River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-02


The seniority of the Wisconsin G. 4.
r. posts is again being discussed. Col.
Gray is accused of perverting the re-
cords.
Mrs. Peter johnson and Richard
Ooghe We're taken to Milwaukee from
San Francisco on the charge of a con
spiracy to kill the woman's husband
When arrested they both confessed.
Herman Cheeseboro. for many years
superintendent of hotels in the Santa
Fe system, died at Milwaukee AT the
age of 65 years.
Frank Pomainville, one of the party
of Wisconsin visitors at the Paris expo
sltion of 1883. died at Grand Haven.
The big boot and shoe factory of At
lcins. West & Co was closed by the
sheriff on judgments aggregating $780,
900
A portion of the Lehigh company's
duck at West Superior gave way and
3. 900 tons of coal went to the bottom
o. the bay.
Henry Mitchell, the pioneer wagon
III anuIaeturer of the west. died at his
home in Racine. aged 81 years.
Heirs of George 4. Porter have begun
sui TO recover possession Of 100 acres OF
land within the limits of Superior.
The wife of Rhoda Whalen. the no
torious criminal of BeiOit, committed
suicide az Rockford. I'll.
The Union national bank OF Racine
resumed business after a suspension of
a little over two months The capital
stock has been increased from $50, 600
to s225.O00
Street Commissioner lEedegan and A.
p Mcdonald have been acquitted at
Ashland of the charge of conspiracy
against the United States in obtaining
government lands.
Myron Turner, farmer. and his son
were thrown from wagon by ruua
way near Eau Claire. and the fatheI
was so badly injured that he would
probably not recover.
Sneak thieves raided. the town o.
Brule and used hand car to carry
away their plumber
f. w. Judson. an Insurance agent at
Marshfeld. left his home for Chicago
September ., telling his wife al parting
he should be gone only few days, and
since then no trace of him has been
found
W. e. Elliott and wife. OF Milwaukee.
returned from the we Ids fair TO 6nd
their daughter Alma. aged 81. hanging
to a rafter. No cause was known.
The contract for building and com.
pieting the Rice Lake. Dallas & Menom-
inee Railway company's first section
between Rice Lake and the Minneap-
oils. st. Paul. & Sault Ste. Marie rail-
way has been Let and the work com
menced.
BY climbing a ventiIsting shaft 20
feet deep Harry Harris, a horse thief.
escaped from a police station at Mil
YANKEE
Mrs. Esther King, aged Il. while try
ing to descend the stairs To the cellar Of
her home in Waukesha. fell and was in
stantly killed. She leaves five children
IRVINE Norquist, West Superio
lad fell under a moving train and was
literally cut in two, forty loaded ears
passing over his body.
The state board of equalization has
reduced the realty assessment Of Mil
waulsee county from Sl5s, 900, 600 to
$3.50 900.
Theodore kirchneT, with an allow
ance Of nine minutes, won the Milwau-
ixee road race from a field OF sixty
three.
James McNeese was fatally stabbed
at GAINESVILLE Jacob Bender was ar
rested, and he said he used his knife TO
defend himself from man unknown
to him who tried TO rob him
The Eau Claire Pulp & Paper com
pany. whose paid-up capital stock is
100000, was placed in the hands of
Clarence II. Burlington as receiver.
w II. Triton died suddenly of heart
disease on the main street in osceola.
aged 20 years lie was an old settler
Gland Girard. a Frenchmau. was
found hanging on farm near Clinton.
He was 81 years old
At New Lisbon the store Of y. Joseph
son was robbed of goods to the value of
$1,000.
The position of state secretary IF the
Young Mems Christian association has
been offered to C. b. Willis, secretary
of the Milwaukee association.
At Milwaukee Richard Ooghe and
Mrs Johnson were sent to prison for
ten years for an attempt to kill the
womans husband.
Ernie Norquist, a young boy living
al West Superior, vas completely cut IN
two by falling under a freight train