River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-06-07

IL ST. Louis the Central T'ru I com.
pany failed Cor 100000.
AT meeting in Springfield of Iii.
nois coal operators. an attempt to end
the great strike ended in failure.
Ar Palmyra, Mo. John Russell. a
bank cashier. and his wife were shot
by burglars whom they surprised in
their home.
OK the Chicago beard of trade wheat
dropped under any price heretofore
made, July getting TO 54s1c and June
to 53i6c.
THE flood IN the Columbia river in
Oregon continued to increase, and the
fertile bottom lands along the river
from the Rocky mountains To the sea,
a distance of 600 miles, were all in
undated. crops were all ruined,
houses washed away and stock
drowned. Thousands of persons were
homeless.
The coal operators in six states mott
fed STRIFE leaders that they proposed
to open the mines by force.
AT Columbia, ;. c., Morgan White
was executed for murder.
Mrs. II. IIoPPENs and her two chill.
dren were drowned by the capsizinC OF
a sailing boat at Buffalo. la.
THE populists of the Seventeenth
Illinois district nominated James A.
Crawford. state president of the United
Mine Workers. for congress-
ALEXANDER MCCURDY was taken
from the Golden Col Jail and lynched
after being subjected to horrible bru.
talities.
WHILE digging a well at ST. Cloud
Mimi. two brothers named Donath
struck gas at depth of As feet, and
before help could reach them both
were dead.
FLAMES wiped out five blocks OF
dwellings and business houses in OF.
tumwa, Ia. causing a loss of S225, 900.
\ boy was burned to death.
TIE insanity trial at Chicago of
Prendergast, the murderer of Carter
Harrison, has been postponed until the
fall term of the criminal court.
FIRE destroyed the farm and well
machinery plant of II. K. Howell & Co.
at Minneapolis. the loss being $3.50. 900.
A MOB took Harry Gill tcolored) from
the Jail at West Lancaster. 5. G.. and
lynched him, and Hill and Parker. in
Jail for murder at Colfax Wash, met a
like fate.
Ar Springfield, O., the Winters
Lithographing company failed for
Sl5l, goo.
IUpGE BARR handed down an opin-
ion ir the United States district court
at 0wensboro. Ky. declaring the sepa-
rate coach law for whites and blacks
unconstitutional.
THE Oregon republicans claimed the
election of Lord, their candidate for
governor, by from 5000 To 10000 plur,
ality. The Legislature will also be re.
publican. Herman rep was also
elected to congress from the First dis.
trict and Ellis trep.) from the Second
CHARLES VI. GRosvENER was renom
mated for congress by the republicans
of the Eleventh Ohio district
T. JOSEPH LoZEINsKI. a Toledo co. con.
tractor. killed his bride of two weeks
and then ended his own life. jealousy
was the cause.
DURING battle between the striking
miners and the Indiana militia near
Farmersburg four of the former were
shot dead. The strikers were burning
railroad bridges to prevent moving
coal trains.
The firm of Steele & Walker, whole.
sale grocers at st. Joseph, Mo, failed
for 500, COO
Is the Fourth judicial district of II.
linois Joseph y. Carter rep defeated
o. r. Bonney (dem.) for supreme Judge.
Is Kansas City Leonard w Marsh
SHOT his wife and daughter, but their
lives were saved by their corscts
NINE owners in Colorado agreed tot
of the strike proposed by
Gov. Waite. who had ordered out troops
to secure its enforcement.
IL court at indianapolis Judge Baker
+. 4. and Percival g. Coffin,
the bank wreckers. to imprisonme Mt
for ten and Ave years. respectively.
Al Powellton. w. Va, strikers fired
upon miners and killed four of their