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

Mrs. Joseph Bulzter. of East SUI
perior. recently gave birth to her TWEEN
ty-tirst child.
At the Milwaukee republican con-
vention Senator Paul Bechtner was
nominated for mayor.
David Jay jumped from the third
story of the Rinehart hospital at Ash
land and was fatally injured.
Michael Hackett, father-in-Iaw OF
James w. Moore, editor of the Gazette.
of WATERFOWL, died of Inflammation OF
the kidneys, aged II years.
Mrs. C. ii. Smith, widow of Rev. Mr..
Smith, of Thompsonville, died at her
home in Racine at the age of 81 years.
Ney, the 15-year-old son of Daniel
Eldred, of Rock Elm, was instantly
killed by a falling tree.
The sawmin at Mineral Lake, Ash.
land county, is cutting cork pine at the
rate of $4,000 feet per day.
Emil Menhard, a well-known circus
clown with Barnum and late with
Ringing Bros, died in Boston of con-
sumption. His remains were brought
to Madison for interment
Ole Meyers. of Hurley. shot himself
through the head at hotel in Ash
land.
Charles Teller was instantly killed
by tree falling on him in the woods
near Neillsville.
The grist mill in Wonewoc owned by
Woifender, Lee & Cary was destroyed
by fire. Loss, SIG. 600; insurance, S12,-
600.
II. J. Moves, of Richmond, was
elected president of the National Dairy
meeting at Madison.
An alligator measuring 81 feet was
found on the river bank near James
vile. 1t was frozen, but had not been
dead but short time.
An incendiary fire broke out in the
Cooperstown house barn at Green Bay
and two horses, a goat and the dog
were suffocated- Loss, 81 5JO.
George Garland, treasurer of Duncan
township. Houghton county, was ar
rested, charged with embezzling pub
lie money amounting to over s4.OO0
C. L. Hubbard. county treasurer,
died at Hayward. He had been sick
six months
The mumps have broken out in some
u the lumber camps near Marshfield.
At one camp thirteen cases were re-
ported.
The buildings on the farm of Alex
ander Lansing in the town of Fitch
burg, Dane county, were burned. The
loss was So, 900, partly covered by insur-
ance.
Leading lumbermen have agreed to
build a new railway this spring
through the pine woods of Wisconsin
from Chippewa Falls via Hayward to
Superior.
At the funeral of Mrs. Maren Han
sen. who died at Beloit, aged "a, eight
grandsons of the deceased were pres
ent
The planing-mill of Scott, Hubbell &
Taylor at Ashland was partially
burned. involving loss of S., No
insurance.
Robert Rowland died from the eff
fects of surgical operation performed
at Eau Claire. lie was a resident of
Augusta.
William Altman, driving logging
team at Marshall for John Rausch, had
his left collar-b bone broken by being
thrown against tree.
John Andrews died at his home in
Mukwongo. Waukesha county, where
he had resided since 1s45. He was a
native of Andover. VT, and was %
years old.
The Kenosha Watch Case Company
of Kenosha and the Rockford Watch
Case Company of Rockford. Ill, have
consolidated, with headquarters az the
latter place.
w. o. Williams, a blacksmith at
vaight, received word from st Paul
that he had been left ST. 900 by Robert
Coon. former companion of his while
in the Minnesota prison at saltwater,
to whom he had done some favors.
A fire in the Lane Manufacturing
Company's building at Kenosha de-
stroyed the wood shop and outlying
buildings. Loss between $50, O0O and
$50, 900.
A jury at Juneau in the case of Frank
Hartman, tramp. VS.. the St Paul
Railroad Company, for false imprison-
ment brought in a verdict of s10O for
the plaintiff
Louis Muellmas, SIS years old, of
Fort Howard, labored under the hallu-
cination while drunk that the Salvation
army wanted him for a hallelujah lass
in its ranks. He attempted to mutilate
himself in a horrible manner and did
inhict an ugly wound