River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-29

". f. Copeland, OF Jefferson, has plano
that is over one hundred years old 1t has
recently been overhauled and good must
clans who have seen the aged instrument
pronounce its tone sweet and pure
Hon W II Newton died at Superior the
other morning from injuries received by
a fall from has buggy three days before
He had been a resident Of that city since
1852. and was the man who laid out the
original town site He leaves a widow and
daughter ara two sisters.
Joseph J.. Hort. manager of the Centen-
NAL garcen at La Crosse, has numerous
creditors anxious 10 learn his whereabouts
He mOrtgaged his furniture and left the
place clandestinely a few days ago with
about 81, CO0 securely slowed away in his
wallet
The State Supreme Court has reappOinted
Moses NJ Strong, Joshua Stark, George q.
Green. NJ 4 Hurley and l. ; Rusk State
Law Examiners, and ord, red that they hold
examiu atoms August % and December 70,
lS,9. in Milwaukee, and the last Tuesday I'm
April 1890, in Madison.
Tramps at Barron fired a voliey Of rocks
into the 500" passenger train going east
recently. smashing windows, etc, while on
the same evening a gang attempted 10
waylay travelling man in Rice Lake while
ON his way down town after the arrival OF
the midnight freight
Mrs T. G. Davis, of Boston, has pre-
sented to st Paurs Cathedral in Fond du
Lac stone pulpit of massive character
and Chaste design.
After duping laborers az Duluth under
pre-cuss that ne was an employment agent.
T. johnson visited West Superior and man
aged 10 obtain about - from Scandinavian
II - hot aHrsr4r
Is Dahs;rom
The authorities at Wousau are at war
with the Kickapoo Ind'an doctors. who run
tent shows in connection with their medi-
cine trade One of the doctors has left the
placs but the other, pr Goerros, says he
will carry the case as far as the law VIII
allow.
The fine new round HOUSE Of the Wiscon-
sin Central railway at Ashland caught fire
from spontaneous combustion in tine oil
room tic other day. Four engines inside
the building were destroyed Loss about
$1,000
Tho pearl fishing craze has struck Fort
Atkinson, and the banks of Rock river are
lined with people of all ages and sexes. A
number Of pearls were found the other day
in value from ten dollars up
At Rosl Il the other morning Thomas T
Thomas was probably fatally shot by
saloonkeeper named Fred LOshman during
quarrel
The house Of John Hanvelt at Waverly
was wrecked by lightning recently, the
family escaping serious injury
Hurley expects TO have street railway.
wild COW at large in La Crosse recently
caused con idarablc excitement until she
was run down aud killed Among the in
iured we're Mrs. Charles Walters and a son
Of ! J. Hogan
At Unity recently bear carried of lit
Tie girl OF a woOdm y mined kleinert The
father pursued the animal and killed IL the
child escaping serious injury. The bear
weighed 80 pounds.
The authorities Of She signal Office at
Washington have decided that the mud
which fell 40 Green Bay during the shower
Of rain IN the 81 of last April was Of ter
rcstrial and not of metsOric origin
The people Of Marengo. Ashland County,
are petitioning for post-officc. They arc
seven miles from Highbridge, which is the
nearest post-ofice at present
About forty pearls have been taken from
the PecatOnica river at Darlington, some
of them pure and white worth from SO
to 500 each.
During n charivari the other night at
Winosk. Fred Mccrstein, who was married
the dav before was struck with a COW bell
by Fred Fischer Mecrsteins skull was
fractured
Frank Fielder. aged sixteen years, was
drowned recently while bathing in Devils
river near Depere.
A fire in one Of the mule spinning rooms
OF the JanesviIe Cotton Manufacturing
Company in the upper mill the other even
sng caused i loss o. s1o,CO1.
The other afternoon the body Of Captain
Wilton Magae OF the great lakes, was
sound in Fox river near the Milwaukee &
Sorthefn depot in Green Bay b. passing
boatmer He was supposed 70 have falleE
into the river.
Joseph T. Asper fell from a staging TWEEN
tv-five feet high al Eau Claire recently and
sustained serious injuries, including
fracture Of the stsrnun
The Milwaukee police raided a dog fight
fn the upper story OF house in the out
skirts oil the city one morning recently
The men Jumped out 81 the windows One
man was killed. tFo others had their legs
broken. and sew raj others were badly in
furgd. 80
Many Of the cranberry marshes which
promised an w usual yield this year are
being entirely devastated by myriads Of
worms that eat every thing green on the
bushes The marshes near Black River
Pals viii be burned where il is practicable
to prevent them spreading
Warden Carter IF the State prison al
Waupun. recently rendered his resignation
TO the state Board OF Supervisors and the
same was accepted, % take effect October
-.
J0nn MetcaIf, in jail at Janesviile charged
with the murder Of old lady keysan al I'd
ffertOn. con essed to the sheriff the other
morning Metca1 claimed 70 have been
drunk when the crime was committed
Elmer Tracy. a young farmer OF the town
Of Cente.. shielded the other afternoon by
hanging in his barn No cause was known
for the rash deed
James Mayor. a prominent citizen Of
Carthage for macy years clerk OF Hancock
County and secretary of the Hancock
County Agricultural Society. died at III
home the other morning.