River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-16

OnrlS l4aFSOus an eHuplOyS VI the EdAt-
road company, was killed at Stanley re-
Gently.
The Wisconsin Central syndicate has
purchased the Palms mines which adj
joins the Colby mine on the east.
S. E. Stephenson, son of Congressman
". Stephenson, of Menominee, died at
Marinette the other night
Peter Altman, of Milwaukee, who
undertook TO light fire with kerosene,
with the usual results, died at the
Emergency Hospital the other after
noon.
Andrew Kjarnum, of Ironwood, Mich.
induced Mrs. Augusta Oleson to elope
with him recently, but they were ar
rested at Ashland.
The product of the Pabst Brewing
Company for the year 1889 was 5>5,@995S
barrels, against 500, 2164 barrels pro-
duced in 1855.
George II. Jansen, a fruit dealer of
Milwaukee. made an assignment re-
Gently for the benefit of his creditors.
The twelve-year-old son of Andrew
Andrewson was killed by falling tree
at Parrish few days ago.
The Mississippi river at ia Crosse is
eighteen inches lower than the low
water mark of 1864.
Sheriff Page, of Clark COUNTY, has re-
turned from Mercer County, Pa, with
John Hoobler, accused of arson.
John Comstock, president of The First
National Bank of Hudson, died the
other night. lie was born at Owassa,
\. Y, in 1912.
T. b. Oliver, for twenty-eight years
well-known member of the Milwaukee
Board of Trade. died recently.
Dennie Reed, a young man of Fort
Howard employed in the railroad shops,
skated through hole in the Fox river
the other morning and was drowned.
The body was recovered within two
hours.
Herman Friedricks shot Bertha Erd-
man at Stettin the other dag because
she refused to marry him. He also shot
himself.
The recent disastrous fire at Cashton,
which destroyed the business center of
the village, is supposed to have been
the work of incerfie~i~s. and Andrew
Halleck, an old oIlv.s-. 4, of Norwalk, is
under arrest.
Oslak Johnson and wife, an old couple
OF Nashota, were struck by the engine
of a passenger train the other night and
both we're killed. They had been at
tending the fair. and were on their way
home Their horse was also killed.
Napoleon Crocker. the old man err
Gently sentenced for life for killing his
son-in-law near Mosinee, has been
granted pension.
Albert Spaulding. arrested recently ct
Ashland for failing to pay board bill,
showed that he had paid the bill in vcni-
sen. He was thereupon arrested or his
own evidence on charge of killing deer
out of season.
The annual meeting OF the Wisconsin
Historical Society was held at Madison
recently. and the number of books in
the library was reported to be 1S3, 200
volumes. Memorial addresses on David
Atwood and others were delivered.
George Handler, who recently shot
and killed Saloon-keeper Sarvis and
wounded two police officers at Merrill,
p4edueu Su4ASg anu - ~" an D'e@'S
prison for life.
Sebastine Schneider. Of Barton,
Washington County. while loading
straw at Young America recently fell
from his wagon and broke his neck. He
was seventy-six years of age.
Mrs. Augusta Guelich, aged sixty
four years, and Mrs Caroline Getzein,
aged ifty-two years, died at Fond du
Lac one day recently of the unusual
malady of epistaxis, or bleeding of the
nose. Mrs. Guelieh suffered six days
and Mrs. Getzein two weeks.
John Bell, an old German Of some
property, was found dying the other
morning at Jeslxes tavern, on the
Janesville road. He had poisoned him
self with paris green.
Ex-Mayor Emil Wallber was installed
the other day as judge of the Milyau-
kee municipal court. succeeding Judge
Mallory, who occupied the position for
twenty-nine years
T. L. Severson. a white-haired old
man in the blue uniform Of the Soldiers
Home, dropped dead on downtown
sidewalk in Milwaukee the other day.
He was a member of the Third Wiscon-
sin Cavalry, and had suffered from con-
sumption for years