River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-01
WEST AND SOUTH.

1T is announced UnaG M. y. Carpen-
ter, president of the Chicago & East
ern Illinois railroad, has been elected
vice president and general manager
of the Pere Marquette, controlled by
the ST. Louis e. San Francisco line.
While dizzy Harrison S. Potter, a
crippled young man from ST. Joseph,
Mich, fell ~ stories from a window
at the Great Northern hotel, Chi.
cago, and was killed.
The sudden death is announced Of
ex-United States Senator Dwight NJ.
Sabin, of Minnesota, in Chicago. He
was stricken with heart disease.
Edward Fairless, aged 16, shot and
killed Thomas Barker at Shannon,
Tex. Barker was tried for the MUIR
der of the father of young Fairless
some years ago and was acquitted.
At David City, Neb., Lena M. Lille
ing her husband. The arrest has
caused a sensation. Harvey Lille
was shot dead in his bed in October,
supposedly by burglars.
A Norfolk, Va, dispatch says two
men were killed and another fatally
injured in. an explosion of the boiler
of the towboat Lizzie Massey, on the
southern branch of the Elizabeth
river.
The band of safe robbers, which
has been terrorizing central Illinois
for the past year, robbed the post
office at Leroy Monday night of $1,000
in money, stamps and registered let
tiers.
At st. Joseph, Mo-, the Chase &
Son candy factory burned, with $685.
900 loss. Two girls were fatally
hurt.
Sale has begun of the $4,000 SOU
venir gold dollars coined for the
Louisiana Purchase exposition.
Over 100000 signatures have been
secured to the petition asking the II
linois legislature to erect a monument
to the memory of Richard Yates, the
war governor of Illinois.
By a collision between two freight
trains of the Chicago, Peoria & st.
Louis, at Petersburg, Ill, Fireman
J. A. Wright, of Springfield, was
killed.
Barns of the Union Stock Yards
company, at South Omaha, Neb.,
burned, together with 500 sheep, en-
failing a loss of $4,000.
Flames broke out at Bloomington,
ILL.,, in the middle OF the building oc-
cupied by w. A. Nicolaus & Co., dry
,oo11 md 10 dies, f,,rr, CT, ;Y,nc do
stroyed that structure, and caused
damage to adjacent property. Total
loss, about 100000.
1t is reported that thousands of
cattle. are starving on the ranges in
northwest Colorado. The cattle are
showed in on the high ranges in Koutt
and Rio Blanco counties, without pas
ture and without water. 1t is impos-
sible to get feed to them.
Harry Adams killed his wife with
shotgun and then blew his brains out
at Algona, Ia. The couple had been
quarreling for six months.
A furious storm which blew snow
and zero weather over the upper
peninsula of Michigan for "a hours,
rendered street car traffic Temporal
rily impossible and made railroad
transportation slow and uncertain.
Cab and carriage drivers in ST. Louis
struck for higher pay. Funerals and
social functions are held up.
Indianapolis, Ind, after January
will be the labor headquarters of
over half million union workers in
America. Officials of over $50. 900
American and Canadian xorknen
will locate there.
Jack Donahue, chief of detectives,
was shot and killed on the street by
Frank Dou9herty, a race track fol-
lower, at Hot Springs. Ark, while try
ing to arrest the latter