River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-09-05

A CONVENTION OF free silver editors
will be held at Little Rock, Ark, Sep
TENDER Z.
AT Bloomington, Ill. John Skinner
n prominent business man. died while
the funeral of his father was taking
place.
and two sisters named HoltZhuler were
killed by the cars.
Ar Denver a company was organized
TO operate the first steamboat line ON
the Colorado river.
III. a. LEMON, editor of the Carson
New Tribune. was fined $50 and sent
to Jail for ten days for criticising the
United States courts in the mint cases.
WHILE insane Hezekiah Roberts,
young farmer at Butler. Ky, cut his
wife's throat and then cut his own.
In session in Detroit the Wait Savers
association elected ex-Gov. Il. J. ogles-
by, of Illinois, as president.
UTAH republicans nominated o. T.
Allen for congress.
FLAMES destroyed fourteen build
ings, comprising the business section
OF Libertyville, Ill, the loss being
100000
OVER 10000 Kurds attacked the Ar
menian town of Kemalxh and several
villages and plundered the churches
and monasteries and burned the houses
IL the mine disaster near Central
City Col, fourteen men persisted.
IL San Francisco Alonzo j. White
man. formerly mayor of Duluth. Mimi,
ex-member of the Minnesota legisla-
ture, ex-banker and millionaire, who
dissipated a fortune in few years,
was sentenced tn nine years imprison-
ment fur forgery.
BETWEEN Holman and Pope's, Ca, an
excursion train was wrecked and fifty
people, among them many Pythians,
were hurt, and Mrs. c. w. Hancock
and ]. A. Kennedy were killed.
MoREFIELD STORY, of Massachusetts,
was elected president at the closing
Bar association.
DORA HEILwAGoS fatally shot her
faithless lover, Henry Boding, and her
rival, Rosa Swearingen, near Quincy,
Ill, and made her escape.
AT the age of 55 years Octavius
Coke, secretary of state, died at Raleigh,
n. C.
AT the convention near Winterset,
Ia, to choose a state senator for Adair
and Madison counties, 1000 ballots
were taken without result.
A CLoUDBURsT wrecked twenty
houses and made GOO persons homeless
at San Marcial, n. NJ.
AT Des Moines, Ia, the capstone of
-. uaf1arc nj ca1Isn,.ot
ment was put in place. The shaft is
$50 feet high and cost Sl20,0 600.
JACK WILSON, a hack driver at Battle
Creek, Mich, shot his wife and then
killed himself.
IL Utah the supreme court decided
tn At women cannot vote at the election
in November. This reverses a decision
made by Judge Smith at Ogden.
IN Texas and the Indian territory
reports show total of 199,O25 steers
now being fed for market
OSE of the most learned and pictur-
esque characters in modern Catholi-
cism, DIR. Patrick +. Quigley, who
caused the formation of the American
Protective association, died in To-
ledo, o.
NGiA ffCbkkD NAOl' VI
sofa will be 10, 900, 900 bushels.
TIE Memphis CTenn.) Car and Foun
dry company went into the hands of a
receiver with liabilities of $500, 90 and
assets of S775. 900.
AT Storm Lake, la, the Buena Vista
state bank failed, with liabilities of
$50, 900.
THERE are 5,243 saloons in Chicago,
500 more than there were at this time
last year.
RICHARD .MCGRIFF and his brother
John, two of the oldest twins in the
United States, celebrated their ylst
birthday at their home in Geneva, md
Both were in good health.
THE oldest mason's widow in the
world, Mrs. Mary Ann Bush, died at
Novi, Mich, aged liz years and
months