River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-10-25

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Tredegar iron works at Ricn:aond, Va.
Loss, Sl50.O00.
THE MERGED (CaL) bank closed its
doors with heavy liabilities.
THE sudden death of Gen. William
f. Reynolds. veteran of the Mexican
war aud a celebrated engineer, oc-
CURED at his home in Detroit, Mich,
aged 70.
THE Pacific Express company, be-
cause of numerous train robberies,
will handle no more money in Indian
territory.
FLAMES which started in Miller
Bros livery stable a: Monticello, Ia,
burned Fl ,teen hieh-priced horses and
destroyed half a dozen residences
JOHN Il. GENTRY and Robert J. paced
dead heat at Nashville, Tenn, in
2:04.
The miners who took the places of
strikers at Ashland. KY, were fired
upon from ambush and several of them
were wounded.
AT grade crossing near Byron, Ill,
Mrs. George Eddy and Mrs. Painter
were killed by passing train
WILLIAM DOLBY, the negro who
caused the riot at Washington Court
House, o.. was taken TO the peniten-
tiary. Two more victims of the riot
Lad died.
AT the hearing of indicted gamblers
in Chicago the big proprietors escaped,
only the lesser lights being found
guilty.
WHILE driving over the Burlington
,,A
daug hters aged 10 and Is. were
killed at Dorchester, Neb.
BECAUSE of i'll health Judge Smith.
for twenty-seven years on the circuit
bench at Galesburg, Ill, resigned.
THE death of Theodore zimmerman,
who was wounded in the riot at Wash
ington Court House, o., made the total
number of dead five.
ON farm near English, Ind, George
Goldman killed his wife with flatiron
and then shot himself. He had been
released from an insane asylum.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made as follows: Missouri, Eleventh
district. Charles f. JOY rep; Twelfth,
4. NJ. Sterrett lrep). Tennessee,
Tenth district, Il. J. Rawlings pop J.
THE sons of the American Revolu-
tion presented a stand of colors to the
Fifteenth regiment, u. 5. A., at Fort
Sheridan, in recognition of it's gallant
conduct during the late strike in Chi
cago.
IN Chicago an omnibus Indictment
was found by the federal grand jury
against the officers of the American
Railway union and all strikers charged
with violence and obstructing the
mails
Is Chicago TIVE nty-five of the largest
wholesale manufacturers of clothing
organized defensive association.
CHARLES ERMIsH and Otto Wongkert
were hanged in st. Paul, Mimi, for
the murder of Lindholf, barkeeper,
May ? last, and James o. Dooley, the
youthful murderer of his aunt and a
lO-year-old cousin in Adams county,
Ia, on May II, 1892, was executed at
Fort Madison.
FIRE destroyed the Fon du Lac (Wis.)
factory of the American Biscuit COM
pany. causing a loss of 100000.
A TERRITORY of 800 acres of land near
lIornicll, Ia, has been on fire for two
months. The soil is burned to depth
of ; feet.
NEAR Knoxville, Ia, Silas Jones and
ais wife and child persisted in flames
that destroyed their home.
AT indianapolis Mrs. Charles Winner
and her l1-year-C'd son, Louis, were
killed by Big Four train.
On the Grand Trunk system every
passenger conductor was shifted to
another division as result of recent
''spotting."
A MOB Tyr ched Stephen Williams, a
negro VIII attempted to assault Mrs.
Nardesty, an aged white woman, at
Marlboro, Md.
RATHER than forego participation in
the political campaign j. Adam Bcde,
nited States marshal for Minnesota,
has resigned.