River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-08-10

Is Iowa insurance rates have been
raised 10 per cent and merchants have
been notified that they must meet the
increase.
DOUGLAS DAVIS fatally stabbed his
wife in jealous rage at Greenville. M,
and cut his own throat, dying instantly.
VIRGINIA populists IN convention at
Lynchburg nominated Edmund Il.
Cooke, farmer of Cumberland county,
for governor: J. Brad Beverly, of
Faquier. for lieutenant governor, and
w. 5. Gravely, of Henry, for attorney
general
In Chicago the first general meeting
of women lawyers ever held convened
with delegates present from every sec
ton of the United States.
THE mines of California during the
past three months have turned out So
500. 900 in fine gold.
FAILURES We're reported of the Com
mercial bank at Stevens Point, Wis, i
the National German-American bank
at st. Paul, Mimi. and the banking
house of Lazarus Silverman in Chicago.
ONE of Chieago's biggest dry goods
concerns, the James III. Walker com
hdhNs AOlAk du AhAhlNiAot hAAOtCStAC
and retail business, failed for 81, AGO.
900.
AT Houston, Tex, Walter f. Shaw
was hanged for the murder of his moth
er and aunt March 81, 1892.
A cLoUDBURsT in the vicinity of
Sharptown, Ind, did immense damage
to crops and farm property.
FOURTEEN farms in Alpena county,
Mich, were swept by forest fires, con-
Stunning houses, barns and glain and
hay and damaging growing crops.
THE "Hoosier poetess." Sarah L. Boil
ton. died at her home in Indianapolis,
aged 50 years. Among the most popu-
lar of her songs were Paddle Your Own
Canoe" and Union Forever"
ROBERT DUNCAN, of indianapolis, and
Mrs Annie Caulkins, of Lafay ette
Ind, discovered that they were brother
and sister after separation of seventy
years. Mrs. Caulxins is So years old
and Mr.. Duncan is So.
AT Memphis, Tenn, sixty persons,
including the sheriff and other officers,
have been indicted for lynching and
cremating the negro Lee Walker.
THE 13-year-old son of Edgar Burger.
of South Kokomo, Ind, died from the
direct effects of cigarette smoking.
THE execution of Joseph III. Howell,
who murdered Mrs Nancy Hall and
seven children January 10, 1892, took
place at Trenton, Mo.
In prize fight at Denver Bobby Tay-
lor, fighting under the sobriquet of the
''Sailor Kid" was killed by William
Robinson.
O THE following bank failures were
announced: First national at Ham
mond, Ind. Citizens national at Mum
Gle, Ind, First national at Plattville.
Wis, State" bank of Providence, II.
l., Exchange at Colby, Wis. Lebanon
pa Trust and Safe deposit bank. and
the First national, National citizens
ana Mankato national at Mankato,
Mimi.
On the Lake Shore road a train
jumped the track near Fremont, o.,
and four persons were killed and ten
others were injured, one fatally.
No ONE was indicted by the grand
jury for the blame of the cold-storage
building fire on the worlds fair
grounds.
BANK failures were reported as fol-
lows: Bank of St James at st. James,
Mimi, State bank at Mapleton, Mimi,
the Exchange national at Wheeling,
w. Va, and the Farmers and Traders
bank at Leon, the Garden Grove bank
at Garden Grove and the Citizens bank
at David City, all in Iowa and operated
by A. Il. Stearns and l.. L. Sigler.
A TRAIN struck a wagon at Dellwood,
Mimi, and Mrs. J. y. Newstrum, Mrs.
L. Z. Clouse and L. w. Newstrum were
killed.
NEARLY a hundred men went to the
home of William and Ed Conrad in
Boone township, Ind, for the purpose
of lynching the two boys, who were
suspected of killing their father last
winter. The young Conrads opened
fire on the crowd and killed Edward
Houston, Isaac Howe, John Timber
lake and William Wiseman, all farmers.
William May, also farmer, was fatal
~ injured.
a FREIGHT train on the Bic Four road
fell through bridge over a river a dis
lance of 63 feet into the water below
near Danville, ILL.,, killing brakeman
Stone and damaging property TO the
extent of 100000.
THE firm of Knight, Leonard & Co.,
printers and publishers in Chicago,
made an assignment with heavy liabili-
ties.