River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-11-02
NEST And soUTH.

In Atlanta the Georgia legislature
met in regular session. and in his mes
SAGE Gov. Gambler said that while edu-
cation had decreased illiteracy among
the negroes, crime had increased.
Fire destroyed the dwellings of Har-
nv GoodIow and Samuel Smithson at
FAIRIES. Ala, and all the occupants of
both houses, IA in number, persisted.
At Atlanta the citizens of Georgia
presented Flag Lieut.. Thomas S. Brum-
by. of the Olympia, with handsome
sword in recognition of his services at
Manila.
A dispatch says that Gen. Ruis Rivera
has resigned the civil governorship of
the province of Havana, Cuba.
William f. Mason, of Illinois, will, it
it is said, resign from the United States
senate unless the republican national
platform of 1900 be in accord with his
position on the Philippine question.
A cattle train was wrecked at Ar
gonia. Kan, and 200 head of cattle were
killed and 100 more crippled.
In Detroit trolley ear was struck by
a freight train, killing Conductor
Schneider and injuring % men and
women, two fatally.
At meeting in Seattle, Wash, he
executive committee of the National w.
c. T. q. determined to make a strong
fight against Congressman-elect Brig
ham II. Roberts, of Utah.
American and Mexican troops have
been ordered to Naco, Mexico, in order
to stop rufIianism on the Mexican bor-
der.
At Vernon, Tex, Rev. Z. Morrison
was hanged for wife murder
At Austin, Tex, Samuel Watrous, one
of the murderers of G. w. Engberg and
his wife, was hanged.
At Waco, Tex. Walter Ford, who MUIR
dered his sweetheart, Lucinda Moore,
was hanged.
d. A Sayre & Co.'S bank. the oldest in
Lexington, KY, closed its doors with
liabilities of $4,000.
At New Albany, Ind, Anna Judge
(colored), aged nearly 100 years, was
burned to death by the explosion of
an oil stove.
Throughout the Great Dismal swamp
in Virginia forest fires were raging
and millions of feet of standing timber
have been burned.
a mob lynched John COSBY (col-
ored) at Reagan's Mills, Ga, for kill
ing John Robinson. his employer
An infatuated mob chased John Alex
ander Dowie, of Chicago, the apostle of
divine healing" and score of his eld-
ers from Hammond, Ind.
The governor of Illinois has issued
his proclamation declaring Thursday,
November 80, to be a day of thanks
giving and prayer in Illinois.
At Leadyille, Col. Judge William G..
Parker was shot dead in his courtroom
by Michael Muller. The deed was en-
tirely unprovoked
\ strike begun by the 1000 coal
miners at Spring Valley, H., on Octo-
Der II has been called off.
George Winemiller was fatally hurt
and four Others were badly injured in
football game at Lima. o.
Engineer Kearney and brakemaa
were killed and IS loaded freight cars
were destroyed in wreck on the Bal
timore & Ohio railroad near Cassels. o.
Fire destroyed the sheep pens at the
stock yards in Kansas City, Mo-. 600
sheep being cremated.
Fire swept away the business portion
of Wakarusa, Ind, thriving town.
Transports City of Peking and Cen
tennial sailed from San Francisco for
the Philippines with troops.
In a Baptist church he built 20 years
ago near Elizabethton. Tenn, Stephen
B. Lewis celebrated his one hundredth
birthday.
In San Francisco the Twentieth Kan
sas regiment was mustered out.
The famous inventor of the Morgan
thaler typesetting machine, Ottmar
Mergenthaler, died of consumption at
Baltimore, Nd, aged 45 years.
Fire nearly destroyed New Boston.
a suburb Of Portsmouth. 0.
The death of Nahum St. Martins oc-
Cured at Two Greeks. Wis, aged 107
years.
Near Atwater, H., hand car was
run down by an engine and John Nor
VII. George Cramer and Samuel Allen
were killed.