River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-06-30
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Roy JARVIS, 10 years old. was drowned
at GAINESVILLE.
Ashland offers a cash bonus of $751;
and two blocks for the new normal
school to be erected by the state.
A freight train went through a trestle
aear Spooner and eighteen cars were
smashed up. No one was killed.
Melgord & Norman's store at Bald
win was burglarized. The thieves got
only few dollars in money, but a
large amount of jewelry and clothing.
Judge Sam Ryan, of Appleton, editor
of The Crescent, sustained stroke of
paralysis of the right side.
w. G.. Hallett, city agent at La Crosse
of the darlington road, dropped dead OF
heart disease. lie was "a years of age
and leaves a wife and two children.
A man arrived in Ashland who had
driven all the way from Texas in GOV
cred wagon.
Christian Buehlmeyer, of Madison,
was killed by T. A. Susan, an engineer,
who struck him a violent blow on the
head with a shovel.
At Fall Creek lightning struck a
farmer, name not learned, as he sat in
his wagon, killed him and his two
horses, and demolished the wagon.
Thomas Hollingsworth Ashland's
poundmaster, arrested for cattle steal
ing, pleaded guilty and was sentenced
TO six months at Waupon penitentiary.
Gottlieb Eisentraut, an old and re-
spected resident of Pennington, com
United suicide 10y drowning himself in
Milwaukee river. No cause was known.
Ashland thieves stole two communion
sets from St Andrews church and a
clock from the Presbyterian church.
Judge Siebecl1er at Montello sen
fenced DIR. II. G. Russell to twentv-four
years hard labor at Waupun. Russell
was tried foran outrageous assault on
an inva id named Miss Violet Cairns.
The Christian associations of the Wis
consin state university established a
fellowship of $500 for advanced post
graduate work in the study of Hebrew,
and it was awarded to j. ;. Holton, OF
Poynette.
The youngest pc ls;oner in the United
States is Carl Engrebet en-, of La
Crosse. who was member of the
Twentieth United States regulars and
was injured at Fort Abercrombie.
A party of surveyors has begun the
work of laying out new town at the
mouth of Iron river, on the extreme
western border of Bayfield, county.
John Schauer. ex-city treasurer, in a
fit of dependency over business mat
lers, shot himself in his room at Marsh
field. lie will probalsy recover.
Rivermen working near Alma, at the
mouth of Beef Slough. found the dead
body of a man floating down the Mis-
sissippi river. The body is supposed to
have been in the water for three weeks.
The Black River Veterans association
held "A three days encampment at Mer-
rillan.
Andrew Everson, farmer living in
the town of Kennicl1inick, was killed
by lightning while repairing a wire
fence.
f. d. Day & Co., of Hurley, the larg-
est dealers in general merchandise and
mining supplies on the Gogebic range,
has failed with liabilities estimated at
S25, 900.
Thomas II. Austin, aged "a years, the
cattle king of Rock county, died at his
home in Johnson. He had resided in
Wisconsin since 1912. A widow and
ten children survive him.
Fred Passer and Paul MonS'-y. two
young men, were drowned whi.e bath
ing in Rock river a short distance above
Fort Atkinson.
The seven large ice houses at Stur-
geon Bay belonging to the Union Ice
Company, of Chicago, were blown down
during terrible gale.
Esther G.. Villas, mother of Senator
W. +. Villas, died at Madison, aged ~
years.
a collision between the steamers
Douglas and A. +. Wilds off Milwaukee
resulted in the complete wreck of the
latter. She went down in about 500
feet of water
William Lee. aged 81 years, of Gil
manton, employed by the Mississippi
River Logging Company at West New
ton, was drowned.
The board of supervisors of Mara
thon county voted an appropriation of
$4,000 toward securing the sixth nor
NAL school. Wausau will donate a site
and s., 600.
Cracksmen entered the post Office in
Fond du Lac. blew open the vault and
attempted to crack the safe inside,
which contained between 5000 and
So. 600 in cash and stamps. The amount
secured, which was in the vault, was
about $500.
Dell Strader, switchman, 10 years of
age and sole support of his parents and
Ave sisters, was killed by the cars in
the Great Northern yards at West SUI
perior.
The Wisconsin supreme court has af-
irmed the decision IN the case of Rose
Zoldoski, convicted of poisoning Mrs
Mitchell at Richland Center. and she
must remain in prison for life.
Lewis l. Hubbard. Oldest son of II.
t. Hubbard, one Of the proprietors of
he Kekoskee roller Touring mills 10
miles south of Oakfeld, was fatally
aurt while bathing in the mill pond. Id
hying his head struck against a rock,
iacturing the skull. He died later.