River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-05-06
The New. Condensed.


CT. He had been a resident of the coun-
ty for over 40 years aud served through
the war in the Fifth Wisconsin regi-
ment..
The body of August +. Bruce, aged ca,
who had been missing since April Z, was
/ found in the river near the shipyard in
Milwaukee He is supposed to have
fallen in the river.
Fire at Green Bay in a two-story
brick building in Washington street, &C.
cupied by 4. & +. Lehman, caused a loss
of $4,000.
At Milwaukee Conrad Ernst was con-
victed of manslaughter in the fourth de-
gree. The penalty is Imprisonment
from two to four years. Ernst was re-
sponsible FOR the death of Peter Klein,
a saloon keeper.
Mrs. Elizabeth Schwartz while suffer
irg from an attack of temporary de-
rangement consequent upon severe SUI
fering, left her bed and was found
floating in a we'll at Wausau.
James Chalmers has resigned as pres
ident OF the Platteville normal school,
his resignation to take effect June 30.
Fire destroyed the Schmidt hotel n
Milwaukee, and two hours later the
Mineral Spring Park hotel, pcru.Hr
resort near Riverside Park, was burned
Oshkosh will soon have in opera Il
the first grass Irvine factory in the
world. 1t ill employ 300 hands, and
will make hiding Irvine from marsh
grass, So .ething never attempted be-
fore.
Green Bay business men are to make
an attempt to secure the location there
of the new state reformatory.
Mrs. DIR. Mary Rose. of Chippewa
Falls, received divorce from DIR. p.
II. Rose. of Augusta.
Fires that swept the country north
of Grantsburg did considerable damage.
Burning buildings. fences and some
stock. \ shower checked the fires.
Gilbert ingram. aged So. who resided
with his son-in-iaw. Hiram Slack, at
I Plainfield. committed suicide by shoot
/ ing himself. Suffering from illness was
1 the cause.
Adolph Toelluer. the five-year-old son
of Adolph Toellner. was drowned in
Lake Monona at Madison.
Walter Hansen, ten years old, while
attempting to board a freight train fell
under the wheels and was wounded so
4 that he died.
/ Frank W. Walker. ex-superyisOr OF
the town Of Wauwautosa. died at his
home in that village OF intestinal
trouble. aged 20 years.
Jacob Seller. prominent resident of
/ Madison. was found harging in his paint
/ shop. 1t is supposed that his mind was
unbalanced by III health and financial
/ difficulties.
Judge Parish announced that the
/ Jury commission selected by him for
Sawyer county would consist Of II. J..
/ Mccormick. Hans Tooley and Frank
/ Mcintyre.
/ Rev. Samuel WyckolT, of La Crosse.
died at the Mendoza insane hospital.
aged CO. He was taken there week
ago. violently insane.
/ II. ". Salisbury. aged so years, was
killed by the cars at Oregon.
/ The dead body Of W. Oaks was found
Oh the bank of the river just below Mel
rose by some boys. He lived in ClarL
county. and had not been seen since last
winter.
Conrad Silbersdorf. aged 40 years,
died at the Brown county asylum, in
Green Bay. Two years ago he was at
tackled with insanity, from which he
did not recover. He purchased the Bay
City house in 1879. and conducted that
hotel until his affection.
A delegation of Mayyille citizens went
to Granville to inspect the beet sugar
/ factory at that point. They intend TO
start a beet sugar factory at Mayyille.
! Conductor George Wood, of the Chi
/ cage g. Northwestern, residing in Bara-
/ boo, was knocked from his train at e.
! ROY and died in few hours.
/ Col John II. Knight has sold to DIR.
/ Charles II. Villas, of Chicago, 960 acres
/ of valuable land and number of lots in
/ the lake shore and commercial addi-
tons of Ashland.
The fourteenth annual encampment
I % the Sons of Veterans of Wisconsin
will be held at Eau Claire May Is, 10
I and 20.
Three million whitefsh fry were
I planted near Snake island in Green bay
by the state fish commission.