River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-12-24

Fire nearly wiped out the ole mining
town of jamestown. famous in Califor-
MIA literature as Unknown"
In his biennial report Attorney Gen.
eral Dawes says the Kansas prohibit
tory law is dead letter.
While sitting with his fsmily John J.
Thornton, editor of the Clay County
Advance, at Ashland, Ala, was muir
dered, the assassins firing through
window.
Highwasinen held up a Southern rail-
way passenger train near Bryant Sta
ton. Ala, and escaped with a large
amount of money.
Flames that broke out in the Ryan
hotel annex in st. Paul caused loss
of 100000 TO Connheim's furniture
store.
James Smith (colored) was hanged
at Upper Marlboro, Nd. for the muir
der of Margaret Brown on July 25 last.
Arch. Dink and Bill Proctor, brothers,
were lynched by mob near Russell
vile, KY, for killing Aaron and Doc
Grafton (brothersl at Adairyille.
In session in Cincinnati the American
Gompers president and selected Nash
vile, Term. as the next place of meet
Jig. 4 resolution favoring free silver
was adopted, and one condemning the
supreme court of the United States was
defeated.
In St. Louis Henry Kimmeling killed
the wife of his half-brother, Anton Ben
ming, and then took his own life. No
cause is known for the crime.
George L. Lemon, aged So, the best
known pension attorney in the coun-
try, and publisher of the National Trib-
une at Washington. died a, Coronado
Beach, CAL. where he had gone for his
health.
John Antras, Gabriel Russ, Charles
Swanson, Charles Anderson and Louis
Jackson were instantly killed in a mine
at Ouray. Col. by the fall Of a cage.
In Chicago the Carlisle Qa.) Indian
school football team defeated the Uni
,ersity of Wisconsin eleven by a score of
90 to s.
Near Mayfeld, KY, George Finley
(colored) was lynched for attacking a
white man with knife, infieting
slight wound.
William Caller and Lincoln Baird.
two young men, fought duel near
Knoxville, Tenn, and both were killed.
George Bryant fatally shot his young
wife and her father. w. b. Reno, AT Fort
Scott, Kan. Domestic trouble was the
cause.
The firm of Randall, Selhy &; Bell. ag-
ricultural implement jobbeVs at Des
Moines, Ia, failed TO- $4,000.
Fire wiped out the business portion
ot the town of Fitzgerald, Ga.
At Sheffield (O) Mr.. and Mrs. Aelo
and their grandchild were burned to
death in their home.
Near Denison, Ia, John Krual and his
wife were killed by the cars.
A proclamation issued by Gov. Drake
recommends that the people of the
state fittingly observe on the 2sth inst.
the fiftieth anniversary of the admis-
sion of Iowa into the union.
The doors of the National bank of
Illinois one ofthe oldest and best-known
banking institutions in Chicago, with
assets amounting to nearly $4,000, 900,
Lave been closed.
Many famllleS IN Union county, Ark.
are in destitute condition, and many
of them are starving because of the
failure of crops.
In Chicago the failure of the National
Bank of Illinois caused three other
banks to close their doors, as follows:
=. S. Dreyer & Co., liabilities, 81 .20O,-
900; Wasmansdorff, Heinemann & Co.,
S45O.0OO, and the Roseland
bank, liabilities. $4,000.
At Mayfield, Ky. Jim Stone (colored),
who assaulted Mrs. J. NJ. II. Green, was
taken from Jail by a mob and lynched.
Burglars murdered and robbed Al
fred II. Wilson, an old miser who lived
alone near st. Joseph, Mo-, of $4,000.
4 passenger train was held up by
masked men 200 miles west of San An
tonic, Tex. but they only secured $40.
At the age of 80 years Gen. William
Cullom. for years representative of the
Carthage (Tenn.) district in congress.
died at his home at Clinton.
The Utah supreme court handed
down unanimous opinion sustaining
the validity of the late election in the
state.