River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-08-27
The News Condensed.

Thomas Gore, a deckhand of the
steamer Wheeler. was killed by falling
through the hatch while the vessel was
taking on ore at Ashland.
The S-year-old son of James Dona-
van, a prominent resident of Chippewa
Falls, received fatal injuries by being
run over by a team of horses hitched to
heavy wagon.
A sunHover stalk bearing 131 bios
SONS was a Green Bay curiosity.
Milwaukee brewers complain of a
dull season, which they attribute to
cool summer.
Five thousand people attended the
picnic given by the Marinette and Me-
nominee Caledonian society. The best
athletes, pipers and dancers from Can
ada and the United States were present
Edward Quinn, Milwaukee stationer
and book dealer died after a long i'll
ness. lie was ~ years old and an old
resident.
While attending at circus at Oconomo-
woe Thomas Steele, a farmer from
Ashippum, was robbed of $500
Frank Wilson was sunstruck at Dan
nice > ldIiu near IMP CIV a ais. L hN
thermometer stood 90 in the shade.
Miss Hirsche, teacher of languages at
Eau Claire, who has held several i'm
portant chairs in eastern colleges. was
adjudged insane and taken to the hos
pital for the insane.
Money has been sent from Washing
ton to pay for the construction of the
new government building at Ashland.
1t viii cost s1OO,O and will be com
pleted in June, 1892.
In sinking an artesian well at the
Oconto waterworks stream was
struck flowing 500, 900 gallons of water
daily This is double the needs of the
city.
Mrs Samuel Kenyon. of Eau Clare.
who was placed in Jail for assaulting a
notorious woman who had alienated
her husbands affections. after being
locked up hanged herself with a sheet,
but was cut down in time To save her
life.
Mrs. Sarah Bader, the oldest settler
of Monticello, died after one weeks ILL
ness, aged 50. She was native of
Connecticut, and came to Monticello
forty-four years ago.
The large plant of the Appleton Pa
per & Pulp Company was destroyed by
fire, causing a loss of $50, 900, insur-
ance unknown. The plant was owned
by William and J. S. Van Nortwick.
Shell Lake is to have another rail-
way. The directors of the Red Wing,
Duluth & Southern have been confer
ring with property holders in that vi
entity with view of running their
road through Shell Lake.
Rev. Frederic Northup, who with his
wife left Beloit two years ago for mis-
sionary work, recently died at Agra,
India
ID. c. Wing, of Cornell, has been
elected professor of bridge and hy-
draulic engineering chair just estab-
lished-in the university 81 Wisconsin.
The American Steel Barge Company,
of West Superior. is preparing plans
for floating grain-carrying whale
backs ON the Mississippi.
The little girl of George Spatt, a
well-known manufacturer OF Sheboy-
gan Falls, strayed away from the house
and was drowned in the river.
James NJ. Bride. in Jail for two
months a. Eau Claire waiting for he
circuit court to convene, pleaded guilty
to the charge of adultery before Judge
Larson and got one year in Waupun.
The loss on Prof. Williams circus
from a tornado at Washburn was 81, 900;
on J. Froseth's building, $1,000; on
other buildings $4,000, and on the
Wisconsin Fuel Cornpany's coal dock,
S.. 900.
Albert w. Whitney, of Beloit, who
graduated from Beloit college this year.
has been appointed botanist of the
party which, under command of Capt.
Glazier, is soon 20 leave st. Paul &c
seek the source Of the Mississippi