River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-11-04
WEST AND sourH.

On the Great Northern road trains col
Iided near Hinsdale, Mont. and En-
gineer Nea!e and Fireman Carton were
killed and three other men were badly
injured.
During a fight between tNU Indians
and game warden at Leech Lake,
Mimi, all three were killed.
Fire destroyed the building in ST.
Louis that contained the Wabash rail-
road offices, the loss being 100000.
At Indianapolis Dan Mcleod won the
heavy weight wrestling championship
of the world from Farmer" Burns.
At his home in Rockford, III Thomas
Caulfeld celebrated his one hundredth
birthday
The once famous minstrel, Dan Hart,
now 81 years of age, has been admitted
TO the city hospital Of St. Louis sick and
helpless.
Alexander Milton Ross, of Montreal,
a famous Canadian scientist and nhysi-
clan. died in Detroit, Mich. aged 65
years.
Betouica. a thrce-vear-old PAGER,
went a mile against time. unpaced, in
2:O6st. at Santa ma. Cal, beating the
worlds records for three-year-olds.
Gov. Atkinson, in his message to the
Georgia legislature, which convened in
Atlanta. severely condemned mob law.
BY the viii of the late George NJ. Pull
man. of Chicago. an estate valued at
S7,6o0.00O is left and it provides that
81, 33O. 900 shall be devoted TO educa-
ton, hospital purposes and institutions
having in view the cause of humanity.
Fire wiped cut the Woelfel Leather
company's tannery at Morris, H., the
loss being 100000.
Near Grand Encampment, Wyo., a
stage was upset, and three men were IA
tally hurt and 10 others were injured.
In the vicinity of Denver. Col, snow
drifts 90 feet deep blocked all railway
trains.
At Caruthersville. Mo. two distinct
earthquake shocks were felt.
\ mob lynched Juan MADEIRA. who
murdered two men at Morenci. At
In the blizzard in Colorado Mrs.
Laura Hunter was frozen 20 death ten
Il.les east of Ebert.
Johan EThns' house was burned at
Miltona, Mimi. and his two children
were CTemated.
Harry c. Truesdell, chief justice of
Arizona. died at Phoenix OF apoplexy,
aged IS years.
Gen. G. NJ. Dodge was reelected presi-
dent at the twenty-ninth annual meet
ing in Milwaukee Of the Society of the
Army of the Tennessee.
While digging fish bait on Beaver
island in the south part of Clinton. Ia,
Adolph johnson found an iron box that
contained $4,000 in money
Railroads entering Kansas City, Mo,
have agreed TO erect a $4,000. 900 union
station.
In Sioux City, Ia. Morton Allen died
from swallowing the composition fill
ing in a tooth.
Unsuccessful attempts were made 10
wreck passenger trains in "eXas, one
near Boyd and the other near Waco.
Vt Cheye. ne. Wyo.. Walter Hough-
ton. postal clerk running from Chey-
enne TO Ogden. was arrested on a charge
tanning $4,000.
In Iowa Eugene B. Dyke. editor oi
the Charles City Intelligencer and eX-
postmaster. died Of heart failure at his
home.
George Lavinge Knocked out Joe Vol
colt (colored) in the twelfth round in
a prize fight in San Francisco for the
worlds lightweight championship.
In Chicago the Congregational coun-
ell selected to adjudicate between Rev.
C. q. Brown and the Bay conference of
san Francisco declared DR.. Brown com
pletely indicated of all charges of inn
morality.
Fire destroyed the Georgia cotton oil
mill in Atlanta. the loss being $4,000.
The death OF Alonzo Barnes. aged -.
a wealthy and prominent real estate
dealer Of Lincoln. Neb-. occurred in
Chicago while on his wedding tour.
At Chelsea. I. T.. John Watks. 8
Greek Ind IN who murdered Jonas
Deer. another member Of his tribe, was
LEGALLY shot for the crime