex, failed fol
s4OO. 1000.
HARRY Lacy shot and instantly
killed his wife and moiher-in-law, Mrs
Lidia Bunker. at Sioux Falls, S. d, anC
then shot himself through the head
Domestic trouble was the cause
fair during the week ended on the 2lsr
numbered Lea, 5l4. making the tota
paid attendance since the opening day
1861. 3O7.
THE California millionaire, Lucky
Baldwin. after twenty years on tn,
turf has decided to sell his string anc
retire.
On the Fort Wayne road trains col
Hded at Monroeville, Ind, during 2
heavy fog and four trainmen were seri
ously and three passengers slightly in
jured.
IL Chicago the firm of Frankenthal
Prudential Il Co. wholesalers o.
clothing and furnishing goods, failed
for $3.50, 0GO; assets, $3.50 600.
IL the Des Moines ia. valley Il fores'
fire burned the timber on over ! ,O0(
acres of land, and also destroyed MANY
grain stacks and barns.
IN san Francisco Wesley C. Rippey
who shot John W. Mackey on Februar,
"a last, was sentenced to pay fine o.
ESQ or go to Jail.
JAMES STONE says that seven person.
were implicated in the murder of the
Wratten family, six in number, neal
Washington, Ind, on the night of Sep
TENDER - last.
a MOB lynched Ned Jenkins (colored)
in Clybourne county, Ga. for poison
ing William Burllcs family.