River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-05-20
The News Condensed.

Mrs. hannah dOllenDeck, Tie nrSt
white woman to reside in Manitowoc,
died in Iowa, aged n years.
Mr.. and Mrs. 5. A. Rice, of Fort At
kinson. aged Sc and &c, respectively,
celebrated their ffty-eighth wedding
anniversary.
Alfred Wyman, aged 60, well-known
| farmer of the town of Delton, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself.
Fire at MarshIand. Buffalo county.
destroyed $1,000 in property. 1t orig
mated in Mrs. Wills hotel building.
The Foster-Haffner company. manu-
| facturers in Oshkosh of sash, doors and
| blinds, has raised the wages of its work
men 1914 per cent. The new schedule
affects all employees, us in number.
At the fifty-frst annual meeting in
Racine of the Wisconsin State Medical
society, DR.. William W. Mackie, of Mil
waukee, was elected president.
Mrs. Elizabeth O'Sheridan, of South
Madison, was struck by a train on the
Northwestern road and instantly killed.
Ex-senator x. NJ. Bashford was seri-
ously injured in a runaway accident in
Madison. His right collar bone was
broken in two places and he was bad
~ cut about the head and face.
James II. May bury, the wonderfully
fast young sprinter of the University of
Wisconsin. ran 100 yards in 0:09 As.
and 12C yards in 0:1l As. tIeing two
worlds records.
The case OF Guinard against Knapp.
Stout e. Co, OF Eau Cairo, has been
settled. The defendant will pay Gui-
Eard $4,000 for injuries sustained in the
sawmill at Menomonie.
Gen. Chandler 2. Chapman, adiutant
general of Wisconsin under Gov. Rusk,
died suddenly of paralysis in Milwau-
kee. aged SO years.
A gang of tramps tried to hold up a
freight train near the eastern limits of
Milwaukee, and nearly killed Conductor
Hawkins.
Justice Neelen rendered a decision
declaring the new dance hall ordinance
in Milwaukee invalid on the ground that
the common council cannot delegate
Legislative powers to an executive Off
GER.
Because his relatives opposed his
marriage on account of difference in
religion William \. Neuschafer, a
wealthy farmer OF Wolf river, COM
mitted suicide by hanging.
Clarence Norris, of Palmyra, ex-engi-
neer on the Illinois Central, has been
acquitted from all blame and awarded
$500 damages for injuries received on
that road near Cairo. ILL.,. three years
ago.
Burglars broke into the basement of
the Neenah high school building anu
ransacked every room in the building
Peter Varette, an old employ of the
Boom company, was drowned at Mari
nette.
Charles Button, capitalist and for
merly of the wholesale drug firm of
Greene & Button, dropped dead while
entering his carriage in Milwaukee.
George Schweickard, Jr.. doing busi-
ness in Milwaukee under the name of
The Castalia bottling works. made vol
untary assignment with liabilities of
s47.1I9.
DIR. c. f. Crane died in Green Bav,
aged II years. He was the oldest resi-
dent physician of the city. but retired
from practice several years ago.
The whole temperance ticket was
elected in Union Grove at tine recent
election.
]. n. Robinson. aged 50, passenger
agent of the Northern Pacific railroad.
with headquarters in Milwaukee, died
suddenly at Grand Rapids.
Ex-Postmsster James T. Greene, aged
81, died at his home in Fond du Lac on
the twenty-first anniversary of his mar
rage.
Co., at Milwaukee. was seized under
executions for S24.3OO in favor of the
Second Ward savings bank.
Fire at Mineral Point destroyed one
half block of business buildings. The
fire originated in john Aliens grocery
store.
Word was received in Beloit Of the
death in California of Rev. John w.
Marshall. of the college class of ST. In
terment was at Portage.
Insurance rates in GAINESVILLE have
been reduced 20 per cent. by general
order.
The Becker brewery has been sold to
F. Knapstein & Co., for $500. This
gives the Knapstein company exclusive
control of the brewing interests in New
London.
Squire Farvor, resident of Sheboy-
gan Falls for so years, died in his 9th
year al the home of his daughter, Mrs.
ID. MEG lachlin.
Charles Eleinsteiber, ST.. aged IS.
prominent business man of Butternui,
was thrown from his buggy ia run