River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-12-20
The News Condemned.

Mrs. o. ID. Lincoln, wife of prom
inent merchant at GAINESVILLE, hanged
herself while suffering from melan-
cholia.
Rev. Frank Kaiser, of Rochester, y.
Y, has been called to the pulpit of the
Second German Baptist church in Mil
waukee.
Judge Bennett, of the circuit court,
declared the vote valid stablishing
saloon licenses in GAINESVILLE at $500.
The saloon men will appeal to the
su preme court
Albert Carson. aged 20. committed
suicide at GAINESVILLE by jumping into
the Rock river He was respondent
because he had failed to obtain en-
ployment.
The railroad companies, it is an
nounced, have decided to stop the is
suance of passes on request of mem
bers of the Wisconsin Legislature.
j. II. Lasia and E. NJ Gordon, ar
rested for completely In the alleged
election frauds at Morse, were held to
the criminal court under $1,000 bonds
each.
Louis holman, of Ashland, has re-
ceived patents for 420 acres of land
which he purchased from the Wiscon-
sin Central several years ago. II is
situated only miles from Ashland
and is very valuable.
An empty mail pouch was found in
the woods near a campfire that had
just been deserted near Sparta.
Scraps of charred letters were found
near by.
The forty-second annual meeting of
the State Historical society of Wiscon-
sin was held in Madison. Reports
showed the library to have 1928 vol
umes, about 1000 being added the past
year.
The Christian Endeavor union of
Milwaukee is about to start a crusade
to bring about Sunday observance in
that city.
Albert Carlson, of GAINESVILLE, after
robbing his stepmother of sos, placed
his Goa and hat on the river bank and
left for parts unknown.
Daniel Pfeffer, of Chicago, and Ed
ward O'Meara broke through the ice
while skating at West Bend and were
drowned.
Mrs. L. S. Ovitt, wife of the manager
of the Silurian spring, died in Wauke-
sha after a weeks illness, aged 81
years
A conve ntion of the school boards
OF the state will be held December ~
in Madison under the auspices of the
State Teachers association.
Fire at the warehouse of the Michel
Brewing company in La Crosse caused
a loss by flames and water of SIS, 900,
mostly on barley and hops.
Joseph White, of bayfield, county,
was found guilty OF making counter
felt money.
George s. Hosford. a pioneer Wis
consin mason, died at Hudson, aged s..
Michael Rice. aged 81. a bridge
builder, fell off the Sixteenth street
viaduct in Milwaukee and was killed.
ID. III. Homer, mayor of Washburn,
resigned, and f. Ii. Hartshorn sue
ceeded him.
James Sears and Patrick Lynch
tunneled out of the jefferson jail and
escaped
George Hill, % years of age, while
was killed by tree falling upon him.
His parents reside at Milwaukee.
Ensign A. Bennett, a rich, retired
business man of GAINESVILLE, Wis, was
found in his room dying from the eff
fects of morphine.
Mrs. A. Smith, a pioneer settler of
Wisconsin, died, aged % years
Jerry Sullivan, OF Harmony, engaged
in fight at the close of a dance in
GAINESVILLE and was shot in the face by
Engelbert Schaumberger. Sullivan
will live.
Christian Kohlheaap. a pioneer of
Alma, died at the age of 92 Yeas
Samuel Smith, the oldest colored
resident of Milwaukee, attempted 10
commit suicide by cutting his throat.
Smith is cook and is 70 years of age.
Shavings are coming into demand
for bed and mattress filling and the
Wisconsin planning mills have struck
bonanza in packing them like hay and
sending them all over the country.
John II. Knight has bought the Che
quamegon hotel at Ashland. the
largest hotel in Wisconsin, from the
receivers of the Wisconsin Contra:
road. He paid $1,000. which is less
than one-tenth what the house cost
new.
A cavern at the new waterworks in
take tunnel under Lake Michigan, at
North Point. buried John Chester and
Christian kracht under earth and
rock and probably fatally injured
them
The state board of control has con-
demned the Crawford county Jail as
unhealthy and insecure, being in a
basement below ground