River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-08-24
INrrRrRErER YosHrKAwA and Com

INTERPRETER YosHIRAwA and Com
missioner Minano. Japanese represent
ing their government at the worlds
fair, have been converted to Chris
tianity.
THE impeachment of President Cleve-
land and Secretary Carlisle Is demand
ed by the Advocate, the organ at To-
peka of the Kansas populists, for failure
TO purchase the prescribed quantity OF
silver in July.
THREE cars were dropped GO feet by
the giving way of bridge near Milton,
Va, and seven persons were killed and
four injured.
The First national bank at Dubuque,
Ia, the bank at Albany. Mo-, and the
Kendall county bank at Yorkville, Ill,
closed their doors
MARTIN SCHULTZ and his wife, an
aged couple living near Cherokee, Ia,
were murdered and their home ram
sacked by robbers.
IN Cincinnati the Standard Wagon
company, one of the largest concerns of
the kind in the west, failed for 500, 600;
assets, 81, 200. 900.
By collision on the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railroad near Du-
buque, Ia, twelve persons were injured
The death of John Logan Chapman,
mem Der of congress from the First dis
trict of Michigan. occurred at his home
IN Detroit, aged 63 years.
THE Nebraska democrats will hold
their convention at Lincoln October 4
IN fit of anger Cyrus Brown, of
Cincinnati, shot and killed his wife, to
whom he had been married thirty years.
VIRGINIA democrats in convention at
Richmond nominated Charles I. OFcr-
rail- for governor and X. C. Kent for
lieutenant governor.
THE four banks in lie Mars, ia, sus-
pended They were the First national
and lie Mars national, with capital of
800, 900 each, and the lie Mars state
and German savings banks.
DRINKING water from an impure well
caused the death of three children of
j. L. Casey, of Little Rock, Ark, and
the rest of the family were seriously i'll.
A TRACTION engine near Martins
Ferry, o., became unmanageable and
ran backward down a hill, killing Car
RE and Nellie Alderman, aged and |
years, respectively, and fatally injuring
Ella King.
FIRE at Benton, Ill, destroyed the
city hall, post Office and the Chronicle
Office.
j. S. JOHNSON made miles In 7:.5%
in a bicycle race at Minneapolis, lower
ing the record 1874 seconds.
BUSINESS has been resumed by tho
First national bank of Anthony, Kan,
which suspended payment in July.
MOB near Morganfield, KY, lynched
Charles Watson, a negro who cut the
throat of little Sam Keith, 10 years old,
TO secure four dollars.
WILLIAM !. JAMESON (colored), who
murdered Supervisor Charles n. Aaron
April 10. 1892, was hanged at Quincy,
Ill. This was the third hanging in
Quincy in sixty-five years.
WITHIN ten days twenty members of
the Meachain gang have been killed
near jackson. Ala, and five Others were
surrounded, but escaped.
By the upsetIing of boat Mrs.
Foster, her two children and her sister
were drowned at Bonnot's mill, IL miles
east of jefferson City, Mo.
NEAR Fort Smith, Ark. Charles
Tart, federal prisoner, was lynched
by mob for wounding Capt C. C.
Peete with a gun during a struggle.
DOUGLASS CURTIS, of Chicago, as the
result of long spree, killed his child,
fatally wohnded his wife, and then took
his own life.
Mrs ANNA f. SCHoLTKA. after forty
years of married life, brought suit at
Milwaukee for divorce from Christian
Scholtl1a on the charge of cruelty. The
couple have nineteen children
BUSINESS was resumed by the Union
and Peoples national banks at Denver,
Col, after a short suspension.
NEAR Hunnewell, Kan, four hay
makers were killed in collision with
company of soldiers who were clear
ing the Cherokee strip of intruders.
A MOB lynched Monroe Smith (colored)
for an attempted assault at Old Spring
Hill, Ala.
FIRE destroyed large portion OF the
town of Dickson, Tenn.