River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-02-21
The News gon,tenseI.

paper man and private secretary to Con
gresham Somers, died suddenly in
Washington.
Milwaukee brewing companies suf-
fered heavily from the freezing of beer
in transit
John Stein was killed in Martins
camp. near Rice Lake. 10y tree falling
ON him. lie leaves a family in Menomi-
nee.
James Densmoorc's large Touring
mill at Markesan was burned. New
machinery had just been put in and
the mill had the latest equipments.
Loss. $50 400; no insurance.
+. = La son. treasurer of the town
of Brockvay. died of heart disease. He
was private i'm Company c. Tenth
New York infantry. and lost his right
arm nj the battle of Sailor Creek, Va,
April, 1863.
Webster Guss. of Spooner. district at
torney for Washburu county, is fight
ing the proposed creation of new
county out of portions of Douglas, Bur
nett and WaShburn.
DIR. !. +. Dudley. pastor of the First
congregational church in Eau Claire,
pi't >ented his resignation to take effect
August 81. at which date he completes
his twenty-sixth year in the pulpit of
that church.
William Young. brakeman on the
Port Edwards Central & Northern log
ging train. was instantly killed while
coupling cars at Aspin by log rolling
over him.
The continued cold weather played
havoc with the cellar stored potatoes
in Waushara county.
Andrew Mitchell. of Milwaukee. ha 6
been named state chemist and w. w.
Chadwick. of Monroe. dairy expert.
they succeed Cox and West respect
lively.
Andrew Tone. n lahorer. employed
on IL Central ore dock at Ashland,
met a horrible death. lie was working
on one of :he docks, when he slipped
and fell To the ground below, dis
tance of 30 feet.
Ex-Gov. G.. w. Peck has accepted the
presidency of Milwaukee company
which will mana facturc patent medi-
cine.
une of WiSconsin's four surviving
pensioners of the war of 1872 died at
GAINESVILLE i'm the person of Mrs. MILF
son Prssher. aged ~ years.
Gov Upham signed II. c. Adams
commission "a food and dairy commits
sioner aud he took possession of the
office, succeeding John Luchsinger.
Brig Gen Barry. of the Wisconsin
brigade uniformed rank Knights Of
Pythias. has appointed Col. +. Il. Nor
ley as his adjutant general.
The fourth annual conference of the
Wisconsin Library association was held
in Madison.
The residence of David Frymillrr at
Goscobel burned. Loss, s., 500; insur-
ance. one-half.
A fire in W E. Schaefer's foundry at
Ripon caused a loss of $4,000.
August Vilter committed suicide ut
Wausau by hanging.
f. l.. Hohmann's saw and feed mil
at Arcadia was destroyed by fire. L.
was only recently built. The loss was
81 700; no insurance.
The will OF Thomas Davidson was
fled in Milwaukee. The estate cor-
sists of s200,oJ0 in personal property
and $3.50, 600 in real estate, and every
thing is left to the widow.
Mrs. Charles Ruth. while drawing a
pail of water from an open well at
Rhinelander. Slipped and plunged head
long to the bottom. a distance of 40
feet. She was not seriously hurt.
& w. Foster, OF Port Washington.
aged -, dropped dead in the street of
spoplexy.
Rev. c. A. Relnsedt. of the Swedish
Lutheran church at Green River, is
dead.
The Light Horse squadron associa-
tion in Milwa ukee authorized the di-
rectors To sell the armory if they can
obtain for it Sl3S,0d1
John Bvrne. a Northwestern switch
man at GAINESVILLE. was killed by the
cars.
Mrs Eta Martin, of Superior. was
robbed of SIS by two mGH while ON her
way home from shopping.
Henry schultz was sentenced AT Nil-
waullee to the state prison for four
years 10y Judge NaliDer Tor arson.
schultz fred barn owned by Richard
Brenclze june /. ls92.
The uniformed rank of Knights of
Pythias for this state met in Milwau
lSce and elected Frank Barry. of Mil
waulSee. brigadier general Of the Wis
consin brigade. which consists of three
regiments.
Mallinger & Prone. who carried on a
large lumber business and manufac-
tured church furniture and bar fix
lures at Port Washington. made a vol
untary assignment in favor - their
creditors to Frank Wilson.