River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-03-24
The New Condensed

horses were rescued.
The T. 5. Staples Lumber Company.
Of Iron River, has started its new mill
a half mile north of that place. They
will cut 35. 600 feet per day.
Mrs. Laurel Draper was suffocated
by coal gas in her home at North
Prairie, where she lived alone. She
lad been dead a week when found.
Thomas Hogan, of Amigo. has been
appointed district attorney of Lang.
lade co unity in place of George l.
Schintz, deceased.
The city of Ashland has been sued
by J. J. Koch for $4,000 damages
Koch claims to have been injured by
slipping on an icy sidewalk.
Millions of feet of lumber on the
shores of Lake Superior will be raftec
across the lake from Ashland to Can
ada as soon as navigation opens
Angus Mcdonald. Connor's Point
.aloonkeeper, fell from the top of &
lum Der pile. TO which point of vantage
1e climbed to view a fire, and received
fatal injuries.
The annual state convention OF the
Y. NJ c. A. will be held at Appleton
about the middle of October next.
Forty thousand trout fry were re.
,eived at Rice Lake and planted in the
streams in the vicinity Of that place.
H. " Porter, of West Superior, was
awarded $4,000 against the Silver
Creek & Morris Coal Company for in.
s,,~;os. ,-ooo;--ad r.-l,f1a rr-C,.I-S,o. ~, H.
latter's dock.
Mrs. E. J., Rose, a resident of Beloii
for forty years, died recently.
Capt. James Ogden, a former we'll
known lake captain. died in Milwaukee
at the age of 56 years.
The Northwestern Fuel Company's
locks at Washburn are to be raised t.
40 feet and their capacity doubled.
A. > Stiles, of Chippewa Falls
banked 5000, 600 feet OF logs on Tuppel
creek during the winter
In a wreck at indianapolis, Ind.
Clifton p. Vest, jockey of Janesville,
had both feet horribly burned.
A young man named n ). Nugent
Of South Bend, Ind, was suffocated by
gas at Langlois' MOTEL in Milwaukee.
Henry Bartels. aged 21. son of ex
Judge William Bartels, of Marshfield
mas been appointed a cadet at West
Point by Congressman Lynch.
The old American hotel at juneau
has been sold by the heirs of c
Brown to Julius Nenie for So. 600 The
building was erected in 1912.
Butler & Mueller's sawmill at Eli:
Junction was burned Loss, SIS. 600
partly insured.
While Allen Shepherd, of Plattsville
was working with a circular saw the
saw broke. part of it striking Shep
herd on the foot and cutting it of.
The 4-year-old son of Otto Setvig
living near clear Lake, stuck the poin
Of pair of scissors in his left eye, de
stroying the sight
A young woman who registered
appeared and took with her various
Sums of money from several rooms.
Delofer Moon purchased the operi
house at Eau Claire under foreclosur,
of mortgage for sig, 800. The hous'
cost 100000.
The grain warehouses formerl,
owned by W T. Coates at Westby
Viroqua and six other points on tn,
st. Paul road, have been purchased By
Fred Eckhardt and l.. c. Boyle, Q
Viroqua, who win open them for bust
ness.
John jacobs, middle-aged resident
of Altoona City. in the presence of hi
family plunged a knife into his throa
in two places. partially severing hi.
wind pipe He would probably die
lie was believed to be insane
George Schurtse. an old settler ant
wellknown citizen of Milwaukee, dice
at the age of 20 years
The Allouez tenement house. con
tanning nineteen families, was burned
at West Superior. Loss, Sf2O, 600; in
surance, $4,000.
During a saloon row near Bayfield,
George Dashner bit an ear off Mix,
McQuarles. Dashner escaped with tn,
ear
The collection of oil paintings, stee
engravings and miscellaneous ar
works in the store gallery of ROebel S
Reinhard at Milwaukee. valued a
over $50, 600. was destroyed by fire.
Charles COrcOran, OF Grand Rapids
who was working for the I. b. Scot
Lumber Company, at Merrill. was &C
eidentally killed.
The entire village Of Edgar, a small
station on the Lake Shore road il
Marathon county, was said to have beer
wiped out by Ere.
Eugene f. Kendall, foreman of tn,
BelOit iron works pattern shop.
dead.
Finn LAWYER. politician and lum
herman of Rheinlander. attempte,
suicide by cutting himself in the necl
and body with a pocketknife. II
would nYobabIy die.