River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31
WEST AND SOuTH.

WHILE quietly celebrating her 1O6th
birthday Mrs. Susan Cook died "a
Quincy, Ill.
AT Alta, Ia, fourteen business blocks
were destroyed by fire, causing loss
of sIOO. 900.
Miss FRANCES WILLARD was elected
rv-rsident of the w C. T. L. for the fif-
teenth tim =. he national meeting in
Baltimore.
The death of Rev. Hayden Ray urr.
a well-known Methodist minister, oc-
Cured at Kol1omo, Ind, aged 81 years.
In his ministry of sixty years he mar
ried 1.277 couples.
THE doors of the First national bank
of Wellington. Kan, were closed, with
liabilities of $50, 900.
BECAUSE of poor business the Swim
ney bank at Ash Grove, Mo-, closed its
doors.
At the age of so years James Kelly
died at Normal. Ill. He was the orig
/ inal of the character of Phineas Fetch
er in Uncle Toms Cabin"
The supreme court of Arkansas sus-
tanned the prize fight law and Corbett
was remanded back to the custody of
the sheriff of Garland county.
At her home near Cairo, H., Mrs.
| Rousch hanged her 4-year-old daugh-
ter and herself because of poverty.
Resolutions were adopted at the clos
| ing session in Baltimore of the Woman's
| Christian Temperance union admitting
/ Catholic and Hebrew women as dele
gates. Banners were presented TO sew
1 eral state unions which showed large
/ gains in membership, and there was a
| feast of music.
/ In Minnesota the official count of the
population by counties shows 1874, $40,
an increase of pa, Os4 over the count of
1890.
Henry and Pete Gabbard, brothers
living on Kavanaugh's creek, jackson
county, Ky, were shot and killed by
SANFORD Lakes, = neighbor. An old
grudge was the cause.
Kemp NJ. Woods, Jr., e Co., private
bankers at Libertyvil's ,, Mo-, with s1l,-
600 in deposits, made an assignment.
In annual session in Chicago, the Ma
tional Association of Implement Man
ufacturers elected III. o. Staver, of that
city, as president.
On the farm of Henry T. Niles near
Toledo, o., large mound was opened
and twenty skeletons, all in a sitting
| posture, were found.
| At the Atlanta exposition presidential
day was attended by thousands, and
| President Cleveland received a warm
welcome. to which he responded briefly
but eloquently.
Mexican John and jim Umbra, two
Mexicans who had been engaged in
cattle stealing, were lynched by en-
ragged cattlemen in Oklahoma.
In a freight wreck near Max Mead
ows. Va, Engineer George o'Neill,
| Fireman c. z. Luidamood and Brake
man Frank Houston were killed.
mob hanged Jack Henderson, a
farm laborer who attempted to assault
the wife of his employer, James Allen,
at Vinegar Bend, Ala.
Good sleighing was reported in Bar
aga county. Mich, the earliest on rec
ord.
The doors of the Columbia national
bank at Tacoma. Wash, were closed.
intellectual and spiritual conditions
of the Indian and Chinaman were dis
cuSsed at the meeting in Detroit of the
American Missionary association.
II. W. Twyman broke the 1O0-mile
bicycle record. going the distance at
/ Louisville. Ky, in 4:25:S2.
In session at Detroit the American
| Missionary association selected Boston
as the place of holding the next meet
ing and elected Merrill Z. Gates, of
Massachusetts, as president.
Flames destroyed more than 100000
worth of property in the best bu- .~ess
portion of Mckinney. Tex.
On the Burlington road fast express
was wrecked at Waldron, Mo-. and ten
persons We're hurt, two of them Sc
riously.
Zehe and Dick Crittenden. United
States marshals. We're shot and killed
by Ed Reed. also a marshal, in drunk
en- quarrel at Wagner, l. T.
The death of Mrs. Mary Connors. aged
lO7 years, occurred at her home in SAN
dusky, o. She was born in Ireland in
I.SS.
The Texas sugar crop was said 70 be
far below the average.