River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-10
The News Condensed.

The depot at Lombard. on the Wis
consin Central, was recently destroyed
BY fire. 1t was believed to be the work
of an incendiary.
DIR. A. J. Ward, arrested at Madison
on a charge of malpractice, was dis
charged the other day, the girl in the
case having married her betrayer.
The Governors Guard celebrated the
fifteenth anniversary of its organization
at its armory in Madison a few even
ings ago.
A fire the other day in Anton Danck's
general store at Ahnapee created loss
on stock of S., 900; insurance, 81, 200.
Lyman De Witt. on trial at Dodge
Vile, for the killing of Thomas Folliard
at Avoca. was acquitted the other day.
John BLY,, a laborer, died at Superior
the other day of injuries received from
falling tree short time ago.
The lease of the Wisconsin Central
was formally ratified at New York the
other day by the Northern Pacific di-
rectors.
Early the other morning fire destroyed
the parochial school in Green Bay.
Loss. 81, 500, covered by insurance.
II. ID. Conover, for eleven years pro-
fessor of engineering in the University
of Wisconsin at Madison, resigned re-
Gently.
new hospital at Madison was dedi-
Gated and formally opened the other
day.
Charles w. Nelson, of Sheboygan,
placed two young alliga'ors in charge
of the store cat, which, strange to say,
seems TO have taken motherly interest
in the scaly little sasrians. She will
sleep with them for hours, as cats are
won't to do with their kittens.
Henry Borali's immense barn near
Mount Hope, with all its contents, in
Guiding eighteen head of cattle and fif-
teen horses. was destroyed by fire the
other morning. Loss, $4,000 or $1,000
above the insurance.
At Sexton recently William Mcclellan,
manager of the large charcoal kilns,
was fatally injured by falling from load
OF wood.
George Paschen. well-known Repub-
lican politician and prominent citizen
of Milwaukee, died the other afternoon,
aged 45 years. He had been sheriff, city
clerk and alderman and at the time Of
his death was assistant register of deeds.
A committee appointed to investigate
the accounts OF Justice John Mars, OF
Ashland, reported recently shortage
of several hundred dollars.
Henry johnson. acranberry-grower Of
I ClOverdale. was found dead in bed re-
/ Gently. bottle of strychnine was in
/ his room, and it was thought he com
mitted suicide
A change Of venue to Rock County
was recently granted in the case of
/ Mark Ferrill, who killed a man named
/ Forey in Iowa County some time ago.
| At previous trial he was found guilty
and sentenced to seven years in the
| penitentiary.
Many of the wells in Black River
/ Falls. that were considered inexhaust-
/ ible. failed the past winter and were
/ abandoned.
Chris English shot Constable Arnold
! at Ashland recently. inflicting wound
that would probably result in Arnold's
death. English was under bonds of
/ $1,000.
/ Frank Schmidt was found dead in the
closet of Wisconsin Central train on
I its arrival at Naukesha the other morn
/ ing. He had com mitted suicide by hang
/ ing himself 20 a hook with pocket
/ handkerchief. He was on his way from
Spokane Falls to Detroit where be be-
loaged-