River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-11-14
The News Condensed.

y louHc VI NOOu ltuDAdIs HAS Dttn
organized at Shawano.
The mail route between Muscoda and
Excelsior has been increased to six times
a week.
The pulp-grinder in the mill of Kim
berly IL Clarke, at Kimberly, burst re-
Gently, killing Frank Clarke, the fore
man, and injuring five other men.
The people of Kaukauua decided in
favor of establishing State free high
school at a special election held recently.
S. Fairbanks. a farmer residing two
miles from Appleton, was fatally injured
by an enraged bull recently.
Michael Owens, pioneer who settled
at WATERFOWL in 1915. died at Eau
Claire suddenly the other day. aged
seventy-one years.
l.. Newald, who absconded from Chip
pewa Falls several months ago with
about 100000, has been located in
Brazil.
f. w. Taylor, Butternut farmer, was
arrested at Ashland recently and held in
&. 600 bail. charged with criminal as
sault on Mrs Kate Haasc.
The stock of dry goods OF ]. VI. Car
penter, of Beloit mortgaged to ]. V.
Farwell & Co.. of Chicago. was SOLD at
auction recently.
Edwin Cooper, town treasurer Of Green
field. was recently placed in Jail for the
murder of his oldest brother. Peter
Cooper, at the breakfast table. The af-
fray was the result of quarrel.
II. Stubbings, of Chicago. made sale
in Wausau the other day of ten million
feet of standing pine located on the
Presque Isle River; consideration. So
800. This was the last of the many tracts
of pine lands formerly owned by Mr..
Stubbings in that section.
Jesse Miller wealthy farmer living
near Lancaster committed suicide re-
Gently by shooting. lie was Respondent
over the death of his wife and daughter
Genuine pearls are reported to have
been found in Lake Winneconne.
The young men who broke up recent
wedding party at Hartland paid 500 in
fines and costs.
Gus HolmesOn was seriously injured
the other day near Bruce by party of
hunters. He was going through the
woods unaware of the hunters and they
installing him for deer fired at him.
The high school building at Unity
was burned the other day. Loss. $1,000:
insurance, 81, 900
Ex-Mayor George Smith was buried
at Oconto the other day. lie was
Oconto's first mayor, and held the Office
several times. He was sixty-iive years
old.
\ large vein of dry-bone. or zinc ore.
was recently discovered on Morris Cav
anaugh's place. along the Platte river.
four miles from P".,,I. II Ma '"U
feet wide. seven feet thick and three
quarters of a mile long.
While hunting rabbits near Fulton
the other evening John Lenbert acct
dentally shot James Saycr, inficting
fatal wound
4 recent fire at Embarrass destroyed
Palmer Il Barkow's store and post-ofiicc.
their loss being 1000, with insurance
of $1,000 and A. Peterson's hardware
store. his loss being $1,000. with no in
surance.
The champion fishing story is from
Chippewa County resident of Weycr-
hauser claims to have caught thirty-five
hundred brook trout in four days. In
addition he killed two bears. four deer
and twenty-nine cartridges.
jerome 4. Watrous has been appointed
collector of customs for the district of
Milwaukee.
John W. Ellsworth. for many years a
dealer in importer horses at DOdgeville.
assigned the other morning toJ. Thomas
Pryor for the benefit of creditors. The
liabilities were stated % be $4,000 and
the asset the same.
The Wisconsin Telephone Company
claims that the usefulness of its instru-
ments at Eau Claire has been greatly
impaired, either through leakage or in
duction. by the new electric street rail
way. It was hoped TO settle the trouble
without litigation.
The Eau Claire City Railway Company
commenced the operation OF its line by
electric power the other day.
Upon an invitation of the owners a
dedicatory gospel service was held on a
recent Sunday under the direction of the
Y. NJ. G. A. at the new shops of the Will
Jams Engine Company in Beloit. Near
ly two thousand people were present.
Judgment was entered at Ashland the
other day against John III. Knight and
George w. Harrison for $3.50 in favor
Of Ashland County They were bonds
men of Maurice Gaffney, who committed
suicide, and the judgment represented
his shortage.
The late Ex-Governor Dewey left with
his will sketch in which he traced his
ancestry back to 1888, when Thomas Due
arrived in Massachusetts, from Dover,
Eng.
William Perkins, highly esteemed
resident of Sterling. died suddenly the
other morning by accidentally taking an
overdose of acOnite. He leaves a widow
and two children.
A boy named Pasch, seventeen years
of age, employed in the linen mill st
Appleton. had his right arm so badly
mutilated recently that it had TO be am
putated. The boys mother is a widow,
his father having died within a year,
and the son was her main dependence