River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22
The News Condensed.


Herman Hankey, who resides on the
shore of Lake Koshkonong, has a collection
of $500 Indian arrow heads, knives and
axes, picked up on the shores of that lake,
which were the most famous hunting
grounds of the State.
Of the strikers arrested at Superior.
three have tEen acquitted, one skipped his
bail, nine arSin Jail awSting trial and ten
are out on $500 bail to appear at the next
term of the circuit court
The old St Paul passenger depot at
Tomah, which was being used as a freight
depot, was entirely destroyed by fire few
days ago. The fire is supposed to have
started in the roof from sparks or cinders
from an engine
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul depot
at f5alamine Junction was burned the other
day.
Burglars Edward Mcguire and William
Ryan sawed their way out of the Jefferson
Jail and escaped.
Nathan Mercer, of Rubicon, Mercer
County. reports that from forty-six swarms
OF bees he has extracted 10000 pounds of
honey this season He says thai in addi-
tsn to this he has some 100 combs that are
yet hanging in his bee house. which are
sled
has offered a prize of fifty dollars in gold TO
the couple who viii consent to be married
in front of Tie grand stand on some day
during their annual fair
A woman at River Falls en- rusted Sl3l TO
u neighbOr to buy her ticket to Europe.
lie went to st. Paul 10 buy the ticket, got
on a spree and spent the money, and then
gave himself up to the police.
Davis Brothers mill, Charles Davis resi-
dence, boarding house. warehouse,
about $1,000 worth of shingles and a large
amount of logs were destroyed by fire &C
Bryant few days since. Charles Davis
barely escaped with his life. Loss be-
tween 900 and $50 600 insurance sl0,-
600
Henry Schmits daughter, aged twelve,
while running from the house to the barn
near La Crosse the other day was struck by
lightning and instantly hilled while the
father was looking on from the barn and
the mother from the house.
At La Crosse the other day horse was
struck by lightning and the shoes ripped
from all four feet The horse was greatly
astonished 3but was otherwise uninjured
The ChipT ewa Falls gas works were re-
Gently destroyed by fire.
The State Supreme Court has recently
George O. Greene. VI A. Hurley and l.
J. Rusk a State board to examine applicants
for admission to the bar.
At recent West Depero council meeting
an ordinance was passed submitting prop
ositi0n for the consolidation of East and
West Depere.
Two ladies named Powers, living five
miles east of Prairie du Chen, were thrown
from their wagon the other day by their
runaway team and sustained serious in
iuries. The elder lady will probably die.
Over five hundred children paraded at
the union Sunday-schOol picnic IN Amigo
a mortgage was recently placed on file at
the register of deeds office OF Marathon
County on 10. OO0 acres of land in that cOun-
" owned by Frederick Rietbrock, OF Mil
waukee 1t is supposed the money is being
used to build the Abbottsford 4 Northeast
ern railroad
Fire in the Holt Lumber Company's mill
at OcontO damaged the establishment TO
the extent Of 8 zoo.
James McCune, a notorious wsOdsman,
who is well known in Chippewa Falls, has
been positively identified as the man that
held up the Wisconsin Central train near
that city recently.
new opera-house will be erected in
gun on excavation
BY the capsizing Of a Tow-boat in the
Mississippi near Preston a few days ago a
young man named GerstOn was drowned
His body was recovered aad taken to his
home at Hastings, MINI. number OF other
Young men were in the boat. but no other
cath resulted
Fred OHara, laborer who killed man
named Fenton with a coupling pin at
Wakefield recently was captured three
DAYS later. He says he had no intention OF
killing Baker
The Gateway City Guards is the name Of
new military company AZ La Crosse
An electric motor street railway is
among the possibilities Of the near future
at Green Bay.
candy fakir had a good time In Geneva
the other day and left town 500 richer. He
Iethss customers wrap stick of candy in
ten-dollar bill which was covered with an
other wrapper and put with a dozen
others Two dollars q guess was then
charged. but the ten-doilar bin was never
seen
Matt MasiIka, a farmer OF Muscado. quar-
relied with bis wife the other day, and fred
six shots from a revolver at her She was
wounded four times
Charles Splitter. residing az Macktoro,
Green Lake County. undertook 70 adjust
the binding attachment Of reaper without
stopping the machine, and had his hand
caught and fearrully torn
superiors hose companies will disbsnd
unless the city pays each member fifty
cents per hour while at fire.
shorty LawtOn, the well-known crook,
who was in Jail at Eau Claire for horse
stealing. made a dash for liberty the
other day while the TAILOR was feeding
other prisoners He was pursued by the
sheriff and a large crowd and finally cap
tured in corn field and carried back to jail