River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-12-26
The News Condensed.

Dan Richie, charged with the murder
of William Armien az Ashland year
ago, was recently arrested at West SUI
periOr.
It a special election at Ashland re-
ceatly it was decided to bond the city
for 500, 600 to induce manufacturers to
locate there.
Hon. Charles Parker and wife, of Be-
lott, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
OF their marriage recently. Mr.. Parker
served for several terms as mayor of Be-
lott, having located there in 1s49.
At Black River Falls Thomas Samp-
son lost a valuable colt the other day.
1t was frightened at the sight of a loco
motive. jumped into the air and fell
dead without culver. 1t was the first
time it had ever seen an engine.
John Martin and Bert Sheldon, boys,
were drowned near Reedsburg the
other day while skating.
BY the death of an aunt in Germany
DIR. Rehm, of Weyauwega, is one of six
to share an estate valued at 100000.
The Wausau school board has ordered
that all children IN that city between
the ages of seven and fourteen years
must attend school twelve weeks in each
year.
James Athy, Jr., of Duck Creek, near
Green Bay, shot bear weighing about
two hundred and fifty pounds the other
evening.
4 thief entered the ticket Office of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railway
at Waukesha recently during the tempo
rary absence of the agent and stole sl50
from the cash drawer.
A thief broke into the Methodist
church at Fort Madison the other night
and broke open the contribution jugs of
the several .Sunday-school classes, Sc
curing every cent saved for Christmas
and the heathens, amounting to nearly
500
John c Clark has been appointed
municipal Judge Of Marathon County
vice Charles f. Crosby, deceased.
The suicide discovered in the woods
at Appleton recently has been identi-
fled as Joe Grassberger an eccentric,
improvideut labOrer who disappeared
from his boarding house eight months
ago.
young Swede living near Stockholm
got drunk recertl.. broke down 81. 600
worth Of tombstones il the graveyard
a. that village. and, going into a barn
near by. slashed a COW to death. He
LETT his bottle and one mitten in the
barn.
Diphtheria has become epidemic in
the tow. of Delton. Ten cases md two
dea .As were reported few days ago.
At meeting recently Of about twenty
i've business men it was decided to es-
tablish a new bank in Wausau with
capital stock Of SIS, 900 The new insti-
tuition will begin operations some time
in January.
The Dells Lumber Company repre-
sentatives recently closed a deal by
which the company buys pine lands con
tanning about 100, 600. 900 feet ia Ashland
and Oneida counties from Messrs. Lent
and Embeck, Of Williamsport, Pa, and
others.
Michael Cadigan, cutter in a shoe
factory at GAINESVILLE committed suicide
the other day by jumping in the river.
He had been on drunk several days.
John Lambeseder. an ex-police Off
ce- Of Milwaukee, was recently found
guilty Of the larceny Of 1000 from his
brother The latter tried TO AVOID res-
tifyipg but was forced to do so by the
court. Sentence was deferred.
John Johnson. a laboring man, was
recently awarded $500 damages in the
circuit court at Ashland. The First Ma
tional Bank was defendant. He was in
jured by falling off a shed about two
years ago during the construction of the
bank building.
William T. Allen, professor of history
in the Wisconsin University at Madison,
died the other morning. He was par
ticular favorite with the students
A deal between the Canadian Anthra-
cite Coal Company of Eau Claire and an
English syndicate for the purchase OF
certain coal lands in Alberta Territory
has been declared of, the Englishmen
not wishing to pay the price asked.
At the annual meeting of the Wiscon.
sin Association of Trotting- Horse Breed
ers held recently at Milwaukee John L.
Mitchell, of Milwaukee, was elected
president; j. 1. Case, of Racine, first
vice-president, and H. D. Mckinney, Of
JsnesTille, second yice-president