River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-11-13
The Now CONDENSED.


The potato crop OF the State is esti-
mated at 5, S53, 232 bushels.
Merrill is to have a new box factory,
which is to be started in that city by "a
Mr. Russell, of Bay City, Mich. 1t will
employ about seventy hands.
The firm OF Cohen Bros, clothiers at
Ashland, made an assignment to Harry
Luehensyoip. Tho liabilities and &c
sets were about IS. 900 each.
Hog cholera has broken out among
the swine in the town of Mount Pleas
ant Seven animals had died and 4
large number were sick.
An Appleton photographer ruined hun
dreds of dollars worth of work by using
water that had passed through rusted
mains
Mrs. Joe Stangle was accidentally
killed near Thorn. while assisting her
husband in pulling stumps.
Henry NJ. Stanley has been booke d to
lecture in Milwaukee next February.
Several families from Dakota passed
through Milwaukee in prairie schoon-
ers" recently. They we're on their way
home to Michigan, having abandoned
their unproductive farms.
Marinette boasts of 9-year-old mu-
steal prodigy in the person of little
Miss Elna Stanton, who is organist of
the Methodist church Sunday-school.
Three sons of Robert Paul living at
MIDI clown. died from diphtheria
caught from cat.
f. f. Pierson and II. L. Skavlem have
returned to GAINESVILLE from their hunt
ing excursion in North Dakota, bringing
home long string of game. In four
days the party killed 165 geese.
Elias Friend. prominent business
man of Milwaukee, died at Excelsior
Springs, Mo.
Gustave Adolph Lange. under arrest
in Racine for bigamy, admitted having
three wives, all in Racine County.
Chicago parties may put in a creamery
and cold storage warehouse at Berlin.
They want local capitalists to become
interested 5000 worth.
John T. Richards, who was charghed
with the murder of his stepson, John
Mooney at Sparta, Feb. s, 1889, was
found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree.
Deer are as plentiful and almost as
cheap as beef in Green Bay butcher
shops.
The marriage of Miss Francesca Guth-
RE, tho prima donna of the Hess Opera
Company, to Charles ID. Mover, a young
Minneapolis attorney, took place in
Milwaukee.
Mrs. Henry Henken was crippled for
life by fall on "a Racine sidewalk that
was defective.
An Eau Claire butcher found $50 gold
piece. somewhat worn. in the crop of a
chicken 1t was dated 1875.
Mrs. Lewis Lindorman died in Beloit
at the age of 81 years. She and her
husband were among the first white
people to establish homes in that local
ity.
Misses Katie and Ida Zeh. daughters
of Henry Zeh, a prominent citizen OF
jefferson. were overcome by coal gas,
but the promptness of physician saved
their lives
George w. Martin. cashier Of the Iron
wood Electric Company at Ashland, has
disappeared with several hundred dol
lars belonging to the company.
Isadore Cook. of Eau Claire, elected
sheriff on the Democratic ticket, died
from collapse following the excitemen
caused by success OF his party. lie was
far gone with pulmonary consumption
Thomas Owens, confined in the Cen
trail police station at Milw ukee on
charge OF forgery, attempted suicide by
hanging himself TO the ba OF his cell
with couple of Observation-Disclosures
He was cut down in time to save his
life.
John Jacob Zearley, farmer, was
foun dead in the woods near Superior.
shot through the heart He had set
rifle for deer and had walked into thf
trap himself
A stranger, while inspecting sons
watches ~ Upmann's iewelry store m
Milwaukee, suddenly made dash and
escaped with four of them. He had not
been arrested
Dominica Finerty, of Hollandtown.
aged so years, who went to Green Bag
from that place with the election re-
turns, was drowned in Fox river Fin
erty was under the influence OF liquor
and strolled down to the dock and
fell in, The holy was recovered