River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-07-16

The corner stone of the Christ Pres
byterian church at Madison was laid.
At Waukesha Judge Sloan sentenced
John Bernhardt to the states prison for
( life for the murder of Henry Schley.
John Coburn. of West Salem. has
been appointed worlds fair commits
sioner to succeed Il. NJ. Benjamin, Mil
waukee, resigned.
Frank Arbick fell on the railroad
track near Ashland in drunken stupor
and was run over and killed by train.
A jury at Waukesha awarded Miss
Hurd $500 damages against the town of
Milton for injuries received on a de-
fective sidewalk.
The book agent who committed sui
eide at Waukesha and who gave his
name as J. j. Kelly has been identified
as Alonzo DonOhue, IF San Francisco.
lie was a graduate of West Point
At West Superior the jury in the case
of John Richardson, charged with the
murder of Charles Allen, brought in a
verdict of not guilty.
George w. Cans has been appointed
superintendent of logging on the Me
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Fifteen loaded freight ears of an extra
train going west on the Racine division
of the Chicago, Milwaukee S St Paul
road were wrecked near Beioit june
ton, causing great loss Of property.
The board of trade firm of Mohr,
Zinkeisen & Co, of Milwaukee, made
an assignment
l,oar, arrapfnta1 >
master at Saratoga, Wood county, vice
o. b. Hamilton, resigned
The state board of control has APP
pointed p. b. LamoreauX warden of
state prison, vice Weeks, removed.
a little 3-year-old daughter of Widow
Randall, of Lynxville, was choked to
death by swallowing beans given her
to play with.
One farmer in Brown county is said
to have received $1,000 in cash for the
right of way % the new railway.
l. 5. Love, who made the first reaper
turned out in Wisconsin, died at his
home in Belo;t. lie was 81 years old,
and first engaged in manufacturing in
1s4l.
James Martin, an extensive stock
breeder at Richland Center, sustained a
loss in a storm OF three bloodcd horses,
which were struck by lightning in a
pasture. Three other horses were IA
tally hurt.
Max ellis and Rhinehart Peters, of
La Crosse, were crossing the Mississippi
river at Dubuque, Ia. on freight
train, when, in passing under low
bridge, they were struck and both
fatally hurt.
r. b. Champagne, of Merrill, secre-
tary of the Champagne Lumber Com
pany, died of paralysis. lie was widely
known.
Rev Sophia Gibbs, of Decatur, Ill,
has accepted call 10 the pulpit of All
Souls church In GAINESVILLE.
A little 2-year-old child Of John Du-
bonslxi, living at Ashland, was smoth-
ere,i to death between two featherbed
ticks
Arrangements have been consum-
mattel at a ,hland among some of the
leading capitalists for an extensive
sanitarium to be located at Prentice
paris in the suburbs of Ashland.
A small cannon exploded at Chippe-
wa Fails, the contents enter ing the
face of James Murphy, aged Il years,
seriously nj .u.ing him He would lose
his eyesjSht.
The j-year-oli son of George Odds, of
Palmyra, drank a quantity Of washing
fluid, thinking it was lemonade.
Though severely poisoned his life was
saved.
A Burlington train arriving at La
Crosse from the north brought the
body of an unknown man who was
run over near Trempcleau The ad
man was an elderly person and we'll
dressed. but was unidentified
The body of an infant. which had
probably been dead two months, was.
found among the rays at the Telulah
paper mill in Appleton. The rags came
from Chicago.
At Eau Claire Mrs Morton, who was
for many years a hOuselzeeper for Alex
ander Watson, recently deceased, IS at
tempting to break the latter's will. She
claims Watson married her in July,
1919.
Charles Gemperle, the Racine saloon
keeper who deserted his family and
wrote TO his wife from Germany, IS in
ST. Louis. It has been said that he
never went to Germany and that he
wrote the letter 10 deceive his family.