River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-10-18
The News Condensed.

Rev. w. ID. Simonds, for FIVE years
pastor of the Independent Congrega-
tional church at Battle Creek, Mich,
has accepted a call to the Unitarian
church at Madison.
Concordia college, a Milwaukee
Lutheran institution, was closed on
account of a case of smallpox amoug
the students.
John Nelson, who has a wife and
five children, fell from a switch en-
CINE in the Omaha yard at Altoona
and had both legs cut off.
The whaleback steamer Christopher
Columbus has carried over IS, 900 pas
sengers between Chicago and Milwau-
kee the past season. including 200
couples 10 be married in Milwaukee.
John Bugdanius was killed and
Peter La Soutski fatally injured by an
explosion of gas % the Maple Hill
mines at Ashland.
Miscreants cut the stringcrs of q
trestle near Heafford Junction, wreck
ing the 800" train. Fireman Cottrell
was killed and three others injured.
DIR. James Cody, aged "a, at one time
a physician in Watertowu, died at the
northern hospital for the insane, where
he had been Cor two years.
Twenty-Five railway men. including
Eugene V. Debs. the head of the Ameri-
can Railway union, were indicted by
the United States grand jury in Mil
waukee.
The Baptist Young Peoples union
of Wisconsin in session at GAINESVILLE
elected as president Joseph Moody, OF
Milwaukee.
P. A. Spitman, a fireman, and L. L.
Parry, baggageman, were injured in
a train wreck al Turtle lake.
The Indian fair at the Oneida reser-
walton, near Green Bay, was postponed
owing to the fact that smallpox had
broken out.
Henry Graessel, superintendent of
the county insane asylum at Jefferson
died of consumption.
The funeral of John Fowler was
81 and was one of the early settlers.
Joseph Delvis was arrested at Mani
towoc for raising two post Office money
orders from 25 cents to $3.50 each.
Richard b. Brown. one of the oldest
physicians in Milwaukee. died sudden
" of heart disease, aged % years.
Robert John Wright young Mil
waulzee lawyer, committed suicide on
the grave of his brother. Alexande
Wright, in Forest Home cemetery
William Johnson was convicted at J,
neau of the murder of an old soldi,
named Sellmer in ReeseviIle, Dodg
county, in March last.
An electric car line to connect tn
lake shore towns between Milwaukee
and Chicago is projected by capitalists
When John Wansch. the defendant
in the trial for shooting his wife's
brother. arrived home at Grantsburg
after the trial he found his house with
all it's contents il ashes.
A public reception was given in
Madison to DR. Richard T. Ely, or the
state university.
The president has pardoned A. VI.
otis, sentenced in Wisconsin to five
years imprisonment for embezzling
letters.
Wenzel Galaseh and his son, of
Hewitt. stepped off swiftly-raoving
trains and received fatal injuries
F. NJ. Payne, an old settler of the
town of Mukwonago. committed sui
eide while suffering with melancholia.
An incendiary fire destroyed part OF
the Appleton Pulp s. Paper company's
plant. Loss, $4,000.
The Congregationalists of Wisconsin
held their fifty-fourth annual conven-
ton in Beloit.
The ministers in Milwaukee have
commenced vigorous crusade against
lurid billboard posters and Sunday
saloons
In the case of J. ID. Kennedy VS.. the
Lake Superior Terminal and Transfer
Railroad company jury at Hudson
awarded the plaintiff $1,000 damages.
Kennedy lost his right hand coupling
cars.
John Poneck. of Muscoda, was found
on the railroad track there cut to
pieces, having been run over By train.
He was 90 years old and single.