River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-08-03

follows: First national at Great Falls,
Mont, First national at Middlesboro,
Ky. Farmers and Merchants at Cow
ington. Ind, German-American at Port
Washington, Wis. Seymour's bank at
Chippewa Falls. Wis, C w. Chopin &
Co. 5 bank at Stanton, Mica, and the
Union Banking company at Portland.
Ore.
AT Dallas, Tex, Henry Miller (col-
ored) was hanged for the murder of
Policeman brewer; Alexander Brown
tcolored) WIS exec uted at Bastror.
Tex, for wife-murder, and Ida HERS
tcOloredl was hanged at Waterloo. s.
G., for the murder of her half brother
ISAAC Harper (colored) was lyuched
by mob at Calera, Va, for assault or
a white woman
FOREST fires ruined the villages OF
Prentice and Medford. in Wisconsin.
NORTH of Pueblo. Col, a cloudburst
washed away scores of ranch houses
and barns and fences, drowned hun.
dreds of cattle and ruined 100 farmers,
IN wreck on the Pennsylvania road
at indianapolis six persons were seri
ously injured
DOMESTIC trouble caused Hardy
Caldwell, of Middle Fork, KY, to kill
himself and wife.
A FIRE destroyed half of Wakeman,
O., town with population of 900.
AT Chadron, Neb., Louis Irig died
after a continuous sleep of three
months, caused by exposure to vio-
lent snowstorm.
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was convicted at Mobile. Ala, of a mur-
der committed twenty-four years ago
and given a sentence of five years
By the suspension of all work at the
Vermillion mines in Minnesota two
thousand men were thrown out of en-
ployment.
IN Chicago cash wheat sold at 5SX
cents, which was the lowest price any.
body in the trade now could remember
hearing of.
THE Carter mill at Ludington, Mich,
including a large amount of lumber
and shingles, was destroyed by FIRE.
Loss, SIPS, 900.
EMMA LINDSAY, of Jacksonville,
Ind. while laboring under great ex'
element was suddenly stricken dumb
and later became totally blind.
THE gates of the worlds fair were
opened on Sunday in accordance with
the order of the council of administra.
ton. The attendance proved to be the
smallest of any day since the fair be-
gan, but 1857 persons paying for ad-
mission.
THE following bank failures were re.
ported: First national at Kankakee,
ILL.,; Dollar savings bank at Youngs.
town. o.; Citizens Savings and Loan
association at Akron, O.; Commercial
national, Ainsworth national and Port
land savings banks at Portland, Ore. !;
Commercial at Eau Claire, Wis; Savings
at Baraboo, Wis: First national at Ash.
land, Wis, and the Exchange at Nun.
da, Ill.
Ton PRESTON and VIII Thompson,
negro boys, were tortured to death by
a mob at { aston, 5. c. They were
guilty of criminal assault.
EMPLOYEES of the Northwestern Pa
cific Elevator company of Minnesota
were charged with issuing forged du-
plicate grain certificates and victimiz-
ing seventy-three New England banks
to the extent of $500, 900.
Mrs. LUCILLE RODNEY, who left Gal
weston, Tex, May l6, arrived in Chi
cago, having walked the CNtire dis
lance, 1.346 miles, for $1,000 wager.
GRANDMA HERNoN died at the age of
los years and 5 months at the Logan
county poor farm near Lincoln, Ill.
Miss FANNIE SUDLOw and Clark III.
Buford, prominent young people of
Rock Island, Ill, were drowned while
bathing in the river near Rock Island.
A WAGON belonging to the Pacific
Express company was held up on the
streets of Wichita, Kan, by three ne
groes and robbed of 81, 500.
In Milwaukee Walter Sanger clipped
five seconds from the worlds mile rec
ord in a bicycle race, covering the
ground N 2:OS As.