River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-08-20
The Nows Condensed.

The Waukesha county fair opens
August % and lasts until the 2Sth.
During rainstorm the smokestack
of the Chippewa Falls Manufacturing
Company blew down, doing consider
able damage.
f. w. Brewer circulated worthless
checks to the amount of $1,000, among
them forgery on J. Jaspers & CO., at
West Superior, and decamped.
A 2-year-old son of Supervisor Charles
Techmann, of Barton, was strucS oy
freight train and fatally injured.
Guth & Marx, general merchants and
dealers in grain and produce at Ke-
waskum, failed for S, 600
At West Superior the entire stock of
the Oakland Clothing Company, valued
at $4,000, was destroyed by fire. In
surance, S37, 600.
Mrs. Frank J. Duff. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas McCabe, of Water
town, died at her home in East Grand
Forks, Mimi.
Julius Richard, who. with Messrs.
Webb and Wachsner controlled the
Milwaukee Stadt Theater Company,
died suddenly in Green Bay.
Wheat of this year arrived in Mil
wauzee from South Dakota and was
graded No. 3. The price paid Cor it
was ninety-five cents per bushel
The state normal school regents have
awarded the contract for an addition to
the Plattsville school to Nolan & Nor
ris, of Janesville, for Sl3. 799.
Ore shipments from the port OF Ash
land in six days were $1,000 tons, and
for the season 69l, 900 tons.
robber entered the Centralia post
office and burglarized the safe of 5000,
$500 of which was in cash and the bal
ance in postage stamps.
Louis Christensen, merchant at
Raymond Center. had a warrant issued
for the arrest of DIR. C. NJ. Palmer,
charging him with burglarizing his
store.
The directors of the Northwestern
Fair association decided to hold the
fair at Eau Claire September Is, 10, Il
and IS Ten thousand dollars will be
offered in prizes.
Charles d. ,'killiugs, "A local newspa-
per man of West Superior, is heir to an
estate in Portland, Me, worth probably
$1,000. 600.
Ri Rev. Bishop Kilian Flasch. of the
Lacrosse diocese, died at the age of 60
years. He was consecrated bishop Au-
gust u, 1881.
William Long. a son of stephen NJ.
Long, of Madison, was killed at Sheri-
dan, Wyo., by being thrown from
horse.
John Goodland. of Appleton. has
been appointed judge of the tenth cir
cult in the place of Judge Meyers, who
recently died.
William Watson. brakeman. was
run over and killed by Wisconsin
Central train at Ashland
Fred Becker. of Wausau, was the vic
torious candidate for admission to
West Point
CIarissa K. Paine, widow OF Judge
Byron Paine, of the supreme court OF
Wisconsin, died at Madison aged c.
years.
Mayor II. T. Hanson. of Stoughton,
and Miss Bell Schlernitdauer, of Chi
cago, were quietly married at the
latter place The marriage created
quite a sensation, as it was entirely
unexpected.
C. E. Spies. proprietor of a small ho-
tel and saloon at La Crosse, was
drowned while bathing.
August Eckstrom, Scandinavian.
was drowned in the river at Hayward
while bathing.
At Chippewa Falls Goethel Bros.
found large live tarantula in a bunch
of bananas After creating a terrib le
scramble among the clerks it was
killed.
Charles Hyland. who assaulted City
Health Officer Bodenius at Madison
for trying TO stop the spreat of
diphtheria through fumigating the
premises of Hyland's sister. was gi en-
three months in the county jail,