River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-04-05
The News Condensed.

In their horses the tongue OF the We
hicle pierced Days body.
The News Condensed.
Mary Jansen, Marinette girl, was
found nearly dead in the Cholette
house at Peshtigo. having attempted
suicide by means of carbolic acid.
w. H. Barclay, of Fergus Falls, Mimi,
will build 1,5O0-barrel flour mill at
Superior.
Charles Goode, of Platteville, who
hauled lead from Galena with ORLEANS,
celebrated his Tooth birthday.
The steamer White Beaver went into
commission at La Crosse -her earliest
trip in twenty years.
Joel Pound, uncle of ex-Congressman
Thad. c. Pound, and of Postmaster
Pound, died in Chippewa Falls at the
age of 95 years.
La Crosse has organized an insurance
league to secure lower rates.
Edward O'Hara died in Erin. st.
Croix county, at the age of l05.
c. b. Hodgson, of Bloomer, was fined
$3.50 at Chippewa Falls for having
the carcasses of six deer in his posses
sion.
General Experience Estebrook,
pioneer of Milwaukee, died at his Oma-
ha residence. He was 81 years old.
Monroe Bartlett, of Rock Creek, was
sentenced to two years in the Waupun
prison for having one wife more than
the law specifies.
There are in the state LIB first
grade and Zso second grade pharma-
cists.
Milwaukee stonecutters demand four
dollars day in place of So so, and
struck because contractors did not com
ply with their demands
For throwing her illegitimate babe
into the lake Mrs. Mill was sentenced
to prison for one year at Milwaukee.
Hoffman Sigmund, well-known
teweler, committed suicide at Jeffer-
son by shooting. No cause known.
The criminal cases against the officials
Of the Savings bank at Shell Lake
have been dismissed.
The assignee of the Bank of Wash
burn has been discharged, and Presi-
dent A. C. Porter says the bank will
open as the First national bank of
Washburn in April.
Robert Hahn was sentenced to five
wears in prison at Waupun, charged
with attempting to wreck an Omaha
train near Fairchild.
Two children of Charles Weber were
drowned in the river at Rhinelander
while they were playing on some logs.
Seth D. Steele, veteran of company
!, Tenth Wisconsin infantry, died at
La Crosse from the effect OF injuries
received at the repulse al Paint Rock
bridge.
J. IL. Brooks, who has been sue
ceeded as postmaster at Green Lake by
Z. A. Long, held the office thirty years
A prize fight between "Con" O'Leary
and Burt Tate. which was to have been
a finish affair, was stopped by Gov
Peck at Eagle.
w. Leonard, awaiting sentence for
forgery, has escaped from the Jail at
Rhinelander.
John Collier was shot dead by John
Hahn, his brother-in-law, at the lat
ter's home in Shawano while Collier
was endeavoring to force his wife to
return hon at the muzzle of a Win
chester.
Bert White, a Miffiin boy, was struck
by lightning and killed instantly.
When stricken he bounded high in the
air and fell TO the ground dead. His
shoes were torn from his feet by the
lightning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vogel. who live on
farm near Manitowoc, got to quarrel
ing over the sale of the property, and
Mrs vogel. becoming angry, commit
ted suicide by taking paris green.
Elopements are said to occur at the
rate of two per day at GAINESVILLE.
The preliminary hearing of Mrs.
Margaret Mayer, charged with the
murder, by means of poison, of her
first husband. Herman Groenke, was
concluded in Racine, and Mrs. Mayer
was held for trial.
James Murphy, a well-known lumber
iobber, was struck by passenger train
while walking on the Chicago q North
western track near Oconto and fatally
injured.
George Cloves. of Brighton, con-
fessed that he murdered John Gala
CHAN on the night of February 81.
Justice of the Peace George P. Har-
rington, a well-known character of
Milwaukse, who married more Chicago
couples than any other justice or min
lister in that city, is dead
Soren Nelson committed suicide at
Racine by hanging himself in barn
while temporarily insane
The La Crosse interstate fair d.
rectors have voted IS. 500 for nine stake
races
Prof. Slaughter, Of Green Bay, about
10 years old, was stricken with small
pox. He had the disease in his youth.
The old territorial capitol at Belmont
is being used as barn.
Jacob Wahl, the oldest public school
teacher in Milwaukee, died at the age
of 90 years.
Six members of a family living at
Black Wolf were afflicted with trichin-
osis, contracted by eating diseased sau-
sage.
Oscar Neebe, one of the pardoned
Chicago anarchists, addressed the Mil
waukce socialists in Leiderkranz hall
He said that the only way for labor to
reach its goal was through the ballot.
win Hyland, young man employee
as oIler in the elevator of the grand re-
nublic mill at West Superior. was
killed in spiral wheat conveyor. HIS
body was horribly mangled.