River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-08

lumber concerns in southern Wiscon-
sin, died in Delavan.
The Mayville Exchange bank has
been incorporated with a capital stock
of $4,000.
Tive board of trustees of Ripon col
lege has conferred the degree of d. ID.
upon Rev. S. I. Kidder, pastor of the
Congregational church of Menasha.
Levi NJ. Copeland, an old resident of
Eagle River, was drowned in the river
while trying to raise the gates.
Engineer Burns, of the Montreal
mine, was caught in the fly wheel of
the hosting engine at Ashland and
killed.
Miss Elizabeth Mueller and William
Schokpecht, both deaf mutes, were mar
ried by Traugot, a deaf mute preacher,
in st. Stephens Lutheran church in Mil
waukee.
Annie Gordon. an inmate of house
Of i'll fame in Fond du Lac committed
suicide by taking carbolic acid.
The Avery shingle and sawmill and
dry kiln and several car loads of
shingles were burned at Eagle.
An electric and windstorm passed
over Mazomanie. doing much damage
to trees and property.
In the circuit court at Viroq1a, the
Jury found George Sullivan guilty of
murder in the second degree. He shot
Asa Gorham January 25.
Mrs. Abbie Dearborn, widow of Col.
Lyman Dearborn, died at the home of
her daughter in GAINESVILLE, aged 50
years.
The Tweuty-eighth regiment, Wis
cousin volunteer infantry, held its fif-
teenth annual reunion in Elkhorn.
Charles Seymour, of La Crosse, who
has been United States consul at Can
ton, China, for many years, has re-
turned to this country on account of
Ill health.
Mrs. Ella Breaseau was struck by
lightning at Amigo and instantly
killed.
Dave Smith was shot and instantly
killed at Iron River by Mrs. +. y. Leng-
lev while attempting to force his way
into her house.
Joseph Arnold, commander of the
John w. Scott post, G. A. r., was found
dead in bed in Oshkosh. Heart disease
was the cause.
William Gardiner, ex-member of the
assembly and ex-ehairman of the coun-
ty board of supervisors, died in James
vile, aged II years.
A severe downpour, amounting al
most to a cloudburst, carried away
many bridges and in some cases wiped
out roads near Waupaca.
William Radiant, aged 60, one of the
oldest German settlers of Manitowoc,
while going upstairs slipped near the
top and fell to the bottom, breaking his
neck and dying instantly.
The formal opening of the new Hotel
Beulah, almost on the spot of the hotel
of the same name at Lake Beulah that
was burned to the ground last winter,
took place.
While fishing at Twin lake, near
Kenosha, Albert Haegel, aged 25, of Chi
cago, was drowned.
The Beloit Adjustable Horseshoe Pad
company was incorporated with cap
ltal stock OF S25,OOO.
Ezekiel WEIGH, a barber. drank hair
tonic because he could not get whisky
on the Bad River Indian reservation.
and it killed him.
William Williams. the oldest settler
in Milwaukee, died at the age of s4
years.
Leo Berger, a well-known farmer re-
siding near Radison post Office, was
kicked to death by horse.
A l2-year-old son of a farmer named
larson was sent to Glenwood with
tramp clock repairer. and the man and
boy have not been seen since. Three
BOYS have been taken from New Rich
mond in the same manner.
County Judge Holgate committed the
first patients from Marinette county to
the home for the feeble-minded at Chip
pewa Falls.
DIR. Chauneey c. Robinson, one of
the oldest physicians in Milwaukee,
died at the age of 20 years.
Thomas Woods died in Dodgeville of
apoplexy, aged n. He expected to die
when he did. as he said his father and
two sisters died at the age of II, and
lie was sure he would.
A new school district has been formed
in the town of Pine Grove. 1t cuts off /
portions of the Bluff. Harris and Linn /
erick districts.
1t practically has been decided that +
there will be no state fair in Wisconsin /
this year.
A two-year-old child of William john
son, residing at Brant, was fatally /
scalded by falling into tub of boiling
water.
C. b. Simpson & Co. Of Washburn. +
have purchased 100000 feet of stand
ing lumber on the Ashland. Siskowit G +
Iron River road, which viii probably be
sawed at Washburn.
The GAINESVILLE cotton mills upper
factory has shut down. throwing 300 /
hands out of employment. Slow de-
mand for cloth is the cause.