River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-12-19

At Fayette. W. Va, Jim Nichols (col-
ored) was hanged for the murder of
Henry Carr during a game of craps at
Eagle. w. Va. August 81.
At the age of % Father" Leak, who
had been Methodist minister 20 years,
died at Atchison. Kan.
Fire destroyed 81 buildings at Titus
Vile. Fla. the total loss being 100000.
AZ crossing on the Dayton q Union
railroad. seven miles from Greenville.
o., Oliver Hammo nd, his wife and three
children were instantly killed.
Nearly the entire wholesale district
of Council Bluffs, Ia, was destroyed by
fire. the loss being estimated at $780,
COO.
At Carson City, Col, Abe Taylor was
hanged for the murder of City Marshal
Emerson, of Alamosa, about two years
ago. while the latter was trying to ar
rest him for theft.
An official call for the national re-
Publican convention to meet in St. Louis
on June 10, 1896. was issued by the La
tiona- committee.
The figures on the racing season Of
1895 in the United States snow that =.
s26,7 49 was earned by horses placed Ia
the 1862 events.
Allen G. Thurman's funeral took
place at Columbus, D. The services
were simple, according to the wishes of
the dead statesman, and the remains
were placed by the side of his wife in
Greenlawn cemetery.
William Davis and Al Stinson, white
cap leaders at Anderson, Ind, were sen
fenced to six years in the penitentiary.
The death of w. A. McKeighan, mem
Der of the sd and SD congresses from
the Fifth Nebraska district, occurred at
his home in Hastings, aged SO years.
Fire wiped out the principal business
portion of Bethel, n. c.
The peoples party national COM
mittee viii meet in st. Louis January II
to fix the time and place for holding =
national convention.
John Horhamer. aged ten, and Otto
Greenwaldt, aged seven, cousins. were
drowned while playing ON the ice ut
indianapolis. q.
Five workmen were killed by the fall
of a bowlder at Big Stone Gap. Va.
Helen Culver. of Chicago, gave ST.
COO,OOO TO the University of Chicago
for the advancement of the science of
biology.
The favorite cousin of the martyred
president of the United States, Miss
Phoebe Lincoln, died at her home in La
Harpe, ILL.,. at the age of OF.
The Michigan state salt inspector re-
ports that 3,675,75l barrels were pro-
duced during the year, gain of 19O,323
barrels over 1894.
The president of the Planters nation
al bank at Richmond, Va, james b.
Pace. failed for 81 100000
A passenger train on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton road was wrecked
OF Milton, o., and 81 persons were in
jured.
Articles of agreement were signed by
Fitzsimmons to fight Peter Maher for
the worlds championship ON February
"a near FL Paso. Tex.
Miss Clara Hazel Busch, daughter of
Adolphus Busch, the millionaire brew
er, and Herr Paul Won Gontard, prom
in St Louis.
The doors of the German national
bank at Lincoln, Neb., were closed with
liabilities of $4,000.
In the mails in Chicago two internal
machines were intercepted. One was
addressed TO Philip ID. Armour, the mill
lionaire packer, and the other was for
George NJ. Pullman, president of the
Pullman Palace Car company.
IN
ex-member of congress from the Second
West Virginia district, occurred at Mar
tinsburg.
The remains of Alexander Krell, whose
piano factory was burned in Cincinnati
with loss of over 100000, were found
in the cellar of the ruins.