River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-03-15
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company, dealers IN nursery plants anu
seeds. failed for sl45,0
The governor of Louisiana appointed
Congressman Newton C. Blanchard as
United States senator to succeed Judge
White, whose resignation takes place
on the 18th inst
The famous race horse, Boundless.
broke a tendon at Little Rock, Ark,
and may never run again.
The legislature of Virginia defeated
a bill TO require the United States flag
to be raised on public schoolhouses.
IT has been decided by the land Of
fee that nearly $4,000 Michigan acres
were wrongfully given the Portage Ca
nal company.
The death of James s. Walker.
noted scout on the plains for many
years, occurred at Stockton. Cal.
REPUBLICANS of the First district of
Tennessee nominated W. c. Anderson.
of Newport, to succeed 4. A. Taylor in
congress.
IN northern Minnesota a syndicate
purchased l,5OO. 600. 900 feet OF pine tim
Der for SO. 600, 900 in round figures
AT their home in Jeffersonville, Ind,
Col Sylvester Morgan and wife cele-
brated their sixtieth wedding anniver-
sary.
CUSTOMERS of the Michigan Mortgage
company, with headquarters at st.
Johns, were said to have been swindled
out of $40, 5000.
MRS. CAROLINE SAWYER, aged -, and
c. NJ. Gates, aged IS. eloped from
Bellevue, D. and were married in Cleve-
land. Opposition from the married
daughter of Mrs Sawyer caused the
elopement
MARION T. SKAATs shot his wife at
Alton, ILL.,, and killed himself Jeai-
ousy was the cause.
The citizens of Greenwood, Ind,
have boycotted a saloonkeeper so thor
oughly that he cannot buy food. raj
ment or water.
THE Missouri river was cutting new
channel at Atchison, Kan, endanger-
ing property valued at 81 800. 600
ASSAYS prove that the great sand
hills in the vicinity of Duvan. Col, con
tain from one to twenty dollars worth
of gold per ton.
The mayor of Indianapolis ordered
the arrest of labor leaders who indulge
in incendiary speeches to the unem-
ployed.
The National Republican league will
commence it's seventh annual coIven-
ton at Denver June 20.
FIRE destroyed the entire plant aud
stock of the Lansing Lumber company
at Dodge, Mich. the loss being tl75, 600.
FRANK WILLIS, of Mauitowoc, Wis,
rescued from a wreck thirty seven
years ago, has just discovered his iden-
tity by means of locket.
wINDsToRM greatly damaged I'M
| finished buildings in Chicago, and John
Ginochio. an italian lawyer, was killed
by falling piece OF timber.
AN attempt was made to destroy the
Office of the Ironclad Age. an agnostic
paper at Indianapolis
BY killing himself Matthias Ludat-
schka, who shot his wife and her
daughter near Prairie du Chen, Wis,
escaped lynching.
The body of young mulatto woman
was found suspended to a tree near
Marche. Ark. She had been lynched.
AT Cedar Rapids, Ia. the j. X. NORM
company. dealing in eggs and fruit,
failed with liabilities of s21O.0 900 and
assets of s65.0O0.
JOHN KEGLER and Michael Altifilish,
15-year-old boys, were drowned while
crossing the river at Bellevue. la.
MICHAEL KENNEDY fatally shot John
/ Cummings and James Mcnamara in a
saloon row at Cleveland, o.
On Lake Michigan navigation was re-
sumed. being the earliest opening ever
recorded.
Miss HARRIET W. POTTER, of St. Jo-
seph, Mich, will soon wed Hawaiian
Minister Thurston, whom she first met
at the worlds fair.
IN the Michigan charter elections the
republicans were successful in the ma
jority of instances where party tickets
| formed the issue.
On the Mississippi river navigation
has been resumed
JACOB STUDT, St. Louis carpenter,
because he was discharged killed Emil
Wuensch, then took his own life.
| Ar tho aea of inf y4n-s D. Ciasoa
Potter, a pioneer Baptist preacher,
died in Owen county, Ind.
THE St Paul railway has adopted
the block signal system to secure per-
feet safety for its passengers.