River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-10-18

In Milwaukee twenty-five railroad
mer. including Z. V. Debs, were in
dicted by the grand ju-y
EXCITEMENT prevailed at San Pedro,
Col, over the loss by drowning of
party of four citizens, including the
postmaster
JACKSON HICKS, for the murder of
James Preel, aud Ames MYson, for the
murder of Dudley Carey, were hanged
at Union Springs. Ala.
IL Michigan Perry Mayo. of Calhoun
county. has been placed on the demo-
cratic ticket for lieutenant governor to
succeed J. Milton Jordan, declined.
Mayo is the popaiist candidate for the
same Office.
ARTICLES were signed by Corbett and
Fitzsimmons to fight after July :, 1895,
at Jacksonville, Fla, for a purse Of
s4., 900 and $4,000 side.
j. j. SHoKTALI, of Chicago, was re-
elected president at he annual session
in Evansville, Ind, of the American
Humane society.
GALES swept Lake Erie and lower
Lake Huron, disabling several large
boats and injuring a number of sail
ors.
IL session at baltimore J. j. p. odell,
of Chicago, was elected president of
the American Bankers association.
The attorney general of Illinois
rules that women must furnish their
own ballots and not vote with the men.
ELLSWORTH MoAFEE, Natha Green
and William Green persisted in burn
ing hay NOW in Mercer county, o.
The official estimates of the wheat
crop in Ohio place it at so. $50. 43S
bushels, the largest in the states his
tory.
BECAUSE unable to make collections
the First national bank of Kearney,
Neb., suspended.
ALL the hogs in Nebraska were be-
ing shipped into states where feed
could be secured on account of the
failure of the corn crop.
IL national convention at Baltimore
negro Catholics petitioned the presi-
dent to protect colored men.
Ar Sioux City. Ia, Online paced an
exhibition mile in 2:O4, lowering his
oIn worlds record of 2:O7l4.
THE governor O: Florida says he will
convene the legisla ture if necessary to
prevent the bett-r'itzsimmons fight
ia that state.
NEAR Quantico, Va, seven masked
robbers held up a fast mail train and
rifled the express car and mail pouches,
securing probabl., $4,000.
LATER advices state that the two
bandits who robbed the Overland ex-
press near Sacramento, Cal, secured
between $4,000 and SIS, 200.
THE death of Prof. David Swing ends
the organization in Chicago of the
named.
A PARLIAMENT will be held in Chi
cago on November IS, at which the re-
lations of labor and capital will be dis
cussed by leading thinkers from all
standpoints with view to lettering
present conditions.
AT the age of 95 years Oran Follett,
prominent official and newspaper
writer of Ohio, died at Sandusky.
THE death of Henry Fl. Green,
classmate of Gen. Grant at West Point
and Mexican war veteran, occurred
at Mora, \. NJ, aged II years.
FLAMES nearly wiped out Chester
| Hill. an Ohio village.
by train collision at New Orleans
twenty-one persons We're seriously in
jured and property worth S4O,O de-
stroyed.
ADA WIENER, who shot and killed
her husband at San Francisco while
he slept, was sentenced to life i'm pris-
onment
DE CAMP, Mcconnell and King were
| found guilty at Ogden, u. T., of at
tempted train wrecking during the A.
r. L. strike and King was fenced
to four years and De Camp and McCon-
nell 10 twelve years each in the peni-
Tertiary
AT an Omaha distillery experiments
of making spirits from beet sugar mo-
| Iasses proved very successful.
AN investigation showed that the
soldiers home at Dayton, o.. was
haunted by thieves who rob the in
mates on pension days.
THE congregation of Mount HOreb
(Ky.) Presbyte terrain church suspended
| Col. Breckenridge from communion
until February.
An affidavit was made by 7. L.
| Dix IN. an eX-state official of Kansas,
/ that Mrs. Mary f. Lease urged him to
steal $50, 900 from the state.
DIRECTORS of the Washington Park
club in Chicago decided to abandon
racing, but will maintain the club
/ house.
AT Beattyville, KY, Oscar Morton. a
wealthy resident of Stanton, shot and
| killed sheriff William Simms rs the
result of an old feud. mob took
Morton from jail and hanged him.
Is san Francisco John Joy. who
robbed man of five dollars, was SEN
fenced to prison for life by judge
under the habitual criminal act.
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