River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-10

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Familiarity known as '.Aunty Dodson,
occurred in St Paul, aged at least l07.
There were records showing that she
was i07, aud probably older.
A wATERsPoUT in portions of Lyon
and Usage counties flooded the country
ana ruined crops In Reading and
olivet every window pane was shat
tered.
IL pasture near Crown Point, Ind.
a bolt of lightning struck wire fence
and killed eight horses which were
huddled against it.
ILLINOIS prohibitionists in convention
at bloomington made the following
nominations: United States senator,
DIR. j. q Evans, of Abingdon; state treas
urer. J. w. Puterbaugh. of Maclinaw;
superintendent of public instruction,
y. L. Edwards, of Kewanee.
AT Chester. 5 c.. Nose Fair. a negro,
was hanged for the murder, five years
ago. of Ike Wilson. a colored man.
THE doors of the First national bank
OF Sedalia, one of the oldest financial
institutions in central Missouri, were
closed. The bank had capital of
$3.50, 600.
FROM a mine at Aspen, Col, a nugget
weighing 800 pounds and containing
silver worth SOS, 900 was hoisted 1t is
the largest ever found.
A REr JRT criticising Judge Jenkins,
of Milwaukee, was submitted by the
congressional committee which investi-
gated his Northern Pacific strike order.
GREAT damage was done 10y a cyclone
that swept across the prairie and
through the heavy timber near Royal
ton. MINI.
IL Lexington, Ky. Col. w. c. p.
Breckenridge opened his campaign for
congress by asking the forgiveness of
his friends and openly defying his
enemies.
AT Miles switch, near Eldorado,
Ark. a hut in which was a negro sick
with smallpox was burned by a mob
and the colored man was cremated.
KIDNAPERs were supposed to be at
WORK in ST. Joseph, Mo. as five chill
dren had disappeared within two days.
FLAMES swept away Tahoe City, on
the shore of Lake Tahoe, Cal, consist
ing of about fifty houses, two hotels,
stores, etc.
A HAIL and rainstorm at Iowa City,
Ia, did 100000 damage. AT Maine
station dozen houses were blown
down and one woman died from lnju-
ries received.
FIRE destroyed the w. n. Whitley
reaper and mower works at Muncie,
Ind. the loss being S245. 600. with no
insurance
IL ler report Miss Florence Kelly, i'm
spector of Illinois factories, says she
found IN five months 6.576 boys and
girls under 16 at work.
WHILE temporarily insane Mrs. De-
witt edwards. wife of a farmer at
Honey Creek, Mimi, poisoned herself
and lO-year-old child by putting
arsenic in chocolate.
Gov Rich appointed John Patton.
Jr., prominent lawyer of Grand Rap
ids, as senator from Michigan to sue
ceed the late f. Il. Stockbridge. lie is
but ~ years old
UNLESS given aid Immediately unem-
ployed laboring men threaten to burn
the business portion of Anderson, Ind,
THE doors of the State national bank
dL W ltlllld. hdIss NGIt ClOStAis Will ut-
posits of s2O7, 90, and assets of s4O0, 900.
CONGRESSMAN A. J. HOPKINS was re-
nominated at the republican congress
sional convention in Geneva, Ill
AT Va1dalia, Ill, Miles C. Mays and
his wife lied within ten hours of each
other. TAvy had been married just
one nor "A, and both were taken sick a
F.aafr non an no Same dau
BENJAMIN SIMoNs, aged Sc. and Han
nibal Purcell. aged 50, engaged in a
half-miie foot race at Logansport for
800 and the championship of Indiana.
The latter won in minutes and IS
seconds.
CHAMP CLARK was renominated for
congress at the democratic convention
at Mexico. Mo.
JOHN HUrTON, Charles Cragin ar !
William Dinagrove, papermalSers, were
drowned in Lake Winnebago, Wis,
while fishing.