River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-03-30
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abriel Rumage. so years old, while
laboring under a At of insanity hanged
himself at Beloit.
Evans & Doves general store at
Bangor was burgIarized, the thieves
securing $3.50 in cash.
Frederick H. Tobey, of Council
Bluffs, la. committed suicide by shoot
ing himself at u boarding house in Mil
waulee Liquor was the cause.
The grocery business Of r. f. Wilson
& Co. at West Superior was closed on
attachments aggregating 5000.
George Strong. one of Milsyaukee's
early police officers, who had been on
the pension roll for some time, died at
his home, aged about a.
The Wisconsin Industrial association
that for the last six years has con-
Quoted fairs at Racine has disbanded.
The College GIee, Banjo and Mando-
lin clubs gave their annual home con-
cert in Beloit. ! he clubs will soon
start on their annual tour
Mendel, Smith s Co. Wholesale
grocers at Milwaukee, suffe ed a loss
of about So, coo by fire.
Robert Case, once vel known as a
lake captain, died ist&acine at the age
of IS years. He leaves an invalid Wild
ow, aged % years,
A. s Biornson, an old citizen of
Viroqua, died suddenly. After eating
dinner he became sick and tainted, eX-
pirug within a short time.
A fire that started IN the second floor
of the Straw-Eiisworth Manufacturing
company building In Milwaukee caused
a loss of S5oo.000.
p II. shaw and wife, cooks in the
lumBer camp 81 Str;stford, were terri
bly, scalded with hot grease.
George Durfee, agei -, n brakeman
on the Milwaukee, Il st. Paul raiiw3y,
was fatally injured at La Crosse.
Herman Sch1oldt. a well-to-do for
list and gardener at Milwaukee, com
mitted suicide in one Of his green
houses. Poor health was the cause.
Retail farm implement dealers from
all parts of the state met IN Madison
and effected permanent orEaniza-
ton.
Philip Icyer, proprietor of the Globe
foundry at Sheboygan, died ut the age
of Ga years. lie was one Of thc most
prominent manufacturers Of that
place.
burglars broke into the general mer-
chaudise store of J. w Fritz AT Warner
and secured fourteen watches and
other jewclry. valued at $500
John Grouse. a prisoner in the county
jail at Monroe. escaped b. saving his
way ont Of The prison. lie was sent up
from West Bend for burglary.
Theobald often, who was defeated
for congress by Senator Mitchell last
fall, has again been nominated for con-
gresham by the republicans OF the
Milwaukee district
Chief Of Police Prothcrs has been re-
instated in his position bv Mayor Dur
fee OF Ashland, his preliminary exam
iuation for the crime charged having
resulted in acquittaL
Tie body OF an old soldier was found
on the grounds cf the rational soldiers
home ~ Milwaukee,. \ blood-staiued
knife lay beside the body. II was not
known whether he committed suicide
or was murdered
Alya u. Clark, aged 3, an inmate Of
the soldiers home at Milwaukee, com
mitted suicide by cutting his throat
with razor.
Arrangements are being made for the
relay bicycle race from Madison to
Springfield, H., next May.
Mrs. Clarissa Starks, aged s. years.
a settler of Rock county since is44, died
in Beloit.
Prof. John r. Parkinson, assistant
professor N civil polity in the state uni
versity, has accepted call 20 the chair
of history and political science IN the
Agricultural and Mechanical college at
Brookings, ). d.
a fire in the store OF the J. Z Pat
ton company At Milwaukee. dealers in
paints and oils, caused a damage OF
$50, 000
The supreme court rendered a deci-
sion which practica y declares the sys-
tenn which the railroads nave Of col
lecting excess fares y hen the fare Is
collected on the tLain Illegal
1t is stated that the right of way or
the proposed electric road between
Chicago and Milwaukee has been Sc
cured and that the road Will he built
within the next i've ears. a company
with a capital Of $40, e00,o IS said to
have been organized 70 push the prof
set at the proper time.