River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-06-14

THE foods throughout the northwest
caused loss of over SIS, 10000.
IN a cyclone near Baker City, Ore,
James Parrish. his wife and child were
killed.
THE governor of Illinois sent troops
to Pekin to suppress the mining riots
in that vicinity Sheriff Newton, of
Danville. said that Vermilion county
was in state of severe anarchy.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made as follows: Illinois. Eighth dis
trict. \. j. Hopkins rep. renominated;
Seventeenth, A. f. Smith (pro). In
diana, Third district, K. G. Tracewell
(rep); Tenth, Rev. S. NJ. Hathorn
(pop.l; Eleventh, A. +. Benson pop }.
Kansas. Fifth district, John Davis
tpop- renominated. Kentucky, Eighth
district. Phil Roberts (rep.l.
For the murder of Lottie Roe on
April 2S last Lawrence Spiller was
hanged at Stanton, Va.
FoUR of the nine horses entered in
the 100-mile race at Chadron. Neb.,
died from the effect of the race.
1t was won by a common broncho in
twelve hours.
The great strike at Cripple Creek,
Col, was said to be at an end. the
striking miners having surrendered to
Gen. Brooks, commander of the state
militia.
THE citizens of Cairo, ILL.,, starved
Gen. Kelly and his commonwealers
into an agreement to leave the county.
A MOB TOOK Isaac Kemp. a negro,
who murdered Deputy Sheriff Ned
Carver in Westover, Md, from Jail and
shot aim to death.
IL several large cities a serious coal
famine was reported and numerous
factories had been closed.
ARTHUR WINNER and A. ]. McNutt
We're released from the penitentiary at
Leavenworth, Kan, after twenty-one
years close confinement.
a FIRE in the undergrad district of
Dubuque, Ia, destroyed property worth
$500, 600.
For killing her daughters lover Mrs.
Jane Shattuclx. of San Francisco, goes
to prison for life
IN Hamlin county, 5. D., Rev. A. r.
Smart has contracted for 10000 acres
of farm land for a temperance colony,
and each deed will contain a provision
which voids it in case any liquor is
sold
CRAzED over the loss of money, Al
fred Johnson, Swede laborer at
Delano, Mimi, cut his wife's throat
and then killed himself
IN a fire at Kansas City five men were
seriously hurt and property ,yorth
$4,000 destroyed.
AT Deadwood. 5 n, the three ma
tional banks were consolidated and
will be known hereafter as the First
national bank.
For stealing a railway train nine
teen commonwcal from the state of
Washington were sentenced to ninety
days in Jail at Helena, Mont.
THE strikers at Salineville, o., blew
up a railroad bridge. They were
charged by troops, who dispersed them
with bayonets.
lN Michigan forest fires swept dis
trict mile wide and 5 miles long and
wiped out the town of Sagoda.
THE official returns from the Oregon
election give Lord (rep.l for governor
a plurality of 14.5ss.
THREE more railroad bridges i'm the
Alabama mining district were de-
stroyei by strikers.
A DOG suffering from hydrophobia
bit FIVE men and two women in Dallas,
Tex, three of them being fatally in
jured.
AT Breeder, w. Va, five young
women got into fight with knives and
pistols and Mrs. Lizzie Maynard was
killed and Jennie Norris mortally
wounded.
IL mound at Egan, S. D., tomb
lined with cement was uncovered and
in the compartments were twenty-five
male skeletons averaging eight feet in
height. A rude altar and many bronze
utensils were also exposed.
UNKNOWN persons killed James Perry,
Virginia negro who introduced small
pox into Knoxville, Tenn.
THE name of Congressman Breckin-
ridge is no longer on the honorary
roll of the Union League club of Chi
cago.
AT a conference in Columbus, o.,
the big mining strike was settled, an
agreement as to wages, to last for a
wear. being una nimouslv adopted.