River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-10-12
The News Condensed.

Inc NEWS tohueuseus
Wallace Atkinson, ex-marslal OF
Stoug hton, was found guilty If arson
by jury.
Miss Annie Schlegel was fata ly shot
while visiting relatives near Monticello
by the accidental discharge of gun.
The whaleback Christopher Column
bus and the steamer Virginia had an
other .'ial of speed from Chicago to
Milwaukee, the former coming out the
victor again.
Ed Taylor, charged with assault with
intent to commit rape on his own daugh-
ter, pleaded guilty at Barron and was
sentenced to six years in the state
prison.
The 1s-months-old child of Alderman
]. F. Kelley, of Cumberland, was fear
fully and perhaps fatally burned by
hot water.
William C. Knieb:sh. brakeman on the
Chicago e Northwestern road, whose
home is in Madison. has brought suit
for SIS, 900 for the loss of one eye by
being hit with broken coupling pin.
Vincent and Martin, two miners at
Wyota. unearthed near that place a
huge bowlder of lead ore of 200 tons
weight, estimated by measurement, of
course.
Farmer Frederick Wisch was killed
by a Northwestern train near Beloit
The entire plant of the Illinois Steel
company rolling mills at Bay View
started up with force of about 1,5OC
men.
Anton Eprer. a worlds fair visitor
from Glencoe, was instantly killed by a
grip car in Chicago. q.
The bishops of the Methodist Episco-
pal church will hold their semi-annual
gathering at Milwaukee this year, be-
ginning October %.
Frank Cawley badly whipped two
men before he could be subdued and
taken back to the insane asylum at
Racine.
Peter Johnson, of Milwaukee, says
his wife and Richard Westrick con-
spired to kill him. They ran away.
Paul Bolaski, Stockton farmer, was
struck by lightning and instantly
killed, as as the horse he was driving.
Mrs. Bolaslli, who was beside her hus-
Ddnu, was uuluJ uItu.
s. C. Lincoln, veteran in the postal
service. died at Beloit, aged IS years.
A. J. Pankow. city editor of the
Marshfeld Democrat, has been APP.
pointed revenue collector for his dis.
trict. 1t pays $1,000 a year
The omcers of the Union national
bank at Racine, suspended August is,
have given notice that they will re-
sumo business on October as.
Burt ID. Lowell stepped from a North
western train at La Crosse and fell
beneath the wheels and both legs were
severed above the ankle.
A cylinder head on the Dells Lumber
company's mill at Eau Claire blew out,
making total wreck of the engine,
and the mill shut down for the sea
son.
The Electric Light and Power com
pany's plant at Beloit, which las been
in the hands of receive IS been
purchased by G. l.. Cole, c Fort At
kinson.
Matt Ward Pierson fell dead in front
of his residence in GAINESVILLE.
Leading lumbermen of the northwest
have organized an insurance company
at Eau Claire, patterned after the old
English Lloyd's plan. Its operations
will extend over several states.
A human monstrosity was born to
couple residing not far from Colfax. 1t
has six feet and a tail 5 feet long.
horns like deer. Its ears stand up
like a rabbits and il is black
Mrs. Isaac Isaacson, a prominent farm
er's wife near Pound, committed suicide
by hanging.
j. Z. Montague, former agent of the
St Paul railroad at Berlin, has been
arrested on the charge of being short
in his accounts.
Over four tons of paper is turned out
daily at the worlds fair by the Fox
river mills under the direction of Col
Frambach, of Kaukauna.
The Wisconsin Central Railroad COM
pany and the Wisconsin Central com
pany have again passed into the hands
of receivers.
Mining experts say the gold quartz
recently discovered near Hortonsville
assays $40 TO the ton. The vein of iron
is twenty-four feet thick and shows 81
per cent. of iron.
The large furniture factory of h. A.
Kipp & Co., at Milwaukee, was burned
the loss being 100000.
The lO-year-old daughter of John
Beclxins. farmer living near Dodge
vile. was burned to death while cook
ing teed for stock.
Ezra Dillenbeek has succeeded 4. L.
Fisher as secretary of the Rock County
Tobacco Growers association.
Five Il ousand barrels of cranberries
were picked from the Fitch marsh near
Berlin.
Robert Hathorn. once a well-known
resident of Berlin. died in a Dakota
sanitariu n.
The Northwes tern Aluminium COM
pany, which was organized at West SUI
perior some time ago, expects TO be
turning out the clear metal in few
days
c. Beeley. farmer near BeLoit, was
assaulted ami badly beaten b. traAps
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