River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-10-08
The News Condemned.

a FARMER III DOOT county HIS II llli U
of crab apple tree 2 feet long con
tanning ninety-eight apples
Mrs. L. A. Park. of Waukesha, was
probably fatally burned by an explo-
sion of gasoline.
| Maj. Jonas NJ. Bundy, of the New
/ YOr.. Mail and Express, who recently
died at Paris, France, was buried at
Beloit-
Reports to the agricultural bureau of
/ the state from all sections of the state
say that the recent hot and dry spell
has utterly ruined fall pasturage.
Anton SiebOldt was taken from the
custody of the sheriff az Darlington by
a mob of 500 men and hanged to tree.
| Sieboldt murdered James Meigan in
quarrel.
Elizabeth hickman, of Warsaw.
pleaded guilty in the United States
court to sending obscene letters through
the mails and was fined 500.
Charles f. Hoase, a well. known coal
and wood dealer in Milwaukee, dropped
dead in his office from heart disease
He was about 90 years old.
John Schwulst, of Milwaukee, cele-
brated his Tooth birthday. He was un
usually vigorous for one of his years.
In 1856 he lost his eyesight, but other
wise his health was excellent.
Rush Winslow was elected mayor of
Appleton at a special election.
At Appleton the Fox River Paper
Company is putting in machinery to
fold, stamp and put up fine stationery.
new artesian well at Oconto yields
SEQ, 900 gallons of pure cold water every
TIVE nty-four hours.
The West Superior national bank has
been given permission to begin bust
ness. The capital of the new bank is
$500, 900.
The German-American bank was or
ganized at Marshfield with Judge Rich
ard Dewhurst, of Neilsville, as Dresi-
dent.
A man who had registered as A. II.
Gage, Greenville, was found dead
in bed in the Mount Vernon hotel in
Washington, ID. c.
Bernard Goldsmith, of Milwaukee.
has been appointed a member of the
state board of normal regents. vice
Jacob Mendel, RESIGNED.
Andrew Anderson. Lartin Nelson
and a Norwegian. name unknown,
were drowned off Madeline island,
in Chequamegon bay.
The Beloit authorities have begun a
crusade against persons suspected of
selling liquor in that nOn-license town.
William Rahr, worlds fair commits
sioner was thrown from his horse at
Manitowoc and received injuries from
which it was feared he would die.
Almost the entire township of Osseo
is stricken with typhoid fever and diph-
liberia.
James II. Mead, a well-l1nown bank
er of She boygan, fell dead from heart
disease while walking on Seventh
street.
Nearly twenty acres of tobacco that
had been stored in sheds near James
Vile city limits caught fire and burned
from the sparks of a passing locomO-
tive.
The laying of the corner stone of the
Oconto county court house took place
at Oconto under the auspices of the
masonic order. The building will be
brick and cost $40, 00O.
Rolla f. Sawyer. employed as team
ster by a lumber company at Eau
Claire, fell under a wagon loaded with
shingles and was almost instantly
killed. He was married.
4 large strip of the immense coal
docks of the Ohio Coal Company at
Ashland went TO the bottom of the
bay, taking along about 1000 tons of
hard coal The loss was S25, 600.
Rufus Il. Kellogg, president of the
Kellogg national bank and one of the
most prominent citizens of Green Bay,
died suddenly at Ridgefeld, Conn,
where he, with Mrs. Kellogg, had gone
for his health.
Wisconsin has two seed farms, of
2,9I5 acres cultivated, the valuation
per acre being $50. and the total valua-
ton of land implements and buildings
is $50. SIS. 30.
At Eau Claire May TempletOn, the
I7-year-old girl who abducted 14-year-
old Jennie Bradshaw to Minneapolis,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
the reform school until p years of age
John McCrea. aged 50, was run over
and killed by a train in the soldiers
home at Milwaukee. He was an in
mate of the home, and during the war
belonged to Company II, One Hundred
and Twenty-sixth New York.
Jonathan L. Durham died at his
home in Milwaukee. He was an old
resident, and was reported to have been
worth $1,000 600 at the time of his
death
Joseph o. Katchekum, an Indian boy
about Is years old, student at the
Catholic school at Rensselaer,, Ind. was
run over at Webster's switch, near
Shawano, and killed.
The Mississippi Logging Co. has
stopped saving lumber for the season
at Eau Claire, the log supply haviDt
given out The Northwestern Log g
has also shut down its mills for tn
same reason. This leaves only on
sawmill running out of ten in that city. |