River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-03-21

In fire at Laramie. wyo., which de-
stroyed property worth 100000, James
Foster was killed and three other per-
sons injured.
A TRAIN on the Vandalia road was
wrecked and the cars burned near
Terre Haute. Ind, and several persons
were injured.
SOME wreckage of the Chicora, which
went down during the winter with
twenty-four persons on board, was
washed ashore ut st. Joseph. Mich.
The Georgia Women's Press club has
withdrawn because negroes have been
admitted to the Federation of Women's
Clubs.
IT was decided by Judge Rourke. OF
Fort Wayne. Ind, that corporations
we're entitled under the law 10 dis
charge employees who belong To labor
unions.
TUE supreme court of Illinois declared
unconstitutional the section of the
eight-hour law relating to the employ
ment of women.
NEAR Helena, Mont. A. H. Smelling
shot and killed Charles Mccullough
and then shot his own head off. The
men had been drinking and quarreled.
a MOB lynched Amos Gibson (coloredD
at Forsythe, Ca, for criminal assault
The burning of an express car on the
Nandalia road near Terre Haute, Ind,
destroyed 100000 in gold and silver
coin and bank bills.
In trivial quarrel at Mctiregor,
Mimi, BENJAMIN Jennetta and his
wife were shot to death by Arcangelo
and Nicholas Cristilli, two fellow
Italians.
The Nebraska legislature passed
bill prohibiting the manufacture or
sale of cigarettes or material for cigar
cites in the state.
FIRE destroyed the business portion
of the village OF Devine. Tex.
AT Seattle, Wash. nine murderers
held mp the county jailer and escaped.
by the burning of the Wabash round
house at Toledo, o., three men were
killed, one fatally and ten seriously in
jured, and property worth 100000 de-
stroyed.
A NUMBER of persons and hundreds of
cattle were drowned and great damage
done to property in Alabama by violent
wind and transforms.
FIRE swept away the storage ware
house elevator of Hugh Rogers G Co.,
of st. Louis, with the contents, the loss
being 100000.
1T indianapolis Jacob Goldberg and
! his wife were suffocated by natural
gas.
w. II. MORRISON and w. b. Thomas,
counterfeiters, were captured with
their outfits and spurious coin by st.
Louis police.
Thu celebrated Baptist divine and
scholar, DIR. John A. Broadus, died at
Louisville. aged IL years.
The chairman of the republican state
central committe, of Wisconsin, Henry
c. Thorn, died at Madison.
FLAMES destroyed the building at
Cleveland, o., occupied by the World
and the A. n. Kellogg Newspaper COM
pany, the total loss being $4,000.
PoPULIsrs of the Tenth Georgia con-
gressional district nominated Thomas
| f. Watson for the seat vacated by the
resignation of J. c. Black.
THE death of John +. Leedom, a
member of the Forty-seventh congress,
occurred at Toledo, O.. aged a. years.
For the murder of johnson Duncan
in a dispute over cards Wash Strong
(colored) was hanged at Hawl1ensville
Ga.
MISS NELLIE CLossoN and Mrs. Frank
Sumner were fatally burned by an ex-
plosion of gasoline in n st. Paul house.
IN Chicago the Waukesha Hygeia
Mineral Water company went into the
hands of a receiver with liabilities of
nearly 81 100000.
GRoReE PRossER and wife, who live
near Neville, Ia, were robbed OF $500.
TBE passengers on a steamer which
arrived al Key West. Fla, from Havana
said that the Spanish gunboat Arcedo
fred into and sunk N American schoon-
er off Puerto Padro and that the crew
of the vessel, numbering sixteen men,
persisted with il.