River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-10-18
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over discoveries Of gold in township a.
range L. Rich specimens had been
brought in, and gold boom promise to set
in. Arrangements were being made for ex.
plOriug the property systematically.
Mickey Shea. a prize fighter, was killed
by a train at Ashland few days ago
The principal hotel and Wisconsin Cen.
tral depot at Abbotsford were totally de
5troyed by fire the other morning. The
conhagration was caused by defective
dues The loss was $1,000. The hotel be
lOngei 10 the railway company.
Thomas Brown, of Lisbon. lost all his
barns and grain by a fire few days ago.
The fire started through his little son
Implying pan Of ashes upon a straw
stack.
Alfred Galpin, Of Appleton, has pre-
sented u Lawrence University a collec.
tiUn Of coins and medals, some Of which
late back three hundred or four hundred
years.
Another fire at Romeo early the other
morning destroyed Mr. Van II 3usear's
planning mill and the lumber left from the
recent incendiary fire. The total loss now
reached Sl15, 600; the insurance about So
900
G. H. Williams has begun suit for the
land on whch the Milwaukee Exposition
building is located.
The Milwaukee poor fund furnishes sup.
plies for 574 families
Lightson a. Co. wholesale aud retail
hardware dealers az West Superior, as
signed a few days ago, with liabilities re
ported at So. 600; assets, SD 00J
Mrs. John A. Markle, Of Fond du Lac.
had not spoken above a whisper for some
time until recently, when she suddenly re
covered her voice while shopping.
In Milwaukee the other day Albert
eeisel hit Peter Beserzk with a beer glass
during a saloon row and the wounded man
would probably die, and G0ttlieb Cieveta
stabbed his wife through jealousy, and her
wounds threatened n fatal termination.
Both assailants were arrested.
At the Badger paper-miu in X ukauna,
the other afternoon Fred Hedky was
caught upon a line shaft and instantly
XII. led.
The celebration Of the iftieth anuiver.
sai.v of the Baptist church IN Wisconsin
took place recently at Waukesha, Rev.
Mr. Caldwell delivered the historical al
dress
Judge White, Of Minneapolis, Mimi,
aged ffty-fv years. was sentenced al
Mad son the other day 70 five years in the
peuitentiary for forging the signature Of
Judge Romance Bum, OF the United States
District Court, to two drafts Of six dollars
each.
The Marinette County Agricultural So
ciety lost about 81 900 by its far Of thi,
year.
The Stewart Lumber Company Of Wau-
sau recently gave 500 to the family OF
Charles Strege, who fell before saw in
their MILL aud the workmen Ia the estab.
lisnment added 1900 to the amount.
G. " Case the embezzing book keeper
Of the White River Lumber Company at
Mason, was recently sentenced in the cir
cult court at Washburn 20 four years and
SIX mouths in the peniteutiarY
A Swedish wOodchopper named August
Rergquest was found dead in his shanty
near Rhinelander the other morning. An
inquest proved that death resulted from
natural causes.
Mrs Eliza Robinson has sued the towno i
Tashburn for s. t01 as damages sustained
by a fall upon a defective walk
: @ Cook 4 Co Of Ashland. re-
Gently secured Judgment for SlI5N
against SEcrf Van Horn. Of Bayfield,
County. for the amount AT their logs at
tac.ied IL the time of the $3.50, eo failure OF
Rood - Maxwell
Nashbu-u people the other day were
greatly worked up over the finding 81 an
anouyineLs letter which conv IS the start
ling information that the recent couhagra-
ton was the work Of irebuE. The writer
sad that an attempt would be made 20 dc.
strov the remaining part Of the town
The post Offices 81 DEVILS Lake. Sauk
County. AND Herbert TAYLOR County, have
been discontinued. the former because il
was not needed and the latter because nc
one wanted 20 be postmaster
The barns and grain on the farm Of
Elijah WiN0m, near GAINESVILLE. were de
stroyed by fire the other day
A tive hundreE dollar team belonging e
CITY Treasurer Rau, Of La Crosse. was
burned by "a sudden fire ia q shed In the
business part Of the city the other day.
IN the toan % Concord, jefferson Coun.
t.. there 5 an cak tree, sad to meas.;se
something over six feet in diam eser-the
largest 0fle IN thu state
The Tess family Of Tess Corners. cid a
reusiou recently at which over one h1u-
dred and twenty descendants Of Jacob
Tess after whom the G. ruers we're named,
were in aftendarse from different sections
% the STATE rlere were a. many rg9rs
who Juid not attend