River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-11-26
The News Condensed.

Sigmund ,. Hutter, proprietor OF
drug store in Stevens Point, made vol
antary assignment to A. j. Kujawa, of
the First national bank. Assets, So ,0oO;
liabilities, $1,000.
Rural free delivery has been estab-
lished at Sun Prairie, Dane county. The
experiment will be tried with four car
riers.
The order for the formal close of
navigation on the Fox and Wolf rivers
| issued by Government Engineer Mann
has gone into effect.
Action on the proposition for beet
sugar mill at Black River Falls has been
continued till January. There is much
opposition, both as to the bonus aud the
proposed location.
w. c. Carson, of Kenosha, who was
arraigned before justice of the peace
in Racine on a charge of attempting to
aid Frank Miller, burglar, TO escape
from the cou. W Jail, was discharged.
All sawmills AT Oshkosh have been
closed for the season except the Paine
Lumber company's mill, which will be
run as long as logs can be taken out of
the river. The total seasons cut is es-
timated at 93,500,OOO feet, considerably
less than usual.
w. c. Russell, the lumberman who
died recently in Va Crosse, left an
estate valued at 100000. equivalent to
cash. His will names 80 different per-
sons as beneficiaries.
John Rely, William Meyers and o.
car Greggor were sentenced ut Marsh
field to two years at Waupun for rob-
berry committed at Neillsville three
weeks ago.
Anton Cycosh, boy who stoned his
uncle. Joseph Cycosh, to death near
their home in Polonia last April, plead
ed guiltyat Stevens Point to manslaugh-
ter in the fourth degree. He will prob
ably get two years at Waupun.
John Young, a farmer living near
Eau Claire. was robbed of $3.50 in notes
which he had hidden in an iron tea ket
tie in his granary.
The coal shipments average from 400
to 500 cars per day from the docks in
West Superior alone, the coal going west
and southwest.
The rate of taxation in Superior this
wear will be 33.s mills. This will raise
in the city S4O6, 71l.s1. the assessed val
uatior at present being SIP, All, 1851.
a meeting of manufacturers will be
held in Milwaukee December to organ
izc a crusade against convict labor in
the northwest.
The city council of Racine favors a
4 n1.s II
being out after eight o'clock at night
without their parents being with them.
a well-dressed man, giving the name
of A. III. Morse, of Racine, killed HIM
self at the international hotel in Wind
sor. Ont
The catch of herring in the vicinity of
Little Sturgeon is reported as remark
able. Some of the pound nets have con-
tanned as high as eight tons of these
fish in a single lift.
Mrs. Ola Richmond. mother of Ed
ward Richmond, of Lodi, died at her
home, aged 81 years.
Ernest Steinmeyer, son of Mrs. VIII
liam Steinmeyer. of Milwaukee. died
suddenly at Orchard Lake, Mich. where
he was attending the Michigan military
academy.
Garrett Lacy. aged 90 years. commit
ted suicide by drowning himself in a
cistern at Hudson. The act was due to
mental alteration.
The La Belle wagon works, which
cost 100000, were sold at assignee's
sale in Superior to a syndicate of South
Superior men for Sl.750.
The dedication of the new Chicago.
ST. Paul. Minneapolis & Omaha depot
at Eau Claire was grand success.
Harry Patrick, charged with bur-
glary, was sentenced at Baraboo to "a
years at Waupun. He is the last of
gang of noted robbers.
Application viii be made December 0
20 Gov. Upham for the pardon of Rich
ard ooghe, serving ten years at Wau-
pun for attempted murder in Milwau-
kee in 1898.
Clemons Z. Luckaschenski. of Osh-
kosh, has sweetheart who objected to
the length of his name, and he had il
changed to Clemens F. Luck.
Col. F. ". Engel. of Kenosha. an aid
on Gov. Upham's staff, died very sud
denly in Milwaukee.