River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-24

AT the Southern hotel in St. Louis
Horace w. Hubbard, general freight
agent of the Vandalia line, dropped
dead of heart disease.
GEN. j. n. STILES, former brilliant
attorney of Chicago and widely known,
died of general debility, aged GO years.
The death of Henry McCauley said
to be the oldest man In Michigan, oc-
CURED at Battle Greek. aged 1c3 years.
AT the age of 20 years Patrick Ham,
i'll, member of the Forty-first con-
gress. died at his home in ikland, Nd.
IL fire that destroyed Ssudder's liy-
cry barn at indianapolis twenty horses
We're cremated.
RATHER than see his family starve.
John kristine, a farmer, committed
suicide near Eton, o.
On the first ballot Shelby NJ. CulIom.
of Springfield, was nominated TO sue
coed himself as United States senator
from Illinois. the vote being: Cullom,
1O3; Willets. 81.
A BOILER in a sawmill near Alto,
Tex, exploded, killing lobe Richards.
Lewis Alexander, William Lewis and
Abner Lee.
DRIVEN to desperation by office seek
ers. Sheriff Williams, elected by popu-
lists at Prague, Wash, resigned the
office.
MARY STEVENSON. eldest daughter Of
the vice president, died of pneumonia
at Asheville, y. C, after protracted ILL
ness, aged 20 years
IN a quarrel George Morgan, of
Cal IL - L
brother Harvey and then killed him
self.
FLAMES destroyed property worth
more than 5000 in Macon, Ca.
Domestic trouble caused Samuel Ho-
telling a young farmer of Rolling
Green. Mimi. to kill his wife and her
parents and he was slain by pursuers.
JUsT before death Mrs. Coates, a
widow al Miniin. Ind, confessed to the
murder of jacob Wintermyer twelve
years ago.
AN appeal was issued by the National
Farmers alliance for aid for destit to
farmers in Nebraska ard South Da-
kota.
The oldest editor and printer in Wis
consin. Marcellus Strong. died at Osh-
kosh after brief illness, aged 20 years.
Is the Massillon %. } district starving
miners issued an appeal for aid.
MYRTLE TOWNSEND, George Crossley
and Elsie Hughes. young people, We're
drowned while skating ON the river
above Fort Madison. Ia.
IN western Nebraska restitution was
said to be on the increase. A fifth of
the people of Greeley county were de-
pendent on charity.
On crossing near South Whitley,
Ind, Nora and Alice Norris (sisters)
were killed by the cars.
IN the Texas legislature a bill to
compel the answering of letters within
ten days after their receipt was intro.
duced.
IN sawnill at Rusk. Tex, a boiler
explosion resulted in the death of five
men and the serious injury Of five
others.
IL fit of insanity Charles Anderson,
aged 60, a merchant of independence,
Ia. cut his wife's throat and then
killed himself
THE remains of Barrett Scott, the de-
faulting treasurer of Holt county,
Neb., We're found in the Niobrara river.
n rope around the neck and the hands
tied.
IN the Ohio river the steamer State
of Missouri struck a rock about 20
miles from Louisville and sank and
twenty-five persons We're drowned.
FIRE destroyed Fosters livery stable
in Kansas City, Mo-, and twenty-one
horses persisted.
JAMES O'BRIEN, of Chillicothe, o., en-
ragged because his wife had sold chick
ems to buy sugar, fatally wounded her
and then shot himself