River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-02-15

A TORNADO which swept over Indiana
did great damage. unroofing houses
and blowing down fences and trees
BURGLARS secured the combination
o. the safe in the poolroom of John
Payne at Covington, KY. and robbed
it of 81, 400 in cash.
The execution of Robert NarIer took
place at Pineville. Ky. He with two
others had fired into a passing train,
killing Mrs Mary Rowling
IT was said that Henry Renken en-
bezzled $4,000 from the Farmers and
Merchants bank at Talmage, Neb., re-
Gently suspended.
CHARLES FEHRMAS shot and killed
his wife at Milwaukee and then cut his
ov n throat
SIX elevators of the Farmers Mutual
Elevator company at Crookston, Mimi
went into the hands of a receiver with
liabilities of s24O, 600 and assets of $780,
900.
A GRAND jury found twenty indict-
ments for swindling against James
Thompson and Jesse Arnold, bankers
at Columbia City, Ind.
IN the woods near Concord, y. H.,
Joseph Reindeau was found and two
p sons arrested for killing him were
released.
In is said that planters of the lower
Mississippi valley will import German
labor to supplant the negroes. who are
unreliable.
ROBERT and Jacob Wilgus and
Reuben Gonna were drowned in the
Ohio river between Uniontown and
Shawneetown in trying to cross in a
skiff during a high wind.
w. o. JONES livery stables were
buried at Atlanta, Ga, the loss being
500, 900.
FIRE among tobacco warehouses at
Henderson, KY, caused loss of $780,
600
For forty years two brothers are said
to have lived at Acme, w. Va, on
charity.
AT Athens, Ga, "A negro named Col
Inns was fiayed alive by white caps He
was accused of enticiEg away servants.
A MOB took Henry McCray (negrol
from a train and hanged him near
Knoxville, Tenn, for assault upon Mrs.
Sallie Taylor.
L. Z. SEARLs and NJ. ii. Mcdonald
resorted to firearms to settle quarrel
at Rush Springs, Kan, and both were
fatally injured.
Four attempts were made by mis-
creants to fire the worlds fair build
ings.
FIRE swept away the board of trad,
building at Duluth, Mimi, the loss be
ing slOO.O
IN the states of Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi cyclone left in its wake many
casualties and vast amount of de
struction.
IL ST. Louis the Gibson Heights Lane
Improvement company filed deeds o.
assignment with liabilities of $3.50, 900.
The ore found on the farm of NJ. w.
Carpenter near Brazil. Ind, is said by
experts to be rich with silver ana gold.
ABLIzzARD which was almost unprec-
edented in the area covered and the
amount of snowfall, swept through the
western states, causing great damage
to property and the loss of many lives
At Cross, o. r, Sherman Stone killed
his wife and five children to prevent
them from freezing and then took his
own life.
AT Crookston, Mimi. the Farmers
Mutual Elevator company failed for
S24O, 900.
A MEXICAN woman named Wesley
while visiting the grave of her child
near Silver City, n. NJ, was devoured
by bears.
FLAMES swept away over half the
business portion of Genoa, O., a village
of 1000 inhabitants.
NEAR Tell City, Ind. William II. Art
man, a farmer, killed his wife and old
est son, aged IL. No cause was known.
On the Wheeling & Lake Erie road
freight trains collided near Bellevue,
o., and Engineers Connell and Stowell.
Fireman McMullen and Brakeman
johnson were killed.