River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-10-25

Inc news CONDENSED
The Marinette County Agricultural Soci-
ETY. lost about one thousand dollars by
its fair of this year.
Joseph Grossman lost his right hand by
contact with lath saw at Schofield few
days ago.
John II Knapp, president of the lumber
firm of Knapp, Stout & Co, at Menomonie,
died few days ago.
A firm in WaulSesha took in twenty-one
thousand bushels of gra recently, the
largest receipts in the history of the town
Z. Howard & Co, of Albany, Green
County, have been fined for selling Paris
green contrary to law.
The Kreuziger saloon building, at Min
nesota Junction, was destroyed by fire the
other day. Loss, 5000
Over 500 600 have been expended il
Rhinelander for new buildings during the
past year.
Matthew Edgar, a prosperous farmer
near Monticello, fell dead of heart disease
while working in a field recently He was
seventy years of age.
The entire family of Abel Olson, resid-
ing near Ellsworth, were poisoned the
other day. One child was de and the
others were dangerously ILL., Foul play
was suspected.
Johu Benz was digging a well on the
premises of Annie Mason in Appleton re-
Gently, when at a depth of only half
dozen feet gas was tapped. The gas was
lighted and burned with very strong
flame.
Fairness & NELSON'S furniture store at
Madison was closed by the sheriff the
other day. Liabilities and assets were
each about SO, 500
Henry Weihn, of Sheboygan, and Louis
Balschmeider, of Sheboygan Falls, will
build large cigar factory in ShebOygan,
with capital of 10000, employing over
three hundred hands.
A fire broke out among old oil barrels in
the big grocery store of Alexander Find.
Law the other night and caused damage,
chiefly by smoke and water, to the amount
of $4,000 John Greig, furniture dealer,
sustained loss OF several hundred dol
lars.
Mr.. Isaac II. Roll, of Oconomowoc,
dropped dead in Chicago recently while
going TO the depot to take the train foi
home.
Rev. Thomas Jarvis, of Ridgeway, Iowa
County, one of the earliest settlers, dice
suddenly HI his field the other day while
digging potatoes.
n @. Clark's dry-goods house and notion
store, W. Bowman's gun-shop, w. }
Zahls general store, and the Ross Hard
ware Company's establishment at AntigC
were destroyed by fire few nights ago
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $500
c. E. Morgan, of Madison, recently OBJ
tanned a Judgment Of "a. 600 against the st
Paul Railway Company for damage to {
cranberry marsh which was badly burned
by fire which originated in a spark from
a locomotive.
Mrs. Eliza Robinson has sued the town
of Washburn for five thousand dollars
damages sustained by fall upon de
fective walk
Chief-of Police Ries was removed by the
Board of Fire and Police Commissioners
tAe other day, after investigating the
charges of inefficiency made by Mayor
Brown.
Hugh o. Perkins, of Neilsville, who
murdered his neighbor, Hugh Meadows, in
May, 1854, and escaped from jail the fol-
lowing November, was arrested recently
at windsor, Ont. He was firing on the
Michigan Central under the name of Cor
bett.
An electric light company has been
formed at Medford with capital of
So. 100000 and duly incorporated.
Joseph Ernst was shot. not fatally, at
Appleton the other night. Rudolph
Schmidt was supposed to have been the
assailant IL was said to be the result OF
an old feud.
william Mansfield, cook in a lumber
camp, was sandbagged at Marinette re-
Gently and thrown into the river His as
sailants secured only two dollars.
The Lutheran synod of Ohio, 10 which
Wisconsin belongs, has directed its minis
tiers TO prepare for the erection of a col
lege in each of the districts under control
Of the synod II was probable that one
would be located at Appleton.
Another prisoner escaped from the
Waupun prison a few O Iys ego, making
six in the last seven months
A statement of assets and liabilities of J,
NJ. Lane & Co, the Washburn lumber
firm which assigned the Uther night, has
been made by Assignee Clark. The assets
are placed at 500, 900 and the liabilities
half that amount
A dead horse was found recently be
tween the Office and shop of Sweet Bros.
manufacturing establishment, at Fond du
Lac, with its legs between the spokes Of q
wagon. Evidently, in rolling, it got into
this position and died in its struggles &c
lECc Atsc4As
George a Bullen, Of Chicago, has jus:
purchased the Lapham place at Minnewoc
on OconomOwoc lake, for $4,000. He wit
put up fine buildings next season and make
this his summer home
DIR. Ashael Clark. Of Beloit, aged eight
years, died recently at Evanston, Ill,
where he was visiting sister.
In drunken row near Fa'rchild ths
other evening Chris Nelson was fatally
stabbed and Ewald Thompson badly cut
Two pnen, both named MJrsk, had been ar
restcr aud lodged in jail
Charles Henderson, an old settler who
had lived in the Lake Superior distric'
since the sixties, d.ed in destitute condi.
ton N fishing camp the other night
The residence and barns Of John Berk-
enlagan, living in the town Of Greenfield
south OF Milwaukee, were destroyed by
fire early the other morning Los 5000
The fire was evidep.sy the work OF an IN.
cendiary.