River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27
The News Condensed.

Mick Flynn. restaurant keeper a.
Iron River, shot and killed William
sullivan. The trouble was over Flynn's
s.loOn being closed on complaint OF
Sulh AN.
Ex-County Treasurer Erick L. Ladd,
of Stoughton, died suddenly of heart
disease at st. Paul, where he had gone
to the bedside of hir son-in-law, Il. X.
Forthun, who died two hours earlier.
The board of normal school regents,
by a vote of to 3. located the new
state normal school at Superior, ending
a fight of two years duration.
The eastern Wisconsin sangerfest
closed at Appleton with a parade, a
picnic and ball. Fully 1900 per.
sons attended the picnic.
The Beloit Cooperative Fire Insur.
ance company was formed and was
preparing to do business Many of the
leading business men are interested in
the organization.
The reunion of the Nineteenth Wis.
consin regiment at La Crosse was at.
tended by forty-five members. Capt.
Ellinwood, OF Reedsburg, is president;
w. II. Blyton, Sparta, secretary and
treasurer.
Well drillers at Calvary cemetery in
Fond du Lac struck a vein of copper at
depth of about 100 feet. and large
chunks of the metal were brought to
the surface.
DIR. Henry Palmer was found dead
in his bed at GAINESVILLE. He was sur.
geon of the Iron brigade during the
civil war. and also served "a surgeon
in the Crimeau war, he being in Eu.
rope at the time on pleasure trip.
r. J. Fish and ". =. Murray, the big
wagon manufacturers OF West Supe.
rior, visited Little Rock, Ark, with n
view to removing their shops to that
place.
The body of Charles Buege was
found in the river at Milwaukee.
Three weeks ago his wife died and the
next week he lost his position, leaving
him with eight children to support
The Milwaukee Cremation society
officers at meeting announced that
it had secured subscriptions of 81. 400 tc
the fund of S., 900 required to build 6
crematory.
The thirteenth annual reunion of the
Sheboygan county soldiers of the late
rebellion was held at Sheboygan Falls.
Mrs. Kutz. living near Lima, was
found dead in a cistern. 1t was sup
posed to be case of suicide.
John Schulz, an old settler of Colby,
committed suicide by hanging He
leaves a widow, two sons and two
daughters
Mrs. Moses Thorpe, aged 81 years.
died suddenly at her home in Boscobel.
The Central house and five other
building were burned at Chiffon. Loss,
$50, 900; fully insured.
Edwin Webster, aged 40, known pro
fessionally as Mel Thatcher, a per
former at the Gem theater in West
Superior, dropped dead on the stage
G.. 5. Marsh, an ex-banlxer of De
pere, was adjudged insane by jury
and committed to the asylum.
William Walsh, chief of police, died
st Ashland.
James Kyle, an old settler of Rock
county, died suddenly at his home near
Lima Center.
Jacob Gehl, the 16-year-old son of
Linus Gehl, distiller at st. Lawrence.
was found dead on the roadside be-
tween Attention and that place
Miss Grace Gould, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. David Gould. of Ocononowoc,
was married to Henry w. Grady, of
the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.
Friends of Bishop Schwebach. at La
Crosse, helped him celebrate the TWEEN
ty-fifth anniversary of his ordination.
John Langworthy, of Green Bay,
went to pull off his boot and broke his
left leg above the knee.
DIR. George b. Miner. one of the
pioneer dentists and physicians of Mill
waukee died at the age of - years.
He went to Milwaukee in 1915.
The closing exercises OF the state
school for the blind took place at
GAINESVILLE. There were no graduates.
The keystone lumber company Of
Ashland purchased $4,000, 900 feet of
pine along the Fish creek valley.
Ernst G.. Schneider, for eleven years
a member of the Stadt theater stock
company in Milwaukee, died while en-
route To Vienna. Austria. whittier he
started three weeks ago to visit his
mother.
Allen I. Williams, ex-ccunty clerk of
Bayfield, county, who was convicted of
the embezzlement of Sis from the
county. was sentenced at Washburn to
two and half years in the peniten-
tiary.
Two Ashland saloonkeepers, John
Damea and Martin Kontyev pleaded
guilty in Madison To p charge of sell
ing liquor to red men and the court
imposed a fine OF $500 each.