River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-02-14

' the men on the intake tunnel at Mill
/ waukee were given up as lost after an
unsuccessful search lasting five hours
SLAUGHTER KID and Jim French. the
last of the Cook gang. were killed
while trying TO rob store at Catoosa,
1T.
The death of Miss Ellen Spencer,
who lacked only few days of being
] 100 years old, occurred at Jacksonville,
/ Ill.
IL all sections of the country in
+ tensely cold weather prevailed. inter-
( fering with business. and several per-
sons were frozen TO death.
AUGUsT YoUNG was found guilty at
Sheffield, Mo. 90 stealing jam valued
at six dollars aud sentenced to twelve
years in the penitentiary.
! By the sinking of ferrybcat at Fish
/ Ferry. ;. c., the wife and 13-year-old
: son of Rev. G.. 3 Gresham, a Baptist
minister. were drowned.
FLAMES destroyed the home for
| friendless women at Cleveland, o., and
many of the inmates had narrow es-
capes from death.
The execution of Eugene Byars, a
well-known detective who murdered
/ his cousin. Sergt. Eugene Walker, of
the United States army, at BehriEg
| Park, January 6, 1894, took place at
birmingham, Ala.
by the intensely cold weather mill
lions of dollars worth of orange and
other fruit trees have been destroyed
in Florida.
For killing James Robertson and his
son Jasper. J. X. Cumberland, was
hanged at Fort Madison, la.
NEI4s llASsoS's residence near Brain
erd, Mimi, was burned during the
parents absence and two children were
cremated.
IN the 81. Frances river at Forest
City, Ark, eight persons were KILLED.
For numbering three persons in
Georgia while resisting arrest Jabez
Virgins was hanged at Augusta.
EMMA MCSHANE, who died at Leaven-
worth, Ind, aged IS, was the survivor
of eleven husbands, two of whom were
killed in war.
FLAMES destroyed the union station
at St. Joseph. Mo, completed May,
1852. and urcd by all the railroads en-
tering the city, the loss being 100000.
! AT the funeral of Isaac NJ. Turner,
Grand Rapids, Mich, eulogy was de-
livered by his widow.
RICHARD LAWS and Charles Payne,
| young business men, were run down
| by an express train and killed at rail-
way crossing near Brownstown, III.
THE two children of William Cassidy,
living near Brazil. Ind, were burned
to death, their clothing catching fire at
a CRATE.
JOSHUA Z. AMBROSE died at his home
in La Grange. H., aged s. years. lie
was the oldest Baptist preacher in both
years and point of service in the north
west If not in the country.
In the mining regions of Ohio dis
tress was said to be increasing, and
hundreds Of men, women and children
were threatened with starvation.
DURING the coming season over S1,-
200, 900 in stakes and purses will be
distributed by western and southern
race tracks.
IN Chicago exPolice officers Moran
and IIealy were convicted of the MUIR
der of Swan Nelson and their punish
ment fixed at fourteen years imprison-
ment.
FIRE burned out fifteen firms in OF
tawa, Kan, the losses aggregating
| 500. 1000.
john THOMAS (colored), with his wife
and two children, were instantly killed
by the falling of log shack in which
they were sleeping at Dinsmore, Fla
FIRE swept away the Crescent to-
bacco warehouse and a woodenware
factory at Louisville, KY, the loss being
| $4,000.
On bicycle at Livermore, Cal. w. j..
Edwards rode mile in l:34l5, n new
| worlds record.
AT La Porte, Ind, James GRAPHICAL
was convicted Of killing William Jones
and his punishment fixed at thirteen
years imprisonment.
SARAH JACKSON and Bette Fishback,
two eolored women, We're convicted of
vagrancy at Georgetown, Ky, and cold
into slavery for the period of six
| months