River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-09-01
The News Uonden,ed.

& Prince at Ashland was burned. Loss,
Sc, 900; insurance, 1900.
A young man named Charles Wilson
was whirled around shaft in the Dan.
iel Shaw Lumber Company mills al
Eau Claire and fatally injured.
1t was reported that a vein of almost
pure lead had been found on a farm a
few miles from Alma, by Emil Furrer.
former river pilot.
Harris A. George, brakeman on the
500 line, was killed at Heafford juno.
ton while switching. He leaves wife
and child in Minneapolis.
DIR. Woolhiser, of South Wayne, will
exhibit two half grown badgers at the
worlds fair, at the request of the Wis.
consin commissioners.
All stores at Wausau, except the
news. fruit and ice-cream stands, are
now closed on Sunday, the result of the
Sunday-closing movement by clerks.
The store of Clark & Scott was de-
stroyed by fire at Rudolph, and +. w.
Palmatier, Jr., of Centralia, who slept
in the store, was burned to death.
Fire destroyed the planning mill of
George Peppert at Milwaukee. doing
damage to amount of $4,000. Insur-
ance, $4,000.
Milwaukee college is the oldest insti-
tuition for the higher education of
women in the west. There is talk of
endowing it 100000.
James Ryan, of Pleasant Valley,
bound up twenty-five acres of rye as
fast as four horses could cut it with
reapers
Conductor Temple, who was arraigned
at Bayfield,, on preliminary examina-
ton, for the killing of William Finney
at Ashland Junction, has been dis
charged.
A new lead mine in Iowa county
yields from ], 200 to 1900 pounds of ore
day.
Frank Herbert was stabbed FIVE times
in the back, neck, arm and leg at Bay
field by Lewis Consoliver. Both were
intoxicated.
The Bayfield, Brown Stone Company
has struck fortyfoot ledge of stone,
free from sand streaks, with firm,
even grain.
Rev. J. T. Irish, ID. D., of Bay field
has been appointed post chaplain in the
United States army and assigned to
duty at Fort Brady, Mich.
ID. Il. Wade, of bayfield,, dropped
dead at Ashland. He was prominent
in bayfield, county politics and in
business circles.
A 6-year-old son of John Plantego
was run over at Eau Claire and instant
ly killed by heavy wagon. A wheel
crushed his temple.
Lee Bing, a wealthy Chinaman of
Milwaukee, married Maud Delmore, a
young Chicago girl, Justice Wallace
tying the knot.
The Thomson Houston Electric Com
pany has purchased the electric light
ing plant at Madison for S55, 900.
The sensational forgery case against
Frank Blahirick, an old pioneer of Ash
land was dismissed by Municipal Judge
Calkins. 1t had been hanging fire for
several months.
The Crystal Salt Company has been
organized at Marinette to manufacture
salt according to the patent of L. Rug
giles Timby, of Washington.
Tom Hall, keeper of a disreputable
resort at Merrill, shot and fatally
wounded Gus Eckland, gambler, dur
ing an alteration.
The Eau Claire authorities have in
hand the case of man who in a fit of
anger chopped horses leg off with "a
pickax.
Arthur Rhodes, farmer living near
Beloit, was killed by lightning while
unhitching horse. His brother, on
the opposite side of the horse, was I'M
hurt, as was also the horse.
Royal p. Houghton, the banker, died
in Milwaukee from the effect of the at
tack of paralysis which first confined
him to his bed about two weeks before
his death. Mr.. Houghton was one of
Milwaulee's earliest settlers and one
of it's leading citizens and business
men.
Work on the federal building at Ash
land has begun The structure will
cost the government 81. 600 more than it
would have had not the eight-hour-a-
day law been passed.
Mrs. AlvIna Herpick committed sui
eide by taking poison while in tenn
porary fit of insanity. She left home
early in the morning and her dead body
was found at night in a vacant lot.
Capt Il. Doherty's house at Ashland
was struck by lightning during recent
thunder storm. A bolt crashed through
the whole house and the occupants
were shocked but not seriously. They
were sleeping on feather beds.
Grand Rapids and Centralia shipped
4, 800 baskets of blackberries this sea-
son.
James w. Perkins died at his home
in Westfield of heart disease. He rep
resented Adams county in the assembly
in lSs5-s7.
Fireman Charles Beach, of the West
Range railway. was horribly crushed
at Mineral Lake while making coup
ling.
The Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad has granted the freight hand
lers in it's Milwaukee freight houses the
same advance in wages as the Chicago
& Northwe stern Company did
Dan Moriarity, an old man, was
locked up at Mondovi, for being drunk.
His pipe set fire to the Jail, which was
consumed, and he was burned to
death
Frank Herbert was stabbed five
times by Lewis Consoliver at bayfield,.
Both men were intoxicated Herbert
will probably die. Consoliver was
arrested. but was too drunk to realize
his position.
The tug Keystone brought in the
largest raft of logs for the Keystone
Lumber Company ever brought into
Chequamegon bay. 1t consisted OF
4.250. QUO feet brought from Park bay, a
| distance of IS miles.