River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-08-31

Deer nominated 10 be assistant attor-
ney general, vice w. NJ. Maury. re
signed
IN Chicago q special grand jury re-
! turned an indictment against eighty
six men charged with violating the or
dinances against gambling
MASKED men tarred and feathered J.
s. Rutherford and his wife, living near
Dolly Warden. o.
An incendiary fire among wooden and
-four mills in MERGED, Cal, caused
loss of 5000, 900.
ARRANGEMENTS to blow up the De-
troit Mich waterworls and then fire
the city were discovered.
EDWARD NALL. living near Palo Pin
to, Tex, in a fit of jealousy, killed Miss
Ida Beatty, his sweetheart, and James
w. Bly,, a supposed rival, and then took
his own lie.
IL Milwaukee Gustav Scharff con-
fessed to drowning Mrs. Ollie King and
her 6-year-old daughter Grace
The worlds fair officials say the out
look for the discharge of all indebted
ness is encouraging.
The failure was announced Of Heav-
enrich Bros, one of the oldest wholesale
clot ling firms in Detroit, for 1921. 995.
FLAMES swept the prairie southwest
of Momence, Ill, and farm products in
large quantities were destroyed
In San Francisco the Navarro Mill
company failed for 81 ,00O.0 0O
NEBRASKA prohibitionists in conven-
ton at Lincoln nominated Mrs. Ada NJ
Bittenbender, of Lincoln, for the SUI
m hanah and Mrs. q A
Z. Hickey and Mrs. C. J. Head for re-
gents of the state university.
FIRE destroyed the Daily Journal Of
fee at Fond du Lac, Wis.
In St Louis the buildings occupied
by the Western Brass Manufacturing
company were burned, the loss being
s14O, 900.
In South Chicago a fire destroyed
twenty acres of dwellings and made
]. 800 persons homeless The total loss
was estimated at 5000. 900.
The sparks from an engine set fire to
a hay field near Valparaiso. Ind, and
seventeen head of cattle and five horses
were cremated.
THE oldest newspaper publisher in
Illinois, George II. Weber, died at his
WHILE waiting for a train for St
Louis DIR. w. IL. Williams, editor and
owner of the st. Louis Central Baptist.
dropped dead on the depot platform at
Alexandria, Mo.
THE doors were closed of the Ford
county bank and the First national
bank at Paxton, Ill.
IN Detroit Delegate O'Brien, Of the
Seamen's union, was shot and killed by
Capt William Lennon while lending an
attack on the nonunion crew of his
schooner, the Reuben Doud.
THE Northwestern Railway company
was absorbed by the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore & Western railway.
AT the celebration of colored peoples
day on the worlds fair grounds Fred
Douglass bitterly denounced the Amer
lean people for the treatment of the
negro.
In her parents absence the 17-year-
old daughter of Ferdinand Meyer, St.
Louis millionaire, was married to a
street car conductor.
The doors of the Fourth national
bank of Louisville, Ky, were reopened.
The jury at San Francisco in the
lniTu iFldi Oh NJ D. AuFLlS, Sdtnuel OF
Posen," for the murder of Policeman
Grant in September, 1891, returned
verdict of acquittal
DURING a short but bloody battle be-
tween a score of Chicago policemen and
an angry mob of nearly 1000 idle men
five of the bluecoats were injured and
many of their ASSISTANTS were badly
wounded.
WHILE fooling with gun supposed
to be unloaded Maggie Sullivan. Is
years old, was shot and killed at Du-
buque, Ia. by Edward Whelan, 10
years old.
DURING aquarrel Pinkney Humphreys.
aged so years, and his mother, Eliza
Humphreys, aged IS, were shot and
killed by William Meadows at Trenton,
Ky.
WHILE drunk George f. Reed, a Bal
timore payer, cut the throat of his wife,
killing her instantly. and then killed
himself in the same manner.
FLAMES ruined the Rosenbaum dry
goods and clothing store at Mount
Vernon, Ind the loss being $50. 900.