River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-09-12

FIRE wiped out six business houses
at Carrollton, KY, the loss being
500. 600
FLAMES that broke ont in Browinslxi's
drug store in Carrollton, KY. de-
stroyed nearly all the business portion
of that citv. the loss being 100000.
AT Manchester, Tenn, Frank
Schorpe. aged 81 years. and Miss Mary
Sarah Simpson, aged 10, were married.
the parents OF the girl having given
their consent.
NEAR Fayetteville, Tenn. Dock
King (colored) was hanged by 200 white
men for assaulting Mrs Charles Jones,
a white woman.
IL st. Louis Judge Peabody rem
dered tdecision far-reaching in its
effects on future strikes and lockouts-
lie holds that the distribution of boy
colt circulars is a Unable offense.
THE firm of j. j. O'Leary & Son.
packers at st. Paul. failed for $500. COO
NEAR Amilla, Fla, Stella johnson.
the l6-year-old daughter of widow,
was kidnapped and outraged and then
murdered by unknown fiends
THE mayor and other city officials
and a score of keepers of concert halls
and saloons of the disreputable women
order at Lemont, ILL.,, were arrested by
Chicago police.
MARY l.. PIERCE, aged 10 years, on
trial at Grand Haven, Mich. for tho
murder of her mother, was found
guilty and sentenced to the reform
school until she is 81 years old.
NEAR Hymera, Ind, James Ward
killed Aaron Hunter, his father-in-law
and John Hunter. his brother-in-law,
and then took his own life. Family
differences were supposed to have led
to the crime
AN incendiary fire destroyed the
Westminster Presbyterian church a.
Minneapolis. the loss being 100000
Sioux Indians at Rosebud Agency, in
South Dakota, under the leadership of
Hollow Horn Bear, powerful and in
fiuential chief, warned Indian Agent
Wright and the employees to vacate the
agency within twenty-four days. The
Indians also threatened to burn tho
agency buildings.
IL Terre Haute, Ind, the Office of
the Adams Express company was
rnbbed of cash amounting to probably
$4,000 j. ID. Farden, cashier of to
express company, and j. Il. Barn It,
city ticket agent of the Vandalia line,
were accused of the robbery.
News reached Brownsville, Tex,
that the schooner Gurlock, of Lake
Charles, La, had been lost with six
men aboard.
/ the 0sceola copper mine near
Houghton, Mich, flames entombed
forty-two miners, and there were no
hopes of rescuing them.
A LAD accidentally set off 600 pounds
of dynamite stored in his fathers cell
ar at Specht's Ferry. Ia, and Edward
Latshaw and his wife and two chit
dren and Hans Bjornstern were killed
and three other persons were injured,
two fatally.
AT Emporia, Kan, and vicinity a
tornado did great damage. the loss to
the state normal school alone being
over $4,000.
NEAR Hamilton, Ala, Ben Stillman.
an old miser, lost IS, 600 in m oney, the
savings of a lifetime. in a fire.
THE founder of Mount Pulaski. Ill,
Jabez Capps, celebrated his 9yth birth
day.
In a quarrel Jake Van Rae, of Hol-
land, Mich, shot his wife three times
and then lodged bullet in his own
brain.
o. the Cherry Valley branch Of
the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Mem
phis road train went through a
bridge between Monmouth and Nc
Cune. Kan, and twenty-three persons
were injured, nine fatally.
RoBBERs entered the Bank of Kin
kaid, Kan, blew open the vault and
took all the money, some $1,000.
In a collision on the Cincinnati
Southern railroad near Blanchet, KY.
John Slosser, fireman. and James Hen
bricks, trainman, were killed, and En-
gineer Roberts was fatally injured.