River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-12-13


IN Omaha Exposition hall and the
First Baptist church were destroyed by
hre. the total loss being $4,000.
II was said that Kelly was organiz.
Ing another Coxey army in Sacramento,
Cal. to move on Washington and TO
urge congress to provide work for I'M
employed American citizens.
The years cotton crop is estimated
at 100000 bales.
IN the Center Creek mine at Webb
/ City, Mo, cavern killed John Lar
son. Dan Trexil and Walter Cole.
More evidence of shocking police
/ brutality and corruption was brought
out by the Lexow committee in New
York.
The official compilation of the vote
in Illinois gives Wulff rep for treas
urer plurality of 13S. 427
| IN the Alabama legislature a bill to
punish usurpcrs OF state offices was
I passed by party vote.
IL Tennessee the official count gives
Evans lrep.) for governor SAL plurality.
AT their home near Lowell, Mich,
Ross Kenyon. his wife and their B.
year-old daughter were fatally burned
by gasoline.
| The doors of the Exchange bank at
/ Goodland, Kan, were closed with liza
/ bilities of over 5000
/ II the Texas panhandle fires s. pt
/ northwesterly and southeastern until
/ about $4,000 square miles of land were
/ burned over.
The celebrated artist who painted
The Death of Abel" Mark Robert
] Harrison. died at his home in Fond du
Lac, Wis, aged 20.
IL Cincinnati Miss Josephine Brand,
81 Lawrenceburg, Ind, was robbed of
| $1,000 on the streets.
MASHED men held up a Texas &c
| Pac.f ic train near Fort Worth, Tex,
and stole $40, coo from the express car
safes
A GERMAN boy of Guthrie, o. T., Paul
/ Fierbacher, has invented a railroad
tie Cor which he has been offered $780,
/ OOO
AT Richmond. Va, the old jefferson
/ Davis mansion, formerly the white
house of the confederacy, will be con-
verified into museum of confederate
relics.
WHILE making away with team
John Hoffman, IS years old, who says
he has stolen 500 horses, was arrested
at Crown Point, Ind.
ROBERT HUsToN, ex-sheriff of Will
county ana widely-known man, COM
mitted suicide at the Grand Pacific ho-
tel in Chicago.
! RoBBERs blew open the vault of the
| First national bank at Marceline, Mo-,
and secured $4,000.
4 For practicing a pension fraud
James Cooley was sentenced to five
years imprisonment at Columbus. o.
| AT Rawlins, Wyo, Charles f. How
ard vas hanged for numbering Charles
| Horn last New Years eve at Dixon
during a quarrel about a dissolute
/ woman.
IT was shown by the official canvass
n Wisconsin that the vote was 375. 40,
| the largest ever cast in the state by
3,sGS ballots. Upham (rep.) has plu-
rality for governor of $4,000, and a
majority over all the other candidates
of 1856.
Al Springfield, Ky, white caps
| broke into the house of Thomas Elg-
ington and killed him in the presence
of his wife and five children. lie was
charged with beating his wife.
THE firm of Shelby 81 Soaper, pro.
prietors of the Henderson (Ky.) HON.
my mill, failed for 500, coo.
SMALLPOX was reported in the luRl.
Der camps in northern Wisconsin and
Michigan, having been spread by
transient laborers
~ the northern Indiana prison a
convict drank alcohol which was being
used in painting and is now b. nd.
The Farmers Insurance company OF
! Seattle, Wash, failed for $40, 900.
A TRAIN was derailed and three
tramps who were stealing a ride be.
| tween two box cars we're instantly
| killed near Lebanon, Ind.
o. charges of malfeasance ffty-two
indictments were found against ex.
| officials of Woodbury. county. la.
/ L. ENEY REEsH and Arthur c. Brown,
/ both OF Auburn. Ind, were killed and
| Henry Harris, of the same place, was
| fatally wounded by robbers at Desh.
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