River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-07-04
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Il ~ bNhNCA blAC ID. n W. II COni-
pany went into the hands of a receiver
with liabilities of 500. ZOO.
THE Kentucky democrats in conven
tion at Louisville nominated a ticket
as follows: For governor, p. Watt
Hardin; lieutenant governor, r. T..
! Tyler; treasurer, Il. C. Ford; auditor,
/ L. c. Norman; register land office. G..
Il. Swango; attorney general, w. j.
Hendrick; secretary OF state, Henry =.
I Hale; superintendent of public instruc-
ton. Ed Porter Thompson; commits
sioner of agriculture. l. Il. Hall.
/ MEMBERS of the family found 50, 900
in greenbacl1s in an old skirt belong
ing TO the late Mrs. Augusta Keller, Of
Lexington. Mo.
ALL the houses at Keysville, Ga,
were either demolished or badly
wrecked 10y a cyclone.
A MOB took Tom Bowen (colored), IN
! Jail at Brook Haven, Miss, charged
the sheriff and hanged him.
] THE Ohio supreme court declared the
law taxing inheritance by direct heirs
unconstitutional
| l.. G. KENNEDY and Miss :. +. Helvie,
/ two well-known young people, were
married at Bently by Rev. Ella Tnorp.
1t was the first marriage ceremony per-
! formed in Kansas by a woman.
LUMBERMEN of Saltwater, Mimi,
Were said TO have cheated the govern
ment out of $500, 900 by fraudulent log
measurements.
THE execution of "Bad Tom" Smith,
! man. bar nf ha IA in,
mountain warfare, and the murderer
of eight men, took place at jackson,
| Ky.
The death of John Lehan, aged 90,
occurred near Berkeley Springs, w.
Va. lie served in every war in which
| the United States has been engaged,
| beginning with 1912.
For an hour snow fell at Cumberland,
Wis.
AT Messy Creek, Tenn, Contractor
David Copper and his father fell rs feet
from a scaffold and both were killed.
For ENLIGHTENMENT of public funds
George 5. :. Moore, assistant post
master at Mobile, Ala. was sentenced
10 two years imprisonment.
In Dickey county. n. d., frost dam
/ COTns poldlPts anu
DURING a fight at Spartansburg, S.
| c., between State Constabl rettigrew
and Toland and two moonshiners
named Fisher and Durham the latter
were killed and the constables were
fatally injured.
CITY employees in st. Louis who have
failed to register and vote were being
dropped from the rolls for their negli-
gence.
A RESERVOIR at Catcher, Col, holding
! 25,0O0,O00 gallons of water, gave way
and swept over all the country, doing
great damage.
A MOB hanged Tom Bowen, a negro
who committed an outrage upon blind
white lady at Brookhaven, Miss.
The grocer >, fruit stand proprietors
and dry-goods men in Springfield, o.,
found keeping open on Sunday were
arrested.
BULLION treated at the Denver mint
during the year just closed was valued
at s., GA, 642, a gain of 81, 374, O6l over
the previous year.
IN Chicago the wholesale firm of A.
e. Putnam & CO., boots and shoes; j.
C. CosgrOve, boots and shoes, and the
American college of dental surgery
were burned out, the total loss being
Sl5O,OO0.
Ina suit brought by the government
against her husbands estate involving
| Sl5, 900, 900 Mrs. Leland Stanford won.
IL the northern counties of Iowa a
majority of the liquor sellers retired
from business
NEAR Lenoir City, Tenn, five farm
houses were washed away by cloud
burst and the crops were destroyed.
FIRE destroyed Charles w. Perry's
gristmill at Pierpont, Mich, the loss
being 100000.
AT the age of 20 William F. Parrott
died suddenly in Evansville, Ind. He
represented the First Indiana district
in congress from 1855 to 1892.
In the fifth trial of the George Lewis
murder case at Mexico, Mo, the de-
| PENDANT was found not guilty.
BY the new directory of st. Paul,
Mimi, population of 1870, 900 is shown.