River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-06-01
WEST AND SOUTH.


In Iowa Rev. e. /. Eaton declined the
prohibition nomination for governor
and NJ. w. Atwood, of Estherville, was
chosen.
Sam and Bill Martin (outlaws9 were
killed by a sheriff's posse at Guthrie,
OF.
D. o. Mills has started the largest
stamp mill in the world at the Tread
we'll mine on Douglass island, Alaska.
AS result of an unusual downpour
of rain near FL Dorado, Kan, cattle per-
ished by the hundreds.
Michigan's legislature has passed q
beet sugar bounty bill, providing a
bounty of one cent per pound.
In Henry Myers sawmili near Hins.
dale, Ind, boiler exploded, killing his
two sons and Perry Morrison.
In South Chicago the Illinois Steel
company broke the worlds record of
steel rail making in a 12-hour run. The
new record is 1910 tons.
James HUMPHREYS and his two sons
(white) were lynched by mob near
Alley, Tex. They were charged with
harboring murderer.
Lucinda Pratt, 1913 years old, died at
the home of her daughter in Chicago.
Mrs. Frank Glass and her four-year-
old son were drowned in a deep well
at Montgomery, Mimi. The mother
lost her life trying to save the boy.
At the age of Sc years Harrison Reed,
governor of Florida from 1865 to 1872,
died in Jacksonville.
For cause unknown j. T.. Moss killed
his wife and two children in Joplin, Mo-,
and then took his own life.
Gen. Wood, in command of the prov
ince of Santiago, reports that in the
interior towns the people are at work
and in no need of assistance. are quiet,
and that there are no Cuban troops
under arms anywhere in the province
and no brigandage.
A conference of members of the dem
ocratic national committee was held in
ST. Louis and plans of work for next
year were discussed, but no action was
taken regarding platform.
In Denver 10000 persons attended
reception in honor of admiral Schley.
Fire swept away the business por-
ton of Staples, Mimi.
In Havana the distribution of the
$3,000,0O0 which the United States of
fered as a gratuity to the Cuban troops
on disbanding and surrendering their
arms began.
While attempting TO cross a swollen
creek near Bancroft. Neb.. Peter Byers,
wife and one child and Mrs. jerome
Pfiamm were drowned.
In tornado at Falls River, Wis,
buildings were blown down, trees up
rooted and several persons injured.
The supreme court OF Iowa has con-
hrmed the sentence of Frank A. Novak
to the penitentiary for life for the muir
der of Edward Murray February ., 1897,
at Walford
A tornado at Hastings, Neb., wrecked
90 houses and did other damage.
In a wreck caused by a washout on
the Burlington. Cedar Rapids & North
ern railway near Waterloo, Ia, eight
persons were killed and Il serious y in.
jured.
Mrs. Ode Clayton fatally shot her
five-year-old daughter in Nashville
Tenn, and then killed herself while
delirious from fever.
Near Vaudeville. S. c., Jacob Solo.
mons and his wife and seven children
were burned to death in fire which de.
stroyed their house.
Near Central City. Neb., cyclone de.
stroyed property valued at 100000.
In Findlay, o., Mrs Edward Cooper
and her two-year-old daughter were
fatally injured by vicious horse.
Al Rowley. Ia, a tornado demolished
many buildings and injured several per.
sons.