River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-23
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ID. T. NELSON. a negro murderer, was
taken from the Warner lark. Jail by
masked men. riddled with bullets and
his body burned.
JAMES j. CoRBETT and Charley"
Mitchell have agreed to fight before
the Duval Athletic'ciub in jacksonville.
Fla. January 25.
Bliss and Derberger lowered the BIZ
cycle records for 100 yards at Nash
VILE. Tenn flying start, O:05; standing
start. O;Os As.
The doors were closed OF the Coal
and Iron bank, the last bank in Middle
borO. Ky
On false telegram V. Rochon, of
Norway. Mich, was called away and
his safe robbed of IS, 700 in his absence.
FLAMES at Chanute, Kan. destroyed
ten brick business houses. together
with their contents Loss, 100000.
IL storm in the Glass mountains
near Enid, q. T., whole family named
Johnson, from Pike county, Mo-, per-
ished
ALL the boom town of Kanawha, w.
Va. is TO be sold for taxes
Ar Louisville the Kentucky Mailing
company made an assignment with liza
bilities of sI5O, 600.
IL his Office in Chicago John Adams
Drake, treasurer of the Indiana, Hi
nois " Iowa railroad, was knocked
down by burglars and pay envelopes
containing ell .9g5 were stolen.
For the murder of Nellie Byron. near
Joliet, H., in August last, Ernest La
core was sentenced to be hanged.
AT the home of his daughter in Terre
Haute, Ind. James Dawson celebrated
the lO4th anniversary of his birth
The chief clerk of the navy depart
ment, John w. Hogg, dropped dead at
his home in Rockville. Nd.
The Page Touring mills at Fergus
Falls, MINI. We're destroyed by fire,
the loss being 500, 600.
AT Ottumwa, la, Amelia Darby was
sentenced 10 fifteen years hard labor
in prison for participation in the
Thomas Llovd murder
FIRE ruined the Edgewood female
seminary. Catholic school near Madi-
son. WIS, and Maggie Stack and Mar
gle Rice were suffocated in bed.
TWENTY THOUSAND persons have been
reduced to starvation by the shutting
down Of the iron mines in the Gogebic
range in Michigan.
o. the worlds fair grounds the main
buildings viii be allowed 70 staud next
year. No admission will be charged 70
the park.
JOSEPH THAs killed his wife. who had
left him. at Deadwood. ;. D.. and two
other persons. and then took his own
life
FIRE wiped ont the business portion
of Brooklyn. Wis
EPHRIAM SLEDGE. on a wager. drank
a quart of whisky and a schooner Of
beer at BRENNAN. Tex An inquest fol-
lowed
IN Chicago VIVA solomsn. an insane
domestic who wanted TO kill Rev. p. 5.
Henson, pastor OF the First Baptist
church. was arrested after an exciting
chase
FLORIDA's governor says the Corbett-
Mitchell prize fight cannot take place
IN that state
The death OF Gen. Theodore Garriard
Hunt occurred in New Orleans. aged so
years He served term in congress
before the war.
The history of the worlds fair viii
make twenty-five volumes
NEAR Houston. Tex, four brothers
named Selph were arrested Cor wreck
ing trains They were tracked by blood
hounds
FIRE at Ovensloro. Ky destroyed
the Chesapeake, Ohio < >outhwes. err
freight depot. the loss being $50, 90.
WBTI.E i'll Don Carlos Diaz. consul
for Spain in Baltimore. committed SUI
eide by jumping from the fourth-story
wind ow0f his residence