River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-08-06
Tho News Condensed.

Michael Blake, farmer aged 80, liv-
ing near Beloit, committed suicide.
l.. II. Becker, a GAINESVILLE shoe deal
er. failed for sl1, 1000 His assets were
SIS, 900 in stock and accounts.
Col. b. f. Cole, of Amigo, was killed
by the discharge of a setgun placed by
Charles Weaver for killing deer
The plant of the Aniwa Manufacture
ing Company at Aniwa was burned.
Loss, $50, 900; insurance, SIS, 900.
Buckstaff's mill, 3 miles south of
Tigerton, was burned to the ground
Loss, $1,000.
j. n Ross, an Ashland furniture
dealer, has failed. Assets, $4,000; liza
bilities $4,000.
The steel range works at Ports
mouth, o., will remove to West SUI
perior.
Fritz Miller had his thumb and two
fingers cut off his left hand on an edger
in Holioway's mill at La Crosse.
A humane society will be organized
at Sheboygan.
Burglars entered the house of DIR.
Wiggington, at Waukesha, and secured
SIT from summer boarders.
Postmaster Charles II. Ilalverson was
arrested at Mondovi for the embezzle-
ment of 50, 600.
Ira Andrews fell dead of heart dis
ease at his home in Berlin.
The first raft of logs that was ever
brought across Lake Superior arrived
at Ashland.
A. Z. Brook, a civil engineer and a
pioneer of Wisconsin. died at Madison
in the Goth year of his age
Mrs. Daniel McMullen, widow of the
engineer, and Mrs. Peter Seipp, widow
of the brakeman, who were killed in
the wreck at Vernon on the Wisconsin
Central road, will each bring suit for
81. 900.
The property of the Uncle Tom's
Cabin troup owned by George w. Lowe,
of st. Paul, which was stranded at
Black River Falls, was sold by the
sheriff at public auction and was bid in
by the attorney for the plaintiffs for
SIS.
William Wetter, a prominent young
man of Waterfowl, was found dead. A
coroner's jury returned a verdict of
death from heart disease. He was 81
years of age.
Thirteen gravel cars were derailed
near West Bend, and while the wreck
ing train was at work on the debris a
freight train ran into the wreck No
body was seriously hurt.
The creamery at Bloomer was burned
to the ground, the loss being about ST.
200 and the insurance S5U0.
The powder mill of the Latin Rand
Powder Company at Plattville was
blown up, and the only man in the
building named Lowry, was blown TO
atoms.
Judge Jenkins rendered a decision at
Milwaukee in the famous Armour Ma
rion collision case in which he finds
both vessels were at fault, the Marion
i'm misunderstanding signals and the
Armour in not stopping and reversing
her engines. The damages were divid-
ed between the two vessels.
Owing to a conflict of date with the
fair to be held at Oshkosh, the Wan
paca county fair will be held Septem-
Der 2s. % and 80, instead of September
-, % and "a as first announced.
Officer Carroll, of the Appleton po-
lice force, has invented an improve
ment on the patrol wagon. He now
transfers his prisoners to the lookup in
a wheelbarrow.
While K. +. Muller was driving on
the beach at Two Rivers a wave caused
his horse to leap suddenly to one side.
The shaft of Muller's buggy pierced the
side of a horse driven by man named
Nutz, killing the animal instantly.
The steamer Mike Davis. engaged in
government work near Osceola, was
destroyed by fire. The crew escaped
There was no insurance on the boat
Six attempts at burglary were made
at Superior. In two instances occu
pants of dwellings were aroused ano
fired at the intruders. Several hun.
bred dollars worth of jewelry were
taken.
The report of Railroad Commissioner
Peterson for 1890 shows the gross earn
ings of the Wisconsin roads To have
been S5G, 45l, 1864 81 and the total eN
penses SIG. S7.T4l2l Total mileage
3.475 miles. Four passengers wer,
Killed during the year.