River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-06-27

John Harrington, a farmer living near
Madison, was seriously gored by mad bull
the other day.
The cracker trust bought out at Milwau-
kee the other day the Acme Cracker Com
pany, the only concern in the State not in
the trust. and prices were at once advanced
about sixty per cent
1t is rumored that the War Department
has decided to hold the annual rifle compe-
tition of the Division of the Missouri at
Camp Douglas in Wisconsin this year
The dams of the pulp and grist mills at
Lawrence were recently swept away.
J. W. Meagher, of Ashland, Wis, has been
appointed by Governor Hoard as lumber
inspector of the Ashland district
Fred Kapell, an aged farmer living at
Watertown, committed suicide the other
day by hanging himself.
F. S McDutiie, son of s s Dufiie, assist
ant superintendent of the Wisconsin
division of the American Express Company,
has been promoted from the position OF
local agent at Portage to that Of route
agent
While bathing near Manson's mill in
Wausau the other evening Benjamin Berger
was drowned in sight of several of his COM
rades. The body was recovered
Charles & Norman, proprietors of an Eau
Claire restaurant, have failed
A boarding house at Badger Mills, Chip
pewa County, was robbed of about $500
worth of clothing, watches and iewelry
about noon tine other day. The robbery
was accomplished by going through the
rooms while the boarders were at dinner.
In the recent graduating class Of thirty
four OF the United States Naval Academy at
u IF nr-
Lac, stood twenty eight.
The Methodist church az Fort Howard
recently celebrated its seventeenth ami
versary Among the prominent men who
occupied the pulpit are Bishop Taylor and
Rev. George @. Haddock
During the races at GAINESVILLE the other
day Driver George West. Of Chicago, was
kicked from his sulky and badly hurt
Father Patrick J. Donahoe one Of the
oldest priests in America, died at st Mary =
Hospital in Milwaukee the other morning.
He was born in 1910 in Dublin. Ireland, and
ordained in Philadelphia in 1881. He went
to Milwaukee in 1867.
Miss Nellie Gauslad. thirty years old, dice
Of consumption a few days ago on 4 traiI
at La Crosse She was on her way to heI
home at Harvard, Mimi.
Rats or minks killed one hundred anc
thirty chickens in one night for Franz
Parmilee of Markesan
The Kickapoo Valley & Northern railway
was incorporated at Madison recently with
q capital Of 81, 100000 The road viii ex-
tend from Woodman TO NorwaiR. distance
of eighty miles.
Sam Jgs Yah, the Milwaukee Chinamar
convicted Of Turing little girls into his laun.
dry for immoral purposes was sentenced
the other day to the State prison at Wan.
pun for fifteen years. Han Ding's case was
continued until the July term
George Hansen, a thirteen year-old boy,
was killed in a Milwaukee printing Office
recently by being caught in the engine fly
wheel
Plans have been completed for a $4,000
opera-house to be erected at Madison.
Robert Bevering, while driving with .
girl recently near Silver Spring station. {
suburb of Milwaukee. coIlided with the
Northwestern pay car, and Bevering and
the girl were killed
A horse OF William friedman while
hitched under a saloon shed at Plymouth the
other night was brutality slashed with a knife
numerous cuts being made In the breast
and from the mouth to the ear on either
side OF the head Seven other horses had
been similarly injured in that city during
tbs last few months