River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-02-25
The News Condemned.

W. Curtis, Fort Atkinson; treasurer,
ii. X. LOOMS, She6oygan Falls.
The News Condensed
Miss Kate McKenna was found dead
in her bed at Chippewa Falls.
Willard Austin was killed bv Wis
consin Central train near Chippewa
Falls.
Fire at Racine destroyed the works
of the Hurlbut Manufacturing Com
pany. Loss, $50, fully insured.
Thieves entered the saloon of Vet
Lindsay at Pardeeville and carried off
$500 worth of whisky and considerable
W inc and cigars.
John Blazer, who killed Oscar John
son in Ashland about a month ago,
has been discharged, the jury bringing
in an acquittal
Frank Cunningham, an old resident
of Cobb, was killed by train on the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad.
A new lodge of odd fellows has been
established at Washburn.
Col. Rudd. of Bay field. will get out
600, 900 feet of pine and hemloclx logs
on Bass island during the winter.
Evangelist E. w. Bliss closed sue
cessful ten days series of revival meet
ings at Washburn. Over $50 converts
were secured.
The new insane asylum located at
Menomonie is ready for occupants.
Mrs. E. Torreson, aged 20, died al
La Crosse. She had been sick foI
some time. and when the time arrived &c
take her usual medicine she got hold
of the wrong bottle and took a large
dose of carbolic aeid.
The National Butter and Cheese as
ISOLATION held their annual convention
at Madi son.
taken from the stomach of a cheese
maker by a Monroe doctor.
Evan Owen, one of the first settlers
of Ixonia, died in his seventy year,
after an illness of but four days He
came here from Utica, n. Y, in 1S45.
The new city hall at La Crosse was
dedicated and the fiftieth anniversa-
ry of the city's Incorporation was eel
ebrated.
Thomas Crosby, aged &c, who settle d
near Beloit in 1887, died the other day.
There were few white people there
when he came.
The firm of Smith & Love, grain
buyers at Beloit, failed with liabilities
over assets of about 81, 900.
Mrs. J. Foster wife of a pioneer
business man, died at Durand as the
result of a surgical operation.
5. Il. Forbes, a special agent of the
Northwestern Mutual Life-Insurauce
Company, dropped dead in Milwaukee.
He was IS years of age. Heart-disease
was supposed to have caused his death.
Daniel o. Gurnee, son of John d..
Gurnee, leading lawyer of Madison,
was convicted of outrage at Eau
Claire. His victim, Hattie Hans, is a
stenographer.
Samuel Hart, OF GAINESVILLE, has sold
his stock farm near Beloit to John w.
Slathers. of GAINESVILLE, for s14. 100.
Mrs Heiden. Of Appleton. broke a
leg by fall The woman was Is
years of age and it was thought the
injury would prove fatal
The Lehigh Coal & Iron Company OF
West Superior intends to double the
number of its coke ovens in the spring
There are 100 ovens in use at present.
Mrs. Patrick Kennedy, an old lady
fell down on an icy place in Eau Claire
and when picked up she was dead. The
injury to the spine had proven instau L
ly fatal.
Allan T. Williams, clerk of Bavfield
county, is charged by the county sup
ervisors with raising orders and EN-
bezzlement His shortage so far dis
covered amounts to between $500 and
$500.
Frank Rhodes. prominent merchant
at Spaulding, accidentally shot himself
at a logging camp near that village
while handling a gun. The charge en-
tered his hip and caused death twenty
four hours later.
A sneak thief entered FarrOw IL En-
mons saloon at Bayfield,, opened the
safe aud took $50
L. c. Parkinson, a blind inmate Of
the county poor house at Ashland
committed suicide by cutting his
throat
A man variousiy known as Charles
Howard and Charles Spencer, supposed
to live at Fifeld. dropped dead at Ash
land
Mrs. Thomas Graylor, of Lima. ha
lost her mind through the death with
in month of her three children from
diphtheria. The husband Is the Onll
one of family of FIVE now left her
Oreu Washburn. aged % years. re
ceived fatal injuries while telling /;
tree near Black River Falls. In fall
i.Ig a broken limb of the tree wa.
driven in his back.
Frank NJ. Sherin, a popular young
man and a prominent member of thu
real estate board OF Milwaukee, died
suddenly at his home in Wauwatos;
from heart disease
Mrs. Frederick Allen. of Eau Claire
aged 80 years, gave birth to triplets.
girl and two boys, the combines
weight being nineteen pounds She wa
married at IS and has thirteen chill
dren.
The Phillips & La Crosse Railwa.
Company has completed survey Z
KEENAN,. on the 500 The work o
clearing the right of way viii be pushes
rapidly.
A mammoth fish hatchery is amonI
the latest additions to Bayfeld's inter
ests. 1t is situated on the Pike farm
miles from town, and the idea origi
mated with the owner. Capt X. ID
Pike.
Col Theodore Rodolf, one Of the old
est residents of La Crosse. died at thu
age of IS years lie had represented
that district in the assembly, beer
mayor two terms, and held other posi-
tions of trust