River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-05-25
WEST AND snIlTH

In Des Moines the corner stone of
Iowa's new 100000 Historical building
was laid.
John B. Inman, of Springfield, was
elected department commander of the
Grand Army of the Republic in Illinois
at the encampment in Danville.
In Minneapolis the one hundred and
eleventh annual assembly of the Pres
byterian church in the United States
began its session.
Expenses of the last legislature of
Illinois were in round numbers $780,
600, a trifie less than those of the pre-
ceding assembly.
In session in New Orleans, the Broth
erhood of Railway Trainmen reelected
Grand Master Morrissey and adopted
a resolution opposing Sunday trains.
In Norfolk, Va, Mrs. John O'Keefe,
wife of a sign artist, gave birth to three
sons, and they were named Dewey,
Sampson and Schley.
The national organization of the
peoples party has issued an address to
the populists of the country denounc-
ing fusion.
Near Colesburg, Ia, a cyclone did
great damage to property and killed
George Lang, jerome Jacobs and a
child named Upper.
At West Alexandria, O., Frank Camp
bell murdered his divorced wife and her
sister, Miss Bitha Gay, and then killed
himself.
The death of John F. Potter, of anti
slavery fame. and member of congress
from 1857 to 1868, occurred in East
Troy, Wis, aged So years.
A manifesto was issued by Gen. Co
mez to Cubans in which he advises all
soldiers to go to work and expresses
full confidence in the good faith of the
United States.
Trustees of Wittenberg college, a
Lutheran institution at Springfield, o.,
voted to admit women toits theological
department.
Ex-senator Pfeffer, of Topeka, Kan,
one of the founders of the populist
party, and who was for years consid-
cred as chief exponent of populism, has
returned to the republican fold.
Near Custer City, S. D., vein of ore
carrying $4,000 in free gold to the ton
has been discovered on a ranch.
Publishers of German daily papers in
the United States organized in Chicago
under the name of decentralization
Newspaper Publishers association"
From Manila the transport Portland
arrived in San Francisco with dis
charged soldiers.
Al Fort Collins James r. Dubois, sec
rotary of the Colorado state board of
agriculture, committed suicide. Grief
at the death of his wife was the cause.
At a meeting of the coal mine opera
tors, the state board of arbitration and
United Mine Workers officials the II
months struggle between union miners
and operators in Pana. ILL.,, was ended,
Fire nearly wiped out the town of
Jerome, Ariz., and woman and child
persisted in the flames.
At Middleburg, o., Ernest Austin.
aged %, a farmer, shot and killed his
mother and his brother William be
cause he was opposed in his wishes to
marry neighbor's daughter. and then
shot himself
Flames wiped out the business por-
ton of Dawson City, the metropolis of
the Klondike. One hundred and eleven
buildings were burned. and the loss is
estimated at 100000
At the age of 100 years Mrs. Julia
Tanning died al Valparaiso. Ind.
The former Spanish cruiser Reina
Mercedes. the only trophy ship of any
size rescued from the waters in which
they were sunk. arrived in Fort Monroe,
Va.
John Washtub and Joseph Starr. two
cattle thieves. were publicly logged
with 100 lashes each at San Bois. ]. #.
IN Peoria. Tex, a horse attached to a
hack ran away killing Thomas Liveioy
and fatally injuring two young ladies'