River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-06-21

The largest wholesale grocer in
northern Indiana. A. c. Traatman,
failed at Fort Wayne for 100000.
NEAR Borden, Ind, George Brock,
aged 45. murdered his wife and little
boy and then killed himself. The
man had become desperate from pow
erty.
The republicans and populists com
bined in Tennessee on candidates for
the supreme bench.
PoPULIsTs In state convention at
jamestown, y. d., nominated a full
ticket with the name of Edward Wal
lace for governor at the head. Walter
Muir vas nominated for congressman
at large.
AZ Kingman, Kan, woman suf-
| fragists arrayed Editor Brown, who
opposed them. in a gown and paraded
him through the streets before brass
band.
The following congressional nominal
tions were made by populists: Illinois,
Fifteenth district, J. NJ. Grier. Ken
lucky. Ninth district, John q. Blair
Maine. Fourth district, C. ID. Chapman.
WILLIAM HENsHAw, a dissipated char
acter at Grand Rapids, Mich, fatally
shot Jacob Sutton, his father-in-law,
and then killed himself
JOHN MACoM shot and killed two
men at wedding feast at Suffernville,
H.. the result of an old feud.
The bodies of eleven persons were
found floating in the Mississippi river
between ST. Louis and Cairo. Ill.
MANY strikers having accepted the
compromise scale, the backbone of the
great miners strike was considered
broken.
The Illinois supreme court decided
that il had no jurisdiction in the sena-
torial apportionment cases.
DETAILED reports of damage by the
recent flood in the northwest place the
total loss at over 81. 1000, 900, the loss to
the Union Pacific railway alone in Ore
gon being sl,5OO,OOO.
AT the age of 104 years Mrs Irene
Mckee died at Geneva, Ind. She was
born in New York in 1890
Gov. STONE pardoned Col. w. l..
Hemingway, ex-treasurer of Missis-
sippi, who was serving a five-year SEN
tence in the state prison for embezzling
1915, 900. He had served three years.
REPUBLICANS of the Seventh district
of California renominated w. w. Bow
ers for congress. In the First Iowa
district the populists nominated J. o.
Beebe.
HUGH BUNCH shot to death Miss Ida
Gallahorn at Rolla, Mo-, to whom he
was engaged to be married. and then
committed suicide. Parental opposi-
ton to their marriage caused the crime.
THE death of Catherine Greer. who
was 81 years old when she lief. Ireland
TO seek a new home, occurred in Chi
cago, aged 107.
THE house of John Anderson at Men
ominee, Mich, was struck by light
ming and of the five inmates Nels Berlx-
strom, Peter Grenon and Peter Ros-
mussen were killed.
OLD age caused the death of Ger
John Ellis. of Columbia, No, who Lad
seen service in three wars.
MINERS in convention at Terre
Haute, Ind, rejected the Columbus
compromise and deposed Presidens
Dunkerly for agreeing to it.
IN Kansas 10000 miners will strike
in a1 endeavor to force settlement
of the trouble in Missouri and Indian
territory.
A PLOT to destroy the capitol hatched
by Ii. j. Jaxon and other Chicagoans
was claimed to have been discovered.
A MOB hanged Owen Ogletree (col-
ored), who assaulted Mrs. Wright near
Forsyth. Ga.
AT the mines in the Hooking valley
work was resumed and il was believed
all Ohio shafts would soon be in oper-
alton.
In a wreck on the Wisconsin Central
road at Stillman Valley, ILL.,, five men
were severely injured and nine valua-
bic race horses killed.
A CROWD and a brass band welcomed
Coxey, of commonweal fame. on his re-
turn to Massillon, o. He proposes to
make lecture tour.
WEST VIRGINIA miners generally
were returning TO work, but the Ala
bama miners ct a mass meeting de-
cided to continue the strike.
DORA FRENCH and Emma, her sister,
and Fanny Carpenter. all under 10
years of age, were drowned by the
capsizing of boat near st. Joseph,
Mo.
IL the Springfield Qll.) district coal
operators refused to pay the scale
agreed on by the miners.