River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-03
WEST AND SOUTH.

In all the union yards in Chicago
brickmakers went on a strike.
In the various foundries at Youngs
town. o., an increase of 25 cents day
has been granted to all molders en-
ployed.
Adolph L. Luetgert, convicted Feb
ruary 0, 1898, of killing his wife in Chi
cago May !, 1897, and boiling her re-
mains in vat in his sausage factory,
was found dead in his cell in Joliet pris-
on. Heart disease was the cause.
At the populist state convention in
Frankfort, Ky, full state ticket was
named, headed by John G. Blair, of
Nicholas county, for governor The
platform indorses Wharton Barker,
Philadelphia, for president, and Ig-
natius Donnelly, of Minnesota, for vice
president.
In Georgia three Mormon elders who
have been preaching their doctrines
were robbed by 80 masked men near
Newton factory, in Jasper county, and
it was rumored that they were lynched.
At Streator, H., Aeronaut Thayer OF
Niles. Mich, fell 200 feet and was in
stantly killed.
The governor of Louisiana has noti-
fed the state department that three of
the five Italians who were lynched at
Tallulah were aturalized Americans,
and two were Italian subjects.
The property loss occasioned by the
recent food in Texas amounts to S1S,-
100000.
4 report that while insane Charles
Wolfangel killed his wife and two
daughters at Denmark, Ind, and then
killed himself, was a fake.
Cornelius Gardner, John Myers,
Charles James and Joseph Bryan, col
ored men convicted of murder and as
sault, were hanged simultaneously on
the same gallows in Baltimore. Md.
In Deuel. county, S. d., a hailstorm de-
stroyed wheat fields on a strip of terri
tory four miles wide and ten miles
long.
The first anniversary of the day on
which the American flag was raised
over Hawaii, August u, will be OBJ
served as holiday throughout the is
land.
Margaret Foraker, mother of United
States Senator Joseph b. Foraker, died
at her home in Hillsboro, O., aged 70
years.
In Sparta Judge NJ. NJ. Morrow. one
of the most prominert lawyers in Wis
consin, dropped dead on the street.
Marion Omaha, August Mattingly and
Paul Cheaney were drowned in the Ohio
I,,A 49, -
ing of boat.
The people of Michigan have been in
vited by Gov. Pingree to welcome Rus
sell \. Alger on his return to Detroit
August ?.
At Forth Worth, Tex, NJ. darlington
was hanged for murder.
Near Lafayette, KY, Pet Clardy
killed Win Southall and Charles South
all MORALLY wounded Clardy. Both
| families are wealthy.
4 storm wrecked several business
buildings at Akron, Ia, and great dam
| age was done to growing crops.
J. NJ. Chapman, of Atlanta, Ga, went
| FIVE miles on a bicycle at Salt Lake City
in l0:45, breaking the worlds record.
In a wreck on the Cleveland & Pitts
burgh railroad near Steubenville. o.,
nearly a hundred workmen received
serious injuries.
| On the Euclid avenue street railway
in Cleveland. o., dynamiters blew up a
car, seriously injuring the motorman.
Near Benham, Tex. Aionzo Newton.
white farmer. found his 11-year-old
daughter hanging dead from tree.
She had been assaulted and hanged.
| Over $4,000 bushels of heat were
/ burned in a fire which destroyed the
| Nickel Plate elevator al Greenspting. o.
Fire entirely destroyed the town OF
Eale, o. T., and Henry johnson and
! Richard Salms were burned to death.
Advices from Gen. Wood say that
there are no cases of yellow fever in
| Havana and that the sanitary condition
| of the city is excellent.
The Bank of Louisville. the Oldest
| financial institution in Louisville, KY
has been absorbed by the Southern ma.
tional bank