River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-08-17

JACK CHAMBERS. Dan Lewis and jim
Taylor, all colored, charged with an
assault on Mrs. George Warren at Ho-
boken, Ga, last spring, were caught
and lynched w;shin 8 miles of Way
Cross, Ga.
A SOLDIER named William Laugherty
was murdered by miners at Coal Creek,
Tenn. and his death was avenged by
lynehing Dick Drummond.
IL convention at Cincinnati the Ohio
democrats nominated Lawrence Il.
Neal, of Chillicothe, for governor; w.
A. Taylor for lieutenant governor; Il.
c. Blackburn for treasurer, and J. W.
Safer for supreme judge. The plat
form approves the Chicago platform,
especially its reference TO tariff and
currency legislation; indorses the presi-
dents message to congress-; protests
against abuse of the pension laws, and
calls upon the democrats in congress to
extricate the great commercial interests
of this country from their present dis
tressed condition.
THE fight was reported of Lee But
Ter, cashier of c. Nj. Wright q Co.'S
bank at Altamont, ILL.,, with Sal 900,
the entire assets of the bank
IN Milwaukee fire among warehouses
and factories caused loss of $3.50. 900.
FREE silver men hanged President
Cleveland in effigy at Ogden, Col.
The loss of the sealing schooner
Helen Blum, of San Francisco, was re-
ported, with her crew of twenty-five
meu.
HENRY Brown (colored), who was
hanged for the murder of a peddler in
East st. Louis. Ill, in December, 1880,
while an accessory has been discovered
not to have been the principal, the
murderer being j. C. Jackson, an
other negro, who was acquitted of the
charge
IN battle with citizens of Clark
county, Ala, thirteen of the Meachim
gang were killed The affair is the out
growth of feud of some years stand
ing.
BEATTY's bank at Mansfield, Ill, and
the National bank at Waxahachie,
Tex, closed their doors.
HERNsHEINs cigar factory, Maginnis
cotton mills and Fishers sawmlls in
New Orleans, employing in the aggre-
gate over 1000 hands. were closed.
IssNRY HALL was hanged at Pike
vile, Ky, for the murder of his brother.
AN explosion at the Girard furnace in
youngstown, o., injured SIX employees,
five fatally.
FLAMES wiped out the business por-
ton of Milford Center. o.
Ar Pensacola, Fla, A. W. Durham
killed his wife because she refused to
live with him and then took his own life
AT the bicycle tournament in Chica-
go l.. ). Meintjes, of South Africa,
won the 62-mile international cham
pionship, the time being hours and as
minutes.
The republican state committee of
Virginia decided not to nominate a
state ticket this year.
INcENDIARY fires in Minneapolis de-
stroyed three planning mills, a sash and
door storehouse, bottling and malt
house, boiler works, box and ladder
factory icehouse, carriage factory, 112
dwellings and in addition about 40, OOO,-
900 feet of cut lumber, the total loss be-
ing 81, 500, 900.
FIRE destroyed the fcrtilizing works
of Nelson Morris e Co. at the stock
yards in Chicago, causing a loss of
S271. 900.
The doors of the Prairie City bank
at Terre Haute, Ind. were CLOSED and
Josiah Morris & Co.. the leading pri-
vate banking house in Alabama. made
an assignment in Montgomery with liza
bilities of 81, 1000, 600 and assets of 81
100000. Other bank suspensions were:
The Peoples at Lewisburg, Tenn, the
Bank of Plaquemine. La, an6 the First
national at Gadsden, Ala
FRED RooME and brother, and Grace
Mcdonald, of Chicago, and Carrie Ham,
mond, of Wauconda, were drowned by
the capsizing of yacht on Bangs lake
at Mcfienry, Ill.
In was said that Barrett Scott, treas
urer of Holt county, Neb., WIS 500. 900
short in his accounts. lie had disap-
peared.
Mrs. GEORGE REF. Mrs. Charles Ref,
Miss Wagner and a child named Weber
were drowned by the capsi ling of
boat at Chattanooga, Tenn.
The expenditures at the worlds fair
thus far have been s23, 1O1, sci and the
receipts 2S,6S0,4 Az.