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

FIVE incendiary fires were started
simultaneously at the Kendallville
sind.) fair among the fancy stock pad
docks and James jackson and an I'M
known woman were burned TO death.
AT Columbia, s. C., the constitution
al convention adopted clause forbid
ding the intermarriage of white per-
son with any person who contains any
negro blood in his or her veins
In the second baseball game for the
Temple cup at Cleveland between the
Cleveland and Baltimore clubs the for
mer won by a score of Z toe.
In the Tenth congressional district
Maj j. c. c. Black (dem.) defeated
Thomas f. Watson (pop.) for congress
by a majority of /, 64l.
THE governor of Utah submitted his
last annual report to the secretary of
the interior. Before another report
can be made the territory will become
state. The population, according to
the census of 1895, is 247, 1924; property
valuation. scr. 942, l5l.
REPUBLICANS of the Eighteenth dis
trict of Illinois nominated Cyrus w.
Cook for congress to I'LL the vacancy
caused by the death of Frederick e.
Remain.
AT Hillsboro. Tex, three men were
arrested for participating in a glove
fight after the passage of the new law.
THE Episcopal triennial convention
in Minneapolis adopted a resolution
complimenting the governor and legis-
lature of Texas on the prize-fghting
question.
AT Lima. O., the school board issued
an order prohibiting the use of tobacco
and cigarettes among pupils, many of
whom have been stunted mentally and
physically.
Rev. l.. L. LANGsTRoTH dropped dead
in the pulpit while delivering SER
mon before a large audience at Day
ton, o. He was IS years of age.
NEAL SMITH (colored) who assaulted
and murdered Maggie Henderson at
Coal City, Tenn, was taken from the
stockade by mob of 200 men and
lynched. after being mutilated in a
terrible manner.
SAN CHMDREss tried to shoot his
sweetheart in a lit of jealousy at Bir-
mingham. Ala, ard was killed by
Deputy Sheriff Cole in attempting to
escape.
THE State Bankers associa ton in
convention at Fresno, CAL, adopted
resolution opposing the free coinage OF
silver at the ratio of Us to :.
UNAWARE as to what the punishment
would be fifty-one saloonkeepers at st.
Joseph. Mo-, pleaded guilty in the
United States court to failing to cancel
L..
fenced to one year each in the peniten-
tiary and to pay fine of $500.
AT Lorraine, o., at the laying of the
corner stone of the new St Mary's
Catholic church a platform gave way,
and in the crush that followed one per-
son was killed, number fatally in
jured and a score or more seriously
hurt
AT Leadviile, Col, Ex-Sheriff Patrick
Kennedy was murdered by hls father
in law, ex-Police Justice Thomas
Powers, family troubles being the
canse.
LOUIS and Charles Wegman and
Henry Fable were suffocated in a well
on a farm near Toledo. o.
WILLIAM II. GRoTE and L. L. Hiatt,
two of the most prominent and oldest
business men of Wheaton, Ill, were
drowned in Powers lake by the upset
ting of their boat.
AT Charleston, w. Va, Andrew J.
Scott was hanged for the murder of
his wife.
AT Fort Collins the Colorado Milling
& Elevator company's flour mill and
elevator was destroyed by fire, the loss
being sl25, 200.
APAssENGER train on the Big Four
at Tiffin. o., killed George Shoemaker,
who was trying to cross the track in
front of it.