River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-07-12
The News Condensed.

Andrew Kolsttit. Chippewa Falls
tailor, was drowned while bathing.
A. L. Darling, postmaster at Browns
vile, is dead
Lightning followed barbed wire
fence round an Excelsior pasture. A
number OF stock were killed.
Carl Fossom, farm hand, was killed
in runaway near Alton.
The death of Mrs. William La
Pointe, ~ the age of almost 90 years,
took away one of the oldest residents
of Bayfield,.
The democratic state convention will
be held in Milwaukee September ..
A receiver was demanded for the
Madison Street Railway company.
The Wisconsin board of health has
decided that admission to public
schools should not be denied any pupil
who showed signs of repeated vaccina-
ton, whether successfully inocnlated
or not.
The GAINESVILLE carriage works com
pieted wagon cage in which d Rock
ton I'll. man will exhibit the largest
steer on earth. His height is feet
10 inches and weight an even 1000
pounds.
Victor Castogney was killed at Cole
man. He was crossing the Chicago.
Milwaukee q st. Paul track when he
slipped and fell under moving freight
train.
Thomas Luchsinger. of Monroe, has
been appointed by the governor state
dairy and food commissioner, vice ID.
l.. Hardness, deceased.
A 4-year-old son of Sophia Crow. an
Indian woman of Marinette. lost foot
under train while trying to save a
pet dog from being run over.
A 5-year-old daughter of John Ryan.
a farmer living near Watertown. was
strangled to death by getting her head
caught in the spokes of a wagon wheel
John H. Searles. mayor OF Boscobel,
died at the age of 6s years.
A 6-year-old little girl living near
Arcadia died from the effects of sun
stroke.
Wisconsin knights of Pythias have
decided to erect new temple in Mil
waukee to cost $1,000
James W. Duguenther, president of
the Midland Mae Milling company in
Milwaukee, made an assignment
H. 5. Bovee. of East Troy. has :
two-horse machine for setting out Gao
bage plants. u is so constructed as to
throw a generous supply of water
upon every plant as set. Mr.. Bovee
has recently set out 10000 plants.
F.F. Pierson, of GAINESVILLE. hived
swarm of bees that had settled on the
wheel of a wagon.
The wife of Sheriff Curran at Wan
toma prevented three prisoners from
escaping, but two managed to elude
her.
An Excelsior farmer had seven sheep,
two cows and mare killed by light
ming. A little colt in the group es-
capped
Dan Allen. who was charged with
the murder of Henry Wright. is a free
man. After being out thirty minutes
the jury at Neillsyille brought in a
verdict of not guilty.
Emil Berg is dead at La Crosse. In
1866 he organized the Nora society, the
first Norwegian musical society in Chi
cago.
G. Van SteesvwyI has retired from
the presidency of the Batavian bank of
La Crosse. lie settled there in 1861
and has been president ever since.
Thomas Fitzgerald and his son, aged
I. of Manitowoc, were drowned while
fishing.
The Thomas Malieable Iron & Brass
company of Milwaukee. employing
$50 hanes, is going to Waukegan, H.,
occupying the works left by the de-
funct Chicago Safe & Lock company.
Franz Wiggert succeeded in killing
himself at La crosse on his third at
tempt at hanging. Domestic trouble
was given as the cause of his act.
A case of black smallpox was dis
covered in the Milwaukee house Of cor
rection, where 247 convicts were con-
fined.
Joseph Hooking, proprietor of the
Wisconsin hotel in Dodgeviile for forty
six years, died of chronic rheumatism,
aged II years.
w H. Bradley. of Wausau, has dem
onstrated that Wisconsin Norway pine
makes better and handsomer finish
than any southern pine.
A young son of John Bndniek, OF
Two Rivers, was drowned while bath
ing.
A party of Beloit college students
have started to spend the summer in
Europe. Prof. L. L. Wright is in the
party.
Henry Wagner, of Paris, has a 3
year-old bay mare colt that has two
perfect hoofs on its front right leg.
The extra hoof is on the inside of the
leg.
The Green Bay pickle factory has
contracted with farmers for $50 acres
of cucumbers, the average product of
which is SIS to 1925 per acre. The
average net profit is $50 per acre