River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-07-02
The News Condensed.

C. Langdon. a meat market man at
Eau Claire, went violently insane over
the loss of 81 900 by business reverses.
A passenger train was wrecked on
the Milwaukee & Northern railroad
near New Holstein and several persons
were injured but none fatally
Fire broke out in the university gym
nasium building at Madison and it was
totally destroyed. The fire was the
work of incendiaries.
Henry J. Brooks, a noted Wisconsin
criminal lawyer whose home was at
Boscobel, died suddenly in New York.
The jury at Waukesha in the case of
John Bernhard for killing John
Schley, saloon keeper, brouy ht in
verdict of murder in the first degree.
In one week $4,000 tons of ore were
shipped from Ashland.
The Knight hotel in Parishville, a
suburb of Ashland, was burned caus-
ing loss of s., 900 with little insurance.
The tug Keystone, of Ashland, lost
1 900, 900 feet of logs near the mouth of
Bar river in a storm on Lake Superior.
The sixth annual reunion of the
Twenty-ninth Wisconsin regiment was
held at Watertown. nearly 100 survivors
of the organization participating.
The S-year-old child of George Bren-
fang wandered on the track of the Chi
cago & Northwestern railroad at JEFF
ferson and was run over and killed.
At Milwaukee James Miggley shot
and killed his wife because she refused
TO stay away from saloons. He was
arrested.
Milwaukee tanueries have contracted
this season for $685.. 900 worth of tan
bark
The body of man supposed to be
Thomas Wach was found in the woods
of northern Wisconsin. lie left Ash
land last April and was supposed to
have starved to death.
The board of regents of the state
university have increased the salaries
of nearly all the professors from $500
to $500 each, and President Chamber
Inns from $4,000 to $1,000.
Rev. Isaac Nicholson, of Philadel-
phia, has been elected bishop of the
Episcopal diocese of Milwaukee.
Two patients have been discharged
from the hospital at Madison, cured of
consumption by Koeh's lymph.
At Madison Mrs. Catherine Long
meir was sentenced to fifteen months
imprisonment for obtaining a pension
fraudulently.
William Lovejoy, employed in David
sons planning mill at La Crosse, was
caught in the gear and his leg torn
from the body SO that it hung by few
shreds of flesh. The doctors thought
| he would live.
George H. Button. leading business
man of Milton Junction, died at the
| age of IS. He was taken with la grippe
| e arly in the winter and never fully re-
/ covered
New post offices have been established
/ at I.imme, Oconto county, with John
1 A. Borden, postmaster; Harshaw,
4 Oneida county, with Charles A. Nor.
way, postmaster.
DR. r. l.. Baker. prominent vet
/ Urinary surgeon of Madison, has been
/ appointed United States veterinary in
I spector of the bureau of animal indus
try in the meat inspection division be-
ing organized by Secretary Rusk.
Seventy-five young ladies were en-
/ dowed with the white vail of nOvices
4 at the convent OF Notre Dame at Mil
4 waulzee.
Henry Kestler. a young lad living
Ear Boaz, was struck and killed by
4 lightning He had taken shelter in a
little log cabin and was looking out of
a door when struck.
In the circuit court at milwaukee,
Miss Kate II. Pier moved for the adj
mission of her two sisters, Miss Caro-
/ line II. Pier and Miss Harriet II. Pier, 70
the bar, and the motion was granted.
This makes five lawyers in one family,
Col and Mrs. Pier being attorneys al
Law.