River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-10-11

Bishop katZer, of Green Bay, returned
the other night from visit to Rome.
Dan Cantnan, a switchman on the Wis
consin Central, was run over and killed at
Chippewa Falls the other night. His home
was at Tomah
A lamp overturned at Sheboygan the
other night and ignited the clothing of
Miss Anna Gunderson, the eighteen-year
old daughter of the captain of the Nancy
Dell. and she was burned TO death.
Frost killed all the unripe corn in the
lowlands of Pierce County.
John Porter, aged eighty-six years, died
a few days ago at Mazomanie He was one
of the oldest Good Templars in the State.
The work of building third dam in APP
pleton was recently ordered to be C. NJ
mence1 by the Government. The dam w II
be upward Of four hundred feet long, about
six feet high, and will be located about me
hundred feet below the old dam.
The second annual reunion Of the twelfth
and Sixteenth regiments Wisconsin volun-
teers took place recently at Madison.
Four forged checks purporting to have
been signed by Lyman J. Burbank, con-
tractor, for sum aggregating $50, were
passed at Ashland few days ago upon N
C. Rooney, DIR. George W. Harrison and
George II. Hopper
The total receipts at the recent State
fair in Milwaukee were the largest the
State Agricultural Society ever had from
the fair. The expenses were also the
largest, but it was thought that a consid.
cradle surplus would remain.
In the circuit court at jefferson the other
day Judge Bennett sentenced Mrs. Stein
hauser and Henry Rohrmoser to Waupun
for life for the murder of Mr. Steinhauser
at Palmyra on March )
Patsy r., the 5000 stallion of Volney
Gjddings, of Mason City, Ia, dropped
dead at Marshton Friday.
The explosion of a quantity of powder
recently left in a desk in a blacksmith shop
at Theresa wrecked the building. No one
was injured.
August Long, a conductor on a work
train on the Lake Shore road, fell from
his train recently near Wausau and was
killed.
Ex-Alderman Hirschheimer and {. Muel-
Ter, of La Crosse, have invented ma
chine that will cut aud finish barrel slaves
from the log ready for the cooper to set up.
The recent convention of Congregational
ministers Of Wisconsin at La Crosse passed
resolutions denouncing license laws and
approving prohibition.
The other afternoon Charles Strandorf,
a love-sick young man of Wausau, went to
the house of his sweetheart and shot him
self. Objections made by his parents to
his marrying was supposed to have been
the cause.
Thomas Mullen, of Milwaukee, convicted
of criminaliy assaulting his step-daughter,
eleven years old, was the other day SEN
fenced to the State penitentiary for life
Mullen is seventy-two years of age and
feeble.
DIR. Paul A. Wernech, health officer at
Ashland, died the other day of cerebro
spinal mening It's after short illness.
Another large shoe factory is to be estab-
Hshed in GAINESVILLE with the assistance Of
local business men. 1t is to be operated
VT NJ. Marzlaff.
Albert Alden, farmer near Delafield,
lost about 81 600 worth Of property recent
IL BY FIRE that originated from a steam
thresher.
John Laughan, Of GAINESVILLE, was
killed the other day at Lake Koshkonong,
bv the accidental discharge OF gun. He
and a companion were returning from a
hunting expedition and Laughan was shot
while trying to take the gun from the
boat
The factory OF the Delorme & Quintin
Soap Company at Milwaukee was burned
the other morning. Loss $4,000 to sl5,0o1
4 verdict was returned by the jury at
DodgevtIe the other afternoon in the
Grace Dempsey case. Mr.. Grace would re-
celve 5000 from the priest and the others
who a. aLlted him. Grace sued the de-
PENDANTS fer $1,000
The remaining six Italians who were
among tile & jgat that murdered their fore
man. G T. Hubbard, at Hawthorne, the
other nigut nave been captured. Time
checks issued Il the murdered foreman
were found upon Z. ch of them, also dag
gers. raz rs .s.ii plssols.
The Conway Manu- featuring Company II
Milwaukee falied 9 sew days ago Liabiii-
ties, So akB: asset unknown. The failure
was directly due 10 the recent destruction
Of the company, extensive plant By fire
A pack Of hoot lums entered the old Viii
low River Cemetery at Hudson Few
nights ago ami tipped over twenty -four
monuments aud tomostones.
An old man named Disterhof hanged
himself 1t Jefferson the other night
The Board Of Trade Of La Crosse has
voted to give SCI. 900 toward the erection OF
a bridge across the Mississippi at that
point The structure viii cost, II IS esti-
mated, sl10 900.
An odd Fellows Lodge. TO be known as
Marshfield Lodge. No. 10. was organized
the other afternoon at Marshfield. and the
following officers were installed. Noble
Grand. q. s. yedder; Vice Grand, r Al.
man: Secretary, K Thompson Treasurer,
Thomss Thompson.