River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-07-04

Inc news SonGenseus
William McGlaciin, of Madison was sent
to Jail for one year recently for forging the
name of City Clerk Corscot, of Madison, &c a
check for s1O0
Watertown has a genuine miser. He Is
reputed to be worth s1OO,O 600 and boards his
wealth, together with his daily bread, be
meath his pillow. His greatest grief is that
a spendthIift nephew will be his heir
man supposed to be Richard Hallaher,
of La Crosse, committed suicide at New
York few days ago.
In Milwaukee a lew mornings ago Arch
bishop Heiss conferred the order of priest
hood on thirteen candidates at St Francis
Seminary.
tramp was arrested at Neenah the other
afternoon for assaulting several women in
the country north of that city. He gave his
name as william Tascot.," of Chicago. He
received term in the county Jail
The Twenty first and Twenty Second reg
iments of Wisconsin Volunteers held two
days reuniorat Appleton recently.
John Rath, section foreman for the Chi
cago & Northwestern Company at Johnsons
Creek jefferson COUNTY was instantly
killed at Jefferson Junction the other day.
He and his wife end a neighbor were on a
hand-car, which was knocked from the
trsck by freight train. The others were
also injured
Ezra Meredith Of Madison, was recently
sentenced TO fifteen years in the peniten-
tiary for the murder of John Gigour
1t was announced to the students Of BeIoit
College the other day that DR.. D. K Pear
son, of Chicago, was the gentleman who
had given the 100000 to the endowment
fund of the institution
Kate WOLF, of Milwaukee was arrested
at Waukesha the other day charged with
stealing from the counters of dry goods
stores
The plant OF the Butternut Manufactur-
ing Company at Buttefnut was burned re-
Gently 1t consisted of a saw-mill, barrel
heading works and a shingle-mill, and was
the chief industry of the town Loss,
$40 600; insurance, 5000
John Orlzey, a Milwaukee iron worker, has
fallen heir to $4,000.
Michael Barron. who resides on a farm
west of GAINESVILLE, expired in his mothers
barn in GAINESVILLE recently from the effects
of a fractured skull Charles B,Tnes, who
was supposed to have committed the act,
could not be found
At wausau recently Peter Dahl was
bound over in $1,000 bail to answer the
charge of having murdered FermenthaL
Young lady named Maggie McCarty,
who lived in Trempealeau Coulty, has been
missing from her home for several days
She was somnambulist and as none OF her
clothes were gone it was feared she had
wandered away in her sleep and had per
ished
A. J. Hayward, Of Minneapolis, has pur-
chased an interest in the state Lumber
Company on pine lands in SIX counties in
this STATE Price, slSI00O.
Moses Pecor, employed at the Underwood
Lumber Company's planning mill IN Rhine
lander. was killed recently by the breaking
of a belt
The Northern Pacific Express Company
will open offices along the Wisconsin Cen
tral line.
The Standard Oil Company has received
from the Land and River Improvement
Company of Superior the title OF twelve
acres Of land in that city for thu purpose OF
putting in a dock and warehouse. as that
city viii be the company point Of distribu-
ton for the Northwest
l. J. Dodge Yas killed in Peyton, Kimball
q Barbour's saw-min at West Superior
few days ago, his body being cut in i've
pieces
Michael Barnes. a farmer, got drunk the
other night and went 10 a tough dance at
GAINESVILLE, and while thare some one hit
him on the head with a brick and killed
him
A two-year-old son Of Andrew Gibson, Of
GAINESVILLE, was found drowned in barrel
of water the other day.
Robert J. Rice, of Milwaukee. hung fifty
pound iron weight about his neck and
Jumped into the cistern the other afternoons
Rice had been in ill-health for some time
and became Respondent He was missed by
his wife, but before his BODY could be dis
covered re was extinct -.