River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-05-30
MEST AND SOuTH-

DURING a tornado at Lockport, Tex,
the st. Mary hotel and Catholic church
were unroofed and forty other houses
were damaged, causing loss of $780,
600.
THROUGH the region east of Superior,
Wis, forest fires " re raging and great
damage was being done.
Two MEN swindled G.. III. Taggert, a
wealthy farmer near Warrensburg,
Mo, out IF $500.
On the lakes insurance losses this
season up to May Is were unprecedent-
eddy heavy. The aggregate was $780,
600, as compared with losses last sea
son up to the same date of $4,000.
AT Creole, Col, snow to the depth of
foot fell.
Al Renville, Mimi, gold was struck
in paying quantities
NEAR Cheyenne, Wyo., a freight
train ran into the rear end of pas
senger train and Engineer August
Gray and Fireman Ed Fuller, both of
Denver. were crushed to death.
AT the snorting of an elephant in
the parade of a circus at Fort Wayne,
Ind, a horse took fright and dashed
into the midst of a crowd of women
and children. killing Mrs. Eliza Lemay,
fatally injuring Mrs. Z. Wehner and
her boy and bruising sixteen other
persons
Miss MAUD MYERS. Miss Kate John
son and Charles Wiley were drowned
at Efiingham, Ill, by the upsetting of
a raft.
In Chicago sixty horses belonging to
the Carette company were burned to
death by fire In the stables and ten
carettes were also DESTROYED.
A MOB killed William ConneIl, who
killed Sheriff George Durham, of
Montgomery county, Ga.
Rc3BERs blew open tine vault of the
state bank at Oneida, Kan, securing
about 81 500.
ADvICEs from the great wheat belt
of North Dakota, the Red river valley,
say that the frosts have not ruined the
young plant
The Michigan legislature passed a
bill making il unlawful for one per-
son 10 treat another to liquor in any
public place in the state. 1t also pro-
hibits the selling of liquor for such
purposes
THE Texas department of education
ruled that nuns could not teach in the
public schools of the state.
Two YOUNG men were fishing In the
Neches river near Crockett, Tex,
when their canoe was attacked by alli-
gators and broken up and the young
men were torn to pieces.
ADvICEs from the vast wheat farms
of the northwest, IN Minnesota and the
Dakotas. show that the wheat crop is
not only uninjured, but actually is in
better than the average condition.
Mrs ANNA ANNABLE in fit of
jealousy shot and killed her husband
in Chicago and then put a bullet into
her own heart.
The convention of sound money
and better banking facilities" met at
Memphis, Tenn, and was addressed
by Secretary Carlisle.
A MOB lynched Claude Thompson
(colored) at Dekoven, Ky, for at
tempted assault on l3-year-old white
girl.
GOLD bearing sand was found in a
well in the heart of Fort Smith. Ark.
HE uOpTS were GAh>tu VI the 4htf-
chants national bank at Seattle,
Wash.
john b. KOETISG, the banker who
wrecked the South Side savings bank
in Milwaukee, after making fight for
two years, pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced to five years in prison.
Frost in Michigan did over $780, OC
worth of damage in Allegan, Ottawa,
Van Buren,, Barry, Muskegon and
neighboring counties
AT Pinole, Cal. powder house ex'
ploded. killing fourteen men
IN session at Ottumwa the Iowa Fed
Grafton of Labor defeated an effort to
commit the federation TO free silver or
socialism.
AT st. Louis Paul Taustin. aged %,
leaped from the center arch of the
Eads bridge into the Mississippi river,
100 feet below. and was not injured.
IL an explosion in a coal NINE near
Paramount. W. Va, four miners were
killed.