River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-31

had been held eighty hours and the
blockade would last four DAYS longer.
IL Detroit the corner stone of new
masonic temple to cost $685. was
laid.
The Buckeye glass works at Wheel
ing, W. Va. was started by nonunion
woraSmen after a two-years' strike.
Win crew of twenty-five men and
one passenger the steamer Chicora
was given upas lost on Lake Michigan.
THE Minnesota legislature elected
Gov. Knute Nelson (rep.) United States
senator
Is Duluth. Mimi, "Kid" Wright,
known all over the country as an ex-
pert counterfeiter, was arrested
II St. Louis the building trades
council adopted new constitution
which abolishes the walking delegate,
declares that strikes are failures, that
boycotts are un-American, and that
arbitration is the only method in set
thing difficulties
A RECEIVER took charge of the prop
erty of the Georgia Mining and Manu-
featuring company at Atlanta, valued
at 81. 900, 600.
NEAR Mcneil, Ark, two masked men
held up the Cotton Belt train and
robbed the express car of $500
By drinking impure water 200 citi-
zens of Lorain, o., were rendered seri-
ously ill.
IN the federal court in Chicago. f
Y. Debs and other American Railway
union men, released from the Wood
stock Jail, appeared to answer con-
spiracy charges.
The Nebraska legislators were asked
to urge congress to have Papal Dele
gate Satolli deported from America.
IL tenement house in indianapolis,
Ind, Mrs. Mary Hoop, a widow, and
her 2-year-old child We're found fro
to death.
THE republicans elected all the Off
Gals for the first time in many years at
the city election at Wheeling, w. Va.
THE knights of Pythias lodge at Ell
wood, Ind, took steps to expel all sa
loonkeepers from membership at once.
A CYCLONE swept portions of Alabama
and did great damage. At Abbeville
a child was killed.
IN southwestern Virginia large
amount of spurious money has been
put in circulation.
BY boiler explosion in brewery at
Mendoza. ILL.,. six men were killed, six
others badly injured and property
worth slOO,OOO destroyed.
A FLATBoAT containing two men,
woman and a child capsized in a whirl-
pool at Bouger's Landing, near Match
eZ, Miss, and all were drowned.
IL the Jail at Rocky Mount, Va, VIII
liam Roberts was hanged for the muir
der of Jerry Barbour, a prominent farm
er, two years ago.
SEVERE snowstorms prevailed in sew
eral western states. In Illinois, Iowa
and Wisconsin traffic was almost sus-
pended.
Is Chicago a jury was secured in the
trial of Eugene V. Debs, president of
the American Railway union. on the
charge of conspiracy.
FLAMES swept out the Crescent oil
mill near Little Rock, Ark, the loss
being S475, 900.
THE Oklahoma legislature passed
bill making train robbery a crime pun
ishable by death.
IL the Wyoming legislature Speaker
Ferry and Senator Woodruff resigned
because their constituents appointed q
committee to lobby for a state college.
Ar Anderson, Ind, Mrs. Joseph Stu
debaker passed her 102d day in sleep
less spell, during which time she had
received no nourishment other than a
little wine now and then.
IT was found that Milton Il. Matson,
arrested at San Jose, Cal, was a wom-
an, and she admitted having lived in
for sixteen years
FLAMES that started in the American
hotel az fillmore, o., destroyed the prin-
cipal part of the business portion of the
town, and Maggie Flynn and Mary
OMalley were burned TO death.
SOME, if not all, of the state schools |
Of South Dakota would, it was said, be I
TO close on account of the /
of ex-Treasurer Taylor.
BEING told that soft coal, ground !
fine, was good thing to mix with feed |
for hogs, VI. f. Eddy, a farmer living
near Sycamore, Ill, tried it and has /
sixty dead hogs
THOMAS WILLIAMS house near Conner,
o., was destroyed by fire and his two |
children persisted in the flames.