River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-09
The News Condensed.

Joseph Amendale was arrested recent
" at Rio 10y Under Sheriff Warning, of
Sparta, on charge of bigamy.
Upward of one hundred and fifty are
at present cared for at the Waupaca Vet
Grams Home.
Alaska Jourdan, Stock bridge Indian,
while skating on Lake Winnebago re-
Gently broke through the ice and was
drowned.
At the recent annual meeting of the
Chippewa Logging Company, in Chip
pewa Falls, Frederick Weyerhauser was
reelected president
Richard Dewhurst, of Neilsville, gave
barrel of -four and turkey to each of
dozen poor families in his town for
Christmas present.
The report that the Northern Pacific
and Wisconsin Central roads are to be
consolidated is denied by officials Of
both roads.
James McNulty, who had been a res
ident of Fond du Lac about thirty-fve
years, was found dead in his bed re-
Gently.
The report OF the building inspector
shows there were !, 553 buildings erected
in Milwaukee during the present year,
costing 81, 100000.
George D. Ern, of Milwaukee, jumped
into we'll the other morning and was
drowned. He was subject to fits of
temporary insanity.
Louis Christensen, serving six years
for murder at Waupun, died the other
day of consumption. His body was
buried in the prison cemetery.
Surgeon-General Palmer and wife
gave wedding reception to their son,
DIR. Win ii. Palmer, and his bride, nee
Miss Kittie Nichols, at their home in
GAINESVILLE few evenings ago.
Hans Hanson was struck by Wiscon-
sin Central switch engine at Ashland the
other day and killed. A few trinkets
and twenty cents were found on his per-
son.
A man named Ingalls,, who was arrest
ed at Depere the other day for stealing
overcoats. made a confession implicat-
ing himself and several others in the
Hurley bank robbery.
Albert Butler. of juneau, accidentally
shot his wife recently while handling
TtNOlNCEt anu II W as ohO "OuA1
die.
An incendiary fire in the lumber yard
OF Henry Sherry & Co., at Vesper, Wood
County, the other day destroyed l.500,-
600 feet of lumber, valued at SOS, 900.
The loss was partly covered by insur-
ance.
Charles Morris, Chippewa Falls bar
tender, was sentenced TO Waupun for
one year the other day for stealing a
$40 check. 1t was handed him to get
cashed at the bank, but on going out he
failed to return.
Warnie Burns and Johnny Finlayson.
aged seven years, each of Washburn,
were drowned the other day. They
we're coasting from the bank into the
bay and went through the ice.
The mercantile house of J. y. Man
sion at Wausau was recently placed in
the hands of the sheriff on a chattel
mortgage claim for S24. 335. Mansion
operated two large stores
An explosion in the still-room Of the
Root River Distillery Company near
Milwaukee the other afternoon caused
the destruction of the entire plant, to-
gether with 400 barrels of highwines.
Loss, Sc 600; insurance, So. 900.
The Academy of Music at Milwaukee
was sold the other day for SOS, 900 to John
S. George, Francis Boyd and Calvin Z.
Lewis.
William Gritzmacher, for whom war
rant was out on charge of criminal
assault in Wausau, was found in Mime
49, ba Gtnu
cy in Milwaukee
Elton A. Fay, once druggist OF
GAINESVILLE, died in New York recently,
a victim of the cocaine siren On his
person were found several letters from
his wife and mother at GAINESVILLE, who
made heart-breaking appeals to him to
write.
Drunken roughs stoned a passenger
train on the Wisconsin Central road
near Fond du Lac the other night
| Many windows in the coaches were
broken, but no one was injured.
The wife Of Martin HENDERSON. of Su-
perior, died recently from the effects of
| a beating administered by him Heiber-
son was arrested. The poor woman left
/ two small children in a destitute cOndi-
| ton.
The officers of the Washington County
/ Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Com.
pany notified the members the other
1 dav of the dissolution of the company.
The officers said that they had found
town insurance too expensive.
The Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western
railway was recently granted franchise
to lay : track along Quay street 70 Tru-
man & Cooper's dock, on the lake front
| at Manitowoc.
The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences,
| Arts and Letters at Madison recently
elected Prof. E. A. Birge, of Madison,
president, vice Prof. William F. Allen,
/ deceased.
Samuel Clegg, the old gentleman who
was shot by a target gun or the fair
grounds at Dodgeville during the fair
last August, has brought suit in the cir
cult court against the Iowa County Ag.
ric1ltural Society and its officers for s.,
o01 damages