River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20
The News Condensed.


The News Condensed.
William A. Arnold was accidentally shot
and killed by William Hensel while out
hunting near Milwaukee a few days ago.
The Ideal Yeast Company is putting up
large building in Waukesha. The estab-
Iishment will employ about fifty hands.
In one day recently ninety rattlesnakes
were killed on the farm of l.. C. Stanley,
in Cooks valley, Chippewa County This
included a number of young ones, some
sixty being found in two nests.
Governor Rusk has granted free par
don to ex-City Comptroller James l.. White,
Of Milwaukee, who was sentenced for en-
bezzling city bonds to the amount of S, 900,
using them in Chicago wheat speculation
Boutin & Mahan, general merchants at
Bayfield,, made an assignment recently.
Assets, $4,000; liabilities estimated at
$4,000.
The knights of Pythias celebrated the
eighteenth anniversary of their order in
Wisconsin few days ago by reunion in
Milwaukee.
The large barn of ]. T. & Peter Mccain,
junk dealers at Madison, was burned
few days ago, causing loss of 81, 500.
Four horses lost their lives.
Ex-Alderman Richard J. Rooney, of
GAINESVILLE, dropped dead of heart-disease
at his home the other morning.
Boutin q Mahon, general storekeepers
at Bayfield,, assigned recently. Assets,
| 10000; liabilities estimated at $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas Zahn, old settlers
near Beloit, celebrated their fifteth wed
| ding anniversary with reception the
other night with five generations of their
family present.
John Mas was crushed to death at the
| Northwestern depot in Waterfowl a few
days ago by a box car running over kim.
| He was sixty-One years old and leaves
\ wife and two married daughters.
| A man named Series, residing between
Richland and Erin, took drink of horse
medicine in mistake for whisky few days
\ ago and died from the effects
The trial of the State of Wisconsin
| against George Wesley Cook for robbing
| the bank Of Amigo of sc, 900 was finished
l the other day and the defendant acquitted.
! One day recently some ninety rattle
snakes were killed on the farm of L. C.
| Stanley. in Cook valley. This, of course,
/ included a number of young ones, some
/ sixty being found in two nests.
A man who has been engaged in thrash
\ ing at several different points in Fond du
Lac County reports that the crop turns out
/ generally heavier than last year, but the
average quality is not as good.
A horse owned by H. NJ. Jones, of Eau
/ Claire, died of lockjaw recently resulting
/ from a wound received from a barbed wire
/ fence.
! Cranberries about Berlin were damaged
about twenty. five per cent. by the recent
/ frost.
| There was more drunkenness among the
| Indians this year than ever before, says
| the Wausau Central.
| Fire the other morning destroyed the
/ office of the Reporter Publishing Company
/ at Oconto. Loss, Sl4 600; insurance, SS,-
| 900
/ Bears are quite numerous cast of Eau
/ Claire, TO the damage of the ripening corn.
A farmer killed three and wounded an
other.
/ Quail are reported abundant on the farms
/ about Prairie du Chen. The past two dry
seasons have been favorable for the young
/ birds and focks are seen in the stubble
/ fields.
Wautoma reports buckwheat and corn
| considerably hurt, especially buckwheat,
| by frost.
I While P. J. Lewis. Of Pleasant Valley,
| was heating the breech of his gun recent
! ly 70 remove the breech pin the gun was
muscles of the right hand, causing seri-
Gus wound. he didn't know it was loaded.
There were II, O56 cases of berries shipped
! from Ripon the past summer, the weight
of which was 264, 800 pounds.
Mr. Olof FIack and Hannah Anderson
were married in a balloon at BeloiI the
other night, the bride coming from Bergen,
Norway. The parties are well connected
and the marriage was a social event among
the Norwegians
The Northwestern lumber yard ut Du-
rand was burned the other day. Loss,
/ s., COO; insurance, $1,000
Isaac wInslow. of Shiocton, was recent
! ly sentenced TO one year in the peniten-
tiary in the circuit court at Appleton for
| securing money under false pretenses IN
canvassing for a G.. A. r. history.
The elegant sumner residence of John
Johnston, the well-knOwn Milwaukee,
banker. and all the farm buildings and
crops at Bracken Brae. his country seat,
few miles southwest of Milwaukee, were
destroyed by fire recently. Loss, 5000 00:
/ insurance, $4,000. Children playing with
matches caused the fire.
The Silver King gold and silver mine at
Wakefield was purchased the other day by
a Chicago syndicate for So, eco A new
shaft would be sunk and the work of ex-
/ Iloration pushed.
The wife Of Rev. s. b. Loomis Of Lone
Rock, Richland County, while insane
/ drowned herself in pool near her home
/ the other day.
James Twaddle. young man employed
I in a saw-miIl at West Superior, was
/ drowned recently while sorting logs in
I S5Jm.
Sheboygan has a life saving station
built after the ocean models.
The Marshfield Manufacturing Com
pany's chemical works at Marshfield were
| burned the other morning Loss, $1,000,
/ insurance, s.. 600
The collapse Of a building in Milwaukee
/ a few days ago killed one man, seriously
iniured three others and slightly injured
| , half-dozen more.