River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-04-06

stone, Ia, charges MIN with having
four other wives when he married her
one year ago. Renfro's whereabouts
are unknown.
STRINGENT orders have been issued
by nearly every western railway presi-
dent against the issuance of free pas
senger transportation after April /.
The orders are all alike, and forbid
the issuance of free transportation
and the cancellation of any already is
sued.
IL Kansas City, Mo-, building oc.
cupied by the Campbell Paint s. Glass
company was partially destroyed by
fire with its contents, the loss being
500, OOO
ONE of the oldest Pottawatamie
squaws in southern Michigan, Mother
Toquin, died in Van Buren, county,
aged over 100 years.
The maple sugar output in Michigan
this season will be triple that of last
year.
OK Lake Erie navigation between
Cleveland and the head of the lake is
open.
IS the Nebraska legislature impeaeh-
ment proceedings were begun against
j. G.. Allen, secretary of state; A. b.
Humphrey, commissioner of public
lands and buildings; G.. H. Hastings,
attorney general, and j. 4. Hill, ox-
treasurer of the state They are
charged with failing to prevent syste-
matte plundering of the state by con-
tractors.
FLAMES burned thirteen buildings at
Walnut Ridge, Ark, the loss being
$780, 600. A man and a child persisted
in the flames.
NEAR Durango, Col, snowslide
buried two men under thousands of
tons of snow.
IN San Francisco w. c. Rippey. the
old man who shot John w. Mackav and
shot himself, has been indicted by the
grand jury for assault with intent TO
commit murder.
For visiting saloons during working
hours the Rock Island railway dis
charged twenty-seven employees at Pc
oria, Ill.
o. the Denver & Rio Grande road q
train was ditched near Leadville, Col,
by the rails spreading and seventeen
persons were injured
AT the age of IS years George Wash
ington Luslk, preacher and one of the
best-known colored men in Kentucky,
died in Lexington.
JoHN L. LrvIENE, aged -, and VII
liam Blunck, aged IA, were each SEN
fenced in Chicago to forty years inn
prisonment for the murder of Albert
Eckroth
WILL l.. SACHTLEBEN. of Alton, ILL.,,
and Thomas &. Allen. of Ferguson, Mo,
rolled into St Louis on their bicycles,
having completed a tour of the world
in three years.
Ar Evanston, ILL.,, f. Ross Smith, of
Portland, Ore, shot and killed Miss
Effie Clark daughter of Rev n. Clark,
refused to marry him and then took
his own life.
AT Lima, O., Mrs. Philip Kline and
two children died from the effects of
poison obtained in eating pies made
from prepared pie fruits.
HENRY McKINNEss and his three sons
were killed by boiler explosion at
Tacoma, la.
FLAMES swept away four blocks OF
storehouses and residences comprising
the principal part of GAINESVILLE, Va,
and two colored men were burned to
death.
THE receipts for the worlds fair up
TO date were S17, 400, 432 and the ex-
penses were $40. 70s, sa6, leaving bal
ance on hand of S7s7, COS
The Granite Paper Mills company's
plant at Salt Lake City was destroyed
by fire, the loss being 500, 000
The overturning of a sailboat on
Lake Ponchartrain, near New Orleans,
caused the drowning of Mrs. Mary A.
Kelly, Miss Agnes and Mamie Flynn,
her nieces, and Miss Efiie Kelly.