River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-06-22

THE ex-cashier of the Donohoe- Rely
Banking company at San Francisco, j.
w. Flood, was convicted of embezzling
Si64. 900.
+. BoSHAM, a banker at Fairfield,
Ill. made an assignment with liabilities
OF s125. 200.
BAUER, FOSTER & Co.'S dry goods
store at Dayton, o., was burned, the loss
being 100000.
IN session in Chicago the Information
al Typographical union decided to de-
mand a nine-hour work day for all
printers employed in the United States
and Canada on book and job work.
CHICAGO has been made the headquar-
tiers of the executive committee of the
National Republican league.
WHILE riding to Cincinnati on an
Ohio & Mississippi train Mrs John
Hermes was chloroformed and robbed
of 1925.
In session at Des Moines the supreme
lodge of the Independent Order of Good
Templars passed resolution demand
ing enforcement of the prohibitory law
in the worlds fair district
AT the session in Chic. go the Sons of
the American Revolution elected Gen.
Horace Porter, of New York, as presi-
dent.
THE execution of George Drier, a
Polish jew who murdered Mrs. Fannie
NJ. Fadden at Cape Charles. Va, Octo-
Der 10, 1891, took place at Eastville. Va
THE doors of the First national bank
of Grundy Center, Ia, were closed.
The Legislature of Illinois adjourned
sine die after a session lasting 1863 days.
JACK KAHN and John Gear were
thrown under the wheels and killed
while attempting to board train at
Liberty, Ind. Each leaves a widow and
two little girls; each was IS years of
age; each was a Catholic, and each had
just SIS when killed.
By the upsetting of a yacht Lyle
Kellogg, win Ford, and John Gay, well
known young men, were drowned in
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T.. G.. EAMEs and his wife drove in
front of an express train at Rock Island,
Ill, and both were killed They leave
several small children.
FLAMES destrC red the Adams building
in Chicago, causing loss of sI72, 900 to
o. W. Richardson. carpet dealer, and a
loss of over szCa. 600 to other business
firms.
The owns of Virginia and Mountain
Iron in Wisconsin were DESTROYED by
forest fires and the towns of Mesaba,
Biwabil and Merritt were partially de-
stroyed.
THREE brothers, Warren, James and
John keaton, were drowned while
bathing in the river at Merrill, Wis.
IN the lumber town of Edgerton,
Ind, Lewis Boyer and Hugh Coye, pro-
prietors of the only saloons in the
place, were killed in general fight.
BIZ an error of government survey a
strip of Texas land embracing rs, 600
acres was included within the boundar-
les of Oklahoma
On the Baltimore & Ohio road freight
trains collided near Cameron, w. Va,
and Engineers Dean and Kinney, Fire
man Glenn Fisher and two other train
men were killed.
NEAR Council Bluffs, Ia, an attempt
to hold up an express train was frus-
trated by the fireman turning the hot
water hose on the would-be robbers.
lN a fit of jealousy A. S Arnold, of
Leavenworth, Kan, shot his wife
fatally and then put two bullets into
his own head, killing himself instantly.
Ara railway crossing near Crawfords-
vile, Ind, William Hipes, wealthy
farmer, and his wife and daughter were
killed by the ears.
The Hardware Manufacturing COM
pany at Racine. Wis, failed for $500, 900.
AT Columbus, o., David Blackburn
was sentenced to prison for life for steal
ing three chickens. IL was his third of.
Tense, and the law makes a third SEN
tence life one.
A DECISION was given by Chief Justice
Fuller of the United States supreme
court and his associates in the circuit
court of appeals, Judges Bum and Al
len. in favor of the Sunday opening of
the worlds fair, and in the event of no
further legal complications Sunday
opening was permanently assured.