River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-10-23
The News Condemned.

A. Geisler, furniture dealer at Ash
land, made an assignment, with liablli-
ties of So, 500 and assets about the same.
Charles Everett, an inmate of the
Milwaukee Soldiers Home, was run
over and killed on the St. Paul railway.
Indian Agent Leahy denies that any
loggers have contracts to cut timber on
the Flambeau or Court D'Oreille In
dian reservation this winter. He says
that he has recommended that the In
dians be allowed to cut, so as to earn
money to live on.
Frank Neweth, of La Crosse, stepped
on nail and died of lockjaw.
The boilermakers of the Wisconsin
Central railroad shops at Waukesha
struck for the discharge of Foreman
Smith.
Two powerful stIllions got into one
stall at James Rorck's farm at Truax
Prairie and fought in a desperate man
ner with their teeth, tearing the flesh
from each others bodies in strips eight
inches in length. Both had to be killed
Several children of Michael Downey,
at North La Crosse. were playing, when
Blanche, aged years, was pushed into
a tub of boiling water and badly scalded-
In the woods on the Menominee iron
range the dead bodies of Alexander
Bartteson and his 1l-year-old boy we're
found. They had been murdered, and
John Nellis was suspected as the Grim
inal
Indian Agent Kelsey, of the Shawano
reservation. has forwarded his first Of
fetal report He says the Indians are
in good condition and are tiliing the
soil. Last winter he saws the Indians
banked 25,69l, sos feet of logs. which
netted them S21s,37S.
Milwauk and the village of Wau-
watosa, five miles west of the city, are
to be connected by an electric railway
line.
Albert Blatz, vice president of the
Blatz Brewing Company at Milwaukee,
denies rerort that the Blatz brewery
has been 5, l / to an English syndicate
John Compton, Of Merrill. while on
his way to Wausau fell from the train
and was killed.
The excitement over the Nelson iron
mines ten miles north of Alma Is still
at its height company has been or
glnized and operations will commence
at once.
Treasurer Miner, OF the State Agri-
cultural Society, says that the treasury
now holds a surplus OF Sil,4l3- The
total EXPENSES for the fair were S24, ZOO,
while the receipts aggregated S56.6lS.
]. Fred Twitchell. secretary of the
West Superior Trotting Association. has
disappeared. lie had used funds be-
longing TO the association, and besides
had borrowed large sums of friends
A Lake Shore train attempted to
travel on the ties instead OF upon the
rails near Manitowoc, but the oft-tried
exper. ment didn't work. and the line
will haze to be rebuilt for distance o.
fifteen or twenty rods.
II. Beauregard, agent OF hospital al
Narinette. was mistaken for bear and
shot by an unknown hunter in the for
est near Metropolitan, Mich.
Henry A. Chittenden, formerly editor
of the Milwaukee Commercial Times,
has been awarded the $500 offered bS
James Gordon BE nnett for the best and
largest number of newspaper para
graphs suitable for the New York Her
aid.
Peter Coyle, of OcOnomowoc, has an
ear 81 corn that contains 1000 kernels
| that is. 90 rows, so in a row. 1t is %
inches in length and III inches around.
1t is good, solid corn, every bit OF IT,
and we'll matnrsd.