River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-05-11

JAMES COLLINS, a horse thief. was
taken from the sheriff by a mob at
Sherman, KY. and hanged.
THE village of Six Lakes, Mich, was
entirely wiped out by fire.
TORNADO at Bailyville, Kan.
wrecked the st. Joseph & Grand Island
depot, Gregg Bros elevator. the post
Office building, the Odd Fellows hall,
the Baptist church and other buildings.
AT Houston, Tex, John ). Prince,
the champion professional bicyclist,
ran against ITO horses for 20 miles.
The horses gave out after the 14th mile.
but Prince finished handily in 5Sl min
utes.
WALKING was received by Gov. Knute
Nelso ! of Minnesota. that he was 10 be
killed because he signed number of
doodle and monopoly measures" as
the letter of the avenger calls them,
passed by the last legislature.
IL Henry county. o. George Benrens.
n prosperous farmer. became infatuated
with a woman named Amanda Miller
deserted his family, gave her nearly all
his money and when she refused TO
marry him killed her with knife and
then took his own life.
LIGHTNING killed Charles Melee and
his wife and Ella Mitchell near Liber-
ty. Ind.
IN III hours a relay bicycle race was
made from Boston to Chicago.
ONE-HALF the business portion of Will
mington, o., was unroofed by a tornado
and one-haif the plate glass was bro
ken, causing heavy loss. Several per-
sons We're seriously injured.
TIE worlds fair national commission
has decided that the rules closing the
gates of the fair on Sunday cannot be
changed.
WHILE the houses of hundreds at
! IIazelton. Pa, were deserted for fear a
dam would burst vandals swooped
down upon the town and pillagcd the
business portions and residences right
and left.
II session al Columbus, O.. the Inter
state Oratorical association elected
Harry Il. Valdez, of Missouri. president;
c. \. Prosser. Of Indiana. vice president.
and BenjaTin Mason, of Iowa, secre-
tary-treasurer.
On the Dayton & Michigan railway
| freight train was wrecked near Tadmer,
THE death of Judge William L. Nib
/ lack occurred at indianapolis in his list
year. lie was member of the Thirty
fifth. Thirty-sixth. Thirty-ninth. For
tieth, Forty-first, Forty and For
| ty-third congresses.
A FLUE collapsed on the steamer Ohio,
| belonging to the Memphis Il Cincin-
natl Packet company, while opposite
Wolf island, so miles below Cairo. ILL.,,
and seven men We're killed and twenty
more were badly scalded.
AT the age of 1O2 years, Mrs. Biddy
Mckee died at her home in Seymour,
Ind.
/ Ar Detroit, Willoughby Compton,
aged 10, and his sister Florence, aged
%. were drowned in the river by the
capsizing of a boat.
On the Big Four road a passenger
] train left the track and dashed into the
depot at Lafayette, Ind, killing ten
persons and injuring eleven others,
some fatally. The accident was caused
by the failure Of the air brakes to work
HERBERT TARsNEY was hanged to the
| limb of a tree and riddled with bullets
| by gang of miners at the village of
! Iron Mountain, Mimi. Tarsney Grim
/ inally assaulted two little girls
WILLIAM Helm, c. A. Carr and Ellis
Reed were killed by the fall of a tile
kiln at Casey, Ill.
BY the upsetting of a skiff near
Carmi. H., Peter jackson and wife and
two children were drowned.