River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-12-10
In a blizzard at willIamsport. Nd.

Russian family consisting of n man.
his wife and three children persisted.
Fire destroyed the Third Avenue
Methodist Episcopa. church in Column
bus. o.. the loss being $4,000.
Paul Bartcovitch's house in Chicago
vas burned during the absence IF
himself and wife and their four little
children persisted in the flames.
Cracksmen blew the safe OF the jew
elry store of II. IIirchburg in Omaha
and got away with $1,000 in cash.
In Virginia and North Carolina a
heavy snowfall blocked all railway
trains.
At Bickville. H.. II. NJ. Scott. aged
81, killed himself because his wife
chided him for being intoxicated.
Three earthquake shocks were felt
at Pittsfeld. H.. and many people ran
from their houses.
Near Bucyrus. o., George Nungesser,
q well-to-do farmer aged 6s years. was
frozen to death.
At Denver Arthur Gardiner. of Chi
cago, established two new bicycle
records, riding a quarter of a mile in
&C Is seconds, and a half mile in one
minute fiat.
Eliza Ii. Cummings,a wealthy woman
of Hillsboro. o.. committed suicide by
jumping from the sixth story of a
hotel in New York. She was de-
mented.
While undergoing the ceremony of
initiation into the Mystric Shrine at the
Masonic temple in Minneapolis, Charles
Witter. of Winthrop. Mimi, fell dead.
A letter was sent by the National w.
G.. T. Y. TO Preside. t-elect Mckinley
asking him to banish wine from the
white house.
The village of Flippen. KY. was al
most wiped out by fire.
Flames that began in the Baptist
church at Weston, No. destroyed the
best portion of the village.
The notorious Oklahoma outlaw.
Dynamite Dick. over whose head hangs
n reward of s., 1000. was killed in fight
with deputy sheriffs near Newkirk.
In McLeansboro, ILL.,. Fred Behme was
executed for the murder of his wife
and child on Easter Sunday last.
In Milwaukee 100 families, number
ing between 500 and GOO persons, were
poisoned by eating bread in which ar
scnic had been mixed and large nun-
her of the cases were considered seri
Gus.
In Oregon the official canvass of the
vote In the late presidential election
gives Mckinley a plurality of .s72.
Fire destroyed 81 store buildings
and five dwellings at Shaw, Miss, en-
failing loss of 100000.
On the Florida coast the lumber
schooner Nathan +. Cobb, of Rockland,
Me-. was wrecked and three men were
drowned
Near Waelder. Tex, head-end col
lision between two freights on the
Southern Pacific road resulted in the
death nf two engineers, two fremen
and brakeman.
During the season now closing Sc
lives were lost in navigating the great
lakes. Compared with previous years
this list is much below the average.
In the recent election the total vote
of North Dakota was 1881, of which
Mckinley received 1886; Bryan, 90
esq: Levering $50. McKinley's plural
ity is 7.647
At Lexington, Mo-. a mob of farmers
broke into the county Jail. securedJesse
Winner and James Nelson. held for the
murder of Mrs. Winner and her two
babies. and lynched them.
At Newark. o.. Mrs. \. F. Gleisner.
wife of a gla ssblower. shot her infant
in the head and then shot herself. She
was thought to have been insane.
In Mercer county, Ky. a mob tore
down six tollgates. making over 300 de-
stroyed in the state in the last three
months.
The doors OF the Baxter bank at Bax-
Ter Springs. Kan. closed.
Flames destroyed the wholesale gro
Gerry house of u. II. Flaspoller & Sons in
New Orleans, the loss being 100000.
At Clinton. Mo-. the Henry county
bank closed its doors with liabilities of
| SIPS 900.
While ont hunting with two young
sons of his employer, Joe Williams,
near Pine Bluff. Ark, negro named
! Davis killed both boys and escaped.