River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-04-30

Burglars robbed and murdered Mrs
Joseph Cooking and Miss Daisy Miller.
her niece. at Top Hill, Nd, and Mr..
Cooking was fatally injured.
The execution of Marshal Anderson
(colored) took place at Malvern, Ark.
He killed Tom Hanson. his wife's broth
err, near Malvern last September.
At La Porte, Ind, Alexander Rhimes,
who had been divorced from seven
wives, was seeking divorce from the
eighth.
A tornado at Salem, Va, blew down
many houses and barns and killed Mrs.
Jane Harris and her little boy.
The doors of the Grand Forks nation
al bank of Grand Forks. N. d., were
closed with liabilities of $4,000; as
sets, S653.O00.
In St. Louis Sam Foster. the negro
who waylaid and murdered Bertram A.
Atwater, the Chicago artist. was found
guilty of murder.
C. @. Finney, who was governor of
Ohio from 1866 10 1868, died in San
Buena Ventura, Cal.
From using alkali water Exon
gresham Lamison, of Ohio. died at To-
peka, Kan.
Illinois Fifteenth district republicans
renominaied ID. 4. Marsh for congress
by accclamation.
At Scott. La, Martin Bernaud, a mer-
chant, was murdered and robbed OF
$1,000. The autopsy showed that there
were SO stiletto wounds about his neck
and breast.
Flames that started in dancehouse
at Cripple Creek, Col, swept away $50
buildings and entailed loss of upward
Of s1,O00, 900, with only $250.000 insur-
ance. The fire was the work of an In
cendiary.
Fire destroyed a shipping stable at
Galloway, o.. belonging to Ed Court
wright, and AZ horses, some of them
quite valuable, were burned to death.
Indian territory republicans met at
Muskogee and selected delegates to the
national convention instructed for
Mckinley.
At Rockville, Ind, Peter Egbert, a
carpenter, % years old, without appar-
cnt cause or provocation shot and in
stantly killed Mrs. Herman Haschke
end two children and Sheriff w. NJ.
Null and Deputy Sheriff William
Sweem and then killed himself.
Victor and William Hills were taken
from the Jail at Meanwhile, Tenn, by
mob and hanged for the murder of
Carroll Martin in 1894.
BY a cyclone which passed over Clay
county, Kan, nine persons were killed
outright, three were fatally and II
more or less injured, and great destruc-
&c ~ INNS u-r0u1hf
Frank Daley and James Bivard. two
young farmers. were drowned near
Fort Wayne, Ind. while fishing.
The Ohio Seventy-second general as
sembly adjourned sine die.
Near Sanborn, n. d., a cyclone
wrecked houses and barns and did
other damage, but no lives were lost.
Large elevators at Manley, Plym-
outh and Rock Falls, IN Iowa. were
moved from their foundations by n
tornado and outbuildings were over
turned and number of bridges dam
Sged.
Near Upton, Mich. Eugene Camburn,
farmer. was shot and fatally wounded
by Harry Luce, who then shot himself
dead. Luce had been paying atten-
tions TO Gamburn's daughter against
the fathers wishes.
The death of Mrs. Clerihan, aged 101,
occurred at her home in Jacksonville,
III.
Gen. Grants 74th birthday was ap-
propriately celebrated at his old home
in Galena, ILL.,, and also in various other
cities and towns throughout the coun-
try.
In ST. Louis Charles Kuhn, a real es-
tate dealer who was missing. was said
to be short 100000. which is due per-
sons with whom he had real estate deal
ings.
In Louisville, KY, Sam Brumley,
aged 10, insanely jealous of his step-sis-
ter. shot Ida Clark, friend of the girl,
16 years old, and cut his own throat.
The steamship Bermuda left Jackson
vile, Fla, for Cuba laden with arms and
ammunition for the insurgents and
carrying nearly 400 men.
Later advices say that II persons lost
their lives i'm the recent cyclone in Clay
county, Kan.