River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-03-05

At Eureka, s. D., gasoline stove ex-
plosion caused the destruction Of Frank
p Puckett's house and killed Mrs.
Pickett and two children.
Indiana prohibitionists in session a.
Indianapolis nominated fun state
ticket headed By Rev. Z. G. Shousc, OF
Terre Haute, for governor. The plat
form declares for free silver at sixteen
TO one and also favors woman suffrage,
government confiscation Of national
monopolies. income tax, election of
president, vice president and senator's
by popular vote. and is against bond is
sues.
at their home near Crete. ILL.,, Fred
Struenkcl and two of his children were
asphyxiated by coal sas aud Mrs.
Struenkel and four other children were
dying from the same cause.
At Toledo. o.. the Eek Lumber crm-
pany. doing an extensive business in
Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, failed for
100000.
Democrats in Kansas viii hold their
state convention at Topeka on June
TO elect delegates to the national con-
yention.
julien Evans and Henry Wilson,
farmers, who had long n'Irsed feud,
fought with rifles a. China Springs.
Tex, and both were killed
The two children of Howard Allen.
near Shanghai, lad. were roasted to
death in their home where they had
been left alone.
The Iowa legislature defeated she
woman suffrage bill.
Edward Peters. Chicago printer 10
years old, shot and killed Flora Larbig,
aged IL, and then sent a bullet into his
own brain. Jealousy was the cause.
In extra session the Wisconsin legis.
lature passed new apportionment bill
and adjourned sine die. The governor
| signed the measure.
At Palmyra, Mo-, John Nelson was
hanged for the murder of John Zull
and his old mother in August, 1893.
In the establishment of w. IL. Over
holt, ut Frankfort, w. Va, boiler ex-
ploded, instantly killing Samuel Live
saw, He'll Liyesay, Woodson Ransberger,
| Clowney Fersmner and Mr.. Dunbar ami
| iniuring six others.
At Van Buren,, Ark, Pruitt Turner
| (coloredl was hanged for the murder OF
| Robert Hawkins February IL, 1895.
| At the age of so years L. c. Tabeil
died at the home of his son in ST. Louis
He had served two terms in congress
| from Florida and was general in the
| confederate army.
Suit was commenced by Editor Nc
| bride, whose Office at Mitchell, 5. d.,
was wrecked by citizens, against IS
residents of that city, damages being
| placed at $4,000.
| Gilbert and Paul Frances were taken
from Jail at Convent. La, and lynched
by a mob for attempting TO rob store
| At Denver Thomas Jones, widowei
With five children, angered because
Mrs. Annie Muzz would not marry him.
shot her fatally and killed himself.
A mob iynched Melville Kennedy
(colored) at Windsor, S. c., Tor alleged
/ assault on young woman.
| James and Thomas Casey, brothers
aged IS and 2s years, were killed by 9
premature blast in the lead mines al
| Adams, Wis.
w. Godfrey Hunter (rep.) withdrew
from the senatorial contest in Ken
lucky.
| Planes wiped out the G. w. Var
Duzen d Co. elevator at Minneapolis
cntailing loss on the structure OF
100000 and 100000 on the stored
| wheat.
There was fall of snow in San Fran
cisco for the first time in ten years.
The Virginia Legislature completed
its work and adjourned sine die.
The three little children of Theodore
Rose were burned to death in theil
home in Bedford. Mich, during the alb
| sence of their parents.