River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-10-05

AFTKR being mourned as dead for
quarter of a century John Turpie,
brother Of the Indiana senator, has re-
turned to mis- home in Delphi
At st. Louis Marion Hedgepeth was
found guilty of train robbery and SEN
fenced TO a term of twenty-five years
in the penitentiary.
Or account of domestic trouble Mrs.
J. ii. Raisley killed her husband at
Paola, Fla, and then took her own
life.
A PASSENGER train went into an open
switch near Gulfport, Miss, and three
persons were killed and eight others
injured
NEAR Crystal Falls. Mich. the Michi-
CANINE river broke through tine Mans
field iron mine, drowning twenty-eight
of the employees at work directly under
the stream.
THE populists have nominated WON
en- in many counties in Kansas as their
candidates tor coroner. register OF deeds
and county clerk.
A DIssIPATEp artist named Robert T.
Hrnt shot and killed his wife and him
self at indianapolis
SIN REYNOLDS and Harley Johns
were sentenced to,two years in prison
at Macon, Mo-, for attempting TO wreck
a train.
THE state treasury of Texas was said
to be bankrupt
DURING a tremendous rain pour at
Pine Bluff, Ark. millions of small
frogs fell. and the streets in the bust
ness part of the town were SO covered
with them that it was difficult to walk.
A MOB near Benton, La, hanged
Henry Coleman, Jr., a negro who at
tempted to assassinate Capt. Thomas
Lyles.
NEAR Winchester, o., and in Jeffer-
son township forest fires were raging
and many farmhouses and barns had
been destroyed.
OS one scaffold at Mount Vernon,
Ga, five negroes were hanged. Three
of them murdered Alexander Peterson,
rich merchant, last July; the fourth
killed a J-year-old child and the fifth
murdered a negro companion.
In Chicago counterfeit twenty-dollar
bills were in circulation. The bills are
wood cut limitations of silver certif-
cate of the series of 1880, check letter
A. Its number is Il 3l32l6s.
THE death of Willis ID. Machen, ex-
United States senator, occurred at Hop
kinsville, Ky. aged 81 years.
On the day that Wilhelm Marquardt
was to have been married he climbed
out his brains.
WILLIAM Hunt fell headlong into u
deep well near st. Joseph, Mo-, striking
George anderson, who was at the bot
tom doing some repairing. The skulls
of both were crushed.
III was stated that the bodies of the
twenty-eight victims of the mine dis
aster near Crystal Falls, Mich, would
never be recovered.
DIPHTHERIA was said to have become
epidemic at Grantsburg, Wis, the dis
ease being of the worst type. Many
persons were dying daily.
AT the residence of Assemblyrnan
Bow, at Kingston, Wis, during the
progress of funeral services the floor
gave way. precipitating 100 people into
the cellar Several were seriously in
jured. one fatally.
RELATIVES of the Wrattan family
offer a reward of $1,000 for the appre-
hension aud conviction of the parties
WAC murdered that family of six on the
night of September rs at Washington,
Ind.
Mrs. L. L. GRIFFIN, of Tampico, Ill,
and Mrs. Daniel Griffin, of Sandy Hill,
n. H.. were instantly killed by a loco
motive at Dunham's Basin. n. Y.
THE recent gale on Lake Michigan
resulted in long list of wrecks being
added to the already disastrous marine
season.
Henry COLEMAN, JR. ,(coloredl, who at
tempted TO assassinate Capt Thomas
Lyles at Shreveport, La, was taken
from Jail by mob and lynched
AT Hillsdale, Mich, DIR. koglesong
was sentenced to solitary confinement
for life for poisoning his wife.
CENrERBURGH was almost destroyed
by fire, the loss being 800, 900.