River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-17
WEST AND SOUTH.

AT Hastings, Mimi, Edward Ander-
son. who was to have been hanged for
murder, cheated the gallows by strang-
ling himself.
THREE persons were burned TO death
by the burning Of four-story tene-
ment house at Cincinnati
At Kalkaska. Mich, the Smith Lum-
Der company made an assignment,
with liabilities of 100000.
The democrats were victorious by
majority ranging between 1000 and
5000 at the municipal election in In
dianapolis, Ind.
PRAIRIE fires in Brown county, y.
D.. burned over 40 miles in length and
destroyed much property. One person
was burned to death and several Sc
verelv scOrched.
BY the explosion of powder in a mine
at Leadville, Col, two miners were ia
tally injured.
MARY HUME, wife of farmer near
Logansport. Ind, was pronounced dead
by her attending physician after long
sickness. Eighteen hours later. and
lust before the time of the funeral, she
rose in her coffin and asked for a drink
of water. Il was thought she would
recover.
UNITED STATES officials arrested
thirty Chinese women at the Chinese
exposition grou Ids at Atlanta, Ga. 1t
was cha rged that they were imported
for immoral purposes.
Ar Fort Smith, Ark, FL Weikie,
George Brown and Alexander Allen
J.. -, !.
10 for criminal assault
FIRE in Portsmouth, Va, did damage
exceeding s25O,OOO, destroying over
I 900. 900 feet of lumber, 1000 bales of
cotton and 100000 slaves, best two
large warehouses.
HARRY CooLERIDGE, of the Devils
Auction" company, was killed and
nine others seriously injured by an
explosion in "a theater at Corsicana,
Te~
The General conference of Episcopa-
l.ans in session at Minneapolis, Mimi,
decided upon Atlanta, Ga, as the next
place q meeting.
AT Louisville, Ky. Joe Patchen. the
pacing stallion, defeated his two rivals,
Robert J. ard John r. Gentry, win
ming three heats out of five.
Thomas SPEER. of Pike county. Ga,
prom ted by jealousy. during the alb
sence of his wife killed his nine chill
dren 6y administering poison to them.
CIRCUIT JUDGE SIMONToN at Charles
ION. ;. G, dismissed a suit TO have the
lispensary law declared uneonstitu-
tionaI on the ground of its being a mo-
nopoly.
III. = LITCIFIELD, manager of the
Railroad Transfer company at Kansas
CITY, Mo. committed suicide to avoid
arrest and conviction for being the
/ head of the Transfer gang" of thieves.
JOHN LEssARD and Charles Hansen,
workmen. were fatally injured by the
explosion of steam feeder at Duluth,
Nina.
TIE Fellowship club of Chicago cell
ebrated the twenty-fourtb anniversary
Of the great FIRE in a manner BETTING
/ the occasion.
The death of Mrs. Sarah E. V.
Emery. the well-known lecturer and
writer on woman suffrage, occurred at
Lansing. Mich.
AFAR,IER of Vincennes. Ind, Painter
west. was AAAAodGAls AAtANs "hCa ~
accident his eyes became filed with
the lime dust. which completely de-
stroyed the eyesight.
ALVIN E. CANADAY was cremated by
! the burning of theater building at
Kansas City, Mo.
RESOLUTIONS demanding an export
duty on agricultural products were
passed by me Missouri state grange, in
session at Warrentown.
AT Alexandria, Mimi, Edward Evans
met his wife on the street. who had
Just secured divorce from him. and
shot her dead. and then sent a bullet
through his own heart.
! IL Adams county. O., the drought
was so severe that farmers were com
/ PEELED 10 haul water for stock from to
10 miles Water was selling at from
twenty-five TO forty cents barrel.
a NATIONAL convention of colored
men was called to meet in Detroit,
Mich. December -. todeliberate upon
principles and measures important TO
| their welfare.