River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22

resident of Oshkosh. died of pneumonia.
aged 62 years.
Six Mormon converts were immersed
in Lake Winnebago at Fond du Lac by
Elders Croft and Larsen.
Chester A. Fowler, of the law firm of
Fowler q Mcnamara, of Portage, was
fined 5000 and costs, a total of $2l7 20,
for contempt of court in Oshkosh.
The residence of NJ. f. Carpenter at
Fond du Lac was entered and $500
worth of jewelry stolen.
The school census of Kenosha for
the year 1897 shows the number of chill
dren of chool age to be 1901, gain of
nearly 400 over the census report for
1885,
The various offices in the city hall
| in Milwaukee and a number of business
establishments were robbed of stamps
and small sums of money. aggregating
altogether about $l,400.
1t has been discovered that Wiscon-
sin has no law making it necessary for
minors to have the consent of their pa
rents before marrying-that is, minors
living outside of the state.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Kelly arrived in
Fond du Lac from abroad. They made
nearly a complete circuit of the world.
The BURBERRY season commenced at
Shell Lake aud the crop will be very
large.
Twenty-Five saloon licenses have been
| issued by the city clerk in Neenah,
against 25 last year.
Johannes Anschuts, ex-treasursr of
the town of Upham, is in Jail on a
charge of embezzling $1,000 of the
towns funds.
Albert Lamont, aged IS, a farmer and
noted horseman, died in Lodi fromsin-
juries received by his team running
away.
The million-dollar drawbridge which
connects Superior and Duluth, Mimi,
was thrown open to the public with APP
propriate exercises.
A hail and rainstorm did much dam
age near West Salem. Masses of ice
as big as mans fist fell
The roller Touring mill at Lawrence,
owned by State Senator c. Z. Pierce
and operated by j. IL. Tibbets, was de-
stroyed by fire.
The annual meeting of the Wisconsin
Pharmaceutical association will be held
in Green Bay August / and 10.
1t has been decided to sell the grounds
of the Rock County Agricultural So
ciety at GAINESVILLE at sheriff's sale TO
satisfy claims amounting in the agg re-
gate TO $4,000. No fair will be held
this fall.
The annual school census of La Crosse
shows 10. l40 children of school age, an
increase of 1914 over last year.
DIR. G. w. Prees, of Cambria, has re-
ceived notice OF his appointment to the
consulship at Swansea, Wales.
Reitz & Haugen, clothing merchants
at Neillsville for many years, made a
voluntary assignment with liabilities
of about $4,000.
Fred Scheffier. aged so years. an epi-
leptic and weak-minded inmate of the
Outagamie county poor house, com
mitted suicide in Appleton by taking
paris green.
A decision was filed by Judge Helm
at Ashland by which CO settlers against
whom ejeetment proceedings were
brought by the Wisconsin Central Rail
road company lose.
Mrs. NJ. Egan. aged GO, for 40 years
a resident of GAINESVILLE, fell dead in her
garden.
The three-year-oid daughter of Eu-
gene Lambole was terribly bitten by
large hound at Marinette.
The executive committee of the cell
lege met IN Beloit and decided 10 To-
cate DIR. Parsons latest gift, Emerson
hall. on the land given by Mr.. and Mrs.
Stowell, of Chicago, set apart as the
woman's campus.
Abial Richmond, one Of the founders
of Shawano, died near GiIlet. aged 50
years.
Mai. Reinhard Schlichting. aged 62
years, died IN Chiffon. He was captain
of company X, Ninth Wiscc nsiu regi-
ment.
At the annual school meeting in Dos
cobel il was voted to build a new school
house al an expense of not over $4,000.
The dams at orienta and mouth Of
Cranberry river were washed out and
u 900, 600 feet of logs set afloat in Lake
Superior.
There were but four votes against the
proposition 10 bond the town of Bay
field for S25, 900 to aid the Bayfield, Har-
Dor & Great Western railway.
Herman Meyer, farmer, was killed
at Reedsburg. His team ran away,
throwing him out and breaking his
neck.
Fred Wells. aged IS. son of Fred
Wells, Of Pittsville, drove into a deep
mole caused by a washout and both be
and the horses were drowned.