River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-02-27

A fire in the Leader newspaper build
ing at Cleveland, o., threatened the en-
tire plant, but was finally extinguished
with loss of $4,000.
at Fowler John Thompson, aged
81, for over so years publisher of vari-
Gus weekly papers in different parts of
Indiana, committed suicide by hanging
himself.
The democrats OF IJwa will meet at
Dubuque May 20 to select delegates
II me national COW cntion, and at OF
tunwa August IA to nominate state
officers
The livery barn of Ducat & Grant
ham at st. Joseph, Mo-, was burned.
and 90 horses, many OF them valuable
blooded animals. were cremated.
in one round Robert Fitzsimmons
won she heavyweight championship
OF the world from Peter Maher in one
minute and - seconds in the state of
Coahuila, Mexico. opposite the town of
Iangtry, Tex
At San Francisco ivan kovalev was
hanged for the murder of +. III. L. Web
Der and wife, an aged couple of Sacrs-
mento, December 30, 1894. Kovaley
was Russian exile.
Detroit has been selected by the re-
publicans as the place and May IA as the
date for holding the Michigan state con-
vention to choose delegates to the ma
tional convention at st. Louis.
The death OF Christopher C. Waite,
aged SO. president of the Columbus,
Hooking Valley & Toledo railway, &C.
rnrrcd in Columbus. o., of pneumonia.
and a few hours later his mother, the
widow of the late Chief Justice Waite,
died in Washington, aged 76 years.
At Baltimore seven persons were
asphyxiated, one was fatally hurt by
jumping from a window and five lers
were more or less injured during ire
in the dwelling of James Il. Armigei, a
ieweier.
VI. ID. Harter, of Philadelphia, shot
and killed himself at Fostoria, o. In
s5mnia was said TO have been the cause.
lie was a member of the Fifty-secund
and Fifty-third congresses from the
Fourteenth Ohio district.
Skeletons OF four human beings were
discovered in an abandoned coal mine
a mile cast of Golfers, w. Va.
Rev. Henry Maher. of Powell's Val
ley, the oldest Baptist preacher of
kentucky, committed suicide. He would
have been 100 years old in June.
The noted humorist, Edgar w. (BilD
I'VE, died at his home IL miles east
of Ashevilie, y. c., of paralysis, aged
10 years.
Near Beverly, o., Peter Angle and
wife, an aged couple, were burned to
death 10y a fire that destroyed their
home.
The death of George Davis. who was
attorney-general for the confederate
states during the war, occurred at Will
mington, n. c., aged 76 years.
White caps terribly whipped Henry
Maui, farmer residing near Millstadt,
ILL.,, who had acquired an unenviable
reputation as wife beaten.
The prominent citizens of Mitchell, s.
d.. purchased the Office of the Mail and
then dumped the contents into the
street and burned them. The paper had
become obnoxious.
In the home of Mrs. Frederick Rose
ut Canton. Md, lamp exploded and
three of her children were fatally
burned.
At Edinburg. Ind, John Millen, a 16-
year-oId boy, shot and killed himself
because of parental interference in a
love affair.
Pearl kimms and James Sarran were
found dead near Keystone, w. Va,
where a general fight occurred among
200 colored miners.
In decision Judge Badger, of Cleve-
land. says that receiving money IN Ohio
be sent to poolroom in Kentucky
to pay racing bets is a violation of the
laws of Ohio.
Elizabeth Coleman. aged 100 years.
died ut her home i'm Gainesville, Wis.
The council at Lincoln, Neb., passed
an ordinance prohibiting the use &c
cigarettes, cigars or tobacco by per-
sons under is years within the city
limits.