River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-05-12
The Ncws Condensed.

MIR. and Mrs. John Dates, OF BelOit,
celebrated their golden wedding.
The runaway cashier of West Supe-~
rior bank. j. J. Hallowell, was cap
tured in Philadelphia.
A rich find in iron ore has been dis
closed at Iron River. 1t has created
much excitement and will tend to
greatly accelerate the boom there.
Burglars entered j. II. Barth's trunk
store in Milwaukee and carried off
about $500 worth of goods
DIR. Sarah Hobsou, of Boston, has
taken the chair of natural history and
geology at Lawrence university in APP
pleton.
Gov. Peck has appointed T. w. Kel-
sey, of Prairie du Sac, to the position
of county judge in place of Judge E
w. Young, who died about month ago.
County Clerk Edward Fennelly was
acquitted of the charge of having ex-
torted money from Ashland county.
The elevator belonging to William
Kurr was destroyed by fire at llartland,
with about 20 900 bushels of corn and
oats. The loss was about $4,000.
An explosion of gas at the Green
Ridge mine in Ashland fatally injured
John Warwick and Joseph Maxim, in
side laborers.
Lightning struck Peter Youk's barn
at Boomer and burned it to the ground.
The horses. cattle and hogs were saved,
but all the hay and grain was destroyed.
The re<dence of Michael Common, 8
mi es north of Downey, was destroyed
by fire, and two small children narrow
~ escaped suffoeation.
GOV. Peck has appointed Frank C.
Reed, of Madison, assistant state libra
ian, vice p. Conway, who has res gnel
to enter the practice of law.
X. a. Linderfeldt, a Milwaukee IL
brarian and president of the National
Library association, was arrested for
embezzling s., 900 from the city.
William Pennett was drowned while
running boat over Little Bull falls
above Pittsville. He was 45 years old
and unmarried.
Rev. Father Geyer, of St. Johns
Catholic church, of Marshtield, has
been appointed to the position of vicar
general of the La Crosse diocese.
girl named Stueck, living near Two
Rivers, had one hand badly mangled by
getting it caught in the cog wheels of a
feed cutter.
John r. Campbell, brakeman, fell
between the cars while switching at
West Bend. His injuries were serious,
though apparently not fatal
Albert Steiner, one of the oldest set
lers in Milwaukee, died of apoplexy
while ON the way to his home The de-
ceased was born in 1928.
Gov. Peck has, on recommendation of
the board of dental examiners ard the
state dental association, appointed
George II. McCausey, of GAINESVILLE, as
a member of the board.
Forty camps of Woodmen at Beloit
agreed upon June IL as the time and
Bcloit as the place for holding their an
nual picnic.
The congregation of St. Johns Evan
gelical Lutheran church at Edgerton
has decided to erect a new church
building
Charles Jauger, aged A, residing near
Wilmot, Racine county, and his team Of
horses were killed by lightning in u
field.
Joseph Kramer, an employee of the
Empire Lumber Company at Eau
Claire, was caught in belt while oil
ing machinery in the mill and was ter
r1Dly mdnsrvu anu IuSUanUIy hrIIcu
Aunt Abbie Covey," an old lady liv-
ing at Argyle, has just cele brated her
sOth birthday, walking nearly , miles
to visit her granddaughter and great
grandchild.
Richard F. Smith. one Of the best
known railroad conductors in West SUI
perior, was killed az Poplar Station.
He fell under the wheels. lie was a
Knight Templar and married.
William Jones and his l2-year-old son
Eddie, charged with having caused the
death of the wife and mother. We're ar
raigned in Justice Steers court at Hart
land and held for trial and remanded to
Jail
Every lumber mill in the La Crosse
district has closed down to remain so
until the labor troubles are settled.
Two thousand men are out of employ
ment in consequence.
W. H. Packer was found dead in his
bed at the Railway house in GAINESVILLE.
He had been there a week and regis
tered from Fond du Lac. Heart disease
was supposed to have caused death.
John f. Meighan and Alonzo Taylor,
the last two of the men who helped to
lynch Anton Sieboldt at Darlington.
and who were adjudged insane by the
jury, have been released from the Men
dota hospital
Peter Rupp's mysterious disappear
ance from Milwaukee was accounted
for by the finding of his body in the
river. He was an embezzier and com
mitted suicide.
Thomas Fitzgerald, who was under
summons in BeIoit for selling liquor,
announced that he would leave the city
if the prosecution against him were
suspended.
c. Calaus, agent for the Prudential
Life Insurance Company, committed
suicide by taking prussie acid at State
street saloon in Milwaukee, Papers on
his person show that ne formerly went
/ by the name of c. Won Carolath. lie
was about 10 years Of age,