River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-06-18

Three young men whose names are
unknown have been arrested at Waldo
on a charge of having caused the death
of l4-year-old Fred Kopplein.
BY the will of the late Mrs. C. L. A.
Tank, of Fort Howard, nearly 500, 600
is given to home and foreign missions.
DIR. Willis Danforth, for many years
a leading physician of Milwaukee, died
at his residence in that city at the age
of IS years.
George Beauvin, whose. foot and arm
were cut off in the Penokee Lumber
Company's sawmill in Ashland county,
secured a verdict of $4,000 damages
against the company in the United
States circuit court at Eau Claire.
John Van Zandt, forrnerly of Mil
waukee, was run over by the ears at
Mechanicsville, n. Y, and fatally in
jured.
Bishop Knight, of the Episcopal do
cese of Milwaukee, died at his home,
aged go years.
C. n. Cook, of Chicago, is held in
$4,000 bonds at Juneau charged with
having wrecked the banks at Juneau
and Hartford.
At the annual meeting in Palmyra of
the old settlers of southern Wisconsin
the old officers were reelected and
Thomas Carey, George Hooper and J.
b. Chaplin were made members.
Patrick Mcknight, a Prescott rail-
road man, was fired at four times while
asleep in bed. One shot struck him in
the hand, but he was not badly hurt.
He had no idea as to who his assailant
was.
Charles Belongs flock of sheep on
his farm in La Prairie were almost
wiped out by a big storm. Belding
went to the field and found forty-one
of the sheep scattered along the wire
fence dead.
All that part of Abbottsford lying
southwest of the Wisconsin Central
track was destroyed by fire, causing a
loss of about $4,000.
Thousands of deer are being killed
for their pelts on the state line between
Wisconsin and Minnesota. The gov
errors of both states will be asked to
use their power in having this whole
sale slaughter stopped.
In the United States court at Milwau-
kee Daniel and Nora Whalen, who kept
a saloon near Appleton, were found
guilty of giving liquor to Indians. The
man was fined $50 and the woman s25,
with one days Imprisonment each.
Mrs. Francis James, widow of George
Payne Rainsford James, the English
novelist and historian, died in Eau
Claire, aged 90 years. Her husband
died thirty-one years ago at Venice.
The corner stone of Lawrence uni
versity's new observatory at Appleton,
was laid the other day. 1t will be
named after Prof. Underwood, who
raised $3.50 for its erection.
Burglars secured an entrance to Her
man Helms dry goods store in Milwau-
kee, cracked the safe and took S70 in
currency and ssa worth of postage
stamps but overlooked package which
contained $500.
The factory of the Sash & Door
Company in Milwaukee was totally de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance small
Fred Kopplein, aged IA, secured some
liquor from a party of sheep shearers
near Cascade and drank until he was
intoxicated. While in that condition he
lay down in the mill pond and was
drowned.
Campbell & Son, butchers, of Juneau,
lost a valuable heifer. The heifer got
her head entangled in bunch of will
lows, and in attempting to extricate
herself got large willow so tightly
wound about her neck as to choke he
to death.