River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-06-28

! John Wight. foreman, was mangled
| to death by machinery in the Empire
lumber mill at Eau Claire.
Tramps attempted to wreck Chica-
/ go, Milwaukee IL st. Paul passenger
train miles north of GAINESVILLE, but
| the engineer saw the obstruction when
80 rods away and stopped the train.
1 e Seymour Gilbert, an odd fellow and
| G. A. Il. man, died at Horizon.
| At a mass meeting at Beloit it was
| decided to build $4,000 addition to
| the high school.
Albert Eilmann, who escaped from
| the Jail at Milwaukee, gave himself up
| after twenty-four hours freedom, be-
ing without funds
| Because City Attorney Hamilton, of
Milwaukee. refused Reporter Kerr
| piece of news which he gave another,
he was sonndly thrashed.
Gottlieb Ravscher. of Menomonee
1 Falls, was drowned while trying to
| swim pond on horseback.
John Pepper, a well-known stock
/ buyer and resident of Boscobel for
forty years. died at the age of 60 years.
| George Forsythe, saloonkeeper at
/ Green Bay, 50 years of age, was arrest
ed for criminally aSsaulting 10-year-
| old daughter of Frank Bassett.
! During storm jennie Riley, whose
| home is at GAINESVILLE, was struck by
! lighting and Instantly killed at Stony
Point, Ill.
Mrs. liver Larson, living s miles from
La Crosse, while insane, threw her
] IL -. -,
I herself A 5-weels'old baby was
| drowned.
/ The Paul Paper company's ware
| houses at Menasha was burned. Loss,
! S13, 900.
The Wisconsin Total Abstinence
union will hold it's twenty-third an
nual convention at Ashland, July II
and 13.
A 1O-year-old daughter of Duke Bon
nington. of Sparta, was fatally shot by
1 one Waits, who was removing cart
| ridges from revolver.
Sheriff Mckay, % Richland Center,
arrested Thornton Smith, who is
charged with making the counterfeit
money which Mr. and Mrs. John Ollie
are accused of passing.
! A three DAYS ;nter-county old sol
diers' encampment was held at New
Richmond.
c. j. Anderson, who has been con-
| fined to the pest house at West Supe-
rior with smallpox for two weeks.
died and was buried at midnight.
GAINESVILLE, Beloit and Edgerton cam
not be compelled to pay Rock county
$50 for each saloon license granted. So
1 Judge Bennett decides.
The planning mill and kilns of the
/ John K. Davis Lumber company were
/ burned at Phillips. Loss, about SIS
600; fully insured. The company viii
rebuild at once.
Ex-Sheriff Iron Christianson brought
his son. Martin, raving maniac. to
| Racine, and he was taken to the in
/ sane asylum.
Il. VI. Holmes, of Milwaukee, a Luna
herman who operates mills at Ogemaw.
Mich. made an assignment to Henry
Fink.
Fearing his raft would be demol
/ ished Gustave Lasson. of West Su-
perior, leaped into the river and was
drowned.
The A. +. Tanner Furniture com
/ pany made an assignment at Milwau-
kee to Charles Wctzel, who gave bonds
/ to the amount of $4,000.
A sensation was caused at Brule by
the discovery of coal on the banks of
/ the Brule river on the old copper
/ range.
NJ. L. Dixon, of Chicago. who regis
tered at the Atlas hotel in Milwaukee.
/ was found dead in his bed
Richard Goldsworth, one of the
pioneers of Racine county, died at
Union Grove, aged IS years. He settled
/ there in the 40's and held many offices
/ of trust.
Fourteen years in states prison at
hard labor was the sentence passed on
Mrs Louisa Schroeder at ManitOwoc
| for the murder OF her husband. She is
\ IS years old.