River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-07-14
The News condensed.

| The News Condensed.
Wausau will put up S25. 900 theater
% replace the opera house recently
burned.
August Gehbe, an old resident of,
Manitowoc, committed suicide by jump
ng into the river.
ngs from Outagamie county are
brought to light by the finding of an
| Did book. Lamphear is living under an
assumed name in Nevada.
Hartland was visited by fire that
destroyed half the business buildings
Of the village and two unoccupied
structures The total loss was SIS, 900.
Capt ]. T. Carr, aged 62. died at Mad
son of heart disease. He was chief
clerk of the democratic assembly in
| 1888 and was one of the oldest news
paper men in the state.
Work on Ashland's public building
viii begin August /. Supervising Arch
tect Edbrooke has advertised for bids.
The examination of the books of ex-
| City-Librarian Linderfeldt was COM
pleted at Milwaukee and the shortage
/ found to be 50. 095. Linderfeldt was at
/ large under s., 600 bonds.
The young son of Nathanial Piazzr,
Of Milwaukee, was drowned in pail of
water.
During the past six months there has
been so. 600 feet of lumber shipped from
Marinette.
Warren ID. Bauder, brakeman, fell
| from freight train near Genoa juno
Ill.,. L =
T. ]. Dochterman, of La Crosse. aged
50, while sitting at the supper table,
had stroke Of paralysis and died in
FIVE minutes
Owing to rainy weather and wet
track the races that were to take place
at Green Bay have been indefinitely
postponed.
Eugene Holmes, aged 80, and
nephew, James Holmes, aged II, were
drowned while bathing in the Little
Cobb river miles south of ,Ianesville.
The Norway house at Ashland was
| entered by burglars and $500 in cash,
/ besides numerous valuables, were
/ taken.
David 5. Comley, for thirteen years
secretary of the state board of control,
has been removed from his Office. He
will be succeeded by Peter Mulholland,
Of Manitowoc.
A heavy hailstorm visited West Bend
and vicinity, extending over the entire
eastern part of Washington county.
Gardens were laid waste, windows
broken, and othes damage done which
can hardly be estimated. Some of the
hailstones were as large as pigeon
eggs.
| The secret marriage of Charles Elliott
and Elizabeth Nugent, students of the
Milwaukee high school, has been an
nulled.
| Some of the pickpockets who shadow
| Ringing Bros. circus got away with
/ 1928 from Mrs. Burke. living at Ash
land. Mrs Mattson, also of Ashland,
was robbed of $40.
The Watson will contest at Eau
/ Claire has been settled. Mrs. Clara
Morton, the contestant, gets $1,000 cash,
satisfaction of judgments for costs of
$500 against her, and satisfaction of
mortgage amounting TO so, 600 held
by the estate on her residence.
Mrs Kingston. mother of James
Kingston. landlord of the Merchants
hotel at La Crosse, fell down fight Of
stairs, breaking her arm and being
/ otherwise badly injured.
! Milwaukee business men re ioice over
I their chamber of commerce report for
-S91 showing that 1,s26, 75s barrels of
-four were turned ont there and 10, S46,-
495 bushels of wheat were received.
/ c. J. L. Meyer, an inventive Wiscon-
l sin lumberman, has brought out a
process by which he converts maple
4 timber into a close imitation of cherry.
The color is forced through the maple
under steam pressure.
The Benoit Lumber Conpany's mill
at Benoit was totally destroyed by fire.
Loss, So, 600. Rice Bros. are the proprie-
tors.
At dance ~ Glidden William Wolf
was stabbed by Karl River, as result
of dispute River is a bohemian, IS
wears old. and recent arrival The
prompt arrival of officers prevented
I lynching.
August Cook. while playing in Little
/ Wolf, found a curious medal about the
size and weight of two silver dollars.
I On one side is medallion of John
I Quincy Adams, and around the edge the
I inscription: John Quincy Adams,
President United States, 1925"