River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-08-16

liam, owners of a traction engine,
were fatally hurt by falling through a
bridge at Waterloo. Ind.
SOME 5000 persons witnessed the
hanging of Madl1ins, negro execlted
for criminal assault at Raleigh. y. G.
AT Minneapolis Titus and Cabanne
broke the worlds mile tandem bicycle
record, covering the distance in 1:52 As.
A SURVEY made at Muscatine Ia,
showed the water in the Mississippi
river to be one-half inch below the
lowest water mark. that of 1864
FLAMES swept away the town of
Yeriton. New. on the Carson & Col
orado railroad.
The four children of William Watts,
from 6 months to Al years of age.
were burned TO death near Williston,
). d., on a ranch.
CANDIDATES for congress were nomi-
mated as follows: Illinois, Fourth dis
trict, J. Simmington (pro); seventh,
II. A. Lloyd (pop.l. iowa, Tenth dis
trict, f. Il. Baker pop. DEM. Ne
braska, Fifth district, w. +. Andrews
rep. Virginia. Ninth district, II. S.
X. Morrison dem }.
AAONASlS lHuidud OlllCAdilY
declined to fuse with the populists.
declaring them wild and visionary.
NEARLY the entire business portion
of Fithiau, ILL.,. town of COO inhab-
itants. was destroyed by fire.
CORA JOHNSON. Mrs. Alice s. Eavy
and Grace Lowell, aged 10, is and II
respectively, were drowned in the
American river, near Auburn, Cal,
while bathing.
SHOWERS fell over large area in Iii
nois. Iowa and Indiana. benefiting late
corn and vegetation.
( UNDER the direction of George NJ.
! Pullman steps were taken to evict
striking tenants who were behind in
their rent Five thousand persons
would be affected.
MISS MADELINE POLLARD, who
achieved notoriety through her suit
against Congressman Breckenridge, is
to go on the stage, and will make her
debut in Chicago.
NOMINATIONS for congress were made
as follows: Illinois, Seventh district.
IL. ID. Lloyd (pop.). Pennsy lyania,
| Twenty-fifth district, w. J. KirlSer
| (pop.). Missouri, Tenth district, e. ii.
Zimmerman pro-.
Two MIN were killed and ten badly
| injured by the collision of mail and
express trains near libbs. Mo.
john TANNER while playing baseball
at Cincinnati was struck by lightning
and instantly killed.
THE militia of Virginia, under or
ders from the govern Or. drove the com
mcnwealers out of camp at Rosslyn.
and set fire to the huts.
JENNIE Finch, who was stolen from
Grand Rapids, Mich, eighteen years
| ago by gypsies has been returned to
| her surviving relatives.
The Observation-Disclosures relay bicy-
Gle riders reached Denver thirty-three
hours and twenty minutes ahead of
schedule time.
AT Stuartsville. o., 7. L. Cook. a sa-
loonkeeper, was beaten to death with
an iron rod by masked robbers.
WHILE fishing at Green LAKE., Col.
Ex-Congressman James II. Platte died
from stroke of apoplexy.
WHILE swimming in Bloody Run,
near Norwood, o., three boys, Frank
Burns, William Slattery and Matthew
| SlatterY, were drowned.
THE death of Thomas Garner. IO1
years old, occurred at Oakdale, Mimi.
He was born in Ireland and came to
the United States fifty years ago.
Four men were crushed to death
near Sheridan, Wyo., under tons of
rock which rolled upon them after a
blast had been exploded.
| AT Nicksburp Mich L. w Rrainard
shot and killed his wife and then
killed himself. Domestic trouble was
said to be the cause.
The death of Mrs. Mary J. Shirk,
one of the wealthiest women in the
west, occurred at her home in Peru,
| Ind She was 81 d to be worth So
600, 900.
ing starvation Mrs. Adolph Max
drowned herself and two children,
| aged 5 and year, at Lyons. la.
AT Terre Haute. Ind, Whirligig low
cred the race record for 3-year-old
PAGERS to 2:1O, and paced three heats in
average time of 2:l116.
The Wichita (Kan.) national bank,
the oldest banking institution in the
southwest. has suspended by order of
the comptroller of the currency.
| FLETCHER MORRIS was killed and his
sister fatally injured by the overthrow
ing of their buggy while racing on a
country road near Warka. Kan.
The United Salt company's works
were entirely destroyed by fire at
Cleveland. o., the loss being $3.50, 900.