River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-03-08
The News Condensed.


defeating three male candidates.
David w. Mackay died in Milwaukee
of pneumonia after an illness of two
weeks. lie had been principal of the
Eighth District school for ten years.
William Brocken's child was scalded
to death at Marengo by falling into
a washtub of boiling water.
Thirty-eight of the millers. grainmen
and bankers ot-Superior met and estab-
lished board of trade.
The store at Bruce owned by r.
Kopleman was closed by the sheriff
and goods sold at auction.
Divorced and Tilted. Henry Schroeder,
of Milwaukee, decided life was not
worth living and hanged himself.
Claimants at Ashland to Omaha res
eryation lands have organized into a
club to push their interests.
Benjamin isixby, charged with caus-
ing the death of his wife at Glenwood,
has been discharged from custody.
A 5-year-old son of NJ. NJ. Porter, e
prominent lumberman at Shawano, was
run over and killed.
The effects of the Adams Express
company were shipped from Milvau-
kee to Chicago. the company going out
Of business there.
$500 900.
Arthur c. Osborn and Miss Grace
Cushman, a Chicago clipping couple,
were married in Milwaukee.
State relief for the H urley miners has
ceased and Iron county must look after
its unemployed.
Howard Norris and C. f. Rand, re-
ceivers of the Penobee and Gogebic
mines, have been authorized to issue
$500, 900 in certificates.
Lacrosse banks and business houses
were flooded with counterfeit dollars
and half dollars bearing the 1898 date.
Fred Wills, of Edgerton, who was
granted divorce about two weeks
ago, has remarked Mrs. Wills
The forty-sixth annual sta encamp.
ment of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows was held in Racine.
The corner stone of the new 81 ,O0O.-
900 city hall ia Milwaukee was laid in
the presence of a large number.
A $1,000 fire destroyed the Olson to-
DdGCO az Odin
Carl Jonas. lieutenant governor of
the state, has been appointed consul
general At St Petersburg ard will re-
sign his Office to accept his appoint
ment-
Curtis Mann. resident of Waulxesha
county since 1858. died in Oconomowoc
at the age of ~ years. In 1868 he was
elected to the state senate, serving one
term.
Judge Bundy refused to dissolve the
injunction restraining the city treas
urer of Chippewa Falls from disposing
of funds drawn from the Seymour bana
on the day of its faiulre
Robert Fitzgerald, woodsman, was
found frozen to death near Pembine
Application to Comptroller Eckels
was made for the organization of the
defunct Plankinton bank of Milwaukee
into national bank with capital OF
Steps were taken at Milwaukee by
officials of the Wisconsin Central road
to take the corporal on out of the re-
ceiver's hands.
Jacob c. Horn, present at the Fort
Dearborn massacre in Chicago and in
the Black Hawk, Mexican and civil
wars, died at Winneconne.
C. j. Melms, of Milwaukee, jumped
from a passenger train in Wyoming.
having suddenly become demented,
and was fatally injured.
The Epworth league state conven-
ton at La Crosse elected Z. w. Chafin
president, A. E. Dixon vice president
and +. ID. Hopkins secretary.
Rudolph j. Pesehmann, who muir
dered Mrs. Anna Schums at the Cream
City hotel in Milwaukee on January l2,
and then set fire TO the house in the
hope of hiding his crime, was sentenced
to life Imprisonment.
AS the result of a quarrel Theodore
Erickson shot his mother near La
Crosse and then cut his own throat
Both will probably live.
An unknown young man was killed
by falling tree at Arpin.
Robert McBurney, of Rhinelander.
was arrested on complaint of his di-
vorced wife for numbering his child two
years ago.
A. W. Lawrence's loss near Sturgeon
Bay by the burning of his barns and
eighteen horses is estimated at 81 900,
or IS, $50 above insurance.
Two swede girls are conducting re-
vival on the west side of Wausau-
Their methods are similar to those of
the Salvation Army, and it is said they
accomplish much good among their
countrymen.
The Commercial La1S of Milwaukee
has resumed business with capita
stock of $500, 900.