River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-09-27

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IL Kansas City Francis NJ. Logan,
aged 80. firebug and proud of it, was
sent to the Missouri penitentiary for
five years for setting fire to the W Ids
of the Kansas City Lumber company.
lie volunteered the statement that he
had been causing big fires in all parts
of the United States and Canada for
many years.
The son of Ereclxinridge attempted
to pick a quarrel with Judge Kinkead
at Lexington, Ky, and made an at
tack with knife on a former friend
who had supported Owens.
JASPER and John Atkins (white)
were hanged at Winnesboro, S. C., for
the murder of William Camp.
CATTLEMES and Cheyenne Indians
near Woodward, o. T., were at war
and the settlers in the vicinity were
moving their effects into town and the
citizens were arming.
THE doors of the Commercial bank
of Weeping Water, Neb, were closed
with deposits of $500 and $4,000 in
loans
IRENE WASHINGTON and Edmonia
Anderson, two octoroops, fought
duel with knives at Swift, Ala. and
both were killed.
BOAT capsized in the Ohio river at
Pomeroy, o.. and David Nutter, Rob-
ert Thompson, DAME, Harrigan. Ment
Chester and Ernest Thomas were
drowned; all cOlored and single.
IN ST. Louis a five-story business
block was destroyed by fire. causing a
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injured.
The post Office at Appomattox, where
Lee surrendered, will hereafter be
known as Surrender.
A RUNAWAY team dashed into the
family of Daniel Stevenson at Clear
field. Ia. killing two children and ia
tally injuring the father.
IL the cyclone which swept north
ern Iowa and southern Minnesota
seventy persons are known to have
lost their lives, while the property
damages are enormous
A MOB took three negroes who had
murdered a merchant at McGhee,
Ark, from the sheriff and hanged
them to a telegraph pole.
FIRE that started on a wharf de-
HNADN 0N NbAln @lsObbsoOO III
| Portland, Ore, and three men were
supposed To have been burned TO death.
DEMOCRATS of the Eleventh Missis-
sippi district nominated j G.. Spencer
for congress on the l, l56th ballot In
the Sixth Illinois district the repub-
licans nominated f. ID. Cooke.
THE gold output of Colorado for 1854
win reach So. 900, 900, the largest in its
history 1t is hoped to mine S25, OO0,-
400 in 1895
IN Big Four train wreck near Day
| ton. O.. Gilbert NUM- was killed and
two other men fatally injured.
AT a meeting of the democratic COM
mittee of the Ashland district in
Frankfort, KY, William c, Owens was
declared the nominee for congress by
a plurality of 255 votes.
WHILE attending the sovereign
| grand lodge meeting James Anderson,
grand scribe of the Ohio odd fellows,
died at Chattanooga. Tenn.
MURPHY and Plimmer fought TWEEN
| ty-five rounds to draw at New Or
leans. The former had the better of
the encounter.
GALLAGHER and buchanan, Amer
| lean Railway union strikers, were sem
| fenced in court at Los Angeles, Cal,
to eight months imprisonment and a
fine of $500 for intimidating nonunion
worlImen.
FIRE destroyed st. Mary's Roman
Catholic college at Oakland, Cal, the
loss being 100000.
THE weather bureau will abandon
the signal station on the summit of
| Pixies Peak.
AT Mount Sterling, ILL.,. Ralph Conk-
lin, an 1s-year-old boy, given to dime
novel reading, robbed bank in true
bandit style, but was captured by citi-
zens.
Cor. BRECKINRIDGE viii resume the
practice of law in Lexington, KY, on
the expiration of his term in congress.
SEARI.E failed to lower the bicycle
road record between Chicago and New
York, taking eight days and three
hours to complete the journey.
CAPITALISTS in Toledo. o.. have pro-
| jected canal from that city to Chi
cago, and engineers are engaged in
J making surveys.
On the Columbia vein," one of the
greatest gold lodes of Colorado. eight
mines were sold for $4,000, 900.
AT the PuShmahata court grounds in
Indian territory Jim Allen, full
| blooded Choctaw Indian, was shot for
murder.