River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-02-04
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The La Belle Wagon Company OF SUI
perior manufactured 1922 wagons dur
ing the past year.
Frank Stuhlman was fatally wound
ed at Ashland by the accidental dis
charge of revolver.
The mill of the Garth Lumber Com
pany near Hazelhurst was burned.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, S22, 900.
A number of La Crosse business men
are ende voring to establish beet
sugar factory in that city.
Mrs. Reinhart, the oldest settler of
Buffalo county, passed away at her
home in Nelson at the age of 95.
Hugh Mcclure, farmer in the town
of Seymour, Lafayette county, was
fined S25 for selling diseased meat.
1t is proposed to erect a sanitarium
building at Waukesha to cost S., 600, to
be in operation by next June.
j. Il. Collie, one of the oldest mail
clerks on the Wisconsin Central line,
died suddenly near Downing on a train.
The residence of Mrs. Christian
Ferneckes in Milwaukee, was raided
by burglars and money and valuables
to the amount of over 81, 900 taken.
w. S. Case died at La Crosse of para
! lysis at the age of SO. He was one of
the best known men in the city.
Gustavus Heck, farmer living near
M ondovi, committed suicide by shoot
/ ing himself through the heart. He
was go years old. and had lived in that
city many years.
John Fitzpatrick was burned to
death in his house at Darlington.
The Fourth ward primary school
building at Sparta was burned. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $1,000.
At Milwaukee Judge Mann issued
an order committing Mrs. Marion V.
Dudley, the authoress, to the insane
asylum at Wauwatosa.
Mother Schnell, who lives several
miles east of Kiel, celebrated her Tooth
birthday. Her husband is only a few
years her junior
Martin Welch, a Footville farmer,
was fatally injured by a fall on cir
cular saw. His breast was split open
for 10 inches, the ribs being severed.
Hugh lines, of Kenosha. died from
the effects of a surgical operation for
the removal of a cancer of the neck.
Some one broke into Dean e. Dorenz's
store at Seymour and stole twenty-one
razors, 100 pocketknives, two revolvers
and silver watch.
MIR. Andrew Bellman, aged IS years,
an old resident of Helenville. who had
been somewhat insane for several
years past, wandered from home and
was found frozen to death.
j. w. HALEY, charged with stealing
$3.50 from the West Superior Iron and
Steel Company, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced TO one year at Waupun.
Gov. Peck has appointed L. NJ. John
son, f. Il. Ainsworth and Warren ID.
Parker regents of the Wisconsin nor
NAL school for three years.
{. NJ. Wells & Son, sewer and paving
contractors at Appleton, assigned, with
liabilities of Sol, 900 and assets of SIS, :
600.
Judge Condit, of Chippewa Falls,
sentenced four young boys, all under
Is years, to the reform school until of
age, they having committed several
thefts.
Fire destroyed & saloon owned by l..
O'Brien, the town hall, and machine
shed at Arena Loss, 81, 900; insurance,
S325.
The Catholic church at New Rich.
mond. with most of its contents, was
totally destroyed by fire. The build
ing cost $1,000 and was insured for
81. 600.
There are said to be sixty-seven vet
Grams of the war of 1912 now alive IN
the United States. One of the oldest is
Silas Ware, of Waukesha, who was
born at Enosburg, Vt, in 1898, and en-
listed in the company formed by Capt.
Erwin at Freneh's Mills, n. Y, where
young Wares father kept tavern.
w. NJ. Waddill, colored barber who
last October carved Miss Carrie Bell at
a dance in West Superior, has been
captured at Winnipeg. Officers have
gone for him.
John McNiff, a letter-carrier, was
struck by the cars at Trap City and
killed. He was over 20 years old, and
so deaf that he couldnot hear the train
approaching.
Albert Engelhardt, bridegroom of
week, was burned to death in his
home in Milwaukee. Engelhardt was
sick with the grip and ran back into
his room after being rescued by his
brother.
Supervisor Il. w. Hubbard, of the
town of Union, Rock county, realized
Ssls on his first crop of leaf tobacco
this season.
1t is reported that Chicago parties
are interested in a project to establish
another national bank at Superior
with $1,000 600 capital.
The powder house of the Blonde mine
near Benton blew up. No one was in
jured.
The well-known La Crosse scotsman,
John A. Salzer, died from the result of
stroke of paralysis. He was 90 years
of age and had been resident of
that city for twenty-six years.
Ole Johnson, IS years old. of the
town of Ceylon. was engaged in load
ing log on his sleigh at PERKINS, camp
when the log fell, crushing his head
and killing him instantly.
The Rock county board has author-
lied Treasurer Burdick, of -Janesv4.ie,
to borrow SIS, 900 to be used for county
purposes.
The total capital invested in the thir-
" paper and pulp mills of the Fox
river valley is s5,slS.OOO; the annual
amount of paper, sulphate fiber.
MANILA and pulp manufactured Z6S,-
SIS. AS pounds; the value OF the product
SO, 16s. l55; number of hands employed.
2,5s6, annual pay roll. s1,O9s7 eo-