River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-09-14


six persons, seriously injured several
others and left the town a mass of
ruins
Republic in session at Indianapolis,
elected Mrs Amanda j. Withern, of
Minnesota, as president. The Woman's
Relief Corps selected Sarah C. Mink, of
New York. as president
BURGLARS held up Robert L. Grus-
chow, cashier of the Pabst Brewing
company, in his Office in Chicago and
carried off $4,000.
AT indianapolis the twenty-seventh
national encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic adjourned after
adopting the report of the pension COM
mittee which deny that the secretary
of the interior and the commissioner
of pensions have power to drop pension
ers from the rolls without first giving
them a hearing; declare against the
presumption of fraud until charges
have been proven, and say il is the duty
of the pension commissioner to at once
restore TO the rolls the thousands of
pensioners now standing illegally sus-
pended.
THE doors of the three national
banks at Mankato, Mimi. reopened
after having been closed little over
month.
AT indianapolis Nancy Hanks went
a mile in 2:049l. This was within three
quarters of a second of the wonderful
mares record.
On the Panhandle road an out
bound worlds fair special and an in
bound Valparaiso accommodation on
the Pennsy lvania road collided near
Colehour. Chicago suburb, and
eleven men were killed, fourteen were
seriously and five were slightly injured.
IN Terre Haute, Ind, two men cap
tured a mail wagon and gagged the
driver and riied the pouches.
TnE death of Joseph Dysart, lieuten-
ant governor of Iowa from 1874 to
1873, occurred at his home in Vinton,
aged Is years.
The veteran theatrical manager,
Richard NJ. Hooley, died at his home in
Chicago, aged II years.
TIE four children of James O'Neal
(colored) were burned TO death in their
home near Versailles. Ky, during the
absence of their parents.
PETER STRATUS, a bridegroom, was
shot and MORALLY wounded at B3yport,
Mich, by party of serenaders.
THIEVES entered the Office of the
Adams Express company at Akron, @,
and took 81, 600 from the safe.
FLAMES wiped out almost the entire
business portion of the town of Cayucos,
Cal.
A MOB took Ben jackson, a negro,
from the Jail at Quincy, Miss. and
hanged him. lie had poisoned q well,
causing the death of two children
WORLDS fair directors say the total
disbursements up to the Ist inst
amount to SIS, $40, $50 and the balance
on hand was $500. 9Ol.99.
AT Camden, Ark, William Smith, a
negro who murdered a man named
Pierce last fall, was executed.
NELSON, MATTER e CO., one of the
oldest furniture houses in Grand Rap
ids, owing to the collapse of several
worlds fair hotels, made an assignment
with liabilities of $500, 900
THE five children of +. w Whitney,
near Silver Hill, Ark, were burned to
death while their parents were at
church.
Twenty-Five state banks in Kansas
closed their doors in the past six
months. five of which have resumed
business.
IN jackson and Ebert counties, Ga,
twenty-three men were arrested with
wholesale counterfeiJs of silver dollars
in their possession.
IN Chicago the worlds first parlia-
ment of religions began a seventeen
days session. In these meetings the
delegates from different churches all
over the world will present their views
of the great subjects of religious faith
and life.
DAVID SIMMONS, George Sicor and
Frank Fare, United States marshals at
Dennison, Tex, became involved in a
row which resulted in all three being
fatally shot.
FIRE swept away twenty business
houses and residences at Candy, Mimi,
the total loss being $500. 900.
FREIBURG & WoRKUM's distillery at
Lynchburg, O., was burned, the loss
being 500, 900.
Mrs. MAXWELL, of Clinton, Ia, and
her daughter Stella were fatally burned
in filling lighted gasoline stove.
CJosEPH L. KILRAN, of Elwood, Ind,
and James II. Walker, of Philadelphia.
died at the same hour on passenger
trains at Pittsburgh. Pa.
FLAMES ruined the grain elevator of
the w. C. Fuhrer Milling company at
Mount Vernon, Ind, the loss being
500. 600