River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25

A. +. Ulrich, a merchant tailor. Of
Eau Claire, has assigned; liabilities
about -, 600; assets same.
A Milwaukee & St. Paul brakeman
named Gus Dunbay was run over the
other morning at Wausau and both his
| legs were severed. lie is balf-breed.
aged 40 years, and it was his first day in
the employ of the road.
A package containing sixty-five pen
sion vouchers from Madison mailed to
Pension Agent Pond, in Milwaukee,
September 4, has been lost. No trace
of it could be found. The package was
valued at several thousand dollars.
The jury in the case of Anton Maus,
dered and robbed at Preble. Brown
County, finds the cause Of death to have
been apoplexy and that the bruises on
his head were ca used by the fall.
Justice of the Peace John 5. Colo
way, George w. earn and Steness
Swesky. II ofsWingville, were arrested
by the cderal authorities recently. and
were awaiting examination at Mad Ison.
They were charged with fraudulently
procuring a pension and back pay
amounting to 81, 700 for Mrs. Catherine
Longmeir, who was also under arrest
Hiram Ellingson. an old soldier liv-
ing at Beloit, was fatally hurt by falling
out of a second-story window.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway has completed its line of survey
from Lynn TO Thorpe.
Carrie Dodd, the daughter of II. II.
Dodd, of Madison, was drowned in her
bath tub, being overcome by escaping
gas from stove.
terrific halls iorm struck Dodge
vile and riddled the tobacco yet stand
ing. the foliage on the trees and the
corn.
vega has been burned. The shed con-
tanned pile of coal and fifty tons OF
hay. The loss will be about 81, 400; in
surance $500
The State Bank of Plymouth will
succeed the private banking house of J.
W. Dow & Son. The capital sub
scribed is SIS, 600, and is held by resi-
dent partie'.
The village of Aniwa was visited by
hurricane and one house was complete
" wrecked and a number of buildings,
including the post-oflice, badly dam
aged. No lives were lost The storm
cut swath in the pine woods eighty
rods wide and two miles long.
The infant son of DIR. Allen of
Palmyra fell into the millrace while
playing the other day and was rescued
in an unconscious condition by George
Ledbeatter.
At Coleman Sinai Brault, employed at
Brault Bros. mill in saving single
bolts, was attacked by fit and fell on
the saw, severing his left shoulder and
part OF the heart.
Suit for $50, 900 damages has been
brought by J. s. Richards against the
Illinois Central road at GAINESVILLE.
While working at the round-house at
Waterloo. Iowa, plaintiff fell and re-
ceived injuries on which he sues for
damages.
w. NJ Carr, of W. NJ. Carr & Co,
druggists. of Evansville, who was ar
vested "A few days ago, pleaded guilty to
selling liquor without license, and
was fined $50 and costs of the action.
f. f. Gibbs, from New York City, who
jumped board bill at Madison and was
sentenced to six months in the county
ilil, was pardoned by Governor Hoard
recently.
James L. Cans, of Milwaukee, has
sold to the Ashland County Land Com
pany 446 pieces of real-estate in that
county, aggregating over 10000 acres.
for $50. 600. the biggest conveyance in
- l,,I a,-or raoapdad At AZ
Duncan C. Reed, for many years Gov
eminent inspector of boilers for the
Milwaukee district, died after a linger-
ing illness, at the age of IS years.
DIR. Houghton. an itinerant horse
doctor of Hale's Corners. formerly of
Racine, was found dead in the woods
near Muskegon recently. He had in
tentionally poisoned himself.
At a meeting in Juneau the. other
afternoon the depositors of the defunct
Bank of Juneau all agreed to accept Al
per cent in full settlement of theii
claims, and il was expected that the de.
positors of the Bank of Hartford would
do likewise.
Henry Hensel, who was suspected OF
killing his wife on August %, was
placed under arrest at Green Bay the
other day.
Henry ". Poor, who left NASSAU in
1856 and who was supposed to have
drowned in the Missouri river, turns NJ
alive He was seen at the Stevens
Point fair by W. Il. Rhilbrick, Of Was
sau.
Captain w. l.. Dickinson, manager OF
the great Colby iron mine at Ashland
and one of the oldest and best-known
mining men in the country, has resigDes
and was to go TO Cuba this fall to tax
charge of some iron properties owned b.
Fay, the Cleveland mine owner,