River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27
WEST AND SOUTH.

A RECEIVER took charge of the Chica-
go Saturday Evening Herald.
FIRE destroyed the Wolverine mills
at Cairo, Ill, owned by Ii. Paepecl1e &
Co., of Chicago, the loss being sl5O.OOO
Iowa coal operators, including
nearly all the large operators in the
state, decided to lock out all miners
who belong to the MineW Workers
union ana have engaged in strikes.
THE supreme court of Missouri de-
cI,.red unconstitutional the law which
fo-bids the discharge of employees of
corporations for refusal to sever their
connections with labor organizations.
MOB lynched viii Chandler,
negro, at Abbeyville, Miss, for an at
tempted assault on Miss Johns, the
daughter OF prominent citizen.
Iowa prohibitionists in state conven-
ton at Des Moines, Ia, nomina ted
Fr nix Bacon, of Wilton, for governor;
NJ. T. Atwood, of Estherville, for lieu
tenant governor; G.. w. Rogers. of
West Union, for supreme judge; III. f.
Johns, railway commissioner, and Mrs.
L. ID. Carhart, of Cedar Rapids, school
superintendent. The resolutions favor
prohibition, denounce the mulct law,
urge the reduction Of the legal rate of
interest to 6 per cent, denounce the
supreme court for the income tax de-
cision. and declare for free coinage of
silver at 10 10 ].
The governor of Illinois was hanged
in effigy by students of the state nor
mai school at Normal, aided by indig-
naat citizens of Normal and blooming
ton The abOlishing of the high school
of the normal university was the cause.
Is n jealous rage F"nrv Taylor
(coloredl, of Burgette, Hiss, chopped
oil she heads of his wife and child with
an ak.
WEST of Decatur, Ind, forest fires
destroyed thousands of dollars worth
of fences. barns and crops.
IN Milwaukee the new woman" was
turned down by the Episcopal diocesan
council when it decided not to give her
vote in the council.
CLERGYMES of the country are asked
by the National Christian Citizenship
league, with headquarters at l53 La
Sale street, Chicago. to preach on
Christian Citizenship ON Sunday,
June 30, and offers to furnish aggres-
sive literature to those applying for it
WITH 2,2OO delegates in the audi
torium the eighth national convention
of the League of Republican Clubs con-
vened in Music hail an Cleveland.
Gus STREITNATER. as a result OF his
wife's unfaithfulness, shot and instant
ly killed z. Il. Kemp at Toledo. O., and
then shot himself
IN West Virginia 800 oil wells are TO
be drilled at once.
AFTER making moonshine whisky
and shooting at revenue officers for
thirty years, William Payne was ar
rested for the first time ~ Greenviile,
Tenn.
NEARLY 100 men and women raided
the only saloon in Bascom. O., and de-
molished everything in sight.
A FREIGHT train was wrecked near
Bedford. Ind, and four tramps were
killed and three ear loads of cattle
We're crushed to death.
Usage Indians in council at Guthrie,
o. T, passed law prohibiting negroes
living in their country and making ii a
crime for any person to employ then.
AN assignment was made by the Con-
sumers Pure Ice company. one of the
largest ice companies in Chicago, with
liabilities of S25O.OO0.
AT Little Rock. Ark, Rev. Frank
King (coloredl killed Deacon William
Toney. also colored. and was lynched
| by a crowd of negroes.
The Junior Order Of Mechanics at a
meeting in Omaha resolved to estab-
lish a national home for widows and
orphans of members, to be located at
Tiffin, ..