River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-06-01

A VILLAGE in Cherokee county, Tx.
was almost wiped out by fire and DIR. J.
f. Roberts was burned TO death in his
Office.
AT Arcola H., ex-Mayor Dimond
was shot ant KILLED by David +. Miller,
his partner.
AT the Carson New mint coinage is
TO be suspended after the present
month.
IL the Arab camp in Chicago three
camels and seven Arabian horses. one
valued at $4,000. persisted duringa fire.
IL three days thirty convicts died in
the Pratt mines near Birmingham, Ala,
from pneumonia
AN indianapolis servant girl, Anna
Wagner, is charged with the death by
poison of five members of the Koesters
family. where she was employed.
THE doors of the Farmers state bank
of Brooklyn, Mich. were closed with
liabilities amounting to about $50, 600
The death of Gen. Ralph w. Kirk
ham, hero of the Mexican and civil
wars aud a millionaire. occurred at
Oakland, Cal, aged ~ years.
AT Moberly, Mo, Ellie Poison, 10
year-old girl, poisoned herself with
strychnine because her father told her
TO perform household duties while her
sweetheart was in the parlor,
A BILL passed the Michigan legisla-
ture giving women the right TO vote
~ municipal and school elections.
IN central Missouri a cyclone did inn
mense damage. The town of Ladonia,
with 1 200 inhabitants, was entirely de-
stroyed and twenty persons were killed.
At Moberly. Sedalia, Brookfield and
other places property was destroyed.
Two-THIRDs of the business portion
of ROcklin, Cal, was destroyed by fire
Two MASKED men held up a west
bound passenger train at Coleman.
Tex. and robbed the express car of all
its contents
AT the age of 73 Prof. Moses G. Farm
er, of Boston, one of the pioneers of
modern application of electricity to in
dustrial uses, died in Chicago OF pneu-
monia.
The failure was reported of the
brunswick state bank at Brunswick
Ga. where the state funds were depos-
tied.
The execution of Robert Alexander
and Louis and Howard Pugh, negro
boys, took place at Tuskegee, Ala, for
criminal assault on Mrs. Cox, farmers
wife. This was the first legal hanging
for this offense in the state.
SIXTEEN foreign countries dissatisfied
with the single Judge plan of making
awards at the worlds fair have decided
to enter into competition among them
selves.
The legislature of Michigan adj
journed sine die. The session was
thirty-five days shorter than the pre-
ceding one-in fact, the shortest for the
last ten years.
A REWARD has been offered by the
father of Lou Trenck, who was hanged
by an Indiana mob in jackson county,
for the conviction of the ring leaders
IN northwest Louisiana thousands of
people have been rendered homeless by
the floods, and an appeal has been is
sued for aid.
GEORGE BURGESS, Bert Corey and r.
Corey were drowned while fishing in
Wall lake near Marshalltown, la.
In Illinois a cyclone wrecked many
houses, barns and trees at Rentchler
Olney and Lawrenceville and injured
several persons.
CHARLES FOSTER. one of the most
prominent business men in Fostoria,
O., and ex-secretary of the treasury,
made an assignment with liabilities of
100000 and assets about the same.
Stringency in the money market was
given as the cause.
IN the library of the Woman's build
ing on the worlds fair grounds mar
BILE bust of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the
famous author of Uncle Toms Cabin, :"
was unveiled by Mrs. Isabella Beecher
Hooker. her sister. The entire work is
a gift of the women of Connecticut.