River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-07-19

way union addressed to the General
Managers association in Chicago a
proposition that he would declare the
strike off if the roads would take back
into their employ the men on strike.
except those who engaged in violations
of the law. The railway mana gers de-
cided that as they had never recog-
nized Debs they could not take any
! notice of his communication. They also
announced that they would manage
their properties hereafter independent
of labor unions.
/ For interfering with trains at Gin
cinnati Agitator Phelan was sentenced
to six months Imprisonment by fed
erai judge.
The state treasury of kentucky was
announced to be bankrupt and pay
ment was refused on all warrants.
In session in Chicago the executive
committee of the American Federation
of Labor and the representatives of
other national organizations decided
against ordering a general strike in
support of the American Railway
union. The conference also decided
against local sympathetic strikes by
the trades unions, and requisite the
members of the organizations already
out to return to their places.
AT Wickes. Mont. the Great North
ern Express company was robbed of
sI1 600.
THE republicans of the Thirteenth
Illinois district on the 620th ballot
nominated Col. " w. Warner, of Gin
ton. for congress.
ARTHUR and Herbert Budd. young
sons of j. j. Budd. were drowned
while swimming in the river at Bur
lington. la.
WHILE bathing S. NJ. Walker and his
two sons were drowned near Burling-
ton, la.
FLAMES destroyed twenty dwellings
in San Francisco and two little sons OF
f. Leidecker were burned to death.
TIE General Managers association
satisfied that ~ c strike was over adj
journed sine die in Chicago. 1t was
estimated that the strike cost the rail
road companies in Chicago alone from
So. 600. 900 to $1,000. 900. The president
of the American Railway union de-
clared that the strike was still on and
that soon the railways would be tied
up again.
AFTER a seven-days delay mail from
the east reached San Francisco by way
of Seattle.
WILLIAM BELL (colored) was taken
from his home near GAINESVILLE, Tenn,
by masked men and riddled with bull
let's for burning barns.
on the ceded lands of South Dakota
prairie fires burned over a tract so by
80 miles and the Russian settlement on
Yellow Medicine creek was wiped out
WILLIAM TRUsTY's wife and four
children were drowned at Lead Hill,
Ark
ROBERT LOGAN shot and killed Dan
Lordock and Fred Sullivan in a stage
coach in Nevada, and was in turn
killed by his wife, whose life he had
threatened.
WHILE smoking a pipe at her home
in Winamac. Ind, Mrs. Polly Hoch,
aged 90, was burned to Geath.
AT grand pow-wow held near Fond
du Lac, Wis, the Chippewa Indians
chose Aunimosson to be head chief of
all the Chippewas.
LIGHTNING struck the steamship
MEXICO at Anglers. La. ana injured
twelve p rsons besides killing Peter
Thompson.
As THE result of an attack by strilS-
ers ON colored miners at Pratt's Ala.
seven men were killed and a score
wounded.
THE American Railway union presi-
dent said on the 10th that he would
not concede that the strike was lost at
Chicago, and that it would be carried
on with renewed vigor at points west
of the Mississippi river The railway
managers announced that all trains
were running on schedule time.
THE prohibitionists of South Dakota
put ticket in the field headed by NJ.
ID. Alexander for governor.
NASDALs loosened a rail on the
Grand Trunk at Battle Creek, Mich,
wrecking the Atlantic express, and the
fireman was killed and fourteen per-
sons were injured.
AN explosion in Chicago of an am
munition chest belonging to battery
L of the Second artillery from Fort
Riley. Kan, killed four soldiers.
eighteen other people, soldiers and |
spectators, were wounded and nine
artillery horses were killed.