River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-10-04
FIERCE forest fires devastated the

southern and eastern portions of Crow
Wing county. Mimi, destroying much
farm property.
An Alabama negro. Jasper Layman,
was arranging for the exodus of 500
negroes from the neighborhood of Mo-
bile, Ala. to Liberia.
WHILE drunk Louis Miller, of Gin
cinnati, murdered his wife and then
killed himself. Their two daughters
witnessed the double tragedy.
Gov. STONE, of Missouri, has COM
menced crusade against gambling
by closing all of the houses in St Jo-
seph.
Ar Columbus. O., in the team race
Rose Leaf and Sally Simmons won, re-
ducing the record for a mile trot to
2:I5l4.
COMPLETE returns on the liquor
license question in the recent Arkan-
sas state election resulted as follows:
For license, 1902; against license,
1855.
ID. b. HUBBARD, of Dorchester. Mass,
who went to Chicago to seek a recon-
ciliation with his wife. found her
walking with Frank Garsuch and shot
both of them.
EUGENE FUIKEs and Tom Moore
(whitc) were executed at Paris, Tex
for murders committed in the Indian
territory.
AT Denver. Col, Gen. James 5.
Clarkson declared in speech that 20
per cent. of the people of the United
States favored free silver.
Ar Terre Haute, Ind, six men were
arrested for causing the wreck on the
Big -Four at Fontanet during the strike.
THERE died at Ingram, Tex. a Mex
| lean named Nodericos, who, his rela-
tives assert most positively, was $50
] years old. lie had been married five
I times, marrying his first wife 109 years
, ago. lie had three grown sons in the
war of 1912.
JAMES POWELL and Louis Diclkey
were fatally injured and two other
men were seriously hurt by an acct
denta, explosion of a dynamite blast
at Atchison, Kan.
AT San Jose, Cal, in a race against
time Abdell lowered the yearling trot-
ting record to 2:23. a cut of three
| fourths of second.
! An Austin Ill.) pastor, Rev. S. b.
! Newman, who is So years old, secured
license to we'd Annie Gilman, who is
but 20.
IN freight wreck on the Mobile &
4 Ohio, near Columbus. Miss, Conductor
James Fitzgerald and Daniel Thomp-
sou, colored brakeman, were killed.
TIE death of ten. A. NJ. West, can
didate for vice president of the United
States in 1854 on the greenbacl-labor
| ticket with Gen. H. F. Butler, occurred
at Holly Springs, Miss, aged 80 years.
By week on the Chicago & North
western Dad near Woodstock, ILL.,,
/ FIVE tran ps were killed and two in
| jured.
IN thirty counties of northern Min
nesota snow fell, amounting in some
| places to a depth of inches.
RAINS in California damaged the
raisin crop s1OO. 600.
! FLYING JIB lowered the worlds mile
/ pacing record at Chillicothe, o., from
2:O1s4 To 1:59Iz. with a running mate
BY the careless driving of Louis
| Scharf Will. drunk his wife and five
children and Mary Rosbus, his sister
! in-law, were drowned in the Minnesota
I river at Caska.
CATHARINE CHURCH died at Mus
catine, Ia, aged los years.
Ulysses AARAM and Il. l.. Peace
fought a duel at Canton, Ga. for the
hand of a neighbours daughter and
killed each other.
Is Chicago the grand jury completed
/ its investigation of gambling and re-
turned many indictments, including
I thirty property owners.
The Minnesota creamery men have
/ organized aud will constitute a board
of trade for the sale of their products.
MIsCKEA,;Ts wrecked a Wabash train
at Maumee, O.. and Engineer f. n.
I Smith was killed and Fireman A. II.
/ Day fatally hurt.
OPTIONS were given an English
/ syndicate on all the paper and pulp
mills in the Fox river valley in Wis
consin. They are valued at $40, 1000, 900.
| JoHN BARRETT and Adolph Burgan,
/ inmates of the Ohio soldiers home.
were killed by highwaymen near lay
/ ton for their money.