River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-01-21
The News Cond .nsed.

Henry Leibole has been granted q
ten-year franchise by the village board
OF Thorpe for electric lights.
Frank f. Williams, aged &c, freight
agent of the Omaha road, committed
saicide at the West Superior hotel.
divorce was granted Mrs. Koehler
at Hudson on the ground of incompat-
Utility. Alimony was granted to the
amount of $4,000. The koehlers are
prominent old-time farmers of Somer-
set.
a young son of farmer named Guse
was accidentally shot by his brother
at Mishicott and died a few hours later.
The First Baptist church 81 Portage
was destroyed by fire.
The wife and child of c. S. Cass were
fatally injured at a railway crossing
near Black River Falls.
While shooting rabbits at La Prairie
Jay Bradford, aged II, was accidentally
shot fatally by his brother, aged IA
years.
An attempt to wreck the Chicago-St.
Paul through limited express on the
Chicago & Northwestern road was made
at Tiffany.
The Model Dry Goods company, of
Sparta, has been closed by the sheriff.
Two young men, George Bradley and
Claus Blixt, perched on opposite ends
of a saloon lunch counter in Eau Claire,
ate custard pie for five dollars side.
Bradley ate six pies and Blixt quit or
tie fifth.
The Wisconsin Annuity association,
of Milwaukee, has reinsured its Inent-
bership in the National Life of Vermont
and will surrender its charter.
Fire at the Joseph Grundy farm in
the town of Harmony destroyed pop
ertA to the value of $1,000.
A general reduction of ten per cent.
las been made in insurance rates az
West Superior as a result of long and
bitter controversy between the city off,
rials and the insurance companies.
Fleming & holman, retail dealers III
Eau Claire, made an assignment.
George Kile committed suicide by
placing his head under the wheels of IA
locomotive at Menominee. lie was a
bookkeeper for Knapp. Stout & Co.
The steamer City of Duluth had mar
rev escape from destruction by fire
while living at her dock il. Milwaukee,.
The city engines saved the craft.
The county board has decided to have
a workhouse for tramps at Baraboo.
The caring for tramps has cost Sank
county large sums
Matthew Peterson. one Of the pioneers
of GAINESVILLE, died at the age of % years.
He came there from Scotland 46 years
ago.
The Commercial bank at Eau Claire.
capital $4,000, announces voluntary
liquidation. The deposits amount to
about $4,000.
I'm unsuccessful attempt was made
near Green Bay to wreck a north-bound
Chicago passeI ger train ON the Chica-
go & Northwe tern railway.
George l.. Bossman, city attorney of
Ashland, has. resigned because of a
personal war fare against him by Mayor
Bardon.
Alfred Hammett, aged 63, said to be
wealthy +, sident of Joliet, ILL.,, was
found des / in his room at the Hotel
Wellingtf in Milwaukee.
Thorn IS Reynolds. 81 years old. was
drown I'd while skating on the bay at
Sturgeon Bay. He was a school teacher
in Hainesville.
Mrs. Fred Breeck was drowned in a
cisiern at Two Rivers. The jury rem
dcred a verdict of suicide while in a
temporary fit of insanity.
Ole Della, who resides six miles south
of Babcock, lost his house by fire and
three children, the oldest five years of
age, were burned to death.
The Northwestern Life Insurance
company filed papers in Milwaukee in
foreclosure proceedings against the Mil-
waukce Builders and Traders ex-
change.
The Milwaukee Press club held its
annual meeting and elected John q.
Gregory president.
Ole Oleson, a mail carrier between
F'ranksyilIe and North Cape. aged 70
wears, was injured in a runaway and
died in a short time.
Fire destroyed the entire business
portion of Royalton.
Rev. Erdmann Pankow, pastor of st.
Paul's Lutheran church at Lebanon,
celebrated his golden jubilee. He has
been pastor of that church for so years.
He was born in Germany in 1915, and is
the father of 1s children.
Frank Smell, of Waukesha, was found
dead in South street. Smell claime. 30
be a nephew Of A. J. Smell, the million
aire who was murdered in Chicago sew
eral years ago.
Mrs. Della Collins, for IS years resi-
dent of GAINESVILLE, died at Fort Worth.
Tex, aged &C years.