River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-07-26
Short but Newsy Items.

Ella Beckwith, of Berlin, committed sui
eide the other morning by taking NOR
phine.
Oscar Girron, employee of Murphys mill
at Green Bay, was killed recently by a fly
ing board, which passed through his head.
John Wentland's brewery at Boomer
was consumed by fire few days ago
Loss, $4,000; insurance, s., 500.
The engine-house of the Florence mine
was burned early the other morning, caus-
ing loss of $4,000 covered by insurance.
William Guse was found dead recently,
hanging TO a tree, near GAINESVILLE. No
cause for the suicide was known.
The Inter County Medical Association In
session at Eau Claire recently elected DR..
+. $. Hayes as president.
Burglars opened the safe at Willott's
axle factory in Manitowoc a few nights
ago and stole small amount. The job was
done by experts.
Captain Nat ID. Moore intends TO leave
the Geogobic range where he has made
and lost IN lion, and to begin anew at
Kingston, Can.
A Florence youth found a hairpin in
cigar he smoked the other day, and he has
been worrying ever since for fear he has
cremated girl.
A H Hadfield, of Waukesha, and
George Hiles, of Milwaukee, have pur-
chased fifty thousand acres of land in
Liberty, Fla. Il is estimated that the tract
will yield about one billion feet of lum,
Der.
boy named Clouder was drowned at
Manitowoc recently while learning to
swim.
The GAINESVILLE shoe factory has been sold
at auction for g, 300
The corner stone for a new Congrega-
tional church at Appleton was laid few
| days ago
Henry " Dixon, eldest son of OK Chief
Justice Dixon, of the Wisconsin Supreme
Court dropped dead the other night at
Madison from heart disease.
The June pay rolls of the lumber mills
at Merrill aggregated about $4,000
Over thirty-fve thousand barrels of beer
were sold in the Green Bay revenue dis
trict during the fiscal year ended June 30.
At Manitowoc recently Robert Clauder,
twelve years of age, was drowned while in
bathing. His father was trying to teach
him how to swim, when he slipped from
the parents grasp and was swept out of
reach.
At the home of Pauline Scheiber, in Mil
waukee, the other night Charles Krause,
| aged twenty-six years, shot himself be-
| cause the young woman refused to marry
| him.
II is estimated that this seasons crop of
| cranberries in Wood County will be worth
| fully $500, 600 This is an exceedingly large
| yield.
The following Wisconsin inventors re-
! Gently received patents: w. Blatchley,
I Fox Lake, thrashing machine; Susan 5.
/ Fracketton, Milwaukee, apparatus for
firing china; c. f. Parks, Watertown, box
/ or crate; j. ID. Rasey, oshkosh, boiler set
ting
The saw mill of ID. J. Spaulding, at
| Withee, was burned few days ago. Loss
| Sl2, 600; insurance, $1,000.
Rev f. Fusse6er, who was chaplain Of
| the Seventeenth Wisconsin Infantry dur
/ ing the war, and had been pastor of St
/ Peters Church at Beaver Dam from 1865
| to 1886, died in that city the other night
| The commissioners sp3ci=ted by Judge
/ Sloan to investigate the Muskego and
| Wind lake project near Waukesha have
reported favorably. The canal will drain
! two thousand five hundred acres of land.
/ Max Spiegen hanged himself in the House
| of Correction at Milwaukee the other even
ing. He was serving thirty days for drunk
| enness and became respondent. He left
/ family.
/ The t1vo-year-old son of William Dean,
1 of Madison, was drowned in a cistern on
/ his fathers premises the other afternoon.
GoniOn a Gosin. agricultural implement
dealers al Green Bay. made an assignment
/ recently. The absence Of the senior mem
/ Der of the firm, coupled with reports that
I he had eloped with a farmers wife, caused
the trouble.
A homesteader living near Florence says
that deer were never more plentiful than
/ they are this summer. He says he has
/ seen more deer this summer than during
/ any summer for the past three or four
years. The animals are becoming great
/ nuisances to the farmers.
Sixteen men were poisoned Gently by
/ eating corned- b sef hash in railway con
struction camp near superior. One of the
victims was very i'll TIE cook had fed
/ from the camp
Jonas II. Sleeper, agent Of the Chicago,
4 Milwaukee q St Paul railway, died si
wstertown few days ago, after a pro
| tracted illness.
Dennis McCarty, a brakeman on the
Bigelow logging railway at Washburn,
was fatally injured by rolling log few
/ days ago.
Antonio Lorenzo, the Italian saloonkeep
/ who murdered his partner at Hurley
/ last November, was recently sentenced to
/ life Imprisonment at Waupun by Judge
/ Parish.
The body of Valney r Xelie, late clerk
/ Of the court for Florence County, was ex
humed recently TO satisfy life insurance
company that his death was the result OF
an accident. He carried policy for sou