River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-01-19

The Official canvass OF the returns OF
the election on Novemb Der s in Arkansas
shows that the amendment TO the con-
stitution requiring an elector to exhibit
poll tax receipt before he can vote at
an election was adopted.
ONE street in the business district OF
Alliance, Neb., was swept clean by
fire, involving loss of over $780, 600
A wEsTBoUSD Maysville accommoda-
tiOn train collided with freight train
at Dover. KY. killing the engineer,
fireman and six Passengers
In the heart of the retail district of
Kansas City, Mo-, fire caused loss of
SPAS. 600.
AT Castor, Ky, two negroes, Ed and
Dick Norman (brothers). were hanged
by mob for numbering and robbing
farmer.
IN Salzso. Wash, an avalanche
swept down the mountain side and
buried two miners, James Switzer and
Martin Flaherty, under $50 feet of
snow.
OK the Iowa Central a passenger
train was derailed near Burlington, Ia.
killing two unknown passengers and
injuring fatally Rev. Mr.. Miller. of
Wayland, Ia; Elmer Reece. of Morning
sun, Ia, and z. S. Drummer, of Wyo-
ming, ILL.,
FIRE destroyed the Hotel st. Louis.
the first large hotel ever built in Du-
luth. MINI, the loss being 500, 600
William Baudre and Charles Preston,
railroad men, persisted in the flames.
THE death of jeremiah Harvey,
known throughout Indiana as the old
est odd fellow in the state and the
founder of the first newspaper in Grant
county, occurred at Marion at the age
of IS years
CHARLES BROOKS, Frisby Comegys,
Fletcher Williams and Moses Brown
(all negroes) were hanged at Chester
town, Md, for the murder of DIR.
James II. Hill. April %. 1885,. Three of
them were 10 and one I3 years of age
IL Chicago Henry Sargent Goldman.
landscape artist of the Worlds Colum
bian exposition, died suddenly at St.
Luze's hospital.
IL Nebraska the official canvass OF
the vote cast at the recent election
showed that the republican governor
and other state officers were elected
and Gov. Crounse was duly inaugu-
rated.
AT Story City. Ia. an engine with
snow-plow in front dashed into the
rear of a Chicago & Northwestern
train. injuring twenty-one people, but
killing no one.
BY the telescoping of a Chicago &
Eastern Illinois accommodation train
by the Chicago & Erie express at Fifty
fifth street in Chicago. eighteen per-
sons were badly injured
IN Monroe county, Ark, three more
negroes were lynched on account of the
Atkinson murder at Cotton Plant.
THE governor of Mississippi has is
sued a proclamation commanding the
white cap organizations in the south
ern part of the state to desist and offer
ing 500 reward for the capture of each
of the outlaws
SARAH HERRING, daughter of Attor-
ney General Herring. of Phoenix. is the
first woman admitted to the bar in
Arizona.
ALBERT GRANT shot Fannie Howard
and then killed himself in a quarrel at
Dallas. Tex.
FRED Horn, the oldest member of
the Wisconsin legislature, died at his
home in Cedarburg at the age of ~
years. He had served in the legisla-
ture almost constantly for forty five
years, having been elected to the first
state senate in 1888.
TOBE HINES and James Kelly, two
farmers living near Truxton, Mo-, en-
gagged in quarrel that resulted fatally
to both.
IN a restaurant at Rice Lake. Wis,
f. c. Alien fatally shot his wife and
shot and killed Bert Van Tassel He
alleged that the two were criminally
intimate