River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-05-13
ABOUT THE STATE.
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Residents of Elk Greek have
petitioned for the establishment of
postoiiice there
On the 9Th, at WATERFOWL some
damage to vegetation on low land
was caused by frost. Ice was formed
half inch in thickness.
Mrs. Mckenzie was run over and in
stantly killed at Black Earth. bv a pas
/ senger train. Sra wa thrown a dis
tance of twenty-five feet.
/ At MenOmonie on the 9Th. the bouse
+ OF o. Ohnstad, city treasurer, was en-
tered and robbed of about 500 in cash
and some articles of jewelry.
/ 4 couple of Eau Claire parties are
said 10 be interested in the building of
a iire hotel 90 Mcmillan on the site OF
the Blair house. destroyed by ire last
winter
A labOrer was run over by the cars
near The Knapp, Stout x Co. COM
pany's store near MenomOnie. getting
+ his right foot so badly crushed that
ampulation was thought necessary.
Phillip j. Schaub, a prominent
farmer, fell dead at his home near
+ Lancaster on the Sth He leaves two
sons. one Alderman Methodist minister
AT Tomah, the other is professor in
the German-American College at
Galena.
The dwelling of Ira Pixlev. a home
Steader in Florence county, was totally
destroyed by FIRE. Three children aud
a Mrs. Henry were badly burned, and
a twO-year-old girl was entirely con-
>umed. The terrible affair was the
result of a sweeping forest fire.
/ The Swedish Lutheran Emanuel so
/ ciety Of Eau Claire have purchased p
! desirable tract on Mile street, in tie
/ Sixth ward. on which they will ere,f =
/ place of worship to cost from 81 600
+ to $4,000. Rev. Mr.. NorStrom. late of
Rock Island, H., will have pastorate
charge.
On the night of the 9TH as Ashburv
Cole, thrifty farmer living four miles
north of Eau Claire was walking on
the Omaha track on his way home he
was run over by train and killed.
! Cole was intoxicated He was forty
/ five years old, and leaves wife and
several children.
/ At Waupaca. on Friday, as John
+ NJ. Ware was raising the roof of his
agricultural implement building, il
fell in and probably fatally injured W.
a. West. city treasurer, who was in
/ the building, and seriously injured
/ Royal Green, the boss carpenter: also
/ Mr.. Ware. Several men were working
on the building, but no one else was
hurt.
1t was reported at Eau Claire. by
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/ fifteen miles from Shell lake of the
visitation of a genuine cyclone few
/ DAYS ago. The track was about eighty
rods in width and five or six miles in
length. Maple trees a foot and a half
in diameter were not broken off and
upTooted as by hurricane, but com
/ pletely twisted off
+. G. RitsheT of Beloit, the success
( full orator at the interstate oratorial
contest at Lawrence, Kan. returned
home Saturday afternoon and was met
/ at the depot by over $50 students and
! escorted home. As the procession
/ passed through the streets the familiar
/ college yell fairly rent the air. His
4 subject at the contest was ''Conscrya-
I tism an Essential Element of Modern
+ Progress.
At Oshkosh, on the Stk. Matthias
/ Neiss, aged 90, and an old resident. IN
til quite recently proprietor Of the
! Commercial House. purchased a revolt
yer at gun store, and going to the
/ cemetery, shot himself in the left
/ breast, falling near the grave of his
wife, who died month or two ago.
/ When found he was still living and
! L
His injuries were fatal. He had two
. grown children.
4 part of the farm of Thomas
Foster, in the town of Kinnickinnic
/ St. Croix county. recently sank to a
depth of twenty-five feet, with a loud,
roaring noise. The opening at the top
+ IS about siXty-tiye feet in circumference
Prof. King, Of the River Falls normal
/ school, is of the opinion that the strata
of limestone underlying the sandstone
contained cavity at this particular
point of sufficient size to receive what
has fallen from above, aud that the
recent rains so increased the weight of
i the substances over the cavity that the
sandstone gave way.
Two little sons of James White. died
at Wausau, on the 6th, from the effects
of sutfOcatiop bv smoke at a fire which
consumed their home Thursday night
/ Mr.. " hite was the first TO discover the
+ flames. He sprang from the burning
+ building only to discover that his two
! little boys were still in the upper story.
/ White dashed back into the house in
+ tent on rescuing his children; but was
rendered powerless by the dense
smoke, and had narrow escape from
/ death.
+ A few days since Miss Kate HinkeI-
mann, of Sheboygan. went out for
walk and has not been seen since.
Some years ago her father, who was
baker in Milwaukee, disappeared ID
the same mysterious way. Months
afterward his body was found in the
river, and a verdict of suicide
rendered. The young lady is about 20
years of age, and was engaged to be
married to a worthy young man of this
place, who is almost crazed with grief.
She leaves a mother and one brother.
Mrs. Hiram S. Carrier has returned to
Oak Center following closely after the
arrival Of the news that MIR. Carrier, her
late husband, had committed suicide
at Wadsworth. New. They were to-
gether on the train bound for Califor-
mia, when his mind became unsettled,
and he shot himself through the head
He had been depressed by troubles of
various suits, including an accusation
that his relations with a girl had been
improper in 1882. The father Of the
girl, who was the complainant ia the
case, wanted -, 900 damages. A de-
murrer entered in behalf of Carrier had
+ been sustained, and he and his wife
started for the West.
Nellie Koran of Fort Atkinson, Wis
/ has commenced an action against +. W
Richardson, formerly of GAINESVILLE and
now of La Crosse, for $4,000. The
plaintiff in the case is the defendant in
the celebrated Koran murder case tried
at Whitewater two years ago, at which
time she was acquitted Of the charge Of
poisoning her sister. Anna HoTan-a
verdict directly contrary to the COro-
ner's jury, which found her guilty of the
alleged crimes Richardson was en-
gagged to be married 10 her at the time
her sister died, and assisted her through
her trial for the alleged crime. j. w.
Quarles of Racine defended her then
He viii prosecute for her now. At the
time of her trial it was suspected that
she had poisoned her father, and moth
er. and sister Agnes, II years or age.
all Of whom died in commissions in a