River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-03
WEST AND SOUTH.

Il Terre Haute Ind. George Rob
crts, given a life sentence for train
wrecking, says he WIS promised inn
munity for aiding the authorities to
convict his associates.
HENRY Il. EVANS was taken i'll and
died within a few hours while eating
Christmas dinner at the home of a
friend in Rockford, Ill.
Mrs. IDA Ross was given a verdict at
Huntsville, Ala, of Sl6. 600 against the
Western Union Telegraph company for
failure to deliver a message to her hus
bard
SOCIETY women issued Christmas
editions Of the San Francisco Exam
i'ier and the Rocky Mountain News at
Denver.
THREE students of the St Paul coll
lege broke through the ice and were
drowned while skating in a park at 1T.
Paul.
FoUR business firms i'm Milwaukee
failed with liabilities sggregating
sIg5, 600.
BECAUSE of her husbands fondness
for G-vear-old daughter by former
wife. Mrs. Myrtle Simpson poisoned
herself at Peoria, Ill.
Is Chicago Eugene V. Debs and other
members of the American Railway
union were granted d stay of sentence
until January 5.
IL collision between passenger
trains at Waxahachie, Tex, eighteen
persons were seriously injured
The state teachers associations of
Illinois. Wisconsin. Iowa. Michigan,
Indiana. Nebraska, South Dakota and
Kansas held their annual meetings.
When arrested in New Orleans upon
the charge of insanity, a. w. Alton, of
New Jerusalem, Tex. said he was on
the way to Washington to kill the
president.
FIRE destroyed the state normal col
lege for girls at Livingstone, one of
the most prosperous institutions in
Alabama.
WILL CARTER and Dan Mcdonald
(coloredl were lynched by a mob lear
Meridian, Miss, for killing Jacob Copp,
aged - years.
FROM Nebraska to the Atlantic coast
a heavy snowstUrm ragged
FIVE boys were fata1y burned in a
suburb - Richmond, Va, by an explo-
sion of gunpowder
IL New Orleans Miss Celeste StaGff
err, who was engaged to Samuel J.
Tilden at the time of his death, was
married to Georges EastwiclS.
AFTER supposing him dead for thirty
years William Blakesley, of Sacra-
mento. Cal, gladdened the hearts of
his parents at Trenton, y. j., by let
ting them know he is alive.
THE attorneys of Madeline Pollard
propose TO follow Breckenridge on his
lecture tour and attach the receipts.
FLAMES swept over large area in
the southern par: of M county. o. T.,
and number of farmers lost every
thing they owned and barely escaped
with their families.
WILL PERRY and Alex Williamson,
two young men living at Coalburg,
Ala. fought for the hand of Mamie
Bell aud both were killed.
FIRE destroyed the old capital build
ing n Atlanta, Ca, the loss being
500. 900.
BURGLARS entered the bank at Som
onau1. Ill. and robbed the safe of
$500 and a large amount of valua-
bles-
THE father of the free school system
of Wisconsin. Col. Michael Frank, died
at kenosha at the age of 30 years.
IT was voted by the wOmen's coun-
ell OF the Nineteenth Century club of
Memphis. Tenn, to boycott Congress
man Rreckinridge's lecture.
4 TERRIFIC blizzard swept the west
ern states and the mercury fell far be-
low zero
WILLIAM FINDLEY and Joseph Bid
we'll. farmers of Union county. were
killed near Columbus, o., by a Fan
handle train.
The college presidents of Indiana
and Iowa decided to forbid intercOl-
legiate football games.
ST the age of ~ years ''Sim" Coy.
for many years picturesque figure in
Indiana politics, died at his home in
Indianapolis
RoBBERs broke into the home of
Henry Fecker. at Piqua. O, and car
ried ozF has savings, amounting 10
Si750
ROBBERs and farmers engaged in a
desperate fight near salem. O., and
two ot the latter were shot aaG one Of
the former.
BY the explosion of a sawmill boiler
at Bouavr, Ky. FIVE men were killed
and number of others badly scalded.