River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-02-13

AT Canon City, COL, benjamin kad-
cliff, the slayer of the entire school
board of jefferson district, Park coun
~, was hanged.
At the age of ~ years William III.
English died at his home in Indianap-
ellis He was a congressman during the
eight years which preceded the civil
war, and was the democratic candidate
for wee president on the ticket with
Gen. Hancock in lSs0. Mr.. English was
elso a great inancicr, ana left an es-
tate valued at Sl,750,000.
In Ohio the right of the women to
vote for members of school boards
was sustained by decision of the SUI
preme court.
In baltimore the following business
concerns went into the hands of re-
oeivers: The j. w. Winslow Jones
Packing company, si50,0o0; the High
laid Packing company, $4,000; the
Jatuxent Canning company, $4,000,
and the Riverton Live Stock company,
$4,000.
At Hedrick, Ia, Joseph Merrideld,
the l3-year- old son of Frank Merrifield,
shot his eight-year-old brother with
rifle and then killed himself.
The worlds greatest paleontologist
in the line of crinoids, Charles Wach-
smuth. lied suddenly ut Burlington,
Ia. aged &C years.
In a railway wreck near Hannibal.
Mo-, Is persons were injured, one. Hiss
Margaret Whitley, of Quincy, ILL.,, prob
ably fatally.
At his home in Waltz township, Ind.
Conrad Truss, 80 years old. commit
ted suicide by hanging. He was
wealthy, at feared poverty.
At Paris, Ey., John Barnett, aged -,
died with palsy, and the minute he died
large clock in the room stopped and
had since refused to run.
Judge Grosscup sentenced Joseph i.
Dunlop, publisher of the Chicago Dis
patch, to pay fine of $4,000 and serve
term of two years in the Joliet peni-
Tertiary for the offense of using the
United States mails to circulate OBJ
scene advertisements.
The state central committee of Ohio
decided to hold the republican state
convention in Columbus on March ID
aud IL.
On the street at Anaconda, Mont,
Oscar Barneybeak shot Mrs. f. Ii. CAT
lin and then killed himself. A love
affair was the cause.
At Morgantown, w. Va, the New
berry Coal DC Coke company failed for
$4,000.
The Michigan state factory inspector
saws that the loss from factories in the
state closing or running on short time
last year aggregated s17,O0o.000.
passenger train on the Chicago,
Burlington g. Quincy road ran from
Galesburg to Mendoza, ILL.,, distance
o. so miles, in 71Ia minutes.
Fire destroyed the packing house OF
the Tri-City Packing company at Dav-
cnport. Ia. the loss being $4,000.
On the Great Northern road train
was wrecked near Clarissa, Mimi, and
al, of the 25 passengers aboard were
injured, though none seriously.
While attempting to cross the Dan
river near Stoneville, n. C., lib McCoi-
len. Elijah Lemrons, Dennis Gum and
the latter's son were drowned.
William ii. English's will, probated
at indianapolis, leaves an estate said
10 be worth S3,0O0,000 almost entirely
TO his son and daughter.
On the Cincinnati & Muskingum Val
ley road a train was derailed near Rose
vile, o., and Thomas Fisher was killed
and IL other persons were injured.
In disreputable house at Danvillc,
ILL.,. William Roy and William Lutes
We're murd, red by William Higgins.
Stanford Hunt, ID. D., of New York.
senior agent of the Methodist Book Con-
Germ. and treasurer of the Methodist
Missionary society, dropped dead of APP
opiexv at the Grand hotel in Cincinnati.
lie was % years old.
In Chicago i. w Curtis, of Douglas,
Wyo., sold lis sheep at the stock yards
for s. 200. and two men robbed him of
the money.
At Columbus, o.. the Northern Fire
association went into the hands of a
receiver with liabilities of 100000 and
assets Of $50.67.
The death of Mrs Eva Stone, who
would have been 1O1 years old next
June. occurred at her home in Warrens-
burg, Mo.
At Sedden. Ala, Joseph Leeds (col-
cred) who attempted TO assault Mrs. A.
ID. Prince, was taken from the authori-
ties by a mob and hanged to a tree.