River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-05-29
The News Condensed.


Fire the other night destroyed a
block of six buildings at Epson, entail
ing a loss of $3.50
Albert Hesselcranse, aged 30 years,
died at the hospital in Eau Claire re-
Gently of acute alcoholism.
w. w. Collins, dry-goods dealer at
Berlin, failed the other day for xsout
$40, 900, with ample assets.
George ii. Paul, ex-postmaster of
OF Milwaukee, died at his residence in
Kansas City, Mo-, the other morning.
The value of mortgages in Wisconsin
aggregates 1867, 600, 900, on which the
annual interest is $50, 900, 900.
DIR. Mussle, of Chippewa Falls, was
recently sentenced to four years inn
prisonment for malpractice.
William J. Park & Sons bookstore at
Madison was closed recently on execu-
tions aggregating $4,000. The firm is
one of the oldest in the city.
Hon. Hiram Smith, the best-known
dairyman and farmers institute lecturer
of the Northwest, died at his home in
Sheboygan Falls the other night of
heart disease. He was 70 years of age.
Michael Breisinger, of Sherry's
Switch, near Marshfeld, was run over
by train the other night and fatally
injured.
ID. G.. Sampson has been appointed
collector and inspector of customs for
the port of Ashland, vice Charles Fisher,
whose term OF Office had expired.
At Chippewa Falls the Omaha Com
pany the other day settled up a suit
brought by two employees who were in
jured at the turn-table by paying them
81, 900.
Lyman Cook, of Lancaster, was re-
Gently sentenced and taken to Waupun
for one year for threatening the life of
his divorced wife
The Central Wisconsin Veteran Sol
diers' Association will hold their fourth
annual reunion at Omro June 10, IL
and 12.
Oscar Merrill, of oxford, found a VOLTS
den containing six cubs the other day
near his home. He received a bounty
of $50 each for them.
Duane Green, lunstic who had been
missing from Fort Atkinson since Feb
ruary, was recently found dead in a
marsh.
Louis Enge, who was found dead re-
Gently beside the Burlington road near
Eau Claire, is believed to have been
murdered and robbed.
George F. Taylor, a prominent boot
and shoe dealer of Madison, aged 90
years, died recently.
Morris Lake, of Hudson, a patient
at the State Hospital for the Insane
at Mendoza, jumped from three-story
window recently and sustained injuries
from which he died shortly after.
&c. Judson. the veteran Minnesota
fair manager, has been engaged to SUI
perintend the La Crosse interstate
fair.
Eugene Dennison, an employe of Nc
Donald Bros mill at La Crosse, was
struck by piece of flying timber from
the edger and killed recently.
George Stahlman, a farmer, living
two miles from Marshfield, fell from .
lumber track the other day and received
injuries that will prove fatal.
Hans T. Nearhasgen, farm machine
agent residing at Preston, was drowned
in mill pond at Arcadia the other night
while drunk.
Two miners in the colliery at Park
Place were killed recently by mass of
earth from the roof OF the tunnel fall
ing on them.
Peter Johnson, an insane man, rushe
into a house at Baldwin recently an.
stabbed Mrs r. Punde, infiicting q
slight wound over her heart A corset
steel saved her life. Johnson was capt
ured.
Suit was begun in the United States
Court at Madison the other day sy
Millet ; Main. assignee of the 81
Croix Land Company, against ex-Sen-
ator Sahin and the Wisconsin Land
Company - recover land valued 81
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