River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-08-31
The News Condensed.

The wholesale saddlery store of u.
Fishbeclx & Son in Milwaukee was at
tached by the sheriff on claims aggre-
eating $4,000
BY final decision the honor of being
the senior G. A. II. post in Wisconsin
has been awarded to c. C. Washburn
post, No. IL, of Madison. Commander
in Chief Weissert has approved the de
cision.
Nicholas Udell, of Sparta, was found
murdered near Elgin, Mimi. 1t was
supposed he became engaged in quar-
eel with tramps and was killed.
Mrs. John Dunbar, aged go. died in
Beioit after a long illness.
John Lang, of Chicago, was run over
by freight train at Sheboygan and
killed.
The Frost Veneer Seating company
of Sheboygan assigned to George \.
Atwell. of Milwaukee. Assets. $780,
300; liabilities, 100000. The assignee
will continue the business.
The S. y. HYDE Elevator company
and the Cargill Elevator company in
La Crosse jointly issued ''hold-your-
wheat circular TO the farmers in the
northwest
The governor has appointed Paul D.
Carpenter, a son of ex-senator Matt
Carpenter, commissioner to settle the
tax debt and other differences between
The new county of Villas and the parent
county of Oneida.
A statement by Receiver Becker, of
the Milwaukee Fire and Marine bank,
shows assets of s., 256, 29O and liabilities
Of Sc, 71O,374.
Several hundred unemployed Mil
yankee laborers. after demanding work
IF Mayor Koch, looted a number of
fruit stores
Henry Dernberger, who was acct
ientally shot by Colin McMullen at
3lifton, died from the effects of the
wound.
Peter Gilman was arrested at She
boygan on a charge of having stolen
300 in bank certificates and money
from John Dietzler. of Kaukauna.
The Upham Manufacturing com
pany's sawmill at Marshfield has re.
;umed operations, giving employment
to $50 men.
Farmers around Berlin are cucumber
ing the eannery at the rate of twenty
tons day.
Grasshoppcr~ arc doing great damage
to the wheat and nav fields near the
town of Wauwatosa In many parts
they have destroyed the entire crop.
Bolton & Wherry, provision dealers
at Racine, assigned with liabilities of
sl7. 900.
The assessed valuation of Eau Claire
foots up $500, 900 more than that of last
year.
A sneak thief relieved General Pas
senger Agent Pond, of the Wisconsin
Central, of his clothes while in sleep
ing car.
One hundred thousand pounds OF
cheese was shipped to England and
Scotland by ). Il. Udell & Co, of Green /
Bay.
GOV Waite. of Colorado. whose blood 1
up to the brides talk HIS been SC
widely noticed, formerly kept a store I
IN Princeton.
\ wealthy lady of Chicago will build /
in GAINESVILLE as a memorial Of her I
father row of flats in which the de 1
serving poor of that city may live rent 1
free for all time.
Continual withdrawal of deposits /
caused the suspension of the Union ma.
tional bank of Racine. Assets were
1898, 500 and deposits s545,Si4
John Lightfoot. aged 10 years, was /
drowned by falling between two logs /
while playing on Kellogg's mill pond /
at Amigo. The hody was recovered.
Richard Hantzch, lineman for the /
Eau Claire Telephone company was
killed while working at the top of 4
pole by touching live wire.
The i. ]. Palica Trunk company at 4
Racine made an assignment % &. VI. 1
Dietrich. The assets were stated to be I
$40. 600 and the liabilities 81, 600. /
Mrs. John Ehlert. of GilmantCn.
hanged herself while suffering from /
severe headache.
Nearly all the brass bands in south-
ern Wisconsin picnicked at Mineral
Point
Mrs. Sara McKenna, of Ashland. whc
served through the war as an army
nurse, died at Sheboygan while visiting
uduI htcf-
The school census of Appleton shows
a population Of 1855.
At whitefish BAY the body of we'll
lressed man. about 50 years old was
taken from the lake. He wore masonic
emblems and gold watch and chain.
The Mead murder trial at Waupaca
cost the county s26,0l6.02.
The attorney general has made
ruling that no agent or manager of an
insurance company not resident of
Wisconsin can write insurance in the
state.
Capt Williamson, the largest hard
wood lumber dealer in Racine. assigned.
His assets We're So, 900 and liabilities
s60, 900.
Fred Bennett. aged 12, in passing
through an alley in Eau Claire
stopped to pick up broken electric
wire and was instantly killed. His
mother is a widow and il was feare,.
she would 90 insane from grief.