River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-11-21

Dennis Mccarthy. brakeman on the
Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western rail-
way, lost both legs recently by falling
under his train at Watersmeet.
The Listman Touring mill at La
Crosse, which was destroyed by fire in
MAY. has been rebuilt. Its capacity is
one thousand barrels day.
A large temperance meeting was held
at Shawano the other night, after which
Good Templars' Lodge was organized
by T.. w. Chain, Grand Chief Templar.
A woman suffrage convention at La
Crosse recently was addressed by Rev.
Olympia Brown-Willis. Mrs. Perkins
also spoke on Are We Citizens?''
A lodge OF Knights of Pythias was
recently established at Fort Atkinson
by Grand Chancellor Jefrris, of James
vile.
The schooner Golden Fleece. of Cleve-
land. bound for Milwaukee with coal,
was towed into Manitowoc recently in a
disabled condition.
Charles Bucowfslli. q farmer living at
Larrabee, hanged himself recently be-
cause of ill-health.
La Crosse. assigned recently, with liza
bilities Of 1000.
The bayfield, Press says Lake SUI
perior brown stone is becoming popular
in New York City.
The high - hool building at Unity.
Clark County, was destroyed recently
with all its contents except few books.
IL is estimated that there will tie So
OOO. 900 worth of lumber piled upon the
Menominee river after the closing of he
shipping season
Fred Russell, young Englishman,
committed suicide at Yorkville the other
morning He had been unsuccessful in
business and was suffering from melan-
chOlia.
At Prairie du CHEN Ms G. W. HUFF
schmidt died suddenly the other morn
ing at an advanced age She was popu'
larlv known as landlady of the Dousman
House, of that city.
Isaac l.. Usher. OF La Crosse. pio-
necr well-known throughout the North
west. died suddenly the other day in a
railway station at Boston. lie was re-
turning from visit to his old fcme in
Maine.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
post-otiice at Mondovi the other night
and secured $500 in money and 500 in
stamps.
The York Iron Conn any's furnace al
Black River Falls turned out 1900 tons
of pig iron during the month of October
the biggest months work yet. The
shipment for the same time was l,50C
tons.
Martin J. Higgins, Of Milwaukee. was
found dead in his berth the other day
on train at Dwight Station, Ill. lie
was superintendent of the Nhitetish Bay
Dummy line and was one of the best
known railroad men in the Northwest.
&. II. Ellsworth, of Oregon, was re
Gently arrested at Madison on charge
of embezzling 81, 240 from Chandler
Fox. of Oregon, stock dealers
George Baumgarter, who murdered
little Sandy White in Fulton, in Sep
TENDER. 1879, and was sent to Waupun
for life, escaped from Mendoza Asylum
the other day.
Charley Kimmick. aho was held fol
trial on the charge of participating in a
prize fight with George Curtis at Ash
land. will not be on hand to take the
chances of going TO Waupun- Kimmicl
mas forfeited HIS $1,000 bond and lef
the county,.
The other evening the farm residence
of Frank and William Kullaher. tw'
miles east of juneau, was destroyed b,
fire. The loss was about $1,000.
Henry Mannipenny, who killed hi
brother George during drunken spres
at Ashland. was recently acquitted, h'
having proved TO the satisfaction of the
iury that the deed was done in self-de
tense.
Sadie and Arthur Gardner, childreE
OF Major Charles II. Gardner, % Water
town, who had been missing from theii
home several days, were found in chi
cago the other day b. their parents
who had been searching for them aides
| BY tbs police and detectives