River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-02-19
The News Condensed.

Fred Juergensen, a 10-year-old boy,
and the 2-year-old son of Judson Nc
Kenny, of GAINESVILLE, were fatally
scalded.
The executive board of the State Ag-
ricultural Society has decided to hold
the next State fair in Milwaukee, Sep
TENDER - TO 10, 1891.
The pearl button industry at Mani
towoc is prospecting. Its force will be
increased in a short time and new ma
chinery will be added.
John McEwan, ex-chief of police of
Ashland, is supposed TO have persisted
in the woods of North Dakota during
the recent cold weather.
The works of the Eau Claire Gas
Company were partially destroyed by
an explosion of gas and two men were
seriously hurt. Loss, $4,000.
While John Varney was crossing the
river near Trempealeau his team broke
through a thin place in the ice and he
and his horses were drowned.
\. A. Cutter, the shoe man, and Cap
tain Matt w. Harms, an old Mississippi
steamboat captain, have Joined hands
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hotel, ten stories high, to cost 5000, 600.
Charles Knack, of Leopolis, shot and
killed his wife and then committed sui
eide. Domestic trouble was the cause.
August Marquette and Albert
Lautsch, OF Caroline, quarreled at a
dance, and both were so badly cut that
they would probably die.
Mrs. NJ. Reichert's general store at
Maple Works was burned, and the stock,
valued at SC, 900, was a total loss.
At La Crosse Harry Hubbard, the
young man who stabbed his friend with
a jsck-knife, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to one year at Waupun.
August Deubel, an employee in a
Watertown box factory, was thrown
into a planer by pile Of lumber fall
ing upon him and received fatal injur-
les
At West Superior the petition of
County Clerk Knowlton's bondsmen re-
questing his removal from office. and
that they be relieved from his bond,
was granted and ". J. Leader appoint
ed as his successor.
At Black River Falls Thomas Nelson
and ole Olson, arrested for selling So
called original packages of beer with
out license. were tried before Justice
Hoffman. Nelson was fined $50 and
costs and Olson was acquitted
Mrs. Mary y. Castle, the oldest resi-
dent. died at her home in the town of
Pleasant Prairie, aged 9s years.
Governor Peck has a p inted John
W. Zwaska. of Milwaukee, factory in
spactor. with 5. l.. Van Elten, of West
Salem, as assistant
J. w. Toombs. agent for the Good
rich Transportation Company al Mani
towoc, hanged himself while suffering
fl ON nervous prOstration.
The jaeger Manufacturing Company
located at Racine Junction is in the
hands of the sheriff, the Union Ma
tional Bank having foreclosed mort
gage of $4,000.
w H. Canon has resigned as county
Judge of Lincoln County. He is chief
clerk in the land office.
Fire in the hook and stationery store
of II. H. West j Co. at Milwaukee did
damage of about 100000.
Logging was being pushed night and
day in the Ashland district The sea-
sons cut was estimated at 100000, 600
feet.
Special Agent Cooper, of the Pine
Ridge agency, has made the annual
payment to the Winnebago Indians in
Wisconsin. About S27, 900 was paid out
10 the l. 23 Indians now on the rolls, or
about SIS each.
The stables of VI. f. Mosher, at La
Crosse, containing three horses valued
at S.. 900 and harnesses and carriages
valued at s., 200. were destroyed by
fire. Total loss. S12, 600.
B. Uterlich's residence near Sheboy
gan was burned. The occupants all left
the house but 9-year-old son, thinking
his mother was still in the burning
building, returned and was burned to
death.
Alice Carpenter had to be taken home
from college at Appleton, she having
become so excited over religious work at
revivals that fears for her mind were
entertained She IS the daughter of
the Methodist minister at Randolph