River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-12-18


Tiroqua was flooaed with bogus silver
dollars.
Another test will be given the steam
logger in the Northern Wisconsin
woods this winter. Last season the
lumbermen had no time to make ex-
periments.
Another bottomless sinkhole has been
struck on the Lake Shore extension
from Rhinelander to Hurley.
The Joseph Desert Lumber Company
was incorporated at Wausau. The cap
ital stock is 500, 600
Curtis Hicks, Racine's ossified man,
will travel through the South during
he winter at salary OF SIPS per week
Hicks is now perfectly ossifed, excep
portion of the left shoulder.
Mrs Frank Hill, wife of a boarding
house keeper at West Superior, reported
hat her husband had deserted her.
She also asserted that ne had another
wife living in Michigan.
One quarter of ton of Bibles were
sold or given away in GAINESVILLE in a
recent week
Bill Stilwell, a noted burglar. was
captured after long chase in the Eau
ialte woods near Eau Claire. He was
wanted by the police in three or four
ii!ferent cities.
The State paid for the care OF insane
Turing the last year S169, 4l9.12.
George Eldred, town clerk Of Glen
wood, St Croix County, pleaded guilty
% deserving his wife and got one year
n Waupun.
Bidwell n. Brown, one of the early
-csidents of OcOnomowoc, died at Gen
ava, Neb., aged So years.
A family named Guthrie, at Water
lille, Pepin County, lost six children
within a month from diphtheria.
All the schools in Madison except the
State University were closed for an in
definite period owing 10 the spread of
1iph iberia
Sheriff-e.ect Hogan announces that
hard labor prisoners in Rock County
viii hereafter be made TO put in their
time on the rock pile.
Asel Henderson had his whole hand
torn off by ball he was leading into
GAINESVILLE There was sharp steel
hook on the end of the line with which
to fasten the animal. and this caught in
his hand. lie was dragged nearly
mile.
Thomas Fox. pioneer settler Of
Northern Illinois, died in Boloit at the
age Of eighty-onc years lie was tue
first white SETTER in WinRebagO Coun-
y. III
Petor Peterson, Chippewa County
farmer set a gan for deer. lie was shot
by it himself, and when he gets we'll
will probably be arrested for violating
the law.
When Wind lake, in Racine County,
vas drained by the canal Thousands OF
fish were left stranded in such a way
that person could 70 out and scoop
chem up by baskctfuls. Hundreds Of
bushels we're gathered and shipped to
Milwaukee.
Martin Martinsons 12-year-oel boy
vas killed at Black Earth by train.
There were 175.OO0 brick used in the
construction of the chimney Of the new
paper mill at the combined locks near
Appleton.
Charles G. Thompson, OF Madison,
8 locomotive engineer, and man wei
known and from good 20 ~ was sent
TO prison for two year, for highway rob
berry.
= Cooildrp. the Waupaca banker,
wbo made an assignment September s,
was arrested on a complaint charging
him with receiving deposits when he
had reason 10 believe the bank insOlven1.
While Steve Rouse, OF Ashland, was
J lv- h.-tra- & fafa
animal reared and fell backward on
Rouse. killing him instantly. lie was
about IS years old and unmarried.
Mrs. Elizabeth McCadden whose hus-
band was killed on the Wisconsin Cen
trail road at Stevens Point year ago,
has recovered judgment Of $1,000
against the road.
The executive committee Of the Board
of state University Regents has elected
John A. Craig acting professor Of ami
NAL husbandry IN the agricultural de-
part1neat and J. II Knowlton, OF New
Hampshire. instructor in rhetoric.
Michael Sweeny, Of Stevens Point,
died in his s5th year, and two days
afterward his wife. who had been his
companion for over fifty years, died Of
a broken heart.
The last of the farm buildings Of }.
II. Philips at New Berlin were set on
fire and burned. This made the twenty
second fire in the locality in the last SIX
years.
The state Board of Supervision will
~ecorurnend to the Legislature that APP
prolaiation be made for the building q
intermediate prison for reformatory.
The State pris had so inmates ana
II. industrial ssh0,l for eoyH bad from
~ - 4i9 inmates