River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-24

| lHE WORKS OF the Bellalre W. Nail
company were closed because OF "a
shortage Of coal and coke and /. 200 per-
sons were idle
AT Monroe, Ind, poison, supposed TO
have been placed IN the well by an
enemy. killed two children Of Mart
Adler. and Adler and his wife would
probably die.
AT Austin, Tex, Gaudaur broke his
own Smile record of 1906 at the pro-
fessional regatta, beating Peterson in
| Is.Oaiz
DURING cyclone one-fourth of
mile west of KuniSle. o., great damage
to property was done and Daniel Bar
rett and his wife and their two grand
daughters. Myrta and Martha Case.
and George OXinger were killed and
Charles Cole and his wife were fatally
! injured
MRs. CHLOE GIBSON, aged as, and
Nathaniel I crane, aged 81. were mar
ried at BelviGere, Ill The officiating
minister is 50 years of age.
AT the annual encampment in EoclS-
ford II. H. Mcdowell, of Pontiac. was
elected department commander Of the
Illinois q. A. r., and Mrs. VI. II. NJ.
Wallace. of Chicago, was elected pres
ident of the Woman's Relief Corps
THREE election commissioners, Keen
an, Hutchins and Schooner, were fined
$1,000 each for contempt by Judge
] Chetlain, in Chicago, for refusing to
turn over ballots to the grand jury.
On the board of trade wheat touched
53I4 cents. the lowest price ever known
| in Chicago.
/ II Cleveland the conference of coal
miners and operators came to an end,
nothing having been accomplished
toward set ling the strike.
! DEMOCRATS renominated II. c. Snod-
grass for congress in the Third district
of Tennessee.
IL a snow a windstorm on the
Sierra Nevada ranges over Is, 900 sheep
persisted.
The authorities in Cincinnati forced
food down the throat of Father
o'Grady. the murderer of Mollie Gill
martin. who was starving him self.
\ TERRIFIC gale on Lake Michigan
| strewed the beach from Glencoe to
/ South Chicago with wreckage. and
| eight vessels came TO grief and at least
| ten lives were sacrificed. The financial
/ loss WAS estimated at $1,000 The
scene Off the lake front was unpar
alleled in Chicago's history. Diving the
storm the old cottonwood tree in Chi
cago. marking the Fort Dearborn mas
sacre of 1872. was blown down.
The execution of William McKeill
took place at Mobile, Ala, for the
murder of his wife. whom he found to
be unfaithful To him.
IL state convention at Oakland,
! Cal. the prohibitionists nominated a
full state ticket. headed by Henry
French. Of Santa Clara, for governor.
STORMS of wind ana snow swept over
| Illinois. Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa and In
diana, doing vast damage To crops and
buildings and causing some deaths.
BY me wrecbing of the schooner NJ.
J. Cummings at Milwaukee five men
and n woman were drowned.
IL the Second district of Indiana the
populists nominated L. \. Higgins. of
| Davies county. for congress.
NEBRASKA populists win hold their
state convention at Grand Island on
August 70.
FRosrs did great damage to growing
crops over an extensive range of ter
ritory. The effect of the cold wave
was felt from the northern line of Da-
kota to the gulf, and it also went well
toward the Atlantic, especially in the
southern states.
IL collision between Chesapeake
X Ohio trains in Standing Rock tunnel
near Princeton. KY, seven men were
killed and a number injured.
LATEST estimates of the loss of life
OFF the harbor of Chicago during the
recent storm were twenty-eight.
TIE suit attacking the senatorial APP
portionment of Illinois was dismissed
by Judge BoolIwalter at Danville and
the case win be taken to the supreme
court.
4 BLAZE which startedin planning
mill property vS.ded at $4,000 was
DESTROYED n Akron, q.
.aE legislature of Ohio adjourned
sine die. Among the bills passed was
one TO hold but one session in two
years
The North Dakota republican state
convention will meet in Grand Forks
July II.
FoUR sailors were drowned near
Port Huron. Mich, while attempting
to rescue the crew of the waterlogged
schooner William Shoupe.