River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-02-07
The News CONDENSED.

scious condition at the Douglas hotel
in Superior. \ surgical examination
developed that he was suffering from
murderOus assault.
William VI. Davis. of Richland Center,
obtained a judgment of $1,000 against
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul
railway for injuries received in Il wreck
in Iowa.
P. d. Armour and other Chicagoans
have made all preparations to begin
the running of coaches between Mil
waul1ee and Oconomowoc, commencing
some time 10 , une.
Fred Nol,.h, employed in a mill at
Mills Center, was instantly killed by
falling against q circular saw, his head
been severed from the body. lie leaves
widow and child.
Gen. l.. ". Halsey. of Milwaukee,
commander of the Wisconsin brigade,
uniformed rank, Knights of Pythias,
rendered his resignation owing to
pressure of private business.
Anna Koelpin brought suit in the
superior court against Otto IL. Sasse
for $4,000 damages for breach of
DIOuliSC W ltI- 4iC dEACiittdul
is Wauwatosa florist and is alleged to
be worth $4,000.
Frederick II. Madgeburg has been
appointed receiver of the Hekla Fire
Insurance company at Madison by
Judge johnson.
Rev. DIR. Cyrus Hamlin, who has
served as pastor of the First Congre-
gational church in Beloit for ten years,
rendered his resignation. Ii caused
much surprise.
Application of female students at
Lawrence university at Appleton, to
participate in military drill, was denied
on the ground that the drill is too
severe exercise.
Patrick Scott, a journeyman bridge
builder of Chicago, was sentenced in
Milwaukee to three years in the house
of correction because he was convicted
of the charge of having burglar tools
in his possession.
Charles Bode, a Milwaukee letter
carrier, was arrested for robbin. the
mails. lie has been stealing for two
years.
The barn and outbuildings on Charles
Wilkes farm in the town of Center
were consumed by fire, and five horses
and seven head of cattle were lost A
years grain and tobacco crops were
also burned.
G.. Phillip Hunl1el, well-lrnown in-
surance agent, fell upon the sidew ak
near his home in Milwaukee, fractur-
ing his skull and dying within a few
hours.
Almira E. Bragg, mother of Mrs. w.
ID. Hoard, died at the residence of her
son-in-law, ex- Gov. Hoard, in Fort At
kinson, aged soyears.
Mrs. Simmons house and contents
at Black River Falls was burned, the
occupants barely escaping with their
lives, and without clothes.
Fire destroyed the barrel factory of
the Glenwood Manufacturing company.
employing about 100 hands. The loss
was estimated at $4,000.
j. w. McCarty was killed at Porter
by the bursting of a buzz saw.
A company has been formed at Ash
land to build road from that place to
st. Paul and Minneapolis.
Milwaukee's charity ball was de-
nounced by Rev. DIR. Eaton in paper
read before the Ministers association.
Lumbermen of Ashland have formed
an exchange, and viii adopt a uniform
system of inspection and measurement.
Gov. Upham granted his first pardon
1t was To Herman Dunstad, of Deer
field, who was sentenced TO four months
for assault and battery.
j. w. Mccarthy, "a farmer living in
Porter was killed by the bursting of a
buzzsaw, one of the pieces striking
him in the face.
Reports from the mine of bergman e
Co, near Sanborn, state that the iron
ore discovered there goes Ga per cent.
metallic iron. II was also believed
that there was gold in the ore.
At Ashland Charles Little shot
Charles Lee, and the latter was lying
in a critical conditiO on. Lee escaped
before the officers could arrest him.
John Mckenzie, head brakeman of
freight train No. II, going north, was
instantly killed near Sheboygan by be-
ing run over by train.
Rev. a. T. Depew, OF Springfield, Ill,
a cousin of Chauncey Depew, has ac-
cepted the pastorate of the Con~rega-
tional church at BoscObeL
Mrs. Phoebe Egleward, of Rockford,
Ill. was married at Beloit to William
johnson, of Union. The couple had
been acquainted only half day.
Investigation shows that the Knights
of Pythias in Wisconsin are making
great gains in membership and prop
erty.
The divekeepers in the vicinity of
the soldiers home in Milwaukee have
become so bold in their operations
and there have been SO many com
plants of robbery from old soldiers
that Gov. Wheeler, Of the home, asked
Sheriff Stanley for deputies to protect
his men.
Percy Chase, living miles east
of Dresser junction, descended an oil
well to remove some curbing when it
caved in on him. He was taken out
ten hours later, but life was extinct.