River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-11-10


VI. ]. Harley. of Milwaukee. was
killed by the cars at West Superior.
The residence of O. :. Olson, near
Mcfarland. was burned. the loss being
=. 600.
The store OF n. A. Rihum at Shawano
was entered by burglars and blown into
fragments. The robbers ceeded in
getting away with $40.
Douglas county's first agricultural
and industrial exhibit was formally
held at West Superior.
Word reached West Superior that
typhoid fever was prevalent in Mitchell
s. McClure's lumber camp At Barker.
six men had died of the disease, one of
whom was the head camp bookkeeper.
Oliver A. Higg, clerk of the circuit
court of Trempealeau county, died at
Whitehall of consumption, aged so
years. Deceased was an old veteran
and was candidate for reelection on
The repu blican ticket.
George Hofferer was instantly killed
in the beer cellars of the Miller Brew
ing Company at Milwaukee. He and
some other men were moving large
beer tank when il fell over upon him.
Hofferer was 81 years old and married
The Duluth & Winnipeg road has
been opened to Superior.
William Grange, one of the early set
tiers of WATERFOWL, died of general de-
bility, aged So years.
An attempt was made by crooks to
burn and sack the village of Union
Grove while a political meeting was
being held.
Charles H. Head. aged %, brakeman
Of train No. Is, west bound, fell be-
tween two cars at GAINESVILLE and was
instantly killed.
Everett A. Smith, Milwaukee tea
importer, died at the Wauwatosa sani-
tarium, aged A. years. He was vic
tim of nervous prostration.
Ex-AIdermen McEachern and j. c.
Kennedy. of West Superior. will this
winter put in 5,OOo,oO feet of pine
near White Birch.
Prof Max Schmitz, 81 years old, was
killed by the cars at Appleton.
A. Pappenfuss. farmer of La Crosse
county, was killed by being thrown from
a wagon while going TO La Crosse with
a load of produce.
Henry Knox. populist agitator liv-
ing at Browntown. was run over by
.he cars and killed near his home.
Hiram A. Sheldon, hardware dealer
at Burlington, has failed. Liabilities,
BIZ, 900; assets. $4,000
Hon. Charles V. Guy died in River
Falls, aged 73. Mr.. Guy lived there for
many years, and was regent of the nor
nal school for six years
John Dent. aged so, a farmer at
Georgetown. had his right arm and
part of the muscles of the breast torn
out bv a steam thresher and was fatal
~ injured.
Mrs. r. II. Paul died in La Crosse of
puerperal fever after nine days sick
ness. She was the wife of the vice
president of the John Paul Lumber
Company.
The new addition to the Lehigh coal
dock at West Superior is completed. as
also are the St Paul & Duluth track
extensions on the east side of the struc-
ture. The dock now has storage ca
pacitv of 800 tons, equal to 500, 600
ndDui&iiR tdpdEibf pei Stdopats
Fred Fawcett, n well-to-do young
farmer of Melvin, shot himself through
the head and was at the point of
death Disappointment in a love affair
was said to have been the cause.
An old states prison bird named
James Moore made an attempt to bur
glarize the large Chicago dry goods
store at Eau Claire. He got away with
considerable goods, but was captured
William Middlesex, who says he is
from Chicago, was arrested at Ash
land for fraudulent collections from
business houses lie claimed TO repre-
sent a prominent wholesale house of
Chicago.
Henry Sprink, an employe in one of
the sawmills al Marinette, was struck
by a flying board which passed entirely
through his chest, causing death in a
few minutes
Fred VogeL Sr., president of the
Pfister & Vogel Leather Company in
Milwaukee. died on the steamship Lain
at sea The deceased was 90 years of
age ard leaves large fortune.
A milkman who called at the house
of Richard Burpee. an aged widower in
Eau Claire, found Burpee lying dead on
the floor and his lamp burning. He had
been dead several hours. The jury OF
inquest said il was heart disease.
Albert Blair has been arrested at
Gle to answer to a complaint of set
ting fire to his own house. His wife is
the complainant
Joe Mcdonald foreman at the sand
River Lumber Company's logging camp
near bayfield,, dropped dead on the
street in Ashland. He was seized with
a tit of coughing and burst blood
vessel.
The West Superior Iron & Steel Com
pany has executed a s.. 600. 600 mort
gage to the Central Trust Company Of
New York. The mortgage creates no
new indie btedness, but cures technical
defects ia enc sssuring the company's
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