River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-01
lATER NEWS.


Robbers entered the house of Mrs.
NJ. f. Harris. in Minneapolis, in broad
daylight, and gagged. bound and robbed
her of s72. Alter securing the money
they kicked her insensible.
A. C. Weeks has issued a call for
middle of-the-road populist convention
to be held at Des Moines. To-, Sept. Z,
to nominate state ticket.
The president has nominated Soren
Listre, of st. Paul. to be consul gem
eral at Rotterdam, Netherlands.
A negro named Parry Gillian, charged
with robbing a white woman. was
taken from the Jail at Aberdeen, Miss,
by mob and hanged.
A derrick on the roof of a new build
ing at Atlanta, Ca, fell, knocking three
workmen from a scaffold on the ninth
story. Two of them were dashed to
death on the ground IFS feet below.
The third caught a rope and was saved.
An attempt was made to hold up the
bank of Clay, Robinson & Co, at Belle
Fourche, $ d., but owing to some
hitch in the plans one robber was cap
tured and four others escaped. Very
little money was secured.
At a picnic near anceburg, Ky, a
| fight occurred, in winch Tom Logan
and Wyatt Cooper were killed and 20
others wounded.
The treasury the 2sth had a gold re-
serve of $40. 557. $50.
During a terrific thunder storm light
ming struck a convict camp near Dako-
! ia Ga. and as a result four convicts are
lead. ten are dying and twenty es-
capped during the panic which ensued.
! The camp is at the lumber mills of
! Greer Bros, and about $50 prisoners
| from the state penitentiary were at
work there.
A fresh attempt on the part of the
sultan to secure Germany's support of
the retention of fhessaly has met
with refusal and the advice to conform
to Europe's wishes on the subject.
Miss Lillian Blais, of Red Bird, III,
was shot and fatally wounded 10y a
burglar.
VIM. +. Hoey, Che "Old Hoss" of the
Parlor Match company, died in New
York the Goth.
| Robert Powley was electrocuted at
the Auburn IL. W prison for the muir
der of his wife.
A business block, a dwelling block
and detached house in Scranton, o..
were blown up by dynamite. The
shock was felt all over the city and
two children were injured.
The president has nominated John u.
Bray, of North Dakota, as consul gem
eral at Melbourne, Australia.
A threshing machine boiler at Adair,
Ga, exploded. killing Tom Weeks,
Alexander Warwick and Sam Mills.
Four others were fatally wounded.
Seven prisoners confined in the Jail
at Pierre. ). D., set upon Fred Johnson,
the jailor. and after beating him made
their escape.
The steamer Alden, from Y oklahoma
to London, was driven onto reef off
the coast of Africa, and 25 passengers,
10 European officers, and 80 natives, of
the ships crew, were lost
! While a coaching party was driving
near Dover, y. j., a COW charged the
team and the horses snied. throwing
1.-THE coach over an embankment into a
[small pond. Mr.. and Mrs. I. NJ. Cleve-
land, an aged couple, were killed. Four
others were injured.
The superintendent of police of
brooklyn announces that he will not
lallow the sparring contest between
John L. sullivan and Bob Fitzsi inmons
to take place, as advertised.
During a thunder storm. lightning
struck herders shanty near Gary, 5.
H., killing Roe Bohnton and two chill
ldreh of Kuut Halstenson and injured a
third, who will probably die.
The posse in pursuit of the Belle
Fourche q. D., bank robbers succeed
ed in surrounding them on the Three
V ranch, fifteen miles west from Belle
Fourche, and after heavy exchange
lof shot the bandits surrendered.
Judge Carlan of the South Dakota
district United States court issued an
lordered restraining the railroad com
mission of the state from attempting
to put into effect the maximum rate
law established by the late legislature
of South Dakota
One of the Christian Endeavor trains
on the Vandolia road was wrecked
near Terre Haute, Ind Il. t. Sher-
man. of Indianapolis. mail clerk on
the St Louis train. is killed; also w. +.
: Coon, of indianapolis, baggagemaster
) of train No |. westbound. sam Park
linson, mail ERIK, and Frank Owens,
: le,ar,an ara fatally nNinred