River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-05-28

eral conference in Cleveland that the
church should not recognize any mat
ter of legislation of the Christian En-
deavor societies or sanction in any man
ner the affiliations of these societies
with the Epworth league.
In San Francisco Alva f. Sheppard. a
jeweler. murdered his cousin. Mrs. L..
L. Aweny, while insane, and then cut
his own throat.
The entire Sawyer family, consisting
of father, mother and grown-up son,
were murdered in their home near Ava,
No., by Edward Perry. Robbery was
the motive.
A cyclone nearly destroyed la Fon-
tame, Kan, village of 200 souls, and a
score of farmhouses north, east and
west were destroyed. Aaron Edwards,
farmer, was killed and many others
were severely hurt.
The oldest citizen of Indiana, Uncle"
Daniel Frederick, aged 1o7 years, died
at Nineennes.
One of the fiues in the boiler of the
steamer Rhoda Stewart exploded of
Presque Isle, Mich, and Henry Kesten,
second engineer, Robert McNorton, fire.
man. and Court Schrader, deckhand,
were fatally injured.
The death of Gen. Lucius Fairchild,
who was governor of Wisconsin from
1865 to 1871, ex-minister to Spain and
ex-commander in chief of the G. A. r.,
occurred at his home in Madison, aged
e5 years.
The explosion of gasoline stove in
the house of Otto Main in Chicago
burned Mr.. Malm and three of his chill
dren to death. another child was fatally
burned and Mrs. Malm was badly in
jdred.
Engineer George Weaver and Fire
man Wallace Moulton were killed in a
railway collision near Ely, MINI.
1t was reported that cyclone struck
Palaria, Ia, Is miles north of Das
Moines, killing nine people and injuring
a number.
Richard Little,aged sc, shot and killel
his wife, aged 10. and then killed him
self at Chico. Cal. The murderer was
insane.
Steve Jansen and his wife and Hugh
Conroy were drowned in the lake near
Oak Harbor, o., by the upsetting OF a
boat.
Luther b. Baker, the capturer of J.
Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's as
sassin. died in Lansing, Mich.
Between La Noble and State Center,
Ia, eloudburst destroyed crops,
drowned live stock and did other dam
age.
During a quarrel August Guenther,
aged As years, shot his wife in Cleve-
land, and then killed himself
In Mansfield, o., the Aultman g. Tay-
Tor warehouse was struck by lightning
and burned, the loss being 100000.
At the age of So years A. c. Mellette,
ex-governor of South Dakota, died at
his home i'm Pittsburg, Kan.
In Michigan cyclone by which prob
ably over 100 lives were lost and fully
100 persons injured more or less serious
ly swept over Oakland, Lapeer and Ma
comb counties. The towns struck were
Ortonville, Thomas, Metamora, Mount
Clemens. lakewood and st Clair.
The exposition of the cotton states
which was to have been held i'm Chicago
this fall has been officially declared off.
by flood in the Bloody Run river at
Dubuque. Ia, Is persons were drowned.
The Chicago suburban towns of Edi-
son Park, Norwood Park, Irving Park
and Ravenswood were BADLY damaged
by high winds and several persons were
injured.
In Iowa a cyclone swept across Polk
county and into the eastern edge OF
Jasper county, leaving death and de-
struction in its trail. There were 20
persons known to be dead, at least as
many others seriously injured, and the
towns of Valeria, Bondurant and San
tiago were i'm ruins.
At La Cygne. Kan, Misses Georgia
Rickctt and Birdie Cassaday, we'll
known young society women, while
boat riding in the flooded streets of that
place were drowned by the ovcrturning
of their boat.
Lewis Wertz shot ana killed George
Wheeler, the alleged paramour of Mrs.
Wertz. and then fatally shot his wife at
Kunkle, O.
Many injured. some of them fatally,
and seven killed was the result of a
cyclone which swept through the IL
linois towns of Monroe Leaf River, For
reston, Elgin. Rockford. Davis Junction,
Egan City, Mount Morris and Rockton.