River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-12-14
The News Cnnden.ed.

Capt Thomas Gwynne, a retired army
officer, died in Milwaukee of consump-
ton, aged 81.
The Milwaukee Electric railway has
passed into the hands of the Milwaukee
Street Railway company.
A convict at the Waupun state prison
named Henry Ripple fell from a broken
plank while wheeling a stove into
new addition to the new buildings ano
was fatally hurt
Aunt Eliza" colored inmate of the
Waukesha county poorhouse, is said to
be LOG years old
Wellington Slavery, of Clear Lake,
convicted of robbery, was sentenced to
three years in state prison by Judge
Bundy.
Joseph e. Prenfiss. ex-sheriff of
Houston county, Mimi. ex-postmaster
at Spring Grove and major in the Min
nesota militia during the war, died al
La Crosse.
William Odette, the murderer who
broke Jail at Wausau, was captured al
his home 10 miles below Wausau. tie
froze both feet while escaping.
0Octpu VI. ACAhioS3 ah bAtA oNtAANA o1
years of age, died at La Crosse after
weeks illness of cold and the grip
Mrs. Meta Sage was badly cut on
one of her arms and Miss Lilly Larson
rendered temporarily insane from
fire in the house they occupied at Be
lott.
Stephen BabcOck and Alice Bunker,
who eloped from Eau Claire. returned
and were forgiven.
Thomas Forbes, we'll known in rail
road ticket and freight circles. died of
pneumonia at his residence in Milwau-
kee.
Judge William +. Terhune, pioneer
lawyer of Vernon county, aged %. was
found dead in his bed At his residence
in Viroqua-
Oscar II. Swartout, agent for a New
York shoe house, was found dead in
bed at his hotel at Green Bay. He
leaves a widow and two children in
Chicago.
Michael a Jacobs. of Wisconsin.
chief clerk Of the general land Office in
Washington. has resigned.
lis C en-. j. j. Doe, who has re-
Gently been appointed assistant secre-
tary of war, was given a farewell. ban
quet at the Grand hotel in Janesvi lie.
jerome b. Potter, twice Assem- bly,
man, died of consumption at his home
Q miles south of Mauston. aged 60
years
Reports OF the business of Ashland's
land office for November show that
e.,
during that time. There were forty
nine entries of all kinds.
Stephen Babcoclz. aged %, and Miss
Alice Banker. less than IS years of age,
who eloped and were married, were
taken back to their home in Eau Claire
by the police.
Frank Nowatt, carpenter, shot and
killed himself at Milwaukee. Despon-
dency was the cause.
a motion for a new trial in the case
of Odette. the murderer, was denied by
Judge Bardeen at Wausau and the
prisoner was sentenced to twenty years
in prison at hard labor.
One of the largest timber deals of the
season was closed at Ashland H. NJ.
Stocking. of Eau Claire. transferred to
E. A. Shores the standing pine on 5000
acres of Ashland and bayfield, county
lands for $4,000.
Charles Taylor. living near Sparta,
who was 20 have been married IN the
evening, took poison at noon. His life
was saved IL was believed he was
temporarily insane.
As the result of sort OF half elope-
D.. H. NEaN~r..,-4
and Mettil Tubnan, the latter was sent
TO the girls industrial school.
T. r Zimmerman. of Mt Hope,
Grant county, was held up by two men
8 miles north of Steuben and robbed Of
1910
Jacob Miskie, employed by the Gerry
Lumber company at one of their
camps near Eagle River. was overcome
by the cold and frozen to death.
Judge J. G. jenkins. of Milwaukee,
indicted with the Plankinton bank di-
rectors, has asked for a separate and
speedy trial.
Mr. and Mrs Larldn Eldridge. Of
Berlin, celebrated their golden red
ding
An explosion of mill dust caused a
81, 900 blaze 10 the Listman elevator at
West Superior. Intense cold retarded
the firemen.
Capt. w. Griffin, master of whaleback
barge 104. fell into the hold of his boat
at West Superior. and was instantly
killed.
The receivers of the Northern Pa
cific claim the lease of the Wisconsin
Central was Illegal and viii fight pay
ment of rental
Isaac Darty, who built the Is. pom
toon bridge, died at Prairie du Chen