River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-10-12

ELIZA PORTER (colored). Of Atchison.
the oldest woman in Kansas, is dead.
She was born August 16, 1902, in Ken
lucky.
FLAMES destroyed the immense car
barns of the Canton Massilon Electric
Railway company, at Canton, O., the
loss being 100000
SIX prisoners confined in the county
jail at Bowling Green, o., escaped by
digging hole through the foundation,
Ons of them being murderer.
TGE National bank of Kansas City.
Mo, which recently suspended, has been
permitted 20 reopen for business.
IN St Louis at the bimetallie ccnven-
ton resolutions were adopted strongly
advocatiIg the free coinage of silver,
opposing the further issue of govern.
ment bonds and demanding the speedy
impro, ement of all great western and
southern WATERWAYS.
The town of Fulton, Ark. thriving
place of several thousand inhabitants,
was entirely destroyed by fire.
The death of ex-United States Sem
ator Groome occurred at his home in
Baltimore, Md. He was elected gov
ernor of Maryland in 1878. and at the
expiration of his term served one term
a the senate.
Bishop II. NJ. TURNER of the African
Methodist church, south, has issued call
for convention to meet in Cincinnati,
November 2s. to consider lynchings.
AT jamestown. Ind, Oscar Darnell,
shot and stabbed Miss Title Major and
then killed himself. jealousy caused it.
The agentof the Adams Express COM
pany at 81. Louis has ordered the dis
charge of every clerk who CANDLES in
any form, including betting on horse
races
NEBRASKA democrats in convention
at Lincoln went on record as accord
ing heartily with Cleveland's financial
policy.
JUDeE Lone. of Detroit, will attempt
to force the government to pay his pen
sion, suspended September %.
AT Indianapolis. Ind. during a liot
at the Big Four shops special police
fired at the crowd, fatally wound:ng
one man.
IN state convention at Lincoln, Neh,
republicans nominated state ticket
headed by Il. o. C. Harrison. of Grand
Isl and. for judge of the supreme court.
A MAD bull at the Cincinnati stock
yards attacked John Maher, aged 10,
and gored him TO death, one horn
penetrating the skull near the right
ear.
MARTHA BLAND, a pensioner of the
war of 1912, died at Seneca county, O.,
aged 100 years.
IL state convention at Lincoln, Nab,
the democrats nominated Frank /. Ir-
vine for justice of the supreme court to
head the ticket
NEAR COTS, Kan, Gottfreid GreutIe,
farmer, had his head completely sew
cred from his body in runaway acci-
dent.
THE body of Charles Cook. living near
Cairo, IL, was found in field close TO
his farm. He had wandered away six
weeks ago
TIE death of s. A. Robinson occurred
at Dennison, Tex, aged 81 years. lie
was chief of the United States secret
service department during the war and
a delegate to the first convention that
nominated Lincoln for president.
~ NAnIAhndlA GA-A
was installed commander of the Chic
commandery of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion.
AT Bumtown, o., w. X. Hill sought
out his wife. who had left him, killed
her and her mother and escaped.
REV. ID. L. MOODY closed the congress
of missions in Chicago with a stirring
appeal 10 close the saloons of that CITY.
A BOAT containing fishing party of
four men was overturned in the MIssis-
sippi river near st. LOUIS and two of
the party-Joseph Franklin and an an.
known man-were drowned.
A TERRIBLE wind and rainstorm which
passed over Arkansas in the vicinity of
Little Rock did great damage. Six
persons were reported killed and sew
eral severely injured.
FREIGHT trains collided near New
Haven, KY, killing Engineers Burke
and Higgins.
ANDREW Lips, boy. was killed. and
Billy Brown, miner, fatally injured
by the explosion of blast at Clinton,
Ind.
J. G.. WILLIAMSON, of Hawkeye, Ia.
fell under a train at Springfield, Mo-,
and was killed.
NEAR Salina, Ark, white caps were
burning gin houses of farmers who sell
cotton for less than certain price.