River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-08-23
ArrrR a trip over the entire state

cotton expert estimates that the
crop in Texas will be about I, 800, 900
bales. or oae-half million bales over
last year.
DIR J. SEATo. a prominent phvsi.
clan and specialist of Indiana. was
found dead in bed at his home at Fort
Wayne.
DAVID HALL was shot and killed by
Tom Denny, IS years old, at Jonesville,
Va Hal. had Denny indicted for
abusing IS child and Denny took his
revenge in the murder
Ar Newburn, Va, w. G. Taylor was
hanged for the murder of his wife.
BURTON G Cook, ex-congressman and
one of the matters of history in Illinois,
died at his home in Evanston. He
twice placed Abraham Lincoln in NOM
ination for the presidency.
JUDGE CALDWELL, of the United
States court. has ordered the Santa Fe
receivers to pay employees promptly.
borrowing u. Dney il necessary.
AT Pana. Ill double wedding waa
celebrated in which Edward Munday
and Thomas Ellison were married to
each others divorced wife.
LEE WALKER seized the trailing rope
of an ascending balloon at Sherburne,
Mimi, and was killed by the fall.
LAKE COUNTY tlnd.) populists nom:
mated full ticket. then reconsidered
their action, got into general fight
and adjourned.
GOLD discoveries were reported along
the Rio Grande in New Mexico and peo-
pie from the surrounding states were
fioclxing into the territory.
KoLB, who was defeated for gov
ernor of Alabama. has issued an adj
dress intended to incite his followers
to rebellion.
By the capsizing of government
boat off the coast of Washington five
men were drowned.
GEN. ANGUS, of baltimore, proposes
To secure a Maryland lake and fill it
with salt water for scientific cultlva-
ton of the oyster.
Ar Fort Smith. Ark. four pow der
houses of the Speer Hardware COM
pany. blew up. killing three persons
and doing great damage.
THE athletic club of Sioux CITY, Ia,
has offered a purse of SIS. 900 for a
fight between Corbett and jackson.
The governor visited Pullman and
found about 500 families on the verge
of starvation. Means for their imme-
diate relief would be devised.
FIERCE forest fires were raging in
Northern Wisconsin and thousands of
tons of hay were destroyed in the
vicinity of Grantsburg.
The assailants of Adjt Gen. Tars-
ney, of Colorado, were dismissed, the
grand jury having failed to find in
dictments.
Mrs. NJ. ABRAHAMs, of Frankfort.
Ky, quarreled with her husband be-
cause he went to hear Breckenridge
speak, and took morphine and arsenic
with fatal effect.
AT IIammondsville, o., as a result of
religious revival seven women left
their husbands because they would not
join the church.
THE death of Mrs. Eunice Conrad,
tho oldest woman west of the Allie
ghenies, occurred at Parkersburg, w.
Va, aged III years.
LIGHTNING struck the residence of
James Houston, instantly k ling three
VI his NAAAAANi a tnuiuCT
storm near Clayton. Ala.
a FREIGHT train struck a horse .
miles west of Jonesburg. Mo-. ditch
ing the locomotive and nineteen cars
and killing the engineer and three
tramps. Eight other persons were in
jured
WHILE driving near Hot Springs,
Ark, Gabriel Brock was shot and
killed from ambush and Mrs Mary
Edwards wounded.
A TANK containing ammonia belong
ing to the Ileidreiger Ice company ex-
ploded at st. Louis, killing an employe
named Wilson Sanders.
WALTER FISHER, a saloonIeeper at
Dayton. O., was shot and killed by his
brother Robert, aged Is.
ILLINOIS has produced 1918, 099
bushels of wheat from an area of p
O71, 1854 acres. yield which has been
but thrice exceeded.