River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-02-22
The News Condensed.

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| and then swearing that he buried
tn I'm, will be prosecuted for perjury.
Rev. John Fried, pastor of St JOS
/ eph's Catholic church at Racine, cele-
brated the twenty-ffth anniversary of
his ordination.
At district school near Evansville
the teacher attempted to correct the
son of William Kuhn by cutting the
boys ears. when the lad turned his
head and the point of the teachers
lead pencil entered his right eye, de-
stroying the sight.
Near hartford deer so tangled him
self with barbed fence that he was
readily captured.
Falls, has given the public library of
that city the use of his fine congression-
al publications.
Mr.. and Mrs Louis Clark celebrated
at Beloit the sixty-third anniversary of
their marriage. They have lived in
| that city since 1899.
Madison yachtsmen have organized
! the Fay-Cho-Pe Rah Canoe club with q
/ limited mem bership of twenty-five.
A receiver was asked for the Kick
apoo Valley railway line at Madison by
creditors of the company
During a quarrel at a dance near
Sheboygan Frank Zederer was fatally
stabbed in the side by Henry Clausen.
Rev. p Dougherty, one of the oldest
Presbyterian ministers in the state,
died at his home in Somers.
The birds eggs gathered by the late
Henry NJ. Haight, of Waukesha, and
/ presented TO Carroll college by his
father, comprise ffty-six species.
The Mitchell & Lewis wagon factory,
employing 500 men, has resumed opera
/ tions.
One firm at Viroqua has shipped 1000
rabbits this season.
/ Clarence Hyde, of La Crosse, is pre-
pairing for trip around the world.
/ Banker Thayer, of Sparta, was again
arrested, this time for perjury in swear
| ing to false accounts.
A new corporation was formed at
| Milwaukee to be known as the Racine
| Hardware company. The capital stock
4 is sl75, 900.
! The j. Oberman Brewing company,
Z WHICH Illdut ali dSoAI at luAlN
/ kee July %, is ready to resume bust
ness, having paid all creditors in full.
Farmers around Viroqua are shipping
large amounts of poplar wood to the
1 pulp mills on the lower Fox river.
]. j. Regain, member of the relief
committee at Hurley. has reported to
/ Gov. Peck that supplies are running
short at that place.
/ Lou Fehrmann, keeper of a resort in
/ Milwaukee, was shot and killed by
! Charles Fehrmann, her husband, who
then went to his lodgings and killed
4 himself.
! Constance Fenuimore Woolson, the
novelist. whose fatal fall from a win
/ cousin Of Mrs George C. Ginty, of Chip
pewa Falls.
Edward Murphy, of Freedom, ex-
sheriff of Outagamie county, is dead at
the age of ~
All through Ashland. Bayfield, and
Wash burn counties the snow is from
/ to feet deep and gives considerable
trouble to loggers.
John +. Brakeman, a farmer boy of
Marinette county, now practices in all
| the courts of California, having very
! creditably passed an examination by
the supreme court of that state.
/ A warrant was issued at Racine for
! the arrest of Mrs Herman Groenke,
charged with poisoning her husband.
! The action is the result of the recent
| investigation into his suspicious death.
Soon after William Quinn's term at
I Waupun for a criminal assault had ex-
/ pired he received a letter from John
/ Whitman to the effect that he was
4 guilty of the crime for which Quinn
/ had suffered.
Con O'Leary and Young Ward, local
1 pugilisls, fought lively battle near
the limits Of Milwaukee, and O'Leary
won at the end of the third round.
b. A. Kipp. proprietor of large up
/ holstery factory at North Milwaukee,
:, ade an assignment to John Z. Wing.
Twenty-one pupils. seven of them
/ Horeb academy for attending a masked
/ ball.
Near Brule a valuable vein of iron
ore has been discovered. Those who
/ have found 1t refuse to tell the exact
/ location of the land until they have
/ perfected title to it
Nathaniel Treat. one of the pioneers
of Green county, died at Monroe, aged
e5 years
w. n. Kelly, of Plainfeld, has been
appointed district attorney of Wau-
shara county. to I'LL the unexpired
term of Levi Sank, ending the first
Monday in January, 1895.
Authorities at Racine are positive
/ that Herman Groenke, who died there
under suspicious circumstances. was
/ poisoned by his wife.
| BY reason of the recent throwing
open OF government lands in northern
! Wisconsin the land Office at Ashland IS
besieged by applicants who wand COZ
tests decided