River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-03-28
The News Condensed.

/ COnSlI HISTORICAL SOCitlA liDTdFN III
cludes 1000 volumes and covers period
of over 200 years. The collection. il is
claimed, is unexcelled in this country.
Ex-County Treasurer Kennedy was
arrested at Amigo, charged with en-
bezzlement. His shortage was alleged
to be s4O,s07.
B. l.. Kneff. of Wisconsin. member
/ of party of tourists in Mexico, was
accidentally killed near Oaxaca by the
falling of rock.
A number of people in Waupun were
injured, one fatally, during the prog
ress of fire that destroyed several
business houses.
Two oil barges. for carrying oil in
| bulk are being built at the West Su
/ perior ship yards for the Standard Oil
company.
A. Whorton. manager of the Youghi-
| ogheny and Lehigh Coal company at
| West Susperior. estimates that there
/ will be between 325. 900 and $50, 900 tons
of coal liz stock at the head of the lakes
May /.
The Wisconsin convention of the
American Federation of Labor win be
nel0 june ii at preen Day.
The Wisconsin board of pharmacy in
session at Baraboo elected Henry
Schrank of Milwaukee. president. f.
Il. Heimstreet, of GAINESVILLE, secretary
and treasurer
The clothing store of Phillip Reit-
mann in Milwaukee was destroyed by
fire. the loss being $4,000 insurance,
$4,000.
The intercollegiate contest at Apple
ton between representatives Of Law.
renee university, Ripon and BeIoit col
leges was won by c. w. Wood, col
ored man from Beloit.
Notorious" Mary Sweeney, 1.-THE
window smasher, began breaking win.
dows in coach and was taken from a
Northwestern train and sent to Ash
land
Ferdinand Morris. a prominent Mil
waukee cattle dealer. was found muir
dered on the Pabst farm west of the
city and 81 900 he had on his person was
missing William Loeber confessed the
crime.
An unknown and peculiar fatal dis
ease has made its appearance in the
Town OF NItIIUOEt- AdIAit dbtdektu
show signs of unsteadiness on their feet
and soon fall down and die.
John Quincy Adams, a member of the
assembly in 1858 state senator in
1854. 1855 and 1855 and again an as
semblyman in 1863, died at Columbus
in his sOth year
Mrs. z. A. Warnacheck and 3D.
month-old daughter of A. Utech were
fatally burned In Milwaukee by flames
from gas stove.
An explosion at the Hancock chemi-
cal works at Woodside killed Domiuick
Chestina and injured several others.
The loss to the plant was $4,000.
A fire that started in the merchant
tailoring establishment of Paul Finger
hut at Tomahawlx caused a loss of
s12.OO0.
Augustine Spies. Marinette lumber
man. bought l0.O00. 900 feet of logs on
the Menominee Indian reservation at
Keshena at S6.62I$ thousand.
David Jones. for fifty-one years
resident of Rock county, died at his
home in Emerald Grove. aged %.
The farmhouse of William johnson.
near Nashotah, was burned. the family
narrowly escaping.
General Freight Superintendent Fred
II. Shedd. of the southern Minnesota
division of the Chicago. Milwaukee &
St. Paul railroad. died in La Crosse
from the effects of an operation.
Nels Carlson a well-known carpenter
of Manitowoc. died from the effects of
being struck in the stomach by plank
which he was saving. He leaves a
widow and seven children.
Walter W. jerome. civil engineer.
died at the home of his brother in
GAINESVILLE, aged GO years.
The state fish commissions fish car
Badger Is distributing trout fry to
various parts of the state.
Officers raided backwoods den near
Carleton. Mimi, and found three girls
who had disappeared from West SUI
perior.
James Dewitt Rexford, for twenty
five years president of the First nation
a 5anlx of GAINESVILLE. is dead.
nelson VIII. for twenty-five years
business man of Palmyra. died of heart |
disease at tie age of So.
As there is not a vacancy in the ma
tional guard in Wisconsin at the pres
ent time the new Superior company
cannot be mustered in. The state,
however. has decided to give the boys
musxets.
A great Grand Army campfire was
held at Madison. Gov. Upham, ex-
Gov Peck. ex-senator Spooner. Col.
J. A. Watrous and State Senator Bsx-
ter were among the many notables
present
T. C. Mack, of Ettrick, Trempealeau
county, pleaded guilty in the circuit
court at Whitehall to forging notes on
several farmers in that vicinity for
about $500.