River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-04-06
The News CONDENSED.


Lone Rock, aged s6 years. lie was
pioneer of Wisconsin.
The store of f. Decker at Casco was
destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000, par
TALLY covered by insurance.
Frank Nuhlicek. prominent brewer
of Kewaunee, is in Uncle Sans tolls
on a charge of sending obscene matter
through the mails.
Sixty loads of hay were lost while
being driven across frozen Green bay,
being blown away by high winds.
Mother Ernesta has assumed her Of
fee of commissary general of the
Order of NOtre Dame in America at
the mother house in Milwaukee.
During a storm lightning struck Vic
tor Beaudette's house in the town of
Wheaton, burning everything. \ bed
in which occupants of the house were
sleeping was split into and the people
stunned.
The general store of ]. Branders and
the feed store of j. B. Goss & Co. were
badly damaged by fire at River Falls
Loss about $, 600.
The Good Templars of the Ashland
district have purchased five acres of
land at Madeline island for summer
resort.
In Milwaukee fire destroyed the
warehouse connected with the a.
Meinecl1e e Sons willow works. Loss,
so, OOO The stores of Inbush Bros,
grocers, and Hadley, Gerber Il Co,
liquors, were also damaged to the ex-
tent of S25, 600
Gustave lille, a Chicago shoe dealer
who jumped $500 bail in that city, was
arrested IN Milwaukee.
The Wisconsin retail lum Der dealers
closed their convention in Watertcwn
with the election of II. II. Heminway
as president and Theodore Huber as
treasurer.
Gen. Henry W. Early aged 70, died
in Chippewa Falls of a complication
OF diseases brought on by old age.
The doors of the Touring mill at
Two Rivers were closed by a. We
hansen. the proprietor. The liabilities
and assets were not known.
The remains of John Neekar. a
hostler, were found in the ruins of
burned barn at Manitowoc. It is
thought that he set fire to the hay
while smoking.
Joseph Richardson, one of the
pioneers of ShebOyan county, died at
Sheboygan, aged 50 years.
The South Milwaukee national bank
of South Milwaukee, capital so, 600.
has been authorized to begin business.
Rev Dr. Ashley. aged 81, and the
Oldest clergyman in the Milwaukee
diocese, died at his home in that city,
where he had lived since 1860
Judge Walber. of the municipal court,
has called a grand jury to investigate
the causes of the recent fires in Mil
waukee.
The sheriff of Bayfield, county ar
rested Harry Brewer at Ashland and
took him to Washburn 81 a charge of
betraying Essie Dundas.
The decision of the supreme court in
the case of Fowler VS.. the city of Su-
pcrior practically decides that the city
has exceeded the constitutional limita-
ton of indebtedness by nearly $780,,
600
Banker Evan Coolidge, who was con-
victed in Milwaukee of receiving de-
posits after his bank was insolvent,
was sentenced to pay n fine of $1,000
or remain in Jail not to exceed six
months. lie paid his fine and was re-
leased.
Louis VI. Page, married man, en-
ployed as a switchman in the Chicago,
Milwaukee * st. Paul railroad yards
at Racine, was run over and killed. It
was his first night on the road.
O!uf Thorpe had his right arm LAGER
ated SO badly while at work in the
planning mill at Sterling that it was
found necessary to amputate it near
the elbow.
Two very old men and original set
tiers died in Kenosha- Samuel r. Gardi-
ner, aged IS years and Matthias Stahl,
aged 50 years. The latter was the IA
Their of ex-Sheriff Stahl, and came from
Germany about fifty-fve years ago.
After thirteen years active service
on the Wisconsin state fish commiss ion
Philo Cunning submitted to Gov Peck
his resignation on account Of i'll health
and old age.
Anthony Marvin, aged So, died at
Prairie du Chen from injuries received
at Dubuque, Ia, by being struck by an
engine on the Burlington road. He
leaves a wife and six children.
Marshal W. b. Atkinson, OF Slough
ton. was arraigned in municipal court
at Madison charged with incendiarism
and pleaded not guilty. 1t IS alleged
that he has set over twenty fires in
that city during the last two years.
Miss Francis Brown, "a professional
nurse of Battle Creek, Mich, was
found dead in her room in La Crosse
of heart disease. She was 30 years OF
age.
Internal Revenue Collector Fink has
issued instructions to his deputies
throughout the state to begin the wori
of registering Cinnamon in accordance
with the law Of 1892 The registration
must be completed By May !.
a little son of P. 7. Olson, of Garder
Valley, was fearfully burned by the ex
plosion Of a lamp. TIE father saveo
the boy from being burned to death by
wrapping him IN a rug. smotherinE 20.
flames