River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-03-15
The News Condensed.

company l, Eighth Wisconsin infantry,
died at Tampa, Fla. After the war he
travelled over the state holding tent
gospel meetings.
After making what he supposed was
a successful attempt to kill his wife,
Gso-s- pssl.elsnGn, OF Waukesna,
hanged himself.
Miss Rose Kanally was suffocated al
Racine by escaping coal gas.
Peter Mulholland, an old soldier and
ex-secretary of the state board of con-
troll, died in Milwaukee.
Charles Dobberman committed sui
eide with arsenic at Racine. His wife
saw him take the poison, but thought
he was only joking.
Farmers around Butternut have or
ganized a farmers mutual union store
with capital of s. 900.
An incendiary was successful in his
second application of a match to the
Green Bay pesthouse.
Michael Madison, of Big Creek, Bar
ron county, paid s64 Os for shooting
partridge out of season.
The Northwestern Stave and Head
ing association at Eau Claire lowered
the price of headings from four and
one-half to four and one-quarter cents.
While engaged in saloon row neai
Marshfield John Hughes was fatally
shot
A new fast mail service from Chicago
to Ashland has been successfully in
augurated The first run was made in
fifteen hours.
Ex-Sheriff John Rugee, of Milwau-
kee, died at San Bernardino. Cal
where he had gone for his health.
1t was said that the Iron Belt mine
at Hurley would resume operations
providing men could be secured to work
for 90 cents and s1.1O per day.
Yep Wah, Chinese laundryman at
Marinette, stabbed small boy named
Willie Blazier, who was teasing him.
The boy was not fatally hurt
Burglars robbed Racine clothing
house of 5000 worth of goods, and no
clew 10 the perpetrators had been OBJ
tanned.
Officers in West Superior located q
gang of Chinese opium sInugglers, and
large quantities of the drug were con-
fiscated.
Frederick Nelson was given a judg.
ment of $4,000 against the Duluth,
South Shore & Atlantic railway by a
jury In personal damage suit al
West Superior.
society leader, who sued for $4,000
by a servant who alleges she wa;
falsely accused of theft
Methodist ministers in regular con-
ference In Milwaukee Endorsed the
principles of the American Protective
association.
George W. Foster, of Merrill. was
drowned in Black river on his way home
from Neillsville. The team which he
was driving succeeded in getting out
Anthony Tracy, an old farmer living
few miles north of Boscobel, was
shot and killed by his son Daniel during
family quarrel.
Mrs Margaret Mayer was arrested in
New York charged with poisoning her
former husband. August Groenke, in
Racine.
In the roster case at Madison the
jury was discharged, one of its mem
bers having given voice to an opinion,
and the case would be tried over again
Special Agent McCarty was at West
Superior after Chinese opium smug
glers, an organized gang having been
said to exist there.
Mrs. o. II. Hagberg in a runaway at
Cumberland was dragged half mile
and was found insensible. Her recov-
cry was doubtful
The Commercial bank of Milwaukee
has resumed business after having
been in the hands of assignee for seven
months
Harry Comfort, of Milwaukee. was
run over by a Northwestern train at
Waukegan, Ill, and died from the in
juries.
At the inquiry into the death Of her
husband near Manitowoc, Mrs Shroe-
der, aged IS, confessed having given
him poison, but gave no reason for the
crime.
The attendance of school children in
Barron county has been cut down 90
per cent. by sickness caused from vac
cination.