River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-07-20

AT Tacoma. Wash, the United States
grand jury indicted President Van
Horne, of the Canadian Pacific railroad.
and all the other leading officials for
violating the interstate commerce law.
JOHN III. CHAPMAN, of Chicago, was
reelected president at the annual meet
ing in indianapolis of the Baptist
Young Peoples Union of America
n. VI. TABOR and w II. Bush, lessees
of the Brown Palace hotel in Denver,
made an assignment with liabilities
placed at $3.50, 900.
TIE local directory of the Worlds
Columbian exposition by vote of "A TO
passed resolutions resembling the ac-
ton of the meeting of May IG and or
dered the gates closed on all Sundays
after the 10th.
BY cyclone which passed over Sti6-
water, Mimi, and vicinity two persons
were killed, over dozen injured and
much property destroyed
DURING "a battle with French gun
boats on the Meinam river twenty
Siamese were killed aud fourteen
wounded.
ASAA - " ODD bdHk at 1dFuli. ILL.,
made general assignment with liza
bilities of SIG, 600 and assets of $780,
600.
The worlds fair auditor in his report
shows that the total receipts of the ex-
position mp to June 30 were 81, PSI, 316
and total expenses were S20,6l0. 100.
MARY SCHIREBER. aged ;, and Annie
Geary, aged is. were burned to death
at their home in Port Clinton, O., by an
explosion of gasoline.
You're MAN AFRAID-oF-H Is-HoRsEs,
the head chief of the Sioux nation of
Indians, dropped dead at Newcastle,
Wyo.
THE Schleisinger syndicate at Ish-
peming, Mich, the largest OPP rators in
ore in the world, were said To have failed
with millions of liabilities.
IN Wyoming an army of crickets was
devastating every sort of vegetation.
The doors of the national bank of
Kansas City. Mo-, were closed with liza
bilitics of $1,000. 900 and assets of So
100000 The failure caused the Frank
lin savings bank of the same city to
suspend.
Lewis, acquitted of the charge of muir
dering his wife, near Roseland. La.
TORNADO swept over the town of
Leipsic, O., unrooiing many buildings
and doing other damage
TUE failure was reported of the
Northern bank. the oldest financial in
stitution in Kansas City, Kan, with
assets of S475. 900 and liza bilities of S3l5,-
600.
a REIGN of terror has been inaugu-
rated in Montana by idle men as a re-
suit of the closing OF silver mines.
By the explosion of coal oil at Column
bus, o., Clement Miller and his wife
and baby were fatally burned.
FREDERICK 4. RAwLINs and Richard
T. Roughton, prominent citizens of
Sandersville, Ca, killed each other in a
street duel
IN Cincinnati The John Kaufman
Brewing company went into the hands
of a receiver with liabilities of $3.50, 900.
FLAMES in the Fresno Touring mills
at Fresno. Cal, caused loss of $780,
600.
In a stream near Mill Creek, Ind,
Mrs. Adam Allis and her son and
daughter and Willie Bryce were
drowned. Mrs Allis and her daughter
lost their lives in trying to save the two
boys.
IN Chicago the Bouton Foundry COM
pany failed for $500. 600
The, doors of the private banking
house of William Oberhauser I'm Peoria,
H., were closed with liabilities of
AGO, in
The recent cyclone in Iowa killed
fifty-seven persons at Pomeroy, thirteen
in Cherokee county, six in Beuna Vista
county, four in Pocahontas county and
two in Wright county.
WHILE en- route to Little Rock w. f.
Werner, sheriff and tax collector of
Crittenden county. Ark, was shot and
robbed of nearly sl2, 900 by persons I'M
known.
ALBERT BUTTERoUX, aged Is; George
Pond, aged "a, and Willie Clawson,
aged II. were drowned while bathing in
the bay at Galveston, Tex.
The 100-yard sprinting event at Go
shen. Ind, for purse of 81. 900 and the
championship of America was won b.
Morris. of California, in Q 3-5 seconds,
which is one-fifth of a second below the
worlds record.
IN fit of jealousy Luca Scescieh, a
capitalist and miner. shot and killed his
wife at Los Angeles, Cal, and then
killed himself.