River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-08-22

FLAMES wiped out Il. Sherman's dis
tillery at Leavenworth. Kan, recently
built at a cost of $4,000 No insur-
| ance-
AT Spring Valley. ILL.,, twenty-three
men, charged with participating in the
recent assault upon the colored people,
and with driving them from their
ho1neA were arrested and held for
! trial.
DIRECTORS OF the Commercial bank in
Milwaukee decided to close the bank
because of poor business.
FLAMES destroyed nearly the entire
village of Ludlow Falls. o.
i The Bedderly brothers, who had
long been a terror to cattlemen on ac-
count of their bold thefts of cattle,
were lynched by a vigilance committee
in Buffalo county. S. ID.
A HOUSE near Arlington. Tenn. was
burned, Mrs. Callie Harrill and two
grown daughters perishing in the
flames. Foul play was suspected.
THAT the wheat crop of Nebraska
was estimated at Is. OO0. 900 bushels and
the corn crop at $50. 900, 900.
AT Mount Sterling. Ky. John John
son (colored) was hanged for killing
Policeman Charles Evans on June Is
The death of Sam Bell Maxey, who
was United States senator from Teva )
| from 1874 to 1856, occurred at E. eka
Springs, Ark, aged 20 years.
DE-. r. X AUsHLAND and DIR. II. r.
Holmes fought duel at Portland, Ore,
and both were fatally injured.
DAVID CULRoss and Charles Deck
n IL
Ind, the outgrowth of an old feud be-
{ cen families, and both were fatally
injured.
AT Cleveland. o.. the Otis Elevator
company has gone out of business, Civ
| ing as a reason the decreased demand
for grain caused by bicycles and troll
ley cars.
! IN Chicago Charles NJ. Linington.
who did an extensive country business
in novelties and notions, failed for
$50. 200.
SOME 5000 colored voters formed a
state organization at Wichita, with
branches in all the large cities of Kan
sas, as the Independent Colored league,
and will hold a state convention Sep
TENDER &c.
At West Palm Beach. Fla. Samuel
| Lewis, who murdered three men, was
| lynehed, the mob also killing Jailer
| Gustave Kaiser.
FIRE wiped out the mammoth Patent
Steel Whip company's works in SPRING
field. o., entailing loss of 100000
FIRED HIsHoLS shot and instantly
killed William Make and William
Read in a quarrel over q game of cards
near Marion, Ill
LUMBER dealers who arrived at Ia
coma, Wash, reported an unbroken
chain of forest fires from the Rocky
mountains to the Pacific ocean.
FLAMES destroyed block of build
ings at Algonquin. Ill, and +. D. Ko-
ear and his daughter persisted in the
! flames.
NEAR Orlando, q. T., Eli Bourse and
his bride of two months were both in.
stantly killed by a stroke of lightning
which wrecked their house.
AT Ocean City. Md, pleasure boat
capsized end William Storr and his
wife and two children and Myrtle
| Stevens and Lima and Lulu Hall were
drowned.
In ninety-three days John Walsh
walked from San Francisco to Boston.
winning a wager of $500.
AN explosion wrecked the Gumry ho-
tel at Denver, Col, and it was thought
that forty or more persons lost their
| lives
FLAMES destroyed the Ocean Bay
View house at Hammell station, Rock
away Beach. All the guests were
saved.
IN Chicago II. II. Holmes notorious
CASTLE" the place of murder and mys-
terry, was almost destroyed by a mys-
FERROUS fire, the walls and part of the
roof alone remaining.
AT Grand haven, Mich, the wife and
] little son of Arthur Francis. of Engle-
wood, H., were drowned in Spring
lake.