River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-08-01
WEsI AND souTH.

II Michigan rains put an effectual
check to The forest fires.
The failure was announced of Rob
ert f. Rivers, principal owner of the
Pickwick and Royal hotels in New Or
leans and of half dozen sugar plan
tations. for s330,O0O.
The latest to be numbered among
the supposed victims of III. I'll. Holmes
in Chicago. were Emeline q. Cigrand
and her husband. Robert E. Phelps,
and a young girl whose name the po-
lice refuse to divulge. Ali three have
been missing more than two years.
PoPULIsTs and free silver republicans
will hold joint silver convention in
Birmingham, Ala. in November.
DAIsIE KLAUS. aged 13. daughter of
Charles Klaus, of Columbus; May,
aged IL. and Hulda, aged :, daughters
of George Klaus, were drowned in the
Platte river near Columbus. Neb.
ARTHUR WALTER, Joseph Nolte and
Miss Title Helm were drowned in the
Mississippi river at Burlington, Ia, by
the capsizing of a boat.
IL the Illinois legislature a bill was
introduced for tax of per cent. upon
the gross receipts of all games of ball
and to- prohibit the game on Sunday.
The prospects for an enormous crop
of corn and other products throughout
the west and northwest were never
more promising.
A MOB lynched s. Loftin, negro,
charged with assaulting white WON
an in Lexington, Tex.
Echols and John Armstrong, negro
desperadoes who broke Jail at Fernan-
dina, Fla, were driven into the ocean
! bv bloodhounds and all were drowned.
WYoNISG advices say that tifty-nine
white people were killed by the Ban
mock Indians near Jackson's Hole.
A NOR took Tom johnson, a negro
who murdered Mrs. fairfield and her
daughter at Meridian. Miss, and as
saulted another daughter, and burned
him at the stake.
Is duel al Brandenburg, Ky, Col.
George Robinson. a county official, was
killed. aud Mai. Blood Schacklett. a
county commissioner, was fatally in
jured.
Mosr of the village of Melrose, la,
was burned
WHIT FERRAND and Anderson Brown.
negro murderers, were executed at
/ Salisbury. y. c., in the presence of
/ 5000 people. Each confessed his guilt
AT Richmond. Va, Phillip Norman
/ Nicholas was hanged for numbering
William J. Wilkersor and James Mills
by drowning them
TME execution of William Fredericks,
who murdered William A. Herrick in
an attempt TO ID the San Francisco
/ Union savings bank an March, 1894,
/ took place at San Quentin, Cal.
IL all so far as known. circumstantial
evidence of the strongest character
/ points to II. II. Holmes, the insurance
swindler, as the slayer of Julia ConnOr,
Gertrude Common. Amelia Cigrand,
BENJAMIN +. Pitzel and his three chill
dren. Howard. Alice and Nellie, Min
ME and Alice Williams and a Miss
Wild. Mrs Patrick Quinlan confessed
In Chicago all she knew about Holmes,
and she aud he husband we're arrest
ed as accomplices
IT was found that Bob Haggard. a
negro who WAS lyuched az Ford. KY,
charged with having outraged Miss
/ Elkiu. was innocent of the crime.
DURING a violent hurricane on the
coast of Japan. many vessels were
wrecked and their crews drowned.
DISPATCHES say that every man.
woman and child in Jackson's Hole.
Wyo, had been murdered by the red
men and the settlement burned. The
place had about l4O inhabitants.
AT Spirit Lake. Ia. monument was
dedicated TO the pioneers killed in the
Spirit Lake massacre of 1857. Many
prominent men Of the state were pres
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