River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-11-26

In Iowa the official vote gives McKin-
icy. 2s9. SIS; Bryan. 225. 266. making Me-
kinley's plurality 66.3l2.
In Woodford county. KY, all the toll.
gates were cut down and destroyed b.
mob. Similar depredations have been
committed in Franklin, Owen. Ander-
son aud Washington counties.
At Memphis, Tenn, Frank Waller
lowered the American 10O-mile bicycle
record. his time being 3:52:14.
The First national bank at Sioux City,
I Ia, closed its .oors with liabilities OF
S537,90s aud the Sioux City bank fol-
lowed suit with liabilities of 100000.
For prize fighting Earl A. Moore was
taken to the penitentiary from Spring
field. o.. to serve one year.
Ia northern Wisconsin wild animals
are more numerous than they have ever
been before.
The legislature OF Alabama has been
asked TO call a convention Of the people
of the state to remedy the election
laws so as to require an educational
qualification for voters.
The official returns show that the
republicans will have a majority of 46
on joint ballot in the next Illinois Iegis-
lature.
In commercial aud industrial circles
continued improvement WIS reported
throughout the country.
Flames in the building AT Cleveland,
o.. occupied by II. ". uetkemeyer d.
Co., Wholesale and retail hardware and
paint dealers, caused loss of S350,000.
On the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad
train caught a buggy at a street
crossing in Concord, by, and instantly
killed Al Pollok, a young lawyer, and
Missc- Lulu and Lizzie Lind, daughters
OF The proprietor of the Lind hotel.
Six white and five native gold hunters
who started for the new gold fields on
the Solomon islands from Samouria
were murdered by cannibais.
Frank Addison, of Baltimore, Nd,
and Mrs. A. &. Swain, of New Rockford.
y. d.. who registered at hotel in VAL
ley City, n. ID. as Thomas Owens and
wife, were found dead. clasped in each
others arms. Prussic acid had been
taken.
During riot at dance at the home
Of Charles johnson, east of Lebanon,
Ind, Jack" Dowden and Jeffrey Gull.
don were fatally hurt.
The steamer San Benito, bound from
Tacoma to San Francisco, went ashore
seven miles north of Point Arena, Cal
and six of the crew were drowned.
A car on the Licking Valley ralroat
jumped the track and rolled down a
4G-fOot embankment near Ashland, Ky.
and 30 persons were injured, some ia
tally.
The town of Hamilton, Wash, is o
complete wreck as result of the flooi
in the Skagitt river.
Willy Haas, the murderer of Mrs En-.
ma Brader, his employers wife. at Cove
dale, o., was convicted of murder and
viii be the first victim of the electric
chair in Ohio.
The doors of the First national bank
of East Saginaw, Mich. were closed,
with liabilities of 100000.
The little Welshman, James Michael,
rode 90 miles 1898 yards in an hour at
Memphis, Tenn, lowering the American
hour record two miles.
Ret Brown, aged 81. and Ira Gibson
broke through the ice and were
drowned while skating on pond near
Waupaca, Wis.
At Austin, ILL.,, David VI: Wright, aged
II years, died from injuries received
while playing football.
The five children of Snyder Neal, liv'
ing five miles north of Hamilton, Mo,
were burned TO death while the par
ents were attending dance.
The official returns of the vote on
presidential electors in Illinois show the
following totals: Mckinley, O5,12i;
Bryan, 464, 1O9; Palmer, 6.299; Lev.
cring 1.sOS. McKinley's majority, ~ H.
gOS
During a riot at Cleveland between
a score of Hungarians and as many
Irishmen many men were stabbed, two
fatally.