River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-07-07
The News condensed.

The News Condensed.
The new city directory credits Mil.
waullee with a population of 24O, 600.
John Klein, an early resident and
prominent citizen of Sheboygan, died
at the age of 60 years.
Washburn has got out big petition
asking change of the county seat OF
Bay field county from Bayfield, to Wash
burn.
Peter Saagard. aged % years, single,
was drowned in the lake at Rice Lake
while bathing. He was jeweler.
At Chippewa Falls, Drs. Nulse and
MeriSle were held to the circuit court
in bonds of 81, 600 each on the charge OF
manslaughter.
1t is now pretty definitely settled that
the York Iron Company will move their
furnaces from Black River Falls TO
West Superior or Escanaba.
Mrs. Helena Martin died at the Kee-
lev institute in Waukesha, where she
was being treated for the opium habit.
She was once an actress and member
of Maggie Mitchelrs company.
Christopher Kruger. farmer living
near Oconto, committed suicide by
throwing himself under a moving train.
fl. K. Potter, dealer in boots and
shoes at Eau Claire, made an assign
ment to II. b. McMaster; assets, SC, 600;
liabilities, 81, 500.
Mrs. William Hanson was starting a
fire in the kitchen stove at Brasington
with kerosene in a can, which exploded,
ha
body and limbs The house was a to-
tai loss.
Veterans of Adams, Marquette and
Waushara counties held a reunion at
Coloma.
Milwaukee's gas plant has been sold
to New York capitalists for nearly
IS. 600. 900.
The state convention of the Ancient
Order of IIibernians meets at West Su-
perior on July Is.
John f. Dufur. Peter Ferguson and
c. A. Shattuck were arrested At Ash
land for stealing government timber.
Peter Sehwab was found at the Barge
Works hotel in West Superior with a
bullet hole in his head. No cause for
the suicide could be conjectured.
The general store of n. w. Brist at
MilIston was entirely destroyed by fire.
Loss, So, 500: insurance, $500.
Mayor Lund, of Stoughton, has noti-
fed the saloonkeepers of that burg that
the Sunday law will be rigidly en-
forced.
Charles Luling, a banker who for
more than ten years has been mem
Der of the state board of supervisors,
died at Manitowoc, aged d2 years.
The trustees of Beloit college voted
President Eaton vacation of six
months and presented him with purse
Of 81, 900.
Mrs. Burke's pocket was picked at
Ashland of S625 in cash and valuable
papers were taken.
Eugene Vanderwater. of Milton. was
struck by an engine on the Northwest
ern road near GAINESVILLE and received
fatal injuries
An old timer states that the season of
1914 was almost duplicate of the
present one. Everything was flooded
by the continuous rains until the last
Of June.
James NJ. Allen, the school-teaeher
at Viroqua who caused the death of
Burt Carcutt. one of his pupils, by fog
ging him. was sentenced by Judge
Newman to five years in the state
prison.
Hardy Russ, residing near Ellsworth,
discharged gun from his doorway into
the air, as he supposed. His brother
Fred. aged IS. was standing 20 rods
away and received the bullet in his
brain. killing linn instantly.
Mrs Edward Ely's < # TO Beloit col
lege for the endowment of professor
ship was s25, coo. The gift of Jonathan
Pierce, o. Milwaukee, was check
for s., 200.
The current apportionment of the
Wisconsin school fund shows cog, 1925
children and the per capita is 30 cents
for each child between the ages of
and 20. The aggregate is s20l,67725-
Louis, only son of Thomas Spies, OF
Waterville. was killed by being crushed
in a portable steam mill while operat
ing it on his fathers farm. He was
found dead by his mother, who went to
call him to dinner. Ekza
Citizens of Ashland and Ashland
county have formed project to erect
S125. 600 exposition building in Ashland
to be known as the palladium of the
New Wisconsin"
The Upham Manufacturing Company
of Marshfield viii soon commence work
on a new logging road, running from
Unity to their timber, west of Colby, q
distance Of about miles.
The general store of r. II. Baldwin
at Franksville was burglarized. The
safe was opened and 81 100 in CIR
tifcates of deposit on Racine bank,
5000 in cash and SO in old coin were
taken.
The court has ordered Miss Winnie
O'Connor, of Kaukauna to pay A. X.
Rice s93 for sheep her pet dog hao
killed.
At West Superior Assistant Chief w.
NJ. kellogg, of the fire department
was badly hurt by being thrown from
a carriage while running his horse IL
response to a fire alarm.
James Wilder died suddenly al
his home in West Algona, aged IS
wears. lie was at one time post
master of the state senate anc
when he died was superintendent;
of all the United States railway
mail business west of the Rocky noun
tains.