River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-12-22
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FIRE LhaI started IN the Light morse
squadron armory in Milwaukee caused
a loss of $1,000.
Miss Kate johnson, only daughter of
Judge Johnson, of the circuit court,
died in Milwaukee after a lingering i'll
ness at the age of %.
Alice, the 22-year-old daughter of
John Gibson, of Centerville, died from
the effects of a surgical operation to
remove an internal tumor.
Michael Menges, of the Schumann &
Menges Brewing Company of Prairie
du CHEN. was stricken with paralysis
aud rendered speeches. and deaf
The first whaleback passenger ex-
cursion steamer was successfully
launched at West Superior. 1t is
named Christopher Columbus and is
the largest boat afioat on the lakes.
President E. d. Eaton of Beloit col
lege has returned to that city after a
visit TO Europe.
Peterson's jewelry store and Holt
Bros barber shop at Hudson were
burned. Loss, $4,000; partially insured.
Mai. Moses Harris, formerly in
charge of the Mi waukee recruiting
station, has been appointed adjutant
to Gov. Wheeler, of the soldiers home.
Thomas Shields, an old resident, died
at his home in Watertown, aged 95
years. His wife survives him.
The survivors of the old Twenty
Wisconsin Volunteer regiment held
their annual reunion in Watertown.
Oscar Hanson. night man at the cleo
1, -,
stantly killed by falling into a water
wheel.
Samuel C. West, aged "A. died at the
sanitarium in Waukesha of paralysis of
the heart. Under President Grant he
was postmaster of Milwaukee from
1870 to 1876.
Michael Coleman was sent to prison
for four and half years for robbing
the post office at Dickeyville, and
Daniel Ryan received four years for
the same offense.
The students of the University of
Wisconsin met and subscribed nearly
81, coo to save the new boat-house at
Madison. which was in danger of being
sold to satisfy mechanics lien.
Mrs Augusta Wendt, wife of
saloonkeeper, hanged herself at her
home in Milwaukee.
The public school-teachers at West
Superior who threatened 20 strike for
an advance of wages have backed
down.
Gov. Burke, of North Dakota, is
making arrangements to move To West
Superior January l. He will enter in
to a new grocery establishment started
there.
Anton Tbormarien, the well-known
poet and scientist and one of the most
popular German citizens of Milwaukee,
dropped dead in restaurant while al
dinner. Apoplexy was the cause.
DIR. ID. o. Plckard. physician at Fen
nimore, killed himself by swallowing
aconite which he placed in a mixture
he had compounded for himself, think
ing it was laudanum.
Henry Fitzgerald, one of the oldest
and best-hnown passenger conductors
on the Chicago. Milwaukee & St Paul
road. died suddenly of pneumonia at
his home in Madison.
A new railroad, to be known as the
Eau Claire, Chippewa & Superior, has
filed articles of incorporation. The
road will go through the Chippewa val
ley, making its terminus probably at
West Superior.
The annual meeting of the State His
torical society was held in Madison and
eulogies were delivered on the late j.
C. Gregory and L. s. Durrie. The old
officers were reelected.
The bark Gen. Tobey arrived at Val
paraiso and her captain r. Sorted the
loss of a seaman named Hoi. ate, who
was said to be a son of Judge holgate,
of Wisconsin.
The federal grand jury in Madison
returned an indictment of murder in
the first degree against Kocinee and
Moueypenny, two Indians who kille
old Baueash and his squaw on tn
Oneida reservation in September.
j. ]. McGuire pleaded guilty before
Judge Wallber in Milwaukee to having
forged the name of Bradley & Met
calf to a check and was sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary.
Louis Migrich, a young man en-
ployed as draughtsman in West Su-
perior, has disappeared, leaving sew.
eral forged checks in amounts from SIC
to $50, which were cashed by Superior
merchants.
The constitutional amendment pre-
hibiting the legislature from enactin.
any special or private law for the lin
corporation of cities or on amendment
of the charters thereof was carried VI
the recent election