River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-09-28
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The new life-saving station at Ke
waunee is completed and viii soon b'
turned over to the government.
The granite found on Mr.. Roden':
farm near La Crosse has been teste,
and found equal TO that from Siou'
Falls Mr.. Boden's 800 acres of i
The thirty-ffth annual fair of st
Croix county was held in Hudson and
there was an excellent line of entries il
all departments.
Martin Feehan, of Vinegar Hill. solo
A., 900 pounds of lead ore in Shullsbura
at $3.50 a thousand. lie took il az out
of an abandoned mine on his land anC
has great deal more in sight.
Will am Lindeman while crossing the
railroad track at Manitowoc was strucl
by passing freight train and received
serious internal injuries
son of DIR. T.. w. Alger, of l.;
Crosse, and Harvey ri tkin, of Chicago
who was there visiting his parents
were drowned in the river while
fishing.
Herman Unlike. an old resident o
Thorpe, was mysteriously shot anC
killed.
The barns filled with hay. grain and
farm machinery owned by Albert
Madenwold, 6 miles east of Marshield,
were struck by lightning aud burned.
Loss. 81. 500. with 1850 insurance.
Fred Bose, one of the earliest resi-
dents of Racine. dropped dead of apo
pIexy. He was 80 years old and had
lived there forty years.
Mrs Mary Don ghty. nee Kirk, died on
a train between TrIrand and wabasha,
of consumption. She was returning from
Washington.
Nourse Bros, of Bay field. assigned to
close out business. Assets AMI liabili-
ties, $4,000
A. II. Strange, of Merrill. paid sl25.-
900 for 40. 900, 600 feet of standing pine.
The forest is near Woodboro, contigu-
Gus TO the Wisconsin river.
ID. f. Seymour and J. r. Maximer of
the Seymour bank at Chippewa Falls
We're arrested for fraudulent banking
Thomas Coffee and his son James.
two fishermen of Washington Island.
were drowned during windstorm.
The James johnson saw1uill at Amcry
was destroyed by fac. Loss, $50. 600;
partially insured.
BelOit college opened with crafty
ing attendance in all departments.
The latest bit of alleged intelligence
is that the Plaukinton bank in Mil
waukee will pay dollar for dollar 10 its
depositors. The authority for this
statement is Philip ID. Armour, of Chi
cago.
George A. Burlington. of Eau Claire,
died at Deland. Fla, aged 6s. He was
vice president of the Valley Lumber
company and leaves an estate esti-
mated at 100000.
During quarrel over some stolen
watermelons, John Winters, of Sparta,
Wis, stabbed his nephew, J. f. Ben
son, probably fatally
John L. Cox. laborer from Pcnnsyl-
vania, was run over by the cars near
Hudson. and so seriously injured that
he died.
According to the new directory Supe.
rior has population of exactly ~, 49,
persons. an increase of 600 persons dur
ing the year just closed.
A terrific wind storm passed over
Wausau. unroOfng buildings, scatter
ing lumber in every direction. prostrat-
ing shade trees AMI creating general
havoc throughout the city
Louis Dietrich, living near Chippewa
Falls, was killed while draining out
well. The rope that held the bucket
broke, letting it drop on the unfortun-
ate man below.
Secretary Carlisle has awarded a gold
life-saving medal to Ingar Olsen, of
Milwaukee. for rescuing from drown
ing James Miller in what is known as
the crib disaster in Lake Michigan on
April 90 last
The =. :. Davidson Lumber companr
at Ia Crosse made an assignment 10 T..
ID. Mcmillan, who gave a bond for $3.50
OGo.- The company owns a sawmii
pine lands and steam boats.
Peter Meth. an employee of the Badges
Paper company at KaukauBa. was ia
tally sealded by steam. He was mar
ried.
Hiram r. Bond & Co, dealers in sand
lime and building materials in Milwau
kee, made an assignment with liabili
ties of sl0O,O
A sou of Henry Ricci. years old,
was run over and killed by freight
train at Cumberland.
oxfordville was greatly excited over
the capture of James Hyde and Frank
Sterling, of Chicago. near Oxford, af-
ter the crooks had inundated people
with revolvers and escaped from a sher.
ifs posse.
The body of Al Kaufman, farmer
who had been missing several days
was found in the river at Manitowoc
II was thought hat his drowning was
accidental
Bears are numerous arouad Colby.
They raid sheepfolds aud otherwise
worry the farmers.
This years output by the Prairie 1
Chen WOODEN mills will inclule %
yards ~ flannel