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

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a wealthy farmer, mistook his eldest
/ son for burglar and shot him fatally.
Miss ANNIE NELSON and George Lai-
bel, midgets of the Mrs Tom Thumb
company, were married at Minneapolis,
Mimi.
IN house at Omaha, Neb., a gaso-
line explosion killed William Henry
and his wife and Mrs. @. 5. Osborn.
Ex-Gov. w. ID. HOARD was elected
| department commander of the Wiscon-
sin G. A. 4. at the encaInpment at
/ Green Bay.
KIcKAPoo Indian lands in Oklahoma
were thrown open for settlement and
il was estimated that not less than
90, 1000 persons Joined In the rush
| AT Springfield, o., Ex-Police Judge
| Charles f. Morris, who stole $4,000
from the Citizens Building and Loan
association, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to six years in the pen ten
! tiary.
THE Henry county Qnd.) grand Jury
indicted Rev. William Henshaw for the
murder of his wife. Henshaw claimed
that robbers had killed his wife and
wounded him.
THE grand jury at Louisville, KY,
dismissed the case against Fulton Cor
don, who killed his wife and Archie
Dixon Brown, SON of Gov. Brown, sew
eral weeks ago.
FRIENDS of free coinage gathered at
Memphis, Tenn, to hear ex-Congress-
man w. J. Bryan, of Nebraska, reply
to the sound money speech of Secre-
tary Carlisle before the anti-free silver
convention. Mr.. Bryan contrasted Mr..
Carlisles silver attitude now with his
views in 1873.
IL Chicago Frederick w. Griffin, the
assistant cashier of the Northwestern
national bank, who WIS short $4,000
in his accounts. pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to five years in the PEN
itentiary.
THE death of Gen. J. Il. Hawley, as
sistant secretary of the trea sury under
/ President Hayes and six years a men,
Der of congress from Illinois, occurred
at Hot Springs, S. ID.
LOUIS KRAcMAN, of Chicago, rather
than endure the reproach of living off
I his wife's earnings, killed his little
girl, ? years of age, and then took his
own life.
JOHN Halls, JR., and William Royce
were taken from their cells in the Jail
at Danville, Ill, and hanged for as
saulting Miss Laura Barnett.
IL the town of Paramy+hia, in the
province of Epirus, which is part of
Albania, an earthquake destroyed
nearly all the houses in the town and
so persons were killed and $50 injured.
AT Flint, Mich, Charles C. Coudary
was arrested charged with having three
wives in Indiana, one in Illinois and
one in Flushing, Mich.
AT Lakeview, Mich, George Reed,
aged 60, committed criminal assault
on the 11-year-old daughter of Rev.
Clarence Welch, and when arrested
took his own life with poison.
GEORGE MONTGOMERY and Arch ID.
Riley killed each other with pistols at
the Troy Presbyterian church in the
Nicholasville, Ky, district.
THE celebrated turfman of New
York, John A. Morris, died suddenly
at his ranch near Knoxville, Tenn.
IN all parts of the upper Michigan
peninsula forest fires were raging.
OK the charge of numbering his wife
on the night of January II, Rev. Will
liam +. Hinshaw, pastor of the Metbo-
dist church at Belleville Ind, was ar
rested.
The doors of the Fifth national bank
of San Antonio, Tex, were closed.
FOREST fires were raging in some of
the heavy wooded districts of northern
Wisconsin.
NEAR Nashville, Tenn, Henry Nc
Kinney accidentally killed two sisters.
a rifle discharged prematurely.
A CALL was issued by the Central BIZ
metallic league at Memphis, Tenn, for
a national convention to be held in
Memphis on June II and 10 to formu-
late some definite plan for future ac-
ton.
REV. AQUILLA ROBINSON, the oldest
native born resident of Indiana and
the oldest Methodist minister in the
state. died at Deputy, aged 95 years.
FIRE swept away every business
building a: Calien, Mich, but two
stores and the post Office.
THREE young men of Cambridge
| township. Mich, Bert Salisbury, aged
90; Will Doolittle. aged 80, and Nina
Patterson. aged II, were drowned by
the upsetting of their boat while fish
ing on Maharr lake.
FIRE ruined the new Waverly hotel
at Hot Springs, Ark, and William
Burke, night porter, was cremated. All
the guests escaped.