River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-10-17
The News Condensed.

The stephenson National Bank OF MARI
nette has been authorized to begin bust
ness with capital of 100000.
McCord & Marshall. of Chippewa Falls
have purchased tracts of pine in Chippewa
Sawyer and Taylor counties for S64. 90
The house OF Julius Sharwack. near
Two Rivers, was struck by lightning and
burned recently. Loss, Il, 200; no insur-
ance.
Forty horses in a stable at c. L Colman's
mill in La Crosse persisted by fire the other
night. Loss, Si2 go; no insurance
The thirty-sixth annual convention Of
the Wisconsin Musical Association met re-
Gently at Fond du Lac.
Some one set fire to the Norcross bust
ness block in GAINESVILLE recently, but the
DANES were extinguished Iefors damage
was done.
I he Bloomington Farmers Fire Insurance
Company has had eleven losses to pay the
past summer that were caused by lightning
al in Grant County.
Edwin Kerwiu died recently In Baloit at
he age of nearly one hundred and three
years. He was an Irish man by birth. and
tSd up ID the last few years enjoyed good
health.
At Chippewa Fails the other night Felix
Clark. n disreputable negro was arrested
for criminally assauIting three-year-old
child
The handsome. dashing wife of Henry
McQueeny, OF Milwaukee, n st. Paul railway
conductor, was missing recently, and it
was understood that she had eloped with
an itineran5 doctor with whom she became
infatuated. The woman has a son and
laughter. the latter six months old.
The furniture factory OF Edward Biaesius
=. L.
other evening, together with his dwelling
house The loss was estimated at 5000. with
no insurance.
The burlington Hotel at La Crosse is in
he hands Of the sheriff.
John Stenhouse's dwelling near Water
ford was burned to the ground recent /,
The fire originating ia an attempt OF his
, mother to rid the house Of lies by means Of
burning paper
While leaning from a car at Reedsburg
the other night Edward Cole q brakeman,
was struck by a bridge and instantly killed
BY the caving in o. a sewer at Eau Claire
the other Lav Christian Schuuning Was
killed outright jacob Schunnrng. hiF
brother. was dying and Anton OtBe and
Archie Taylor were blurred internally.
The body of Sophia Nelson, who was lost
IN the woods three yea4s ego, was found the
other day three miles east of Bedford
The city OF Milwaukee receives annually
for liquor licenses S3fl 600. Az tie saloon
F licenses are $3.50 each. this gives the city
+ (. 2l5 saloons, or one Tor every I66 people.
or the whole amcJnt col cctedS - 40 is paid
/ over to the Policemen's Benevolent Asso-
citation.
Davis Bros. merchants a. Middleton. re
Gently assigned, with assets Of s5.oo0 and
liabilities Of $1,000
Michael Mcclure was tried recently st
I Ashland for the killing of a man named
/ Peterson in q saloon fight near Hurley and
/ acquitted
I recent fire at Madison caused BY q
I clerk stepping on an explosive match de
/ stfoyed property valued az 1900.
( picturesque runaway marriage was cel-
sbrated at Milwaukee the other night
+ Robert Dinsmore. whi5e-haired patriarch
from New York City. eloped with Ms
/ Wilhemina Gustsfson. OF Chicago, a ma
I IRON with silyery locks and poodle The
I groom was sixty-eight years old and the
bride sixty-two
, Edward Cole, a brakeman was knocked
/ from locomotive - Reedsburg the othc
night and killed. He had been recent'
married
/ Fire of unknown origin destroyed barn.
belonging 10 " Goddard Il HOhen Gfd
Calvin Payne recently at Monroe. LOS
! B.. 0O); reinsurance.
Two boys about ten years Of age engaged
IN fist fight IN the town Of Brunswick re-
Gently and one Of them was killed
Burglars took slnJ in cash and %
+ postage stanEa from the safe of T. Durke~ r
I store at Srring Lake the other night. T..
7 stamps belonged to the post-ofiice. \
( 2recaution against pursuit, the operator
I ,ut the telephone lines leading toward BeT-
in and WautOm-
/ Godfrey Stalnm. aged seventy-twO years.
me OF sheboygan's earliest and most e.
I 'eemed residents died tho other evening
/ Two young men residing near B0scobeL
/ named Taylor and Thompson, had q fight
/ IN the street recently during which tbs
/ ormer BIT of large portion OF the latter's
/ eft ear.
track is TO be laid from OcontO juno
/ ion to Stiles by the Milwaukee, Lake Shore
/ Western Railroad Company.
Christian Hclle. Of Cedar Grove, receive,
/ judgment in the circuit court Of Shebol
| IAN County recently against William Prin
/ en-. of the town OF Holland, for Sll5 q
/ iamages for a broken leg received recen
! BY being Alaot ked from q ladder BY n
'areless runaway Of team owned BY
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