River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-06-29
The News Condensed.

Clarence Snively, aged II. oldest son
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Snively, was
drowned in small pond at Haywood.
E. ]. Griffiths was probably fatally
hurt by building stone which fell on
him while at work on business block
in course of construction in Eau Claire.
The West Superior council appropri-
ated 81 900 for the Fargo IN. D. fire
sufferers.
A farmer named Buston, aged so.
living miles south of Bloomer, com
mitted suicide by hanging. No cause
was known.
The large elevator of William Kerr
at Harland, filled with wheat, was to-
tally destroyed by fire, the loss being
$50, 900.
Jens johnson SagIno, the man who
skipped from Grantsburg with his step
daughter some three weeks ago, was
arrested on a warrant sworn out by his
wife and lodged in the county Jail.
Mrs. Johanne w. Winn was knocked
down by a runaway team at Madison
and died of the injuries she received.
Frederick Jacobus shot himself in the
head at La Crosse, but would probably
recover His act was caused by de-
spondency.
Frederick Tillman, a wealthy mer.
chant at La Crosse, died from sunstroke.
The body of Fred Brown, the saloon
keeper at Waupaca who died suddenly
last October, was exhumed and the
stomach will be examined for traces of
poisoning. Browns wife has married
the bartender of her former husband.
Lightning struck the barn of Ernest
Meissner at Racine, knocking MeissneI
and his hired man senseiess and killing
his 1O-year-old son.
A gasoline explosion in the home OF
Absalom Van Dusen burned his IS
months-old baby to death.
BY vote of 16 to IA the county board
refused to make an appropriation OF
$50, 900 as part of the bonus for secur-
ing the new normal school for Monroe
county.
Charles F. Whalen was sentenced at
GAINESVILLE to twenty-five years inn
prisonment for the murder of Gerald
Spaulding.
Ex-County Judge Magnus Nelson
died at Grantsburg, after prolonged
sickness. He was the first settler in
Burnett county. having arrived there
forty years ago
The Racine Hardware Manufacturing
company assigned for the benefit of
creditors. Its liabilities were $500, 0O0
and assets about s600,00
Fire destroyed the Hoffman Keefe
file works in Milwaukee, the loss being
$4,000.
Capt. r. II. Start of the law firm OF
HAYDEN &, Start. died in Eau Claire
from paralysis of the heart. He was
about 90 ears of age and leaves wild.
ow and son.
The body of a woman apparently sc
wears of age was taken from the lake
in Milwaukee She had been seen in
the vicinity only short time before.
1t was supposed she drowned herself.
The assets of the Plankinton bank OF
Milwaukee. according to the assignee's
report, are 81 SAC. s5l and the liabilities
81, 4SO, 34s.
The millinery stock of NJ. s. Roths
child. at Racine, was attached on
claim of 1910 by w. ii. Sweat. of Chi
cago. The stock is valued at $4,000.
Capt r. H. Start, of the law firm OF
Hayden a Start, died in Eau Claire o.
paralysis of the heart. aged about 6t
years He leaves widow and a son.
Johnnie Seipler, II years old, had his
back broken at Racine by blow from
baseball bat in the hands of com
panion named John Maggie.
A son of n. c. Strout, dealer in sport
ing goods at La Crosse, was drowned
while bathing in slough south o.
town The boy could swim, but was
taken with cramps.
Fire destroyed the large planning mil
owned by the John Arpin Lumber
company al Arpin, together with
considerable amount of dry lumber ane
eight empty cars. Loss, $4,000.
The stock of the I.appen Furniture
company of Milwaukee was sold by this
sheriff for st5.T25. Creditors who
failed TO secure attachments are no.
likely to receive more than ten cents or
the dollar.
The Northwestern college of com
merce which was recently established
at Menomonie by II. L. Rucker and :
G. Paine was closed for lack of funds
A class of twenty-nine. all but two of
whom are girls, graduated from the
Beloit high school The class i. tbs
largest which ever graduated from that
school.
Emma Breene, aged II years. was
drowned while bathing n the Rock
river at Beloit.
While at dice shaking in Milwaukee
George Dietrich and August Zillmer got
to quarreling and the latter drew
butchers knife and thrust It into Diet
ricn-s abdomen Zillmer was arrested.