River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-12-28

ROBBERS killed Hunter Wilson and
fatally wounded his wife in Baxter
county, Ark.
THE attendants In a gambling house
in Chicago were held up by burglars
who got away with $4,000.
AT Burbank, 5 D., while sleigh-rid-
ing Miss Dolly Hemphill and Miss Kate
Stefani were fatally shot by their es-
cort. man called shorty Babcock,
who then killed himself No cause was
known
OIMsIED & STORMS. private bankers
at Galesburg. Mich, suspended.
AT their home near Winchester. o.,
L. +. Ryan and wife, aged 81 and rs
respectively. were found murdered.
KLEISE, TDIBERMAN & Co, dealer IA
wooden cloths in Cincinnati. failed for
SIPS. 000
OSE-HALF the police force in Iron
wood, Mich, was under arrest for
stealing goods sent to the starving
Gogebic miners
For informing on Abel (Ga.) gam
blers VIII Ferguson was dragged to a
swamp and killed to prevent his testi-
fyin~.
IN Chicago John p Hopkins (dem.)
defeated George b. Swift (rep) for
mayor by plurality OF l. 46i.
RoBBERs held up the Richmond
Southern Pacific express train near
Houston, Tex, killed the express mes
senger and fireman and robbed the ex-
presssafe-
NORTH of Burlington. Ia. a rich
vein of gold was discovered and COM
pany was formed 70 work it.
IL Ohio not a single passenger was
killed by the ears during the year ended
November Is.
A MIsER named Anton Baltz, who
died in Baltimore of starvation. was
found 20 have S4,6s5 in bank.
THE death of James w. Love. consul
10 San Salvador under President Harri-
son. occurred at his home in Fremont,
Neb. aged 43.
FIRE destroyed the Louisiana rice
mill at New Orleans. causing a loss OF
500. 600. One fireman was killed by a
falling wall
FLAMES wiped out the business por-
ton Of Waxahachie, Tex, the loss be-
ing s12O OOO
II Richmond, Va, 1900 families were
said to be without employment or sup
port.
CLAIMS of worlds fair concessionaires
for s63s, 7O7 We're settled by the adjust
ment bureau for s2l5.2l6.
SHoPLIFTERs carried tray of dia-
monds valued at e.. 800 from the store
of C. d. Peacock in Chicago.
ADDITIONAL supplies for the destitute
Indians in Oklahoma have been or
dered
For the murder of his wife in May
last, Allen Cousins was hanged at
Knoxville, Tenn.
The Mason fats In Duluth, Mimi,
were burned, the loss being 500. 600
ONE of Mississippi's famous lawyers
and public men, Thomas A. Marshall,
died at Nicksburg in his SD year.
LETTERS outlining plan for kidnap-
ing Ruth Cleveland, daughter of the
president, and holding her for ran
som, were found at Abilene, Kan
THE dry dock company's plant at
Wyandotte, Mich, was destroyed by
fire and patterns accumulated for TWEEN
ty years We're burned.
IL the river at McCary's Ferry, Ala,
two women named Williamson aud
Alexander were drowned while at
tempting to rescue the child of the lat
ter. The child caught to bush and
was saved.
The oldest man in Indiana, John
Dawson, aged lO4 years and 1 month,
died at Terre Haute. He attended the
funeral of Washington and served in
the war Of 1872.
A CHAErER to the Duval Athletic
club at Jacksonville. Fla, before which
Corbett and Mitchell were to fight, was
refused by Gov. Mitchell
IT was declared by Judge Taylor, of
Terre Haute, Ind, that a pupil could
not be excluded from school because of
failure to be vaccinated.
j. L. oHAILCROss, q stockman at
Anchorage, Ky, lost his barn by fire,
together with thirty horses and 100
head of cattle.
AT lumber mill near Knoxville,
Tenn, four men were killed and five
injured by boiler explosion.
IN Grand lake near Mermenteau, La,
two women named Thi3odeaux and
their three daughters and Mr. Miller
were drowned by the upsetting of their
boat.
A NEGRO named Roscoe Parker con-
fesssed to killing l.. p. Ryan and ife,
aged 81 and IS respectively, at their
home near Winchester, O.
In Ohio low water caused the sinking
OF .rges which contained over 400, 900
bushels of coal
A RACE war occurred at Laguna del
Gallo, y. NJ, and five Americans and
nineteen Mexicans were killed.