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

Al Toledo. o.. Mrs. Joseph Reimein
died from the shock received by the
death of her husband and daughter in
a railway accident.
In the middle states the hay crop of
tais year is reported TO be II per cent.
less than last year.
Judge Murphy denied Theodore Dur
rants motion for "A new trial in s.
Francisco and sentenced him TO be
hanged for the murder of blanche
Lamont, but liked no date for the ex-
ecution.
Jason Blake, Prince Graham and Will
liam Fraser tall colored) were hanged
at Hampton. S. c., for the murder of +.
II. Mears; Jesse Jones was hanged at
Ozark, Ark, for numbering Charles and
Jesse Hibdon in February. 1894, and
negro named Elliott was hanged at
Chester, S. c., for the murder of a white
man named WEIGH.
A. J. Carroll sdem.) defeated q A.
Blatz (rep.) for the Legislature at an
election in Louisville. This ties the
general assembly.
Fire destroyed the building in Chi
cago occupied by ii. Wolf a. TO, dealers
in general merchandise, the loss being
100000.
While temporarily insane Rev. Hi
ram Hillard. a Baptist preacher 50
years of age, committed suicide al his
home near Golden. Mo.
For the season of 1895 navigation on
tie lakes has closed.
A letter from Mrs. Bliss, of Memphis,
Tenn. now a missionary in Armenia,
saws that over iOO, 1000 Armenians have
been butchered, mostly men, leaving
the women and children in awful pow
erty, and says that there is no doubt
that all these outrages were committed
with the sanction of the sultan.
At Knoxville, Tenn. Polly Uranium
celebrated her l05th birthday. Her
eyesight and hearing were both good,
and she had never used spectacles or
taken a dose of medicine.
The firm of Holman & Alexander,
wholesale dealers in mems furnishing
goods in San Francisco, were burned
out. the loss being 100000.
In Chicago a building occupied by
piano. fur and shoe firms was burned,
the loss being 100000.
Advices from the scene of the MUIR
ders in Arizona committed by renegade
Apache Indians say that uine persons
were killed.
Grant Hibbs. aged 80. shot his wife,
probably fatally. and then killed him
self near Dexter. la. He was insane.
At Kansas City the f. p. Cowen
wholesale lumber company failed for
100000.
The failure was announced of the A.
i. Burkhart company, dealers in furs
in Cincinnati, for S2aO,0000.
In their home at Bear Willow, Va,
John Feagans and his wife, an aged
couple, were robbed and murdered.
The death of Daniel f. Miller, ST.. of
Keokuk, Ia, occurred at Omaha, aged
SIS years. He served in congress from
the first Iowa district when 1t included
the entire southern half of the state.
In Colorado the gold product the past
year was Sl6.O00,O0o and the silver prod
uct S3O,OOO.00O.
In gale off Huron Isle about 40
miles from Marquette, Mich, the tug
Pearl Il. Campbell was lost and her en-
tire crew. consisting of seven men, Went
down with her.
Fire wiped out the business portion
of Clinton, the county seat of Calumet
county, Wis.
At Coal Greek, Col. William Ray shot
and killed his wife and then killed him
self. They were very young and quar-
rels caused the deed.
August Nibleen fatally shot Annie
Bundy, aged 16, at Peshtigo, Wis, be-
cause she refused to marry him, and
then killed himself.