River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-08-05
WEST AND sOurH-

At the stock brokerage Office OF C. l..
Trice 81 Co. in Waco, Tex, II. f. Kivett
and W. ". Kivett were shot and killed
by ". Lamden, member of the firm.
In Knoxville, Tenn. James Henry, a
bachelor. aged 104. and Miss Emily
Boyuton, aged o., both colOred, were
married.
Six Indians were killed and nine o b.
er persons were seriously injured in n
wreck on the Central Pacific railway
near Reno, New.
BY the gold brick dodge BascaI Las
tell. a saloon keeper in New Orleans,
was swindIed out o 900.
In Des Moines, Ia, the prohibition
convention nominated a state ticket
headed by DR. +. L. Eaton, of Des
Moines. for governor. The platform is
confined to temperance and woman suf-
frage.
Miss Grace White was killed and
Mrs. Simon Kilduff was fatally injured
I'm a runaway at Peoria. III.
At Houston Tex. Jules Bunnell and
his bride Of few days committed sui
eide with NOR, hiae.
The leading merchants in % states
report an increase of 50 per cent. in
trade for the first half of the year over
that of the first six months in 1896.
At Roanoke. Va, the populist state
convention nominated Capt. Edward r.
Cooke. of Cumberland. for lieutenant
governor. other places will be filed if
the democrats decline TO fuse.
\ big strike Of copper near HOugh-
ton. Mich. caused great excitement
throughout the Lake Superior mining
district.
While bathing two cousias named
Anderson were drowned at Foster, Ia.
Joseph Dollar and John Johnson
were killed by falling timber in a mine
at Athens. III.
In mountainous region 20 miles
south of Ashland, Wis, gold in paying
quantities was discovered.
Rev. F. y. Eaton. nominated for gov
ernor cf Iowa by the prohibitionists, is
ineligible icr the Office. not having lived
I'm the state the required two years.
In session in Detroit the United
States League Of Building and Loan
Associations elected as president L. w.
Sauborn. of Galesburg. III.
vt Florcsville. Tex, Maximo Mar
tiuez was hanged for killing Jesus
GARLIC and wife and Juauita Acosta on
June e.
Flames destroyed over one-half Of
the bu. mess portion o. HillsbOro, Kan.
At Toledo O.. the Glaw-Anderson BIZ
! cycle race for the female championship
I OF America was won by Lizzie CLAW, of
| Chicago.
Mrs. Wallace !. Scoby and her son
were burned TO death at Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Near San Jose. H., a cyclone did
great damage to property and \. c. Nc
Dowell and his grandson. Miss Jessie
Groves and Mrs. Samuel Brownlee and
her three children were killed.
In Rock and Noble counties. Mimi. a
hailstorm destroyed 100000 acres of
crops.
At Thorn own. Ind. train wreckers
threw an tx1ress train from the track
and Engineer Seth Winlov" and Fire
man B. Crickmore were killed and two
other persons were fatally injured.
In the Danvlle en-. district miners
are in destitute circumstances. over 400
I families being without means.
~ Livingston. Ala. John johnson
I (yolored) was har ged for the murder OF
I a. F. Clarke. a white man. and Pig
Newell was executed at Selma. Ala, for
murder.
/ Dispatches show an improvement Of
I business without exception in every
northern city of importance.
Fifty per cent Of the small grain was
ruined BY hailstorm in the vicinity OF
Rock Rapids and Sioux Center, la.