River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-04-14

The bank of Edmund Hart at Elroy
was robbed of $500.
Without a dissenting voice the Wis
consin Farmers Alliance in session at
Eau Claire voted to join the peoples
party.
The residence of Frank Colburn in
the town of Wheaton, Chippewa county,
was destroyed by fire. The loss was
s., 500; insurance, $1,000.
Samuel Umdahl, of Menomonie, who
was charged with embezzlement by the
Omaha Railway Company, died at his
home at that place.
Mr.. Il. 7. Sherman, an old settler and
well-known farmer and stockman, who
had lived in the town of Windsor for
many years, died at the age of IS years.
The assets of the Wisconsin Lum Der
and Manufacturing Company of La
Crosse have been ascertained to be S74,-
900 and the liabilities $4,000.
Morris Cohn, travelling for the Stand
ard Paper Company of Milwaukee, is
wanted in Ashland on charge of OBJ
tanning about $500 on worthless drafts.
II. H. Hemingway, of Tomah, has
been ele tied president of the Wisconsin
Lumber Dealers association at the an
nual meeting in Madison.
Charles G. Williams, register of the
land office at WATERFOWL, ). d., is dead.
He represented the Racine district IN
congress for ten years.
John H. Thompson, the Milwaukee
colored man who recently shot and
killed his mother-in-law ana murder
ously assaulted his wife, has been SEN
fenced to fourteen years in state prison.
Four lives were lost in a wreck on
the Northwestern road near Waukesha.
Miss Mary Hendrickson, of Frank
fort, 76 years old, was burned to death
in her house by the upsetting of a lamp.
Flames in the Rinehart hospital at
Ashland caused slight damage. The
fifty inmates were removed safely, but
they were nearly suffocated by smoke.
o. C. and Win Ford, of GAINESVILLE,
hsve been notified that they are heirs
to a part of an estate now valued at
$50, 900, 600 in Harlem, n. Y.
Jewett Russell, an old and respected
citizen, dropped dead in New Rich
A stranger who registered at West
Bend as Charles Miller, of Ashland,
committed suicide in a saloon at Bar
ton, mile north of there, shooting
himself through the head.
The Bunker Hill Transportation Com
pauy was organized at Bunker Hill with
a capital of 100000. The company will
operate line of steamboats, between
Chicago and Buffalo, n. Y.
John Doom, in Jail at Medford on seri-
Gus charges preferred against him by
his three daughters, committed suicide.
Col Zebulon p. Burdick died at
GAINESVILLE, aged So. He was elected to
the assembly in this state for three
terms.
Some boys who were wandering
through the woods back of Onalaska
discovered near the farm of Charles
Crouer the body of a man who had evil
IDENTIFY been dead for considerable
time.
George Saxton, farmer living near
Berlin, shot a wolf right from his door.
This is the fifth wolf from the sheep
killing pack and there are still more.
The store of Charles overly at Rice
Lake was robbed of S., 900 in money,
gold watches and diamond rings.
Knapp, Stout & Co.'S two planning
mills and lumber yards at Cedar Falls
were burned. The loss was $4,000.
The tobacco shed on the Patterson
farm near GAINESVILLE was destroyed by
fire, together with eight acres of to-
bacco. The loss is 1000; insurance,
$500.
A. L. White, of Wheeling, w. Va,
has purchased two tracts of land at
Superior for $50, 900 for eastern parties.
1t is intended 70 start plant for the
manufacture of vltritied brick