River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-02-15
The News Condensed.


A plan to hold sparring match for
charity in Menominee drew out sharp
letter from Gov. Peck.
The Milwaukee ti-vaccinationists
are aroused over an order of the state
board requiring school children to be
vaccinated.
L. l.. Soule, district attorney for
Waushara county, and pioneer lawyer
of that section, died at the age of "a.
Grand Master Jorgenson organized a
new odd fellows lodge, called Brown
stone odd fellows lodge, No. 219, at Ash
land.
The Ableman Granite company at
Ableman made an assignment with liza
bilities of $1,000 and assets of 81, 500.
Garrett Veeder, one of the oldest ed
itors in Wisconsin and the founder of
several weeklies and the Daily Re-
corder at GAINESVILLE died at his home in
that city.
Wisconsin is expected to harvest q
nOO 600 tons If ice this season.
The state supreme court has ordered
a suspension of the five-year sentence
of Banker Koetting of Milwaukee.
The Green Bay & Mississippi Canal
company met at Appleton and elected
VIM. NJ Van Nortwicl1 president. f..
Mariner vice-president and A. l.. Smith
secretary and treasurer.
Valuable deposits of iron ore have
been discovered miles north of Brule.
Marcus Seirck, Of the town of Sene-
ca, accidentally killed his 4-months- old
babe by giving it fifteen drops of tooth
ache me iicine containing creosote,
thinking ne was giving it Castoria
w. A. Woodruff, of GAINESVILLE. has
fallen heir to an IS, 600 estate at Grand
Rapids.
Gus aud John Lee. for melting riot
at Ferryville, were bound over in the
sum of $500 each for trial.
Mrs Causchain, of Wausaulsee, on re.
ceiving news by telegraph of her sis
ter's death, took the intelligence so
much to heart that in ten minutes she
was dead.
Charley Martin went before Judge
Goss at Hudson and pleaded guilty to
the charge of chicken stealing and was
sentenced to Waupun for one year.
The coal received at Superior durin g
the past season amounted to 2,122, 7Sl
tons against l.S12,75 tons in 1891, and
less than GOO. 900 in any year prior to
1885.
The Douglas County agricultural So
ciety is to be legally incorporated
Graham T. Rice has been chosen super.
intendent.
An order has been issued by the
state board of health TO the effect that
every child attending public, private
or parochial school must be vaccinated.
A. i. Ives. mayor of Marinette. will
move to Groveton, Tex, where he has
become interested in the Trinity Lum
Der company.
A woman at Kirby is being slowly
strangled by an enlargement of her
neck and shoulders caused by poison
from dye stuffs
Rudolph j. Peschmann, who robbed
and murdered Mrs. Anna Schums in
Milwaukee. pleaded guilty TO the
charge but the court changed the plea
to not guilty and he will be given a
trial
Hazen Mooers, a pioneer resident of
Milwaukee, died at the age of so years.
Rock county's $500 exhibit at the
worlds fair has been returned in dam
aged condition: "Tattered fragments
of what were once the stars and stripes
and vase of Edgerton pottery"
Uncle Jake Hendricks. of Edgerton,
has been trying all winter to find some
one who would cut 100 cords of wood
for 500 and has so far been unable to
find anyone who would take the job.
Mrs. Charles Kendall Adams, the
wife of the president of the university
of Wisconsin, has been elected presi-
dent of the Young Women's Christian
association of Wisconsin for the ensu-
ing year.
The attorney general has secured SUI
preme court sanction to sue the 500 line
for taxes due the state.
Byron Street, aged 9 years, son of
Mrs. Ann Street, was accidentally shot
by Henry Irving Morse, a playmate,
aged g.
Mgr. ZeininPer. vicar general of the
archdiocese OF Milwaukee. celebrated
the silver jubilee of his ordination as
priest
Martin Phenh blew the top of his
head off with charge of buckshot at
Amigo. He was temporarily insane
from an attack of the grip
Robert McMullen. hunter. was shot
through both hands a. Barnum-