River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-09-22


Pierce county has 1000 acres of bar
ley this year, against 1l,0OO in 1891.
The third annual reunion of the
Fourth Wisconsin Battery association
was held near Clinton Junction.
The headquarters of the Grand Lodge
of Odd Fellows have been moved from
jefferson to Milwaukee.
While wild freight train was pass
ing Stoddard on the Burlington road
Conductor Dole was knocked from a
car and killed.
James Bremmer, aged 0. while play
ing around mule on his fathers farm
in the town of Buffalo, was kicked in
the head and received fatal injuries.
A petition has been numerously
signed in Grant county asking for the
payment of bounty of Sl.50 for every
rattlesnake killed.
Lightning struck the barn of Gustav
Hartkopf, near Ortonville, burning the
building and killing five horses and
thirty-five or forty head of sheep
The A. Nitbecll Company at Mari
nette has let contract to Flanagan &
Michigan for getting out 140, 900, 900 feet
of logs during the next seven years.
The annual session of the Second dis
trict lodge, Independent Order of Good
Templars, was held at Augusta.
the depot of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul railroad at Spring Green
was burned during a thunderstorm.
Loss, 81, 800. The fire is supposed TO
have been caused by lightning.
A post Office has been appointed at
Joel, Polk county. and E. E. Adams APP
pointed postmaster.
y. Ferguson, section man on the
Omaha, at Mason, was run over by a
handcar and instantly killed.
DR.. j. NJ. Boyd, well-known ply
stefan, member of the board of United
States pension examiners, died sudden
ly at Madison.
The Shores Lumber Company of Ash
land has purchased another fleet of
lumber carriers. This makes six boats
it has purchased within month.
The contract for the erection of the
Russell Miller mill at West Superior
was let to Butler Bros. of St. Paul.
The contract price is nearly $4,000.
Forrest Hoover, aged Q years, was
run over in the Omaha freight yards ut
New Richmond. Both legs were cut
off and he died shortly after.
The Western Wisconsin NJ. E. con-
ference held its session at Dodgeville,
Bishop Fitzgerald presiding.
In order to escape pain caused by
felon on the hand Ole Wannebo COM
mitted suicide at La Crosse by hanging.
Levi Goo lrich Loomis, the first Anglo
Saxon To set foot on the land now o ecu
pied by the city of Milwaukee, died in
that city.
Leonard Traversey, aged Is. while
moving from one street car to another
the wheels passed over his head, killing
him instantly.
Gardiner Campbell, who had a great
reputation as manufacturer of large
bells. died at his home in Milwaukee of
Bright's disease. Mr.. Campbell was
born at DunferIltine, Scotland, in 1884
In 1850 he came to America, and had
lived in Milwaukee most of the time
since.
A big raft of logs, belonging to
Mann Bros, in tow of the tug Temple
Emory, went ashore on the beach be-
tween Jacksonport and Bailey's har-
Dor.
A freight train on the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St Paul road ran into the
rear of another freight at Kansasville
and caboose. five freight cars and an
engine were badly wrecked.
Joseph Trequet, a motorman. got off
to switch his ear from the main line at
Eau Claire when one of his knees came
in contact with broken wire and he
fell dead. He leaves wife and three
children.
n. Jensen, an old and respected citi-
zen and business man at Stoughton,
died of consumption. He was pioneer
shoe dealer.
The York iron furnaces have definite
lv decided to locate at West Superior.
They have been in operation at Black
River Falls for many years
The thirty-second anniversary of the
loss of the steamer Lady Elgin, in
which nearly 400 Milwaukee and Chi
cago people were lost, was commem-
Grated by the celebration of high mass
at St. Johns cathedral in Milwaukee.
Most of the living survivors were in at
tendance.
The total value of the taxable prop
erty of the city of Ia Crosse is S21,-
925. sol.
James Miles, resident of Ashland,
was instantly killed while cutting
down trees on his homestead near
Mareugo, H., by tree falling across
his body
John Kalb, of Milwaukee, aged 40
years, shot and fatally wounded his
wife and then killed himself. He had
beer drinking heavily for some time,
and his wife refused to sign any papers,
without which ne could not get money.
The couple quarreled over this and the
trouble finally eliminated in the double
crime