River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-04-05

| A BOY was killed and fifteen other
persons injured, four of them probably
fatally, by the collapse of a water
tower at Peoria. Ill.
The death of Judge Louis & Lowell
occurred at stanton. Mich, aged as.
| lie was on the circuit bench in the
Eighth district for twenty-tour years
/ IN n fight near Darlington, : C..
over the enforcement of the dispensary
law four persons were killed and three
badly wounded. Gov. Tillman ordered
troops TO quell the disturbance.
FIRE swept away five blocks in the
central portion of Barry, H., the loss
being 5000. 600
~ a riot at a political meeting in
/ Milwaukee, half a dozen men were
| stabbed. The trouble was started oy
/ Polish laborers.
OWING to competition and a falling
off in business the brewing pool made
up in September, 1892, collapsed
Is a collision between passenger
trains at Anderson, Ind. four persons
were injured.
BURGLARS secured 5000 from the
safe of the township treasurer at
frankfort, Mich,
BY a natural gas explosion at Alex
andria, Ind, -Four men were burned to
death and one fatally and two others
seriously injured.
The republicans of the Third Ohio
district nominated T.. G. Rathbone, of
Hamilton, for congress to fill the va
cancy caused br the death of George
W. Houlz.
III was thought that five tramps per-
is I'd in a fire which destroyed the
Rock Island hay barns at Geneseo, Ill.
FLAMES which started in IA fiourmill
at Borden, Ind. burned six stores and
eighteen residences, causing loss of
Sl25, 900.
A STATE of anarchy prevailed in
South Carolina. nearly all the troops
having refused to obey Gov. Tillman in
the dispensary war. tie had placed the
counties Of Florence and Darlington
under martial law
DURING a fight between Indians and
white settlers in the Cheyenne country
west of n Reno two white men and
fi,e Indians were killed.
HENRY WALLS and Christopher Wilkie.
farmers living at Columbus ILL.,. killed
themselves with poison. They made an
agreement 70 take their own lives sew
eral weeks ago OWING to i'll health.
A MOB took Holland English from
the Jail at Bakersville Va, and hanged
him. lie was charged with killing his
wife.
\ BOILER exploded near Tompl1ins-
Vile Ind. and Alex Ritter. the owner
OF the mill, and two brothers numed
Fowler were killed Instantly.
IL fight with officers ia the indian
territory Bill Dalton, the famous out
Law. was fatally shot
Mr.. PRICES house at kentville, Ind,
was burned, and his three children per-
ished in the flames
On bicycle Walter Berdan started
to ride from Denver, Col. to Paterson.
n. j. The distance is $500 miles and
he will try TO make a long distance
record.
IN Ohio and Michigan the republicans
were successful in most of the cities
and towns at the municipal elections
THE body of Rev. NJ. Nolan, a travel
ing evangelist claiming Richmond Va.
as his home, was found riddled with
bullets near Homer Tenn.
IL Chicago 1000 painters and paper
hangers struck against a reduction of
wages.
GOV. NoRTHEN appointed Patrick
Walsh, editor of the Augusta GA
Chronicle. TO fiji the vacancy in the
United States senate caused by the
death of senator Colquitt
FLAMES destroyed the Rowland Falls
Mo- pulp mill. outbuildings, offices
and one dwelling, the loss being $780,
900.