River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-05-27
The New. CONDENSED.

The News Condensed.
Albert Finch was thrown from Il horse
at Whitewater and died from his in
juries.
Stephen Terrill was sentenced at
GAINESVILLE to Jour years at Waupun for
the murder of John Quirk at Mineral
Point on March II, 1894. He was SEN
fenced to life imprisonment at the time,
but got new trial.
Mrs. Charles A. Perkins, aged 40 years,
died suddenly in Beloit of heart disease.
She was the mother of IL children.
Adolf Keller, ST., formerly of Eau
Claire, died at Minneapolis. His wife
and ten children survive him.
Attorney General Mylrea announced
the appointment OF l.. j. Billings as
state law examiner. The salary 10 si,-
500 year.
A two-year-oId daughter of Gilbert
RutIer, farmer residing near Beloit,
drank carbolic acid and died.
The Cary and Superior iron mines are
closed down at Hurley for an indefinite
period. No market for ore is the cause.
John Meehan, aged 80, Chicago d
Northwestern brakeman, was killed at
Manitowoc by falling between two box
cars while switching in the yards.
George f. Davis, the Milwaukee eX-
street railway employee who married
Miss Maud Ward. of Janesyille, when
he was not divorced from a wife living
in Chicago, pleaded guilty and was seu-
fenced to four years in state prison at
Waupun for bigamy.
The Fountain house. the largest sum-
mer hotel on Delavan lake, was entirely
destroyed by fire.
Winter wheat in Sarek county is al
most total failure, all having been
winter killed. Many of the farmers
were blowing the fields and putting in
corn.
The fifth annual summer school for
Waushara county will be held in Wau-
toma for four weeks, beginning July 10.
The old settlers and pioneers of RAJ
cine county will hold their annual re-
union at Union Grove on June II.
Frank Herbert, of bayfield,. Joseph
McDougal and John Lousdale, of Ash
lard, and John Brillion, of Woodruff.
all saloon-keepers, pleaded guilty in
Madison to selling liquor to Indians,
and were sent to Jail for 60 days.
a large new barn on the farm of W. +.
Hamlin near Wautoma was burned with
Is tons of hay, wagons. buggies and
farm machinery, besides five head OF
cattle
Deacon Edward Bundy. IS years of
age. died at Genoa, leaving widow and
one son. He celebrated bis golden we'd
ding ami, ersary last December.
Lars Hienberg, an old man residing
about three miles from Maiden Rock,
captured seven young wolves in one day.
The bounty is so.
Samuel Ernisse, an old soldier at She
boygan, is mourning the loss of a turtle
dove that was at least 81 years old
Charles Schlichting, for many years a
resident of Tomah. committed suicide
by shooting himself lie had been sick
for long time and was in financial
difficulty.
William Christian Jacobs, leading
business man at Neenah for more than
25 wears. died of heart trouble, aged 81
years.
Charles West pleaded guilty at Port
age to a charge of burglary and was
sentenced TO three years at NaCpGn
Mrs. Rub II. ha-vey. who bad the
distinction Of having been the first
white baby in Fond du Lac, died at the
age of 90 years.
Theodore o. Hartman, the Medford
r.f
Quoting his bank dishonesty, was given
the Iightest penalty the law allows. be-
ing sentenced to one year in state
prison
Gov. Scofield has reappointed James
t. Ellarson. of Wautoma, state fish and
game warden for the term of two
years, to date from May 5.
Fire destroyed Davis & Williams iiv-
cry barn at Brillion and eight horses
persisted in the flames. Loss. $4,000.
Dr. J. II. Reilly. physician OF 20
years practice in Appleton. died of ul-
cerated stomach. aged 50 years.
Mrs. Wallace Spencer. of Mcmillan.
tried TO commit suicide by taking
arsenic. but she took an overdose De-
spondency was the cause.
As a result of runaway accident in
Madison Herbert Abornderfer. of Mil
waukee, law student in the university.
died of conclusion of the brain.
Rev. George W. Bryant and wife, aged
So and 81 years respectively. celebrated
their sixtieth wedding anniversary at
Palmyra.
w. II. Wade. an Oshkosh lawyer I'M
der bail on the charge of assault with
intent to kill. committed suicide at
! Freeport, III.