River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-11-22

III. Z. ALvoRD, of Oklahoma, was
elected president at the annual meet
ing in Washington of the Association
of American Agricultural Colleges and
Experiment Stations.
Two attempts to wreck the midnight
passenger train over the Chicago 81
Alton road were made by unknown
persons.
AT West Superior, Wis, detectives
captured a man and woman engaged
in counterfeitIng. together with their
outfit
FOREST fires that started from a saw.
mill west of the mining camp of Ward.
Col, had done fully $4,000, 900 damage
and was still spreading.
BEFORE the Knights of Labor at New
Orleans General Master Workman Sow.
ereign urged the abolition of state
militia and a decrease of the army.
FLAMES nearly wiped out She held,
an Iowa town of 1000 inhabitants.
THE three children of jeff Raynor.
left alone in the house at Oakland,
Tenn, were burned to death and the
building destroyed.
For no known cause James Liddle.
editor and proprietor of the Preston
(Ia.) Times. committed suicide by
throwing himself in front of freight
train
DURING storm the schooner An.
telope. of Chicago. capsized at Grand
Haven, Mich. and the three men COM
prising her crew were drowned.
SOME 500 inmates of the Indiana
home for feeble minded children were
exposed to scarlet fever and ten cases
had developed.
THE execution of Jay Hicks, who
murdered Ranchman Meyers in South
Dakota and nearly killed the sheriff,
took place at Sturgis.
AT Maynardville, Tenn, Rev. Rich
ard Carroll, aged 50. prominent Bap-
fist preacher for sixty-five years, com
mitted suicide by hanging.
The forest fires in Colorado mining
districts were extinguished by storms,
The damage TO property was estimated
at sl,000,00O. and several hundred peo-
pie were made homeless.
The National Women's Christian
Temperance union met in twenty-frst
annual convention in Cleveland with
representative women present from
every state and territory and from
Canada.
IN one day five fires at Winnipeg.
Man. started by incendiaries, caused
a total loss of S2lO, 900.
NEAR Francisco, Ala, four human
skeletons, believed to be those of Mrs.
William Bishop and daughter and two
strangers with whom they eloped last
spring. were found.
MAYOR Harlan and Henry Law
renee, of Lula. Miss. were shot and
killed by J. w. Boyd as the result of a
feud
A NEWSPAPER in Denver SAYS a big
syndicate IS scheming to obtain con-
troll of the entire American output of
silver.
OFFICIAL returns show that the North
Dakota legislature will have a repub-
lean majority on joint ballot of So.
II Denver it was said that 2l5 fam
lilies of American Railway union men
were on the verge of starvation there
because of the railway strike last June
THE two infant children of Mrs.
Maggie Walker, of St Joseph, Mo-,
were burned to death while alone.
OFFICIAL returns of the late election
in Minnesota give Nelson (rep.) for
governor a plurality of 60,567.
IL Ohio the official vote at the re.
cent election gives Taylor (rep.) for
Sc 'retary of state a plurality of 137, 0O6
AZ his annual report, James Sneak
ley, governor of Alaska, says the peo-
pie have enjoyed a season of unusual
progress and prosperity and law and
order has prevailed. The governor
estimates the population at about 81, :
600.
An incendiary fire destroyed seven
large and valuable barns in SPRING
field, III.
IT was shown by the official vote
comp, tie that the Missouri legislature
would have a republican majority of
10 on joint ballot.