River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-01-23
The News Condensed.

Florence johnson and Ralph Herman.
both of Belvidere, ILL.,, eloped and were
married in Beloit
During 1895 the receipts of the insur-
ance commissioners office of Wiscon-
by $4,000.
Mrs. William McCleary, who has
heen living on pension of SIC a month
tor several years, at Stevens Point, was
notified that her parents, whom she
had not heard from in years had died
and left her fortune.
Capt. o. F. Brown of New Richmond.
| Is dead.
ID. NJ. Jackson, prosecuting attorney
for Ozaukee county, died Suddenly at
| Fort Washington. For several years he
lad been active in the legal profession
and in local politics.
Fire at Rock Falls destroyed Weston
&. Chamberlain's general store and the
post office, with nearly all their con-
tents. Loss, $1,000.
T. \. Polleys, leading attorney in
Madison, will remove to St. Paul to ac-
cept a position as assistant in the legal
department of the Omaha road.
James ID. and Charles T. Connolly
(brothers) and Mary and Lille Burke
(sisters). of Chicago were married in
Milwaukee by Justice Hayden.
A. u. Drew, president of the Hamline
(Minn.) bank, was in Grantsburg look
ing over the prospects for bank, and
expects to start bank there.
A fatal disease has broken out among
cattle near Manawa, and many have
died in one night after being attacked.
Fire partially destroyed X G. Olson's
large hardware store in Stoughton.
The loss was estimated at $4,000, fully
insured.
A fire in the coal on the Ohio COM
pany's dock at Superior was extin-
guished after having burned for n week
and destroying at least LOCO tons Of
coal.
Frank Buell., of Genoa Junction, an
academy student at Beloit, went vio-
lentIy insane. throwing Chaplin hall
into n wild disorder. He tried to kill
everybody who came near him. He was
taken home.
Gov. Upham has signed the charter
for the city of Waulxesha.
August Nelson. a barber az Neenah.
committed suicide by shooting himself
in the right temple.
John Berg, farmer, who was SEN
fenced to 80 days in Jail at Appleton
for selling adrlterated milk, was re-
leased on account of an error in the in
dictment.
Christopher Rock, aged so years, of
Weyauwega, dropped dead in a depot
at Oshkosh while waiting for train.
Miss Lucia d. Griffin, The Abba Qa.J
elocutionist, was awarded verdict in
the United States court of $4,000
Against the Illinois Central railway for
injuries received in the depot at Madi-
son.
Fire in the residence of Banker James
Keogh at Sturgeon Bay came near re-
sulting in terrible holocaust, and as
il was four members of the family and
the domestic were badly burned.
Edward Kurz. wholesale confectiop-
er, died at Madison.
John Reiherzer, the seven-year-old
son of Frank Reiherzer, was instantly
killed by being run down b. trolley
car on the Vliet street line in Milwau-
l;ee.
Madison W. Harris. retired capital
ist and resident of Eau Claire since
1857. died at his home. In the early
davs he was a steamboat captain on the
Mississippi.
Charles f. Taylor, wanted in Mad
ison for working a confidence game,
was arrested at Janesvslle.
The Petley Shirt company in Milwau-
kee made q voluntary assignment TO
], w. Wagner.