River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-06-02

The sheriff's house and jail at Med
ford were burned.
At West Superior another effort will
be made to raise the sunlxen steamer
Pewabic to secure her alleged treasure.
A wild man near Iron River has ter
rorized the'vicinity.
w. ii. Roach, of Chicago, has bought
the Griffith farm near Fort Atkinson.
comprising 6S3 acres. for $4,000.
Twenty gypsics are in camp near
Boscobel
l. Boscobel has a colored female barber
who owns a shop and caters to the trade
of the city.
G. III. Renzenburg, of Milwaukee, has
been elected president of the American
WaterworEs association.
Grin Hall, prominent citizen of
Waupaca, who recently made an as
signment, is dead.
A. c. Cadwallader, ex-president of
the Superior national bank, was in
dIcted on a charge of embezzlement.
Fire in the plant of the Northwestern
Carriage and Sleigh Company in Mil
waukee caused loss of about SIS, 900
Peter Campbell, of Sullivan, had his
nose nearly severed by the bite of
trick dog he was training.
William Affhous, of Little Black,
Taylor county, is Under arrest for sell
ing milk from sick cows. The cows
were afflicted with lumpy jaw and or
dered killed by the state veterinarian.
John Langdon, aged 10 years. and
Alva Plant, aged is years, of ostrander,
were drowned in the Little Wolf river
by the capsizug of boat.
Burglars broke into the post office at
Cumberland ly prying open the back
window ant secured stamps and money
to the amount of $50 or more.
In a row between Nick Anderson
and a man named Gester at West
Superior Anderson was kicked in the
stomach and fatally injured.
The remains of a mastodon have been
found in the town of Freeman, Craw-
ford county.
Paul Voight died at Nasewaupee of
injuries received by falling from
wagon.
One hundred thousand trout have
been placed in streams In and about
Ga esville. About $4,000 a year have
been planted there for the last eight
years.
Fred Egan, one of the proprietors of
milk farm near Ashland, assaulted a
young girl of IL years named Rosa
Young, daughter of a prominent mer-
chant Egan formerly worked for the
victims father.
John Carruthers brought from Do
land s. D., to River Falls, fish taken
from an artesian well 1000 feet deep.
1t is without eyes and about three inch
es in length.
Adam Guckenberger, sent to the pen
itentiarv at Wausau for fifteen years
from Wood county for criminal assault,
committed suicide in his cell by hang
ing himself.
BY a decision of the United States
supreme court John A. Bar,ion, already
one of the richest men at the head of
the lakes, becomes the owner of 100
acres of land adjoining West Superior
worth S15O,0O0
The Black river overfowed its bot
toms beyond all record at Black River
Falls.
The 5-year-old daughter of Martin
Anderson, of Pleasant Valley, while
playing on a haystack jumped upon
pitchforlk, the tine striking her in the
forehead above the eyes, causing her
death.
The death of Miss Anna Witcher at
Mozomanie was a sad occurrence. She
was 20 years old and was to have been
married in short time. Her sister-in-
law. Mrs. Adam Witcher, became crazy
from the shock and was taken 10 the
Mendoza asylum.
George Sloher, a young man about 20
years of age, was drowned at Alma
while working on some logs for the
Mississippi Logging Company.
The United States grand jury refused
to indict the Eau Claire Pearl Button
Company officers who were charged
with importing contract laborers. The
company proved that it imported only
enough skilled workmen to teach 9TH
ers.
The town Of Morse. Ashland county,
does not contain saloon since the de-
cision of the supreme court that the
provisions in deeds preventing the
property being used for saloon purposes
are binding