River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-11-07

At the age OF 80 years Jack Dempsey,
the ex-champion middle weight pugil-
/ list, died in Portland. Ore, of consump-
| tion.
in the west the summer packing sea-
son closed, the aggregate number OF
hogs slaughtered from March to Octo-
Der 81 being $4,000, against $685.
600 for the season of 1894.
George Farley, aged IL, fatally sho.
! his father and a man named Strick-
land in street fight at Warrior, Ala.
In San Francisco Tn odore Durrant
was found guilty of the murder of
Blanche Lamont on April last in the
Emanuel Baptish church. His attor-
neys would take an appeal to the SUI
preme court.
In 4 24-hour bicycle ride August a.
Hanson. of Minneapolis, made 375
miles, the best previous record being 567
miles, held by Hueblin.
| One of the largest business concerns
| in Little Rock, Ark. the Dickinson
| Hardware company, failed for S150,000.
Being assured that Corbett and Fitz-
simmons would leave Arkansas the
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| dismissed.
| In Wisconsin marsh fires that have
burned for six weeks underground in
jefferson and Waulxesha counties have
destroyed the fertility of hundreds of
acres of valuable land for half century
TO come.
| Fire destroyed the village of Arcadia,
Ia, with the exception of one store.
In Porter county, Ind, marsh fires
broke out in several places and hun
dreds of acres of land were burned over.
On the Southern Pacific road a train
went from New Orleans to San Francisco
in three days, two hours and As minutes,
the fastest time ever made in the his
tory of railroads over an equal distance.
On the Baltimore d Ohio road an ex-
press train was ditched at Elm Grove,
w. Va, and two persons were killed and
IS were injured,
Fire nearly wiped out the town of
Walcott, Mimi, the loss being $25O,000.
Three million dollars were given by
! John -. Rockefeller to the University
of Chicago, making he total sum of
his gifts to the university $7,425,0 900.
At the age of 1913 Mrs. Catharine
O'AIara, died at Rock Island, Ill.
In Omaha Ida Gasllin, aged IL years.
was assaulted and murdered by three
young men, who were under arrest.
At Beebe, Ark, Albert England (col-
ored), who stole $25 worth of goods
from store, was taken from officers by
a mob and shot TO death.
| At Eureka, ILL.,, an ordinance was
| passed forbidding the sale of cigarettes
or cigarette paper inside the city limits.
| Flames that broke out in the Powers
grand opera house destroyed an entire
block in the business center of Decatur,
ILL.,, the total loss being 100000.
| At Galesville, Mimi, Mrs. Coleman
celebrated her Tooth birthday anniver-
sary by being admitted to full menu
bership in the Presbyterian church at
that place.
The death of Eugene Field, poet and
.hmmorist, of heart disease, occurred at
his residence in Buena Park, a Chicago
suburb. at the age of As years.
| Fire swept away nearly the entire
J business portion of Anchor, Ill.
vt Danyille, Ind, a motion for a new
| trial of lev. William Z. Hinshaw, cor
victed of wife murder, was overruled.
The Car and Machine company at
Litchfield, ILL.,, went into the hands of
a receiver, with liabilities of $16s,0OO.