River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-11-20
Mormon elders are holding meetings
in jackson county.

Mormon elders are holding meetings
in Jackson county.
1t is reported that's shortage has been
discovered in the accounts of Hans Dahl,
ex-treasurer of Menomonie.
John S. Atkins, Waukesha county
farmer, was killed by a tramp, and 100
men are after him, bent on lynching
bee.
Prof. johnson, a fnesmerist who has
travelled extensively, was arrested IN
Milwaukee for grand larceny committed
in Chicago.
Mrs. John Schrand of Milwaukee
spent night in the police station at her
own request, her husband having threat
ened to shoot her.
Grin Edwards of Northport, Waupa-
ca county, died from the effects OF
gunshot wound in the knee accidentally
inflicted by his brother.
Thomas Shields of Pewaukee was
dangerously stabbed by an employe in
difficulty over wages.
Arthur Greenwood of Milwaukee,
forty-four years of age, dropped dead
on Grand avenue.
J. Case of Racine says he knows
nothing about the arrangement alleged
to have been made with him for the ex
hibition of Jay Eye-See and Phallas at
tba Now 0r1aanc worlds fair
Thomas Johns, Sr., an old resident
of Dodgeville, has cut his throat.
William Polleys, whose mill at La
Crosse was destroyed by the explosion
of boiler, reports that his mills at
cambridge, Ga, were destroyed by
fire. that he was uninsured, and that
his loss is $40 900.
Fritz Groskopf, foreman in the Mil
waukee fire department, and one OF the
best and bravest fremen in the city,
was run over and killed by his own
truck while running to fire.
The murderer of John Atkins of
Waukesha,, turns out to be George
Colgrove, son of the Mukwanago justice
Of the peace.
A Young man named Louis Berg,
while engaged in cutting timber on the
brow of bluff sixty feet high, near
Warrentown, Pierce county, Wis,
slipped from his footing and fell down
the precipice and was killed.
Miss Maggie Quinlan, nineteen years
old, living with her parents at Sin
sinawa Mound, committed suicide by
shooting herself through the heart.
She died instantly She had just re-
turned from Montana, having gone
there for her health. Not receiving
any benefit, she returned IN melan-
choly condition which is said to be the
cause of the suicide.
A son of Dick Eaton, fourteen years
of age. was run over at Menomonee,
and killed while trying to get on the
train between the engine and baggage
car.
John Adams, Jr., Henry Ward and
Davy Pigeon, each aged twelve years,
and Burt James, aged sixteen, has been
arrested at New Lisbon, at the instance
of the secret service of the Chicago Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railway company,
charged with having put distractions
mon the track of the road, near that
place, recently. They are held Tor trl-
al. ali but Adams being in jail, unable
TO procure BAH.
The wife of the iaiier at Oconto, was
left on guard, and armed for the day
with pistol, which her son doubted she
had the courage to discharge He made
a test by putting on prisoners cos
tune and whooping at her. he is slow
/ Iy recovering.
Capt. Gilbert Knapp, the pioneer OF
Racine. who built the first house in that
CITY fifty years ago, and who is ninety
two years of age, went to the polls cleo
| ton day in the rain and east his ballot.
| He was unable to alight from his car,
rage. so his ballot was taken to the
| box by a friend
An animal, believed TO be sea lion
! has been seen in river at Depere, the
movements and appearance Of this ami
NAL corresponding exactly, and the fact
that one escaped from menagerie III
an up-riyer city, several years ago, con
firms the theory.
After successful run the past sea
son. all of the Chippewa valley mills,
with two exceptions, have shut down for
the season. The owners are not pre-
nared to give the amount Of the cut,
| but it is supposed it viii be consider
ably mcle than last season.