River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-18

AT wellsville. Kan, Charles Ben
nett. the famous catcher of the Boston
baseball club, was run over by tram
and had both legs cut off.
A MAN at Elmwood, Ind, found ss5
in gold coin in a head of cabbage he
had bought at his grocer's.
AT Ocala, Fla, Ed Dansey (colored)
was hanged for killing Deputy Sheriff
Binnicker.
THE death was announced of John
Carroll Power, custodian of the Lin
coin monument at Springfield, Ill,
since its dedication in 1898.
A MOB lynched Sherman WAGNER, a
wife murderer, near Nj rhell, Ind.
IN a hand-car accident near Wood
ward. Ala, three men were killed and
one fatally hurt
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IF Iowa Simplicity marked the pro
ceedings.
Il a sawmill at Delphi. O., a boiler
! exploded, killing Noah Hiffman, Amos
Stevens and Silas Wilson and fatally
injuring John Wilson.
AT indianapolis the appellate court
decided that Sunday theaters could not
be operated in Indiana
GEORGE BURGESS, after a continuous
sleep of forty eight hours, died at Caro-,
Mich, on the day thai he was to have
been married.
IN St. Louis Samuel Welsor was
hanged for the murder of an abandoned
woman. He admitted the killing.
FIRE destroyed three elevators and a
malthouse in Chicago belonging to
Hales & Curtis, causing loss of $500. 600
BURGLARS raided every business
place at Cortland. Ala, wagons being
used 70 carry off the plumber.
THE French exhibitors at the worlds
fair now state that their losses by the
recent fire on the grounds will amount
to over $50, 900.
NEGROES entered the home of FREQ
eriels Benny. farmer living near St
Louis, fatally wounded Benny, who is
over 20 years old, and his wife, aged IS,
secured $500 and fled.
A MOB took Roscoe Parker. a l6-year-
old negro. from Jail at West Union, O.,
and hanged him for the murder of Rit
Rhine and his wife, an aged couple.
On account OF domestic troubles Ed
Lewis, young carpenter in Cincinnati,
shot and killed his wife and then took
his own life.
TIE bleached bones of over twenty
eight Chinese, packed in a tin box, her
medically sealed, were shipped from
Chicago to the Flowery kingdom.
A soUTH-BoUSD train on the Missouri
Pacific road was fred into by robbers
near Monet, Kan, but the engineer
did not stop.
SANTA FE railway employees and their
families in Colorado were on the verge
of starvation because of non-payment
of wages.
FIRE destroyed the Syndicate block
at Minneapolis, causing loss of slI3,-
600.
WILLIAM GAY aud his son, John Gay,
and j. G.. Burton were lynched by a
mob at Russell, Kan. The mob were
suspected of the murder of Fred Dim
hing last July.
EDWARD HOFFMAN while in a drunk
en- frenzy shot and killed his wife at
Sisterville, w. Va, and then took his
own life.
TIE captains of Florida militia COM
panies have been notified to hold their
men in readiness to stop the Corbett-
Mitchell fight announced to take place
on the "8th inst.
Two NOTORIOUS outlaws. Calvert and
Hennon Fleming, for whom the state
of Virginia offered a reward of $4,000,
were killed by officers near Cowen
while resisting arrest
The twin sons of Charles j. Frost,
aged IA, We're drowned near Joliet, Ill,
while skating.
AT Valparaiso, Ind, Thomas L. Pratt
a merchant, related the details of
dream of death and the next morning
he was found dead