River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-08-26

The News condensed
The woodsmcn selected to appraise
timber on the State park report that
there are g, 93c GOO feet of pine in the
park and Is. got. 900 feet of hardwood.
\ set of handmade silver buttons, 800
years old, heirlooms IN the c. ii. Powers
family, were found in his yard at Pal
mvra, where they were lost half cen
/ fury ago.
The furnaces of the Northwestern
Iron company at Mayvile have been
fred for the first time in many months
and 100 men put to work
William X. O'Hearn, cashier of the
Jackson county bank at Black River
Falls, which was placed in the hands
OF a receiver September 4, 1896, has
been arrested on the charge of receiv-
ing deposits when he knew the bank
was insOlvent.
Catholics propose TO purchase the
Fountain house and grounds at Wauke-
sha. with a view of remodeling the large
hotel and turning il into an institution
of learning, to be managed by the Cath
Ole church.
BLACK River Falls will have a deaf and
dumb school, the state having granted
a franchise.
The big wagon works of the Mitchell
Lewis company in Racine are now work
ing - hours.
Thirty-seyen women from all parts of
the state tool; the veil at St. Agnes con-
vent in Fond du Lac.
DEE. Trippe, of Palmyra, has start
ed frog farm at Green lake.
Christian Froehlich accidentally fell
into the river at Manitowoc and was
drowned. He was II years old. In his
trunk there was S465.
The school census gives the number
of children in Fond du Lac at 5000,
gain of 241 over 1896.
Robert johnson, aged "a, brakeman
on the St Paul road, was probably ia
tally injured by n fall from his train
near Cross Plains.
The four-year-old son of Frank Barta
was drowned at La Crosse in half
filled water barrel.
John Radsdorf. aged 60, prisoner in
the c, unity Jail in Milwaukee, commit
ted 81 eide in his cell by taking earbolic
acid.
Ernst Prasee, a butcher of Manistee,
Mich, attempted to commit suicide at
Forest Home cemetery in Milwaukee
beside his brothers grave. Two bull
let's penetrated the skull, but his in
iuries were not necessarily fatal.
Grandma" Butler, PROBABLY the old
est person in Clark county, died at
Unity. aged 9s years.
Gustav Baltes was killed and Alex
ander Glaub was severely injured in a
railroad accident at Elm Grove.
Frank Pease, an Old pioneer Of She
Lake, while at the bottom of a 800 a1ot
well was struck by falling plank and
fatally injured
Moses Grow, an Indian, exhibited
large nugget of copper in Menominee
which he found near Florence, a mile
and a half from the banks of the river.
JAY Jennings. aged u. son of DIR. Jay
Jennings. fell from boom into the
river at Necedah while fishing and was
drowned.
Rev. o. p. Christian, of the Sherman
Street NJ. f. church in Milwaukee, re-
fused to marry a couple that came on
tandem to him in full bicycle costume.
The ninth annual reunion of the Wal
worth County Soldiers and Sailors as
ISOLATION took place at Elihorn.
George Sessions, son of pioneer set
tier in Oshkosh, and once prominent So
cially and in yachting circles, was COM
mitted to the Northern hospital for the
insane.
Rev. Hugh Roberts, the oldest min
lister in Wisconsin, died at his home in
Caledonia, aged nearly 100 years.
John i. Church, prosperous farmer
and justice of the peace at Lancaster,
was given license TO marry Mrs. Mary
Kane. SIS years of age. They will make
their home at Lancaster.
The barn of y. Schantz was destroyed
by fire at Hartford with large amount
of hay.
Arthur Whalen, aged %, brakeman
on the Kenosha division Of the North
western railroad, was killed rear Twin
Lakes. His home was in Milwaukee.
The barns, granary and other farm
buildings of Nicholas Verler, half a
mile south of Burlington, were de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being $4,000.
Bishop Messmer, of the diocese Of
Green Bay. issued a pastoral letter en-
joining Catholic societies from con-
Quoting Sunday picnics and excursions
and holding Sunday dances.