River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-04-11

(coloredl, the murderer of Lee Sledge,
another negro, and Jerry Jeffreys (col-
ored) were executed at Quitman, Ga,
for killing Officer Tip Moulden.
NEAR Alton, H., freight train was
wrecked, and Charles Bell. Henry
E-Itz, Frank Harrison and David Hef-
hey were killed and fourteen other
persons were injured.
THE failure was announced of the
City national bank of Fort Worth. Tex
FRAME ROBIN, of South Haven, Mich,
and woman with him. whose name
was not known. committed suicide in a
hotel at Kalamazoo, Mich.
IN San Francisco Carlo Enr:co Rita
was married to Mss Woolfe, and soon
after the ceremony Rita shot and
killed. mis- bride and then killed him
self
OFFICIAL canvass of the vote cast at
the recent election in Chicago gives
George h. Swift rep for mayor a plu-
rality of 1920
JOIN HAvERLEY, Earl Wakefield and
and Ole Everfeld, living near De Soto.
Wis. were thought TO have been
drowned v lille on hunting expedition.
No TRAINS reached Denver, Col, in
two day, because of snow blackade.
u all the principal towns in Mon
tana school elections were held and
were remarkable from the fact that in
most of the cities at least half the vote
was east by women.
THRoUGHoI'T the west rainfall for
thirty-six hours was general and last
years drought-stricken region of Ne
brasl1a received a drcnching.
MANY farmers from Colorado, Ne
braska. Kansas and Illinois were in
the southeastern part of North Caro-
lima looking for lands.
TIE firm of kirkpatrick & CO., whole.
sale grocers at Nashville, Tenn, failed
for SI75. 600.
FIRE destroyed the American starch
works, the largest in the west, at Coz
lumbus, Ind, causing a loss of $780,.
600 Lewis Wade, colored ware-
houseman, persisted in the flames.
At Windsboro, Tex, a tornado de-
molished church and unroofed sew
eral buildings. One child was killed
and several persons were injured.
Ar church door in Wichita. kan,
Walter Scott. aged Fl, whose wife, aged
10, had left him because of his intern
perate habits, shot and killed her and
then killed himself.
Ar Merrill Wis, Mrs. John Cotey
and her 3-year-old child were burned
to death.
AT Marietta, O., the forth anniver-
al ~. L..
Putnam in the northwest territory
was celebrated.
Ar his home in Lincoln, ILL.,. Rev. f.
ID. Wilkin, chaplain of Gen. Grants old
regiment, the Twenty-first Illinois,
died suddenly of heart failure
THRoUGH the death of his father in
Cleveland, Peter Lennent, driver for
a local bakery at Toledo, o., has fallen
heir to an estate of nearly 100000.
ar the age of as years Judge A. Scott
Sloan, of the Third judicial circuit,
died at his home in Beaver Dam, Wis.
He served in congress from 1861 to 1868.
UTAH under the new constitution
will have eighteen senators and forty
FIVE representatives.
By an explosion of firedamp in Blue
Canyon coal mine on Lake Whatcom,
near Tacoma, Wash, twenty three per-
sons were killed.
For making an inquiry regarding lot
terry drawings through the United
States mail Robert Sund was sentenced
to three months in Jail at Cheyenne,
Wyo.
An unknown man on horseback set
fire to the dry prairie grass in Pawnee
county, O. T., and the country was dew
astated for many miles. Seventeen
farmers lost everything they possessed.
THE death of eX-Gov. James H.
Kemper, of Virginia, occurred at his
home near Gordonsville, aged - FEARS.
he was a brigade commander in the
confederate army.
WHILE insane 4. VI. UKelley muir
dsrod his agod wife at Nickshurg,
Miss, with Ratchet and afterwards
committed suicide.
FLAMES destroyed the Atlantic & Pa
cific roundhouse and machine shops at
Wiuslow, A. T.. the loss being 500, 900.
THE largest timber concern in the
south, the Southern Land & Timber
company (EngliSh). of Pensacola, Fla,
went into the hands of receivers.
IL Colorado and Kansas a sand and
snowstorm combined did great damage,
and i'm western Kansas many horses
and cattle were suffoeated by clouds of
sand.