River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-28


Fifty-five saloon licenses have been
granted at Wausau this spring.
Ex-Gov. Hoard took the Red Cross
degree, Knights Templar, at James
Vile
Patrick Fitzgerald, a reside mt of
Monticello for thirty-three years. died
the other night, aged 20 years. after
long and severe illness, of the grip.
"Joe, the Turk" a captain of the Sal
walton Army. was fined five dollars for
creating disturbance at Madison.
While racing on the road leading 20
Milwaukee a farmer named Plumb was
thrown out by his wagon striking an
obstruction and instantly killed. He
was so years old.
Henry Rheinholdt, farmer of Pleas
ant Prairie, was killed by being thrown
from a wagon.
The other day the large sawmill of p. /
S. Davidson at La Crosse was totally
destroyed by an incendiary fire. Loss,
$4,000; no insurance.
Kendall's creamery at Corners was
burned. causing a loss of $4,000.
Rev. Joseph Koerner. of Helenville.
man Lutheran church at GAINESVILLE.
John Erickson. livingnear Eau Claire,
claims that his wife, Who died six
weeks ago, was poisoned by neigh
Dor
Mayor Pattison ordered the closing
of the Superior gambling houses the
other day, and not the clink of chip
can be heard.
Roman Hertel, boy about IA years
old, had his skull sawed through by
lath saw at the mill of the Stewart
Lumber Company in Wausau.
The gambling houses in Milwaukee
which have been running since last
summer have been closed by an order
from the mayor.
Traces of arsenic were found In the
stomach of Mrs. Bertha Erickson, the
bride of five weeks, whose body was
disinterred at Hadlyville.
young man named Christianson,
employed on a farm near the village of
Cam bridge. was killed by the accidental
discharge of his revolver.
James Smith. prominent citizen of
Racine, died at FL Paso, Tex, OF hydro
phobia.
Mrs. Sarah Bear, resident of Rock
county since 1s45. died at her home in
GAINESVILLE, aged 20 years. She leaves
a husband and four children.
1t was reported that the entire straw
berry crop of Racine county. which
ships more straw berries than all other
counties of the state combined, had
been entirely destroyed by frost
The treasury department has paid to
the state SAL, 331, it being its share of
the direct tax, min us So, POI, which was
withheld on account of balance due
the government for arms furnished the
state.
All the saloon licenses in Beloit have
expired and for the first time in twenty
years Beloit is dry. There were four
teen saloons which paid 500 license,
but the people voted them out by III
majority.
James Wood, of Durand, who died
recently, was the pioneer of Pepin
county and 90 years of age. Mr.. Wood
had been & member of the Methodist
church for seventy-five years.
Rev r. L. Martin. of GAINESVILLE. who
deserted his pulpit three weeks ago,
has written his congregation from the
Washingtonian home in Chicago resign
ing his pastorat;.
An enterprising citizen of Milwau-
kee. who participated in the battle of
Blakely or Mobile bay, in the last days
of the war, has bought the entire bat
tie field of some 1000 acres as a relic
speculation.
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thrown from his buggy by an unman-
ageable horse. He got up laughing,
said: I'm all right, and dropped dead.
supposedly from heart disease.
a freight was wrecked near Viroqua
by running into a steer on the track
and five ears loaded with cattle were
ditched Engineer Morrison and Fire
man Steele were badly scalded.
West Salem has dog who chews to-
bacco and seems to like it. He viii eat
finecut and never seems to get sick.
The boys know his weakness for the
narcotic weed, so he never goes with
out IT,
Judge Marshall has sentenced Sever
Serely, Chippewa county's defaulting
treasurer. to four years at Waupau-
Serely pleaded guilty to embezzling
over $40. 600.
CYRUS T. Gillette. foreman in the
Morning Chronicle composing rooms at
La Crosse. received intelligence from a
solicitor in New York that by the death
of an uncle he had fallen heir to s., O00,-
600
In response to a petition the commits
sioner of pensions has established a
board of pension examiners at Wausau,
with Drs. 4 ". Trevitt and II. A.
Frost. If that eity. and Or. ID. b. Rein
hart, Of Merrill, rs examiners.