River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-30
The News Condensed.

Peter Nelson, who had issued numerous
forged checks on banks of La Crosse,
was captured at Eau Claire the other day.
J. II. Murphy, a homesteader near
Flam beau, was frozen to death the
other day. He was supposed to have
been drunk.
Gideon Bergerin's dry-goods store at
Chippewa Falls was totally destroyed by
fire the other night. Loss, $4,000; fully
insured.
ID. Abrams, for sixteen years a retail
clothier in Milwaukee, made an assign
ment the other day as a result of poor
business. The liabilities were $40, 900.
+. MacKinnon & Co. IS large hub and
spoke factory and saw-mill at Centralia
caught fire and burned to the ground the
other morning. The loss over and above
insurance was estimated at SIG, 900.
The new Kemper military institute at
Menomonie will be opened March 10.
John Hanson, tailor at Oregon, was
run over by train the other evening
and literally ground to pieces. He was
A years old and leaves large family.
A Wisconsin Central train the other
morning struck and killed William
Witelit, a farmer living half a mile
south of Germantown station.
Jack Connors and Joe Gabriel, who
left Appleton to engage in railroad
work. were killed in switchboard at
some point in Montana recently.
The reports of the fish wardens of the
State show that the seasons catch has
aggregated s2s6, 961.26.
Upwards of $50 people are at present
employed in the tobacco packeries at
Edgerton. The weekly payroll aggre-
gates nearly $1,000
J. II. Carpenter, of Madison. has been
appointed to fill the Jackson professor
ship of law established at the University
of Wisconsin for which the late Judge
NJ. NJ. jackson gave $4,000.
At the winter meeting of the trustees
of Beloit College the other day the
financial and other reports were encour-
aging.
During the past season 1921 boats
passed through the bridge at La Crosse,
1,223 log RATS and 1854 lumber RATS.
This does not include any rafting from
Black river, of which no record was
kept.
At Marshfield the Rink armory was
burned the other morning. The Marsh
field Light Infantry had just received
their arms from the State, and used
them for the first time the previous
evening. Loss about s., 1000; lightly in
sured.
Rossiel d. Campbell, aged so years, a
lawyer of as long standing as any in
Wisconsin, died the other day at his
home at Augusta City of hemorrhage of
the lungs.
At an early hour the other morning
fire destroyed the Phoenix drug store
and contents and two adjoining wooden
buildings at River Falls. Loss about
SIC, 1000.
Leonard Groman, indicted for man
slaughter for striking one Buchanan
with billiard cue, causing his death,
pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the
fourth degree at La Crosse recently and
was sentenced to pay fine of 500.
George C. Keen died recently at his
home in Oconomowoc shortly after his
return from treatment in a prayer-cure
establishment in Chicago.
Martin Shannon, is years old, and liv-
ing in boarding house at Milwaukee,
shot himself through the head the other
afternoon, and when found in his room
was dead. No cause was known for sui
eide.
John Malloy and Charles Atwell two
strangers found guilty of burglarizing
shoe store. were sentenced in Madison
the other day to two years in the State
prison. They stole only four pairs of
shoes
At recent special term of the circuit
court for Eau Claire County, Judge
Bundy presiding, twelve divorces were
granted, the wife being the plaintiff in
each case with one exception
Alfred Hoskins, an old pioneer of Rock
County, died at GAINESVILLE the other
morning, aged So years. He was sheriff
in 1856 during the celebrated Mayberry
trial and lynching. Mr.. Hoskins was Ill
only one hour from pneumonia
James Peterman wanted to marry a
l4-year-oid girl, and by forging the
name OF the damsel's mother he in
duced justice of Eau Claire recently
70 perform the ceremony. The brides
father caused the arrest Of PeteFmsn,