River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-09-15
The News condensed.

contractor, died at Fan Claire.
The Northwestern has opened 4 new
station at Cudahy. miles south of
Milwaukee.
Diphtheria has again broken out at
the house of the Sisters of the Good
Shepherd in Green Bay.
The new convent at Superior is near
ly finished. 1t is being built by the La
Crosse Sisters of 81. Francis at a cost
of about $40, 600.
About seventy-five gypsies are en-
camped around Appleton. They have
$50 horses with them.
Fifteen camps of modern woodmen
of Minnesota and Wisconsin held a
picnic at La Crosse.
Daniel Steele Durrie, librarian of the
State Historical society since 1856, died
suddenly at Madison.
Nils Hole, the man shot on the street
in Eau Claire by Ingwald Oleson, 10
year-old bootblack, died at the hospital.
Young Oleson was in jail.
John Oldenschlaeger, laborer in Mil
waukee, fell in about foot of water
and was drowned.
John zimmerman, brakeman on the
Northwestern road, was crushed be-
tween two cars at Florence and instant
ly killed. He was % years old
The annual fair of the Southwestern
association OF Iowa county was held at
Mineral Point.
DIR. D. w. Averill, who practiced dem
tistry in Boscobel years ago, died in
Chicago recently.
A company has been organized at
Marinette with capital of $500, O00 to
manufacture salt upon a new patent.
A little son of f. C. Vessey was
killed at Rhinelander by being crushed
beneath a wagon load of stone.
John Grimm, a German farmer living
near Sun Prairie, was struck by light
ming and instantly killed while at work
in his tobacco field.
James A. Chapman died at the age of
76. He had resided in Beloit thirty
seven years and was widely known.
Companies b and l, Twenty-second
Wisconsin volunteer infantry. which
went into the service from Beloit, held
their annual reunion near there.
Capt William Wilson, a pioneer lum-
herman of the Chippewa valley, died at
his home in Menominee at the age of
50 years
The residence of A. Hummer, valued
at $500, and the barn and four horses
and four carriages of Joseph Latton
were burned at Medford.
Fire destroyed the barn and two ice
houses at Medford belonging to Joseph
Latton, agent for the Blatz Brewing
Company. There were five horses in
the barn and only one was saved.
The office of d. J. Seyler's novelty
iron works at Ashland was burned.
accumulation of many years, were de-
stroyed
!. 5. Bradley, assistant librarian of
the State Historical society. has been
appointed librarian 10 succeed ID. 5.
Durrie, deceased, and Miss Minnie NJ.
Oakeley, cataloguer, has been promoted
10 assistant librarian.
While George Whearatt was driving
his cattle ont of corn field near Hud-
son his horse was attacked by vicious
bull, knocking the man and horse to
the horse was gored 10 death.
Mrs. Martha Eastman, widow liv-
ing in the town of Plymouth, was IA
tally gored by a COW.
DIR. d. c. Earl died at Lake Mills
after an illness of ten days with lock
jaw He was very prominent in his
profession.
The Beloit iron works will build for
the American Paper Making Exhibit
Company the finest paper making ma
chine on earth to be ri 4 at the worlds
fair.
The roller Touring mill of NJ. p.
Pease & Son az Lowell, Dodge county,
was destroyed by fire. The mill was
valued at $50 900; partially insured.
John Lue bike, aged 90, a workman at
the Berlin machine works foandry, fell
into a mill-race while wheeling sack
of flour across a foot-bridge and was
drowned.
While out driving at West Superior
with her s-months'-o child Mrs.
Harry Clappenback was taken sudden
ly i'll and died before she could be taken
from the carriage.
Samuel Hyslop dled AT Hnuson OF
heart disease. He retired at the usual
hour apparently as well as ever. Mr..
uvslop was an old settler, well to do,
ard had been mayor of the city for
three terms.
Rev. Robert Graetz. at one time pastor
of the Evangelical Lutheran church at
Cedarburg, died at his home in Buoy
rus, O.
Leonard Burnham, of Chippewa Falls,
received word that he and his brother
George, OF Milwaukee, have fallen heirs
to SIS, 900 each by the death of their
grandmother in Essex, England.
News has been received of the rescue
of the five men who left Bayfield, in a
boat and were supposed to have been
drowned. They were picked up by
William Knight, assistant foreman at
the Excelsior quarry, on Wilson's isl
and, and party of men vino went in
search of them.