River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-11-12
The News Condensed.

lhe helrS OF the late ADram ,. Mitch
ell, of st. Louis, lost their suit against
the Land and River improvement COM
pany of West Superior to recover prop
erty in that city valued at nearly ST.
100000.
An eagle measuring six feet six
inches from tip to tip of wings was
killed near Medford by Mrs. Frank
Powell. The bird had previously at
tempted to carry off boy about ten
years of age.
George w. TAFT, a prominent artist of
Racine, died of spinal trouble. He was
born in 1889, was member of the Y.
NJ. C. A.. Racine County Caledonian So
ciety, and very popular throughout the
city.
Louis ]. Eachaud. postmaster at Bay
field, was removed by order of the pres
dent because of a shortage in his ac-
counts, and Joseph ID. Crittenden was
appointed postmaster in his place.
Railway detectives arrested young
man giving his name as Blankenham
on charge of having made an attempt
to wreck a passenger train about six
miles cast of Mauston.
Mrs. Adolph Wilson was found dead
in her bed at Marinette, Wis. She had
been in poor health for some time. Her
husband was one of the first white men
to settle in Marinette in 1S47.
Having lost his bet on election John
Niebergall wheeled in a barrow John
Meyer distance of four blocks along
leading thoroughfare.
James Casey gave himself up to the
police at Merrimac and is now in Jail in
Baraboo. He says he murdered man
with piece of coal by hitting him on
the head. The sheriff will investigate.
Lieut.. John C. w. Brooks, of the
Fourth artillery, U. S. A., has been de-
tailed by the war department as mill
tary instructor at the university in
Madison, to succeed Lieut.. Devol, re-
Gently promoted to a captaincy.
The occasion of President Eaton's
tenth anniversary as the head of Beloit
college was celebrated with a reception
given in the library to students, fac
ulty and resident alumni by the senior
class.
Miss Stacia Livingston, of Almond,
who was elected county superintendent
of schools, is the first woman who has
ever appeared on any county ticket in
Wisconsin.
Rufus G.. Clark, farmer living near
Cumberland, deliberately shot and
killed his wife in his own house as the
result of quarrel. Clark is under ar
rest.
(fire) of New York city has been admit
ted to do business in Wisconsin.
Judge A. II. Goss, of the municipal
court, and Miss Hattie A. Maxwell,
prominent young lady. were married in
Oshkosh.
Charles F. Pfister, of Milwaukee, the
friend and business associate of Henry
C. Payne, won nearly 900 on the re-
suit of the election.
While hunting on the west fork of
the Chippewa, Martin Drott, Jr., of Ash
land, was dangerously shot by his
brother, who mistook him for a deer.
The lumber and stave mill at Turtle
Lake was destroyed by fire, the loss be-
ing $1,000. The mill was owned by
Hamilton & Knapp and the 500 River
company.
Edward Fennelly, the defaulting
treasurer of Ashland county, has been
pardoned by Gov. Upham.
The John Hoberg company made an
assignment at Green Bay to Peter Rem
ter, of Kaukauna. The liabilities are
1000 and the assets about 5000
A cyclone at Madison carried away
the opera house roof and blowed down
small buildings. trees, electric wires,
etc.
Six hundred thousand feet of lumber
at Green Bay were swept from dock
into the Fox river by food.
A well-dressed man. supposed to be
William Wilson, of East Ashland, at
tempted to commit suicide by taking
dose of carbolic acid at Superior. An
antidote was administered, and he was
at the hospital in critical condition.
Gov. Upham has pardoned Frank J.
Armstrong, who was serving a six-year
term at Waupun on charge of forgery. |
Henry Shafer Quick, aged as years, |
and at one time recognized as leading |
actor of the United States, died at Fond |
du Lac.
+. S. Fenton, for many years drug |
gist in Beloit. a veteran of the civil war |
and prominent in freemasonry, died |
at the age of 50 years.
1t is reported that the Marshfield &
Southeastern railroad viii be extended /
from Marshfleld to Princeton, Sis-
tnnce of 90 miles. next spring.
The Walworth County Teachers as
sociation in session at Palmyra elected
for president Principal c. d. Kipp, Of ;
lElkhorn high school. !