River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-07-20
WEST AND SOUTH.

By a gasoline explosion Mrs Z. Ill.
Vanarsdale, aged 2s. wife of the lead
ing dry goods merchant at Beatrice,
Neb.. and Mary Hogenfeldt, her serv-
ant, were burned to death.
CARRIE and Pearl Plant (sisters)
started to walk from MuskegOn, Mich,
to the worlds fair.
john l.. DAVIS private bank at Au-
burn, Ind. and the Holt county bank
at O'NeiI. Neb.. closed their doors.
A FIRE destroyed the main building
of the packing house of John Morrell
4 Co. at Ottumwa, Ia, with its con-
tents. causing loss of $500, 200.
Is Chicago Charles VI. Barnes,
wholesale bookseller and stationer,
failed for sl13 600.
THE state league of republican clubs
will meet in Des Moines Ia, on Au-
gust -.
AT Ocala, Fla, Robert Larkin (col-
oredl was lynched for criminally as
saulting Fannie Alexander, a white
girl.
FLAMES at Princeton. Ind, destroyed
two churches, a hotel, bank and many
business houses, the total loss being
500, 600.
SHOCKS of earthquake were felt at
Albuquerque. y. NJ. being severe
enough to stop clocks in different parts
of the city and to rattle dishes and
crOcl1cry on the shelves.
THE Springfield MOI Bank of Com
merce closed its doors with deposits of
SIG. 900. and the Bank of Garnett, Kan,
stopped business with heavy liabilities.
IL Chicago Oscar Neebe, the anarch-
list recently released from the Joliet
ulL) penitentiary by Gov. Altgeld, was
married to Mrs. Eliza Hepp. Neebe's
first wife died while he was in prison.
The indicted officials of the Plankin
ton bank in Milwaukee. that faileo re-
Gently, include Judge Jenkins, of the
United States circuit court
The Viking ship from Norway. fac
smile of the one in which Left Eric
son Is claimed to have touched upon
American shores 400 years before Co
lumbus sailed from the harbor of Palos,
arrived in Chicago.
FLAMES destroyed twelve business
buildings at Maxwell, Col, the loss be-
ing 500. 600
WILLIAM Cook. of Pemberville, O.,
I " NIT AEuAAN q dsnoiNAAA
with a club upon his four children. in
/ juring three of them fatally.
For fourteen years Annie Morris has
been masquerading as Frank Blunt
/ Her arrest at Milwaukee revealed her
/ identity.
GEORGE SHIRLEY, engineer, and
Brakeman BrOOkbank were mortally
wounded in a freight wreck at Henry
vile. Ind.
TIIIE WILLIAMS Otto Reineck and
Annie Watson, a noted Chicago gang of
I thieves, were sentenced at Denver to
ten years each in the penitentiary.
WILLIAM SHANNON and Thomas Craig,
/ two well-known explorers, were
fdrowned by the eapsizing of their boat
I in Rainy lake. Minnesota.
The indianapolis servant of the Koes-
/ tiers. Anna Wagner. has been indicted
for poisoning five Of the family.
AT the age of 10 years james McCor-
mick died at Darwin, III.
Tue sudden death of Ger w. II.
Enochs. congressman from the Tenth
district of Ohio. occurred at his home
/ in Ironton-
The doors of the Nebraska savings
/ bank at Lincoln were closed with La
4 bilities OF 500. 900.
J. X. ARMSTRONG. of Upton. O., coun-
/ " treasurer, was said TO be short S25,-
/ OOOO in his accounts.
FLAMES nearly wiped out the BUSH
ness section of Luckcy, o., the loss be-
ing $1,000
IN session at Nashville. Tenn. the
National Retail Clerks union decided
TO make Chicago their permanent head
quarters and elected L. T. Fitzwil-
/ liams of Nashville. as president
IL Detroit II. c Meyer WAS ar
rested. charged with poisoning no less
/ than five young womel-each of whom
/ he represented as his wife-and one
man. for the purposeOf securing life in
surance which he had taken out on
their lives.
/ IL Chicago six deaths from sunstroke
{ and a large number of serious cases Of
prostration were reported on the l4th.
] IL a railway wreck at Nincennss-
/ Ind, five Knights OF Pytnias were Ia
| jured. one of them fatally.