River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-07-06
WEST AND SOUTH.

ON bicycle Ill. III. Nyilie made the
900 miles from New York to Chicago
in ten DAYS and four hours
BERRY won the cowboy race to Chi
cago which was begun at ChadrOn,
Neb.. June Is. making the 1,O4O miles
in IS days. Is hours and IS minutes-an
average of - miles daily.
WHILE attempting to escape from the
prison at Folsom, Cal, three convicts
were shot dead by guards
AT Edinburg. ILL.,, G.. F. Harrington,
a private banker. failed for 5000. 200.
The American exchange bank of
Minneapolis. Mimi. and the Second
national bank of Ashland, KY, closed
their doors.
The failure was reported of the Bed
ford Ind.l Stone Quarries company,
the largest producers of oolitic lime
stone in the world.
IN Chicago the Illinois Fuel com
pany. with assets of $50, 900 and liabil-
titles of 500. 900, has been driven TO the
wall.
The monetary stringency caused the
assignment in Cincinnati of Benue-
kamp Brothers. furniture manufacture
ers. and the Louis Snyder's Sons Paper
company.
A TRAIN struck a buggy in which
were Mrs. IuhOlsen and three children
in Chicago aud two of the children
were killed aud the other fatally in
jured.
The lives of Mrs. Catherine Neumann
and her three children. aged 20. Is and
II years respectively, We're lost in
flames that destroyed their home in
Saginaw. Mich
john IIUDsoN died near Battle Creek,
Mich. aged lOl years.
AT Oakley. Kan, a tornado destroyed
thousands of dollars worth of proper
". A strip of country l mile wide and
: miles long was swept clean. every
kindling wood.
FIRE wiped out the business portion
of Union City. Ind
BECAUSE she refused to live With him,
Jacob Lyons, a farmer at Ottawa, o.,
fatally shot his wife and then killed
himself
IL state convention at Cleveland the
Ohio prohibitionists nominated the fol-
lowing ticket: For governor, Rev. Gid
con =. Machiin. of Germantown; lieu
tenant governor. :. H. Ellis. of War
rem county; treasurer. Abram Ludlow,
81 springfield; attorney general, :. f.
Young. of Portage; supreme court
Judge, J. A. Gallagher. of Bellaire.
The platform adopted favors absolute
destruction of the liquor traffic, in
dorses woman suffrage. the granting
Of liberal pensions, the revision of the
immigration laws and the election of
president and United States senators
by direct vote of the people.
On trial at Atlanta. Ga. for the muir
der Of her two sisters Julia Force was
declared not guilty and will be con-
fined in an insane asylum
FLAMES swept away the principal
part of the town of Lexington. q. T..
and two men persisted in the flames.
AT Fairfield. la. Charles Wilson shot
his wife fatally and then fatally shot
himself Domestic trouble was the
cause
THE cabinet OF the Epworth league
Of the United States adopted a resolu-
instructs the withdrawal of the leagues
exhibit at the worlds fair because of
sunday opening.
BURGLARs robbed the Hartly bank at
Jericho. Mo. of 81, 900.
JAMES SHE IKLEY has been appointed
governor of Alaska.
The death of eN-CongresSman Wal
lace occurred at his home near York
Vile. :. C. lie represented the state in
the reconstrueti, period
THE notorious burglar. Jim Ander-
sou. who has committed crime in every
large city in the state and always es-
capped conviction, was sentenced at
Columbus. O.. to five years imprison-
meut
FIRE destroyed two squares of the
business portion of Augusta. Mich.
A RECEIVER was wanted for the Union
Trust company of Sioux City, Ia, the
liabilities being sS50,O0l