River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-09-20


district. Henry Blank (dem.). Ala
rep. California, Fourth district. T.
Ii. shannon frep.); Fifth, E. V. Loud
lrep.) renominated. Virginia, Gardi-
ner Tyler tdem-) reG0minated.
THE official returns of the Arkansas
state election show that over one-hal.
of the counties in the state voted
against liquor license.
JUDGE Upton ruled in a suit at
Bloomington. H., that druggists, cry
goods and grocery dealers were not
compelled TO sell to colored people.
FARMERS in Kansas We're selling
their hogs for transportation charges
to market, having nothing to feed
them.
IL the trial at Chicago of President
Debs and other officers ofthe American
Railway union the taking of testimony
was completed The arguments will
be made on September rs.
FANTASY lowered the record for
4-year-old mares at Terre IIaute,
trotting the mile in 2:06, beating her
own time one second.
WHITE CAPS drove William Enochs,
of Martinsville, Ind. from his home
for alleged cruelty to his wife.
AT Selma. Ala, Sam Johnson, 81
Stark Oliver.
AT st. Joseph, Mo-, bottle of pop
exploded and put out the eyes of Will
liam Gardner, aged Is years.
FOREST fires in Wisconsin were ex-
tinguished by the first heavy rain that
has fallen since June.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made as follows: Wisconsin, Seventh
district, q. W. Lewis tdem.). Colorado,
Second district, L. NJ. Bowen rep.
Virginia, Tenth district. Thomas
Goode (rep.). New Mexico, 7. b. Mills
| (pop.).
AT Eddy. n. NJ. James Barrett was
| hanged for the murder of John Holt
han at Seven Rivers.
ENocH DAVIS, wife murderer, was
shot at Lehi, Utah. he having chosen
that mode of execution in preference
to hanging.
ROBERT j. paced a mile at Terrc
Haute. Ind, in 2:Ol1S, breaking all
records. Carbonate put the 2-year-old
mark at 2:O9, and John II. Gentry cut
the stallion record TO 2:O3s& in a race.
WHILE drunk Fred Miller. 20 years
old fatally stabbed his wife at Ken
ton, o., and then drowned himself in a
well.
JOHN and Alexander Tyler (broth-
ers) killed each other in a quarrel over
line fence at Northport, Ala.
OK account of no funds to pay en-
ployes Adam Forepaugh's circus
stranded at Button. O.
u TOMBSTONE fell on Susan johnson.
an aged woman, while planting
flowers in a cemetery at Homework.
o.. inhicting fatal injuries.
DEMoCRATIC boilers met at Carson.
New. and nominated a state ticket
headed by Theodore Winters for gov
ernor.
THE following candidates for con-
gress were nominated: Illinois, Fourth
district, Charles w. Woodman rep J.
Ohio. Twenty-first district, T. L. John
son dem renominated.
In a runaway accident near Iron
dale, O., caused by the raising of an
umbrella, fifteen persons were injured,
several fatally.
AN oil tank exploded while pas
sengers were being transferred past a
wreck at Hammond, Wis, and twelve
persons were seriously burned.
The death of Andrew Bee, who
recognized jefferson Davis when the
latter was escaping, occurred at
his home in Martin, Allegan county,
Mich.
JUDGE SPURRIER held in a decision
at Des Moines, Ia, that the mulct
! liquor law was constitutional.
ONE HUNDRED converts were baptized
in the Cottonwood river at the close
of the Adventist campmeeting in En-
, poria, Kan.
Mr. AND Mrs. GEORGE CLousER cele-
brated their SEVENTEEN wedding ami
versary at Monticello, Ill.
Il. Y. ARMSTRONG ard J. L. Goodman,
Gainesville TEX editors, shot each
other to death in a street duel.
j. w. STANEGELs, civil engineer at
Portland, Ore, killed Mrs. Mabel Col
vim and committed suicide. Jealousy
was the cause.
A GRAND JURY indicted thirteen men
| for completely in the recent lynching
of six negroes near Millington, Tenn.
A COLoRED woman named Mrs. Casera
| Pierce, of indianapolis, Ind, claims to
have passed her 126th birthday. She
! says she was born in Kentucky six
years before the revolutionary war.