River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-08-30
The News Condensed.

The new Catholic Church at Coleman
recently collapsed. killing one man and
crushing seven others so that several might
die.
! While Charles Martin and wife, of Mil
waukee, were out riding the other after
noon the team ran away, throwing the &C.
| cupants on the stone pavement Mr.. Mar
tin had an arm and a leg broken and his
wife was badly bruised. He is one Of the
wealthiest men in that city.
H. Writings saloon at Travers City was
entered by thieves the other night and
| thirteen dollars stolen. The entrance was
/ effected by forcing the side door open with
/ a crowbar.
Ten incurable insane persons belonging
/ to Outagamie County were received as
/ boarders from the Northern Insane Hos
/ pital the other day at the Dodge County
Asylum for Incurables at juneau. -Four
were women and six men.
Thomas l.. johnson, OF Eau Claire, who
died few nights ago, slept twenty-three
! days continually, and took no nourishment
but occasional swallows of brandy and
water which were forced down his throat.
Youngs & Fetzger's general store at
Horse Shoe Bay was burned to the ground
the other night The fire originated through
the explosion Of lamp. Loss, $1,000; in
surance, 81, 600
Three young boys were out boating at
| Appleton the other day and while one of
them was handling a rife it was dis
charged, the bullet striking boy named
| Frank Goldman, fourteen years of age,
penetrating the left lung. The wound
was fatal.
A new steamship of sixty thousand bush.
els capacity, built for syndicate of Mil
waukee vesselmen, was launched from the
Milwaukee shipyard the other afternoon.
She was named the John Rugee.
During the past twenty years over four
billion feet of logs have passed through
the Menominee Boom Companys work at
Menomince-enough, it is figured, to make
. two inch plank road, sixteen feet wide,
around the world.
At Superior recently ex- Chief-of Police
Richard Collins shot and seriously wound
ed his wife, who was at the residence of
James Myers, and wounded Myers, who, in
return, shot Collins in the head Jealousy
was the cause
Special Agent Connolly, OF the Interior
Department, was in Ashland recently TO
make the allotment of seventy-five thou
sand acres Of rich pine land to Indians of
the Fond du Lac Reservation under the
Dawes act. The land would be divided
among six hundred Indians.
The barn, granaries and grain-stack be-
longing to Phil Ryan, q farmer of the
town OF Dunn, were destroyed by fire a
few days ago. Loss, $3.50; partly in
sured.
The Wisconsin Anti Prohibition Asso.
citation, at its recent convention at Madi.
son, adopted strong resolutions against pro
hibition and high license and for personal
liberty
The Ashland Common Council recently
refused to grant Jack Mahoney a license TO
run his danee-house end placed limit on
the houses of that character that will force
them to move beyond the residence portion
of the city.
Marinette will have free post-ofice de-
livery system as soon as the streets are
named and the houses numbered.
Louis HOLMAN, of Ashland, was recent
ly appointed deputy collector of internal
revenue by Collector Parkinson. Hereto.
fore it had been necessary for brewers
and cigar manufacturers TO transact bust.
ness with the Wausau Office.
A reunion Of the Wisconsin cavalry vet.
Grams, including all the regiments, will be
held at Milwaukee September 10 and %,
the week Of the state fair in that city.
Edward Brown walked into police sta
ton at Madison the other day and said he
was a horse thief He explained that he
stole horse from the barn of Edwin bud.
ley, near Markesan.
Fire damlgei the Elgle works at Eau
Claire recently. owned by \. Shaw & Co,
10 the extent Of s, 200.
Major John Clamney fell from the porch
OF mis- carpenter shop in Mineral Point the
other evening, p distance of twelve feet,
and was killed instantly. II was supposed
the nervous shock caused the death, as nc
injury could be discovered.
While digging ne foundation for house
at Bayfield, few days ago pine box was
found which contained the skeleton OF an
Indian. Il was wrapped in blankets, and
in the CONN was founc a tin pail and
spoon, this proving that tht body was not
that Of white man.
Francis G. Verheem, an old German sol.
der, was poisoned the other night by his
wife, who accidentally gave him dose Of
carbolic acid which the doctor had left &c
dress a wound with
Joseph wolffs white beer brewery al
Milwaukee was recently seized and Wolf
and his wife arrested for swindling the
Government
A: reunion Of the Twenty ninth Wis
consin Volunteers at Fort Atkinson re.
Gently flag was presented TO the veter-
ans BY Mrs. l. B. CaswelL
" McLean's farmhouse near Eau Clair
was burned the other day. Loss, $4,000;
insurance. s.. 900.
John Hines, an aged German. was ar.
rested in Milwaukee the other night with
stolen horse and buggy in bis possession.
He was thought 70 be the man who had
stolen three or four rigs there this summer
and sold them in Chicago, where they were
aflerward recovered.