River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-12-10
Tho Nevs Con,Iensed.

ne NEWS NOAutHstus
The Madison high school football
team established its claim to the high
school championship of the northwest
in Madison by defeating the Hyde PARK
(Chicago) high school team by a score
of % TO O.
The case of Mrs. Clara /. Hodges, wife
of a prominent manufacturer in Racine,
against James Wilson for $4,000 dam
ages for alleged assault and battery,
resulted in the jury rendering verdict
for the plaintiff of $1,000.
Judge johnson has ordered n receiver
appointed for T. L. Kelly & Co, of Mil
waukee, closed by chattel mortgage
creditors.
Carl and Ernest Densaw (brothers)
were drowned at Ahnapee while skat-
ing.
While skating on a mill pond at Hills
boro. ILL.,, Bernard, oldest son of Judge
o. Il. Wyman. of Viroqua, was drowned.
He lost his life while rescuing his
Younger brother, who broke through
the ice.
The ashes of Horace Rublee, late ed
itor of the Milwaukee Sentinel, were
Inferred at Forest Hill cemetery in Mad
ison beside the remains of his daugh-
ter Katherine. Mr.. Rublee's remains
were cremated at the conclusion of the
funeral in Milwaukee.
Elmer NJ Parmenter. young and
prominent merchant at Plainfield, was
married last August TO Miss Blanche
Crofoot. welI-known society girl of
Buena Vista. The marriage has been
secret until now.
Anton Schrank, aged five years, died
in Milwaukee from the effects of drink
Eng coffee scalding hot.
Half dozen steamers are said to be
bound tight in the ice along the north
shore of Lake Superior, and it viii be
impossible 10 release them.
Mr. and Mrs II. w. Van Arnam, each
sc years of age. celebrated the sixty
sixth anniversary of their wedding at
Fond du Lac. They are the oldest mar
ried couple in the state.
Henry C. Splitter, dry goods man,
died in La Crosse. He was % years of
age and had been married three months.
Articles OF incorporation were filed
with the secretary of state by the Min
nesota & Wisconsin Railroad company
10 operate "a line through Woodville
via Wildwood to Spring Valley.
All of the ten fiourmills at the head
of the lake are preparing for shut
down, and soon probably not grinding
wheel will be turning in Superior.
w. y. Atkinson has been elected cap
Il. =t.- fonfbaI N
elcv,n for next year.
William Zelner, who escaped from
Jail at Juneau, was captured near Leba-
non. He said he wanted TO see his folks.
and intended to return TO Jail. He is
awaiting trial ON charge of murder.
The German-American bank 1T Tort
age made an assignment TO +. 5. Baker
for the benefit of it's creditors.
An organization comprising about
200 farmers of Brown county will be
formed in Green Bay TO build an cleya-
tor and handle farm products without
the intervention of middle men.
William Muehle, the defaulting city
treasurer o. Seymour, has returned and
will stand trial.
An immense ice gorge so feet high
formed across the Chippewa river be-
low Chippewa Falls and farms and farm
buildings along six miles of the Chip
pewa valley were under water.
John Hegeman. Sr.. Kenosha coun-
" pioneer. Is dead, aged -6. lie went
to Kenosha in 1s47 ard for 30 years was
proprietor of TIE Wilmot hotel.
Mrs. John Scupsts, while mt funeral
in Independence 10 which she carried
her baby child, snIotHered he latter 10
death. lie was bundled up too closely.
Fire destroyed the barn and granary
of Nicholas Graft, several miles south
of Sheboygan, causing a loss Of $500.
George Ritter, Racine trunkmaker
"a years of age, charged with attempt
ing to kill his wife, hanged himself in
his cell in the Jail.
Albert Swanson, who was convicted
at Oconto of numbering John Lashek
last April, was sentenced 20 life impris-
onment.
The 14aeger & Ru5esch Creamery
company, of Clintonviile, filed assign
ment papers. Liahiiii Ies. $1,000; as
sets, about the same. They owe the
farmers 81 900 for milf
There is a revival of the subject to
build an electric lire III Oshkosh and
also one to connect the cities down the
Fox river valley. Z, company has been
incorporated with a capital stock of
S225. 900.
The Uphaln NJ nufacturing company
at Marshfeld his sold 100000 feet of
timber, winte sawn. This will keep
their mill in operation all winter.
II. NJ. Buck died at Omro, aged IS
years. He mad lived there for so years.
1t is now almost certain that the
Rockefeller plan for the reorganization
Of the West Superior Iron aud Steel
company VIII be carried out.