River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25
SHERIFF. Hall attempted at Prince

/ SHERIFF. HALL dtlenpbeu AT fTtucc-
ton, W. Va, to arrest the Mullen broth
ers and the sheriff and both desper-
ADDE'S were killed.
MINISTER THURsToN, OF Hawaii,
while en- ronte to Washington was i'm
| terviewed at Omaha, and said that
there was no possibility of the queen
being restored; that matter was settled
for good.
Is Monroe county, Ark. fifty negro
families have arranged with the Amer
lean Colonization society of Washing
ton. ID. c, for transportation to Liberia.
The death of Col. John l.. Branch. at
whose command the first gun Of the
civil war was fired at Fort Sumter, oc-
Cured at Union Springs. Ala.
AFTER fair trial compulsory educa-
ton is reported failure in Chicago by
a committee of the board of education.
IN session in Chicago the National
| Farmers Alliance denounced j. Ster-
ling Morton, the secretary of agricul-
ture. and called upon him to resign.
For stealing two cigars Thomas Ben
nett (colored) was sentenced at Mas
coutah, Ill. to six years in prison.
For joke friends of Irvey Harp, of
Malvern. Ark. placed powder in
cigarette and gave il To him. and in the
explosion that followed both of Harp's
eyes were put out
THE first white woman in Porter
county. Ind, Mrs. Nancy Adamson,
| died in Valparaiso, aged 9s years.
The following executions were re-
ported: Ernest Lacore at Joliet, H.,
for the murder of Nellie Byron: John
Hardy at Welch, w. Va, for killing a
railway employe; Wills Howard at Leb-
anon, Mo, for the murder of Thomas
McMichael. and Albert L. Bomberger
at Cando, y. d., for the murder of six
members of the Kreider family.
Ar indianapolis the Indiana Assoc
ciated Press was organized as a branch
of the Associated Press.
THE Louisville city council has an
nexed all suburbs. including five towns,
thus adding 20, OO9 TO the population.
FLAMES wiped out half the business
portion of Lewiston, Ill
A MOB lynched negro named Will
4 liams, suspected of robbing a corn crib,
in West Felieiana parish, La.
| OVER 5000 articles lost at the worlds
| fair are still in the service building at
jackson park.
4 TORNADO swept over Oak Cliff and
south and east OF Dallas, Tex, destroy
/ ing property TO the extern of 500. 600
/ and killing a boy.
A MOB lynched NJ. G. Gamble (col-
ored), who criminally assaulted the lit
tie daughter of Bedford France, of Gem
trail Jellico Mines. Ky.
| THE election of Mrs. Annie L. Austin
as mayor of Pleasanton, Kan, caused
gamblers and saloonkeepers to fee.
/ WITHIN three days William Henry
/ Stegner married one St Louis widow,
/ promised to wed two others and swim
died all three.
For cause unknown Mrs. j. Plummer,
/ living near Pawuska, O. T., drowned
/ her two children and then killed her
/ self
| By the bursting of his balloon L. n
odell, an eronaut, dropped 800 feet to
/ his death at Washington, n. c.
/ IN private tram road accident near
| Camden, Ark, three men were killed
and eighteen injured.
FIRE ruined the terminal and operat-
! ing rooms of the Louisville (Ky.) Tele.
| phone company, the loss being 500, 900.
| AT Denver William Gilpin, aged 80,
| first territorial governor of Colorado,
was found dead in bed. lie was APP
pointed governor by President Lincoln.
/ March -. 1861.
| IN grade crossing accident at Find
/ lay, o.. William Rodecker and his wife
and Henry Russell were killed and
| three others were hurt
/ IL the Hooking valley and other Ohio
| coal-mining districts there never was
more distress than at present
IL Kentucky and Illinois hundreds of
| negroes were swindled by Charles Por-
ter Grove on equities in Montana mines
! AT Birmingham, Ala, the Interna-
tional Emigration society was incor-
/ p,rated. the object being to send ne.
groes from the southern states o.
| Africa.