River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-07-23
tn sew. Condensed.


The HOLSTER Amos Lumber COM
900 by fire.
Cornelius Mcdonald, restauratcur
at GAINESVILLE, was closed by local credit
ors. The assets will be sufficient to meet
the liabilities.
Henry l. Bliss, n resident of La Crosse
since 1855, died at the age of go years.
In the vicinity of Green Bay the army
worm is creating great destruction 10
the crops. The cat crop is suffering
the most, and acres of it are being de-
stroyed daily.
The Omaha road has put in an electric
fire extinguishing apparatus at its new
dock in Superior.
Charles Marqunrdt, laborer in the
br;ckyards at Jefferson, was drowned
in Rock river.
At Chippewa Falls Mrs. William Pep
ma was attacked by large, vicious dog
and badly bitten.
Patrick Gerughty, wealthy farmer,
near Neenah, was taken from his bed
bv 10 masked men and beaten into in
sensibility and afterward tarred and
Teathered. No reason can be assigned
for the outrage.
Mrs. Matilda Isaacson, midwife re-
siding In West Superior, was found
dead in bath tub.
Modern Woodmen have organized a
camp at Cameron.
Cracksmen visited Shields & Larson's
saloon at Shell Lake and the safe was
blown open and an unknown amount of
booty secured.
Robert Wilkinson, aged As, a. farmer
living near Darlington, committed sui
eide by taking strychnine. He left
note saying he was tired of life.
James Barber and his son William, of
Marinette, and two unknown men were
drowned in Green bay, off Peshtigo
Point, by the sinking of a scow.
Ex-County Treasurer Fred w. LANCE
died In Milwaukee of heart disease. He
was IS years of age and leaves son and
two daughters.
The Post Mercantile company, estab-
lished in Chippewa Falls year ago by
A. 7. Post & Sons, was compelled to
close it's doors, with liabilities of $780,
900.
Twenty-eight candidates were admit
ted to the novitiate of the Order of the
School Sisters of St. Francis at st.
Johns convent in Milwaukee.
Mrs. Margaret ]. Wright, aged 70
years, died in Marinette. Her husband,
George c. Wright, died two days before
her death, aged rs.
August IIilgendorf, of Kenosha,
charged with the murder of his wife.
has been held for trial without bail.
DIR. c. W. Robbins was found dead
on lounge in the rooms of the Madison
club In Madison. Heart disease was the
cause.
A 13-year-old boy named Erickson. liv-
ing at Pleasant View tried to see If be
could touch the cars as they went by
and was fatally injured.
Congressman S. A. Cook, republicans,
OF the Sixth district, publicly announces
that he will not run again. He alleges
family and business reasons.
Dan Kelliher, deckhand on the
schooner Watson, was run over by the
Short Line train in West Superior and
fatally injured.
Charles II. Dobrinz. one of the best
Known business men in Milwaukee and
president of the Dobrinz Hat company,
shot himself. probably fatally. Disap-
pointment over a land deal was the
cause.
Mrs. Walter Hart, with her infant
child, was driving toward Eagle Point
when the horse took fright and ran
away and the baby was instantly killed.
Oscar Wittke, who Is walking from
Marinette to New York on wager of
$500, passed through Kenosha.
Arthur Drake. aged 10. went swim
ming with two other boys at La Crosse.
got beyond his depth and drowned.