River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-12-20

AT Rice Lake. Wis, Joe White, chief
of the Naveosh tribe of Chippewa In
dians, was fatally shot by game
wa-dens.
The Denver Times Office was de-
stroyed by Ere, the loss being S5O,Oo0.
BECAUSE his congregation gave
fair in an opera house Rev. r. VI. Dill
Ion, Presbyterian preacher Of Green
castle. Ind. resigned.
AT Sandwich, Ont. Joseph Truskey
was hanged for the murder of William
Lindsay on May last.
IL Chicago Judge Woods sentenced
Eugene V. Debs, the leader of the
American Railway union strike. to six
months. and G.. w. Howard, 5. Kelli-
her, L. w. Rogers, NJ. j. Elliott, James
Hogan and William Burns to three
months in the county Jail for violating
an injunction.
EOK no cause known Casimir Her
ner, a Polander. aged as, pounded his
wife to death at Manistee, Mich, and
then committed suicide.
OFFICERS arrested members of gang
of counterfeiters in Oklahoma and cap
tured much spurious coin.
GOLD leads of fabulous richness were
struck by drillers at Iowa Gulch, south
west of Lillian, Col.
LEADERS of a Tennessee mob which
lynched six negroes last August were
acquitted of the charge by jury at
Memphis
FLAMES destroyed the courthouse at
Lewiston, ILL.,, together with judg-
lent records extending back ten
years.
IL Terre Haute, Ind, Isaac Bridges,
q lovesick youth, shot Mrs. Joseph
Montgomery, who had interfered with
his match.
IN riot three white men were shot
and fatally wounded by negroes at
Cabaniss. ira.
A CYCLONE at Little Wills valley,
near Atlanta. Ga. killed George Stovan
and a negro child and wrecked two
dozen dwellings.
IL Atlanta, Ca, the trial of white
caps developed the fact that far
reaching ku-klux organization exists
in the state.
In New Orleans Kid Lavigne, of Sag
inaw, Mich, knocked out Andy Bowen
in eighteen rounds. 1t was thought
Bowen would die from the pounding
he had received.
AT South Fork, Oak, James Vivian
fatally wounded his wife and sister.
in-law. Miss l.. DradeH, and then cut
his own throat, dying instantly.
AT Council Bluffs, Ia, John Hunt
ington. suspected of embezzling from
the Citizens state bank, wounded two
inspectors sent to examine his ac.
counts and killed himself
THE two Schultz children, who wan.
dered from their home near Waupun,
Wis, were found dead in a bog.
IL 1855 Henry Graben disappeared
from Hebron. Ia, and was believed &c
have been murdered by his stepmother
He has returned home.
THE two daughters of Rev. Solomon
BeclSerman, of Cleveland, o., were
burned to death in their home.
Miss OLLIE WILHELM and David Or
wig, of Findlay, O., resolved to quit
this world together, and did SO by
taking morphine.
THE death of James Gilfllan, chief
justice of the supreme court of Mime
sofa since 1863, occurred at st. Paul.
BY an explosion of gas in the Vulcan
mine at Newcastle. O., ten men were
injured, several fatally.
DURING the past season on the great
lakes sixty sailors were lost, and thir-
ty-eight vessels with an aggregate
tonnage of 1851 tons passed out of
existence.
IL New Orleans Andy Bowen died
from the injuries he received in the
fight with George Lavigne.
MASKED men held up Smyth Taylor
at Greenville. Tenn, and robbed him
of -. coo which ne had just drawn from
a bank.
EPPENsION AGENT VAN LEUvES
pleaded guilty at Dubuque, Ia, to con.
spiracy to defraud the government and
was sentenced TO two years imprison-
ment.