River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-06-14
The News Condensed.

Phelps Perrine, the alleged Hurley
bank robber who was pardoned by Gov,
Peck a short time ago, died of con-
SUMPTION at New London.
During a ball game at Chippewa
Falls the grand stand fell and many of
It's occupants were injured and John
McCurdy, carpenter at work under
meath, was killed
Milwaukee Methodist ministers favor
abandonment of Lawrence university
at Appleton and the building of home
for stc,,ents at Madison.
Disgruutled parishioners of an Epis-
copalian church in Milwaukee COM
bined against the pastor and caused
him to resign.
A black eagle measuring feet across
its wings was killed after a sharp fight
with four young men on the farm of
Joseph Zeller. in the town of Dayton,
Richland county
l.. G.. Catchpole, for several years
past financial agent of the Wayland
university, has taken the passionate of
the First Baptist church at St. Charles,
Mimi.
The will of the late Valentine Blatz,
OF Milwaukee. leaves an estate valued
at SO, 600, 900 to the widow and five
children.
Joseph Conacher, a farmer miles
south of Amigo, accidentally dis
charged a gun. The ball passed
through his heart.
Dwight K. Dix. who absconded with
81. 200 of the Armour Packing com
panv's money, was sentenced at Ash
land to three years in prison.
Merchants of Milwaukee asked the
newspapers to suppress news concern
ing smallpox in the interests of bust
ness.
Fire at Alma destroyed the barn, ice
house and granary of +. Walter, Sr.,
the loss being $1,000.
James Nurrey, well-known lumber
grader, was found dead in his bed at
the National hotel in Menominee.
Cause supposed to be heart disease.
The republican state convention
will be held in the Academy of Music
in Milwaukee on July %.
The workmen who sort all the logs
that go down the Chippewa river re-
fuse to work on Sunday
Mrs Johanna Luebecke, aged q, of
Milwaukee. was run down and killed
by an electric car.
The sawmill plant at Ashland owned
by Mayor W. b. Durfee, was totally
DESTROYED ~ fire, the loss being $780,
600, with no insurance.
The Bayfield, box factory has passed
into the hands of corporation com
posed of local business interests
The Mondovi Driving Park associa-
ton will hold its first trutting meeting
july and 4.
Three miners at Rockville shipped
&C. 900 pounds of ore to the Mineral
Point zinc works.
Prof. William Kennedy, an alleged
trance medium and fortune teller, was
ordered out of Green bay.
Two Racine boys who ran off with
Forepaughs circus were robbed and
kicked off the train.
A Miss Schneider. of Lafayette, mar
rowly escaped being gored to death by
a vicious bull. She was twice tossed
up feet before she could be rescued.
The Brule hotel, the largest in Brule.
was burned, with no insurance. The
guests saved their clothing.
DIR. Theodore Yuengst died at his
home in GAINESVILLE. aged 30. He came
there from Germany in February, 1898.
Liveryman Breese. of Riehland Cen
ter. overwhelmingly hitched his team
to freight train instead of to hitch
ing post. and before he discovered his
mistake his horses were dragged some
distance and his wagon wrecked.
The sale of Holmes sanitarium was
perfected at Hudson, and DIR. Sam G.
johnson is now in possession. DIR. VIII
trout win practice in Iowa.
Charles W. Graves was appointed
Judge of Vernon county, to succeed
Judge WYman, who goes to the circuit
bench.
License to do business in Wisconsin
has been refused the Independent Or
der of Foresters because of the SINH
laritv of the name to that of another
society.
The place for holding the annual re-
union of Blackhawk war veterans,
which had been originally fixed at Oar
lington, has been changed to Wood
ford.
Another case IF smallpox, the
seventh within a snort time, was dis
covered in Milwaukee.