River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-07-06

NEAR Breckenridge. Tex, an attempt
TO hold up train resulted in the kill
ing of the fireman and capture of one
of the bandits after hard fight
THE wheat crop is failure in thirty
counties in the west of Kansas and
Gov. Lewelling has been appealed 10
for relief.
THE editor of the Augusta ga Even
ing News, w. ii. Moore, dropped dead
in his room. lie had been on the street
fifteen minutes previously.
THE cashier of the City national bank
of Brownwood, Tex, ). +. Walling.
Jr.. was arrested on the charge of en-
bezzling $4,000 from the bank.
RESIDENTS of Naperville, ILL.,, hanged
Gov. Altgeld in effigy for pardoning the
Chicago anarchists.
MINING men met in Denver and de-
cided to close all the smelters. mills
and silver mines in Colorado until such
time as silver is appreciated at its prop
er worth.
AT 81. Joseph, Mo, Ellsworth
Goshen, aged years, was sentenced to
twelve years imprisonment for wreck
ing freight train.
BECAUSE of trouble between the stu
dents and faculty of the state normal
school at Terre Haute, Ind, the entire
class of 1898 refused to graduate and
the commencement exercises were de-
clared off
THE dwelling. barn and outhouses Of
Henry Queer, a wcll-to-do ranchman
near Leroy, Col, were burned by white
caps, and two of his horses were killed
and he was given warn ing to leave the
state within ten days. No cause was
known.
THE sudden death of Mrs. Gus Wal
din. of Burlington, Ia, caused a post
norton examination and il was discov-
cred that the heart. although perfectly
healthy, had been burst by some ire
mendous emotion.
T. A. TIGBMAN, of Tennessee. prom
inent Farmers Alliance leader, will
succeed Gen. Rosecrans as registrar of
of the treasury.
POVERTY and a drunken husband
caused Mrs Julius Collins, of Oak Cliff,
Tex, to administer poison to herself
and three little children.
THE Epworth league met in annual
convention at Cleveland and Gov Nc
Kinley and Mayor Blee made speeches
of welcome.
AT HinclIley, Mimi, the Pine county
bank and branch bank at Sandstone,
owned by w. ii. Grant & Son, closed
their doors.
EMPLOYEES of the Texas railway
caught three tramps plundering freight
cars at greensboro. Ky, and the thieves
were strung up and given twenty five
| lashes.
IN New Orleans Gus Albers (white)
was hanged for the brutal murder of
Mrs. Wiemann, widow lady who had
very frequently befriended him.
The cowboy. John Berry, who was
the first to arrive in Chicago in the
great race from Chadron. Neb., was
awarded the first prize of 81, 900.
By order of the court Joe Bird. a
negro, was shot at Wilburton, /. T.,
for numbering his wife and mother-in-
law.
DURING May and June the total paid
attendance at the worlds fair was s.
723. $40.
A REPORT was adopted at the session
of the Epworth league in Cleveland ask
ing the worlds fair commissioners, on
behalf of more than a million people,
to close the exposition on Sunday
DANIEL BARBER and William Pinkney,
both colored, were executed at MARI
boro, Md, for the murder of Francis NJ.
Bowie, a wealth farmer of Prince
George county, the evening of March
20 last.
IN st. Louis Sam Wilson. the lone
bandit who robbed the express car of
the Missouri Pacific train a few weeks
ago, was sentenced to fifteen years in
the penitentiary.
THE doors of the First national bank
of Provo, Utah, were closed with liabil-
titles of 100000.
THE Iron e. Steel company at Mus
kegon, Mich. went into a receivers
hands, with liabilities of s15O,OOO.
GEORGE COMPTON, aged 8, and Willie
Keys, aged s, were fatally burned by a
gasoline explosion at Hamilton, o.
THE Clear Creek county bank at
Georgetown, Col. made an assignment
with liabilities of S23S, 900 and assets of
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