River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-11-15

THE body - Mrs. Mary Cottrell, of
Hamilton county. was found on dis
seeting table il an indianapolis med
zeal college.
IN Deerfield, o., hundreds of pc ople
were exposed to smallpox through
contact with faith cure victim.
ISCESDIARTEs burned the opera
house, the post Office and d. NJ. Miller
& Co.'S store at Addison. w. Va.
GEN RUSSELL A. ALGER, of Detroit,
Mich, was elected president at a meet
ing of the National Wait association
in Pitt >burgh, Pa.
THE doors of the San Bernardino
Cali First national bank were closed
from lack of funds.
JOHN HoTTESRoITT killed Mrs. Charles
Niemeyer at Litchfield, Ill, and then
committed suicide. Trouble over land
was the cause.
A MOB ly nched Lee Lawrence (col-
ored) near Monticello, Ga. He had been
sentenced to be hanged November 80
for assaultins Mrs Polk.
AT Adrian. Mich. Michael Wilson,
aged 65, was imprisoned for cruelty
beating his mother, who is 92 years
old
JOE PArCHES went a mile at Taylor,
Tex, over half-mile track in 2:09,
breaking the pacing record one and
one-half seconds.
AT Pensacola. Fla the Export Coal
company failed for $3.50, 900.
IN Jail at Fargo. n. d., n. ]. Villars
confessed TO the murder of farmer
and his wife near jamestown.
IN st. Louis the Shulenhurg sc
Boeckeler Lumber company made an
assignment with liabilities of S215, 900.
A BILL was passed by the Cherokee
legislature making it treason for any
citizen to sell his real estate 10 a nom
citizen, naming as a penalty for so do
ing death by hanging.
THE firm of Garrettson, Woodruff &
Pratt, dry goods dealers at Tacoma,
| Wash, failed for s4OO,OOO
| AT Nevada City, Cal, Ernest HUM,
a mining expert, fell 800 feet down a
shaft and was terribly mangled.
IN an attempt to thaw some dyna-
mite at Huntington, Ind three men
were blown to death.
IL the next Michigan legislature
John Donovan, of Bay City, will be
the only democrat.
PETER PEPPER. a Louisville (Ky.)
| barber, crazed by a protracted du-
bauch, tore out his tongue and died in
terrible agony.
THE Cook gang raided the town of
Lenapah, l. T.. robbing a store, kill
ing one man and wounding another.
COMPLETE returns from the election
| in Iowa give William Mcfarland (rep.)
| for secretary OF state a plurality of
so. sos.
IN St Joseph, Mo-, the first grand
| lodge of the American National Union
of Stenographers and Typewriters
was organized
EXCITEMENT prevailed at Indianap-
oils over the frequency with which
graves were being desecrated and
| robbed.
THROUGHOUT Indiana a heavy snow
storm prevailed delaying freight and
| passenger trains in many instances.
THE official ret rms from the recent
elections give the following republican
pluralities: Indiana, As, AS; Iowa, s0,-
600; Missouri, 1902; Wisconsin, ST.
| 4aS; Minnesota. 80 25S.
FIRE swept away the Arlington inn,
famous southern hotel located at
| Fort Worth, Tex, the loss being
| $3.50, 200.
NEARLY the entire business center of
the village of Fredericks. S. D., was
destroyed by fire, the loss being $780,
| 600.
For refusal to pay the occupation tax
over 100 business men of Perry, o. T.,
were arrested.
AFTER a brief illness Rufus n. Ram
say, state treasurer of Illinois, died at
| Carlyle.