River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-02-08


team of horses that is 50 years old.
The veteran equines are fair travellers
and can pull self binder all day long.
benjamin Martin, a veteran of the
Black Hawk war, died in Darlington.
A carload of beef donated by Swift &
Co. of Chicago, to the poor of Ashland,
arrived in that city.
William Reuppert. aged 10. and Au-
gust Laabs. aged is. were arrested at
Appleton for passing forged checks.
George Hamlin, clerk of the Jones
house at Oconomowoc. disappeared and
the proprietor of the hostelry connects
q shortage of SIS in his cash with tie
clerks disappearance.
Undertaken Judson, of Milwaukee.
was charged with selling bodies of pau
pers intrusted to him by the county
authorities for burial.
Depositors in the defunct banks of
Thayer & Co. at Sparta and Tomah
will receive 10 per cent of their
claims.
William Farr, of Eau Claire, has
brought suit against A. Warner, a Chi
cago publisher, for $50, 900 damages for
alleged slander.
A man living in the town of Lincoln
was reported to have lain in a trance
or sleep for two weeks.
Several young men of Chippewa Falls
are preparing to go to the gold fields of
Africa.
Philosophical citizens of Green Bay
will purchase a library for the high
school in that city.
The Waupaca veteran soldiers home
has nearly 800 inmates.
James Petit, laborer at Boscobel,
borrowed a shotgun from a neighbour,
went to the cemetery and shot himself.
Domestic trouble was the cause.
The Anderson hotel took fire at
Maust IN and on the way to the fire the
engine was overturned and completely
wrecked and William Balentine the
engineer. crushed.
Walsh AMI Martin. charged with bur
glary at Prairie du Chen. We're SEN
fenced to Waupun for two years each.
o. H. Ingram has bought the Pulp
and Paper company plant at Marsh
field.
John Weaver was burned to death at
Hartland while trying to eXtinguish a
blaze at his home started by an over
turned lamp.
John Dunn, prisoner at Sheboygan,
was stricken with smallpox and was
qua antined.
Stewart Anderson, a Chicago capital
It, has purchased the Thomas Il. Scott
mansion at Grand Rapids. 1t will be
finished up in elegant style and used as
a club house.
Walter Phipps. who shot two women
in Chicago and then killed himself, was
known in Manitowoc as a nice young
man, but he took to drink and the
Goodrich company discharged him for
that reason.
Frank A. Lappen, who owed over
$500 600 in Milwaukee and who left the
city to avoid arrest on several indict-
ments charging him with securing
money on false pretenses, is now a
leading merchant in the City of Mexico.
E. A. Barry, the fire chief, died in La
Crosse.
Receiver Schley sold the Morning
mine, located in Shoshone county,
Idaho. 10 Charles F. Pfster, of Milwau-
kee, for sl76, 900.
Associated charities at Milwaukee re-
port that 2,2s5 cases were handled dur
ing the past year and $500 was spent
for relief work alone
Charles Larzelere. the defaulting
county treasurer. was surrendered by
his bondsmen and placed in Jail at An
tiQo. The amount is $4,000. by the
action of the county board the bonds
men settled for s6 900, which was paid.
The formal transfer of the West side
street railway to the Milwaukee Street
Railway company places the company
in control of all the street railways in
Milwaukee.
The state board of health has ordered
the vaccination of all school children
in the state.
Otto Pieritz a merchant at Water
town, while out hunting was fatally
injured by the accidental discharge OF
his gun. He was 80 years old and leaves
a wife and child.
Herman Killeslxeri, of Midland.
sawyer. was killed instantly by fall
ing tree. He leaves family.
John Russell, of Big Springs, Adams
county, has been postmaster there since
his appointment by President Pierce
in 1888.
Rev B. P. Hepp, of the Methodist
church at Waterford. was in jail
charged with killing his servant and
her babe,
Joseph Blierl, got judgment at Mani
towoe against the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore & Western railway for $1,000 for
injuries received while ct work as a
switchman for the road.
Masked men entered Henry Worth's
home at Carlton, and gave him severe
whipping he was said to be wife
beaten.