River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-07-23
The Nav. Condan.ea,

A turtle bearing the name of +. Il.
Mason and the date 1887 was caught
near Marshfield.
At the Ortouvllle stone quarry a
laborer, whose name could not be
learned, was killed by the backing of
fiat ears.
Elmer Knutson was seen breaking
into PREDECESSORS saloon at 0sseo by
Peter Solburg, the bartender, who
pounded him until he was nearly dead.
Secretary n. r. Moody, of the Wis
consin Farmers Alliance, says that
there are at present PHI alliances in the
state with membership of about S, 600
La Crosse police had in custody a r.
year-old boy who confessed that he
wrecked a train near Lansing, Ia,
when Engineer Ladd lost'his life.
According to a census bulletin the
total population of Wisconsin is $685.
$50, an increase of 81, 1888 over the
population of 1880
The mechanical engineering depart
ment of the university at Madison has
recently received the gift of a fine
dynamo from the National Electric
Company of Eau Claire. 1t has ca
pacity of thirty incandescent lamps
Henry Sitsle. years of age, was
drowned at Milwaukee while bathing.
The body was recovered
The will of ex-Gov. Ludington. of
Milwaukee, disposes of an estate valued
at 81 900, 900 To relatives.
A receiver has been appointed for the
Rock Falls Lumber Company at Tom
ahawk The assets of the concern
were S32, 900 and the liabilities $1,000
Nicholas Thomas, of Somers. Ken
osha county. was engaged blowing up
virgin soil when he turned up piece
of metallic copper weighing between
forty and fifty pounds.
Emil Hinges was run over by train
at Colby while drunk and both legs
were cut off between the knee and
ankle.
Two Milwaukee girls in their teens
elm bed by means of outside ladders to
the top of the tallest chimney in that
city, waved their haudlxerchiefs to the
crowd and descended on the ladders.
The chimney is 225 feet tall.
Bernfid Krausp of Little Chute. left
ChuINiis NdAkti W liit bittAEts hHOii
which he placed his coat, hat and pray
er-bool, and drowned himself in Fox
river. He was ~ years of age and his
family reside at Depere. Cause of sui
eide unknown.
Walter Southgate, of Chicago, lays
claim to 800 acres of land in the vicinity
of Beloit, for which he says he holds
an early government patent
Berry raising has become an impor-
tant industry at Sparta. The ship
ments of trawberries from there by
express amounted to $500 cases this
season. A large crop of raspberries was
being marketed.
Knute Knutson, of Springdale, took
the scalps of two prairie wolves to the
county clerk at Madison and received
$40 as bounty. lie also received $40
more from the secretary of state as the
bounty offered by the commonwealth.
The state board of control has let
contracts for furnishing coal to state
institutions. A. L. Thatcher, of Chica-
go, received most of the contracts.
At West Superior two men were
caught by Policeman Cullen trying to
force an entrance into a residence.
The burglars showing fight the POI
liceman fired one shot, instantly killing
one of the men
While returning from blueberrying
Jacob Heipler. a lad of S years. of
Chippewa Falls, fell, breaking a bottle
of milk in his pocket, pieces of the
bottle penetrating the abdomen SO that
his ensrails protruded