River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-03-23

Donald and two unknown men persisted
in a prairie fire in Russell county,
Kan.
IN Norfolk. Va, nearly every saloon
keeper was indicted by the grand jury
for violating the Sunday law.
~ Kansas Mrs. Mary E. Lease has
been elected president of the state
board of charities
HENRY JOHNSON aud Augustus STAN
ley, two Pittsburga hunters, were
drowned in the EaL siee river near
Riverside. Ind.
AFTER a dispute with his wife Har-
land Murry. Of ST. Louis attempted to
shoot her, but the bullet instead
struck and killed his 6T-year-old
mother.
IL a prize fight at Grand Rapids,
Mich, between Edgar Broome (white)
and Albert Taylor fcolored) Broome
was struck probably fatal blow.
NEAR Holton, Kan, the three chill
dren of BENJAMIN Fleisch were fatally
burned in fire that destroyed their
fathers house.
The dead bodies of Miss Alma Nun
nemacher and W. B. Miller, both OF
Milwaukee. Wis, were found at Pass
Christian. Miss. The father of the girl
is a wealthy man, and his refusal to
consent TO their marriage caused the
young couple to take their own lives
THE death of Henderson Smith oc-
Cured at Quincy, H., aged lI9 years.
lie married his second wife at the age
of 30.
THOMAS DIxoNs house at Rutherford-
ton. y. C.. was burned and his wife
and two children persisted in the flames.
FLAMES swept away the Wheeler OPP
era house at Toledo, o., the loss being
5000 O0O
ABNER CARTER and his wife shot and
killed each other near Relfoot Lake,
Tenn. in fit of dependency.
AT New Iberia. La, Mrs. Vincent
Oliver. Mrs Walker and the latter's
child were killed while crossing a rail-
road track in front of a train.
IL Chicago nearly 800 new hotels have
been erectedabr the entertainment of
worlds fair visitors.
WILLIAM SCHwAB & SoN, album
dealers in New York city, failed for
Ss25. COO
AT the age of 100 Washington Dale,
colored. and worth about so. 600. died of
pneumonia in Kansas City, Mo. He
had careful record of his birth and
life, with statements of ownership since
his 10th year.
The oldest settler of the state of Illi-
nois, Capt Daniel Smith Harris, died
at Galena. aged 81 years.
THE death of Gen. Simeon b. Brown
occurred in ST. Clair, Mich at the age
of 81. lie took part in seventy-three
engagements in the late war.
AT kickapoo. Kan. George o. Sharp,
postmaster and justice of the pea,'e,
died of erysipelas. H., was the Oldest
postmaster in point of consecutive years
of service in the United States
ALONG the Kansas border there were
1000 families awaiting the grand rush
To the Cherokee lands and it was
thought that the Indians were anxious
to close the sale of the strip. IL Che
opening is delayed until fall 5000 peo-
pie viii be destitute.
ABINGDON BAIRD, the pugilist
Nitehell's hacker, died in New Orleans
of pneumonia. lie was very wealthy
Englishman of good family.
Henry Boedecller were burned in their
home. 1t was thought that robber
killed the couple and then fired the
premises.
Is a free-for-all fight at Caryvillc,
Tenn. Sheriff Rutherford, of Arder-
son county, was killed and three other
men were mortally wounded.
IL St Louis David H. Armstrong,
VINO was United States senator from
Missouri in 1879, died at the age of 81
years.
on the reservation near Fender,
Neb. o member of the Winnie bago
tribe died at the great age Of 100 years.
A MOB took Jesse Jones (coloredl,
who shot Sheriff John Burnett at
JacISsboro, Tenn, from Jail and lynched
him.
FIRE in the distillery of James Walsh
& Co, at Covington, Ky, caused a loss
of $3.50. 600.