River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-06-28
WEST AND SOUTH.

In the Seventh Michigan district
Edgar O. Weeks (rep.) has been re-
nominated for congress and Charles
+. Cochran (dem.) in the Fourth dis
trict of Missouri.
j. A. Gallagher, state geologist, aged
So, died ut his home in Warrenburg,
Mo. of an operation for cancer.
\ new match has been invented by
Charles Fultz, of Quincy, Ill. Instead
Of wood he uses the stems of prairie
grass.
Near Corsicana Tex, Joel Hunt, his
wife and William Barnes, negro farm
tenants, were killed in a dispute over
division of crops.
For the murder of fellow convict
last October Perry Wagner, n con-
vict in the penitentiary at Rusk, Tex,
was hanged.
il. d. Pike, a railway official, killed
his wife in San Francisco and then
committed suicide. Domestic troubG
was the cause.
BY his balloon falling into the water
Arthur Ledyard, perhaps one of the
best known aeronauts in the United
States, was drowned in Lake Erie of
Toledo, O.
Utah's eX-congressman, Brigham H..
Roberts, was convicted of polygamy
by a jury in Salt Lake City.
The democrats of the Twelfth iii
uois district have nominated L. NJ.
Briggs, of Hoopeston, for congress.
Fire destroyed the Southern Pacific
roundhouse at Kern City, Cal. and Pat
rick Quinn and Byrd Gilmore, en-
ployes, persisted in the flames.
J. A. T. Hull was renominated for
congress by the republicans of the
Seventh Iowa district
Lois S. Hall, who celebrated her one
hundredth birthday anniversary on
May % last, died at her home in Can
ton, III.
One of the most prominent lawyers
of Indiana, John II. Butler, died in In
dianapols aged Sugars.
The Florida democrats nominated
William S. Jennings for governor.
Farmers in South Dakota, by digging
a short cut for the Missouri river at
Renniger's Neck, changed its course.
Two-thirds of the North Dakota
wheat crop has been destroyed by
drought
Miss Jessie Morrison killed Mrs
Olin Castle with razor at Eldorado,
Kan, and then fatally wounded her
self. Jealousy was the cause.
In Indiana rainstorm did great
damage Mt Fort Wayne, Warsaw, Peru
I !. ~
At Gillingham. Wis, lightning struck
a church while services were in prog
ress and Louis Peckham was killed, the
entire congregation shocked and The
building wrecked.
In ST. Louis cars now run regularly
in the daytime on all lines and at night
on many.
At the age of s. Rev. John Philip Con-
rsdi died at his home in Baltimore.
Md. lie was the pioneer of Lutheran
ism in America.
About July 20 national republican
headquarters viii he opened in New
York and Chicago.
Near Poseyville, Ind. John White
head, q farmer. killed his wife and him
self. No cause is known for he crime.
Fire nearly destroyed the business
portion Of IlHntley, MINI.
Cattle were Killed and much property
DESTROYED by windStorm near
/ Blanchardville. Wis.
In Salt Lake Guy Brigham II. Rob
erts was sentenced to pay a fine of $3.50
or go TO Jail for 50 days for unlawful
/ cohabitatiou."
Fire destroyed the residence of Mrs.
Collier, at Thatcher. Ariz., and FIVE
small children persisted in the flames
In the cemetery at New Prague.
Mimi. Maj Schaefer. retired army
officer, committed suicide.
In Livingston parish, La, mob
lyuched Frank fillmore. white man.
| for the murder of an aged woman.
Attic Washington Park race track in
/ Chicago the American Derby was won
ny Sidney Lucas, twenty 10 one out
slider, 10 2:4oM.
Four men were killed in mine ex-
| plcsion al Champion. Mich.
Ga the Chicago q Northwestern road
trains eoIlideG AT Depere. Wis. and six
persons were killed and 50 injured.
In Cedar RAPIDS. la. Charles Milford.
a crazy man killed James Fitzsim-
mons and wounded Mrs. Fitzsimmons
/ and her daughter. fatally shot Joseph
Drake and then killed herself,
On all St. Louis lines traffic was re
sumed and neither passengers nor
/ crews were molested.