River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-11-26
The Now. Con,lenseh.:

Randall Williams, an old settler of
Sheboygan, died at the age of 20.
5. w. Peck, resident of Beloit since
1856 and former business man, died at
the age of 81 years.
S. C. Learned. a prominent farmer of
Mount Pleasant. dropped dead. He
came to Racine county in 1850, served
in the late war and was wealthy.
The North Pabst Iron Mining Com
pany was incorporated at Ashland, its
capital stock being 100000
Mayor and Mrs. Charles A. Mueller,
of Port Washington. celebrated their
twenty-ffth wedding anniversary.
James Brown, a brakeman on the
Greenwood branch of the Wisconsin
Central, fell under the wheels at Spoke
field and had his right foot cut off.
Mrs Woodwork, of Berlin, cele-
brated her 105d birthday.
w. Olmstead, of Amigo, fatally shot
his wife while handling a revolver
thought to be unloaded.
Miss Eleanor l.. Burritt, of Wiscon-
the pension Office at Washington from
u NJUO 10 IL u, VOu pOSlIAOu-
Kaukauna now claims to have the
oldest house in the state. 1t was built
in 1900 by DominIk Ducharme. 1t is
almost in ruins.
Joseph Comstock. an aged resident of
Beloit, hanged himself Poor health
and dependency was the cause.
Edwin r. Hazelton, aged 20 years.
=, al .,I.I5a, 4 al st1I1aulv of
disease at Chetek. lie leaves a wife.
j. w Jones, of Hayward, was shot
by careless deer hunter, but was not
seriously wounded. The hunter is not
known, as he fled Immediately upon
seeing the result of his careless shot
A syndicate with = w. Rawson, of
Chicago, at the head is to build an
electric stree: railway in GAINESVILLE.
Elijah Francis, one of the earliest
settlers in st. Croix county, died at the
residence Of his son, DR.. q. l.. Francis,
in Hammond, aged %.
4 wreck occurred on the st. Paul
road ut the Armour ice houses. a mile
west of Pewaul1ee, enUailing loss OF
$50. 600 to the company.
State Senator Walter 5. Greene. of
Fort Atkinson died in Milwaukee. aged
So years. lie was three times elected
state senator.
NJ. O. Nelson, chairman of the pro-
hibition state central committee, nav
ing removed to Minneapolis, has re-
signed his position, and is succeeded by
Prof. c. +. Cronk, of Stoughton.
John Kennedy, an Ashland oretrim-
mer, died from an overdose of NOR
phine.
Charles Milton Crowley, OF Augusta,
pleaded guilty to a charge of obtain
ing money under false pretenses and
was sentenced to two years in state
prison.
John Lescheske, miner, while run.
ming n steam drill at the Highland
mines near Dodgeville was caught in
spool of rope which was being run by
the engine and had one hand torn off.
the arm broken, the other arm broken
in two places. both legs broken and his
skull fractured. He died in a short
time
A spark from locomotive set fire to
and burned ten acres OF timber belong
ing to William Klever, near Sheboy-
gan.
Fire at Chippewa Falls destroyed the
house of Oliver Sinnotte. II was sup
posed to be the work Of an incendiary
Loss, s., 600; insurance, l,s0O.
Louis Thompson. aged 20, a slater,
fell from the eupola of the La Crosse
city hall 100 feet to the ground and was
killed.
-. r-,.-.-., 49,, 4l,ror,- l,sr,,soIF =,
front of a swiftly-moving train at SUI
perior The inquest failed to develop
his identity.
Martin Halverson, steward of the
schooner Abbie and brother of her
commander, Capt. Halverson, was lost
off the schooner about 20 miles east of
Sheboygan.
Langlois Il Sons store at Racine was
partly burned and John Langlois, Jr..
one of the proprietors, was suffocated
with smoke Loss on property, s25,
600; insurance, $4,000.
An unknown man having the APP
pearanee of laborer threw himself in
front of a Northern Pacific train at
West Superior and was badly ground
to pieces. The engineer and fireman
said it was deliberate case of suicide. /
Shipments of ore from Ashland for
the season now ended were l, 249, 900 /
tons, a decrease of $50, 600 tons from /
last year.
LYMAN :. Pease. of Monticello. has |
been appointed superintendent of the /
state institute for the blind at James
vile to succeed Prof w. d. Parker re-
signed.
Matthias Johannes, of Eau Claire, /
has Just returned from Treves, where /
he beheld the holy coat and witnessed /
two miraculous cures-the restoration /
of speech to a woman who had not 1
spoken for two years and the cure of a /
peasants wife who had been i'll for
twenty years.