River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-02-25

\ railroad five miles long from Union
Center. il Juneau county, to Hillsboro,
Vernon county, is to be built.
The 4. Fucrmann brewery made an
assignment in Wa.crtown to w. III.
Woodward with liabilities of $4,000.
Paul Wagner, aged As, and his wife
Fredericka, aged Ga, were suffocated by
coal gas at their residence in Mil
waukee.
At West Superior the State trust and
savings bank closed its doors with liza
biities of $4,000.
Hotel Malavey, at Itasoa, was burned,
the loss being $4,000; insurance, $1,000.
Jacob Hirsch, a clothing dealer in
Milwaukee, made an assignment to
Philip Hirsch. who gave a bond for
$4,000.
The license of the National Mutual
Life Insurance association of Mime
npolis, in this state, was revoked Mon
cav by Insurance Commissioner Fricke.
Charles Lembrich was caught in the
freight elevator shaft at the Blatz brew
cry in Milwaukee and his head was
crushed.
There was born TO Mr. and Mrs Walker
at Cataract a girl having two we'll
'ormed front teeth in her lower jaw.
Edgar C. Jennings. for more than 80
years cashier of the Northwestern Mu-
tual Life Insurance company. died sud-
denly in Milwaukee of paralysis, aged
rs years.
w. Peplinski. postmaster at Pulaski,
was arrested, charged with abstracting
money from a registered letter adj
dressed to Armor g. Co.. Chicago.
The Reedsburg wooden mills, the
largest in that part of the state, have
opened on full time.
The flax and feed mill at Union Grove,
owned by Henry Box, of Evanston. ILL.,,
was burned, the loss being $4,000; no
insurance.
The sheriff attached the E. \. Ellinger
& Co. cloak factory in Racine on claims
Of over $4,000.
II. B. Hinckley, well known in foot
ball circles and captain of the Beloit
team of 1896. was attacked by savage
dog in Beloit and badly bitten.
Gen. Edward S. Bragg celebrated his
10th birthday at his home in Fond du
Lac.
Mike Neganup, half-breed, in a
drunken fit of jealousy stabbed his
brother John through the heart with
a hunting knife at Spooner.
Christian Malschner, aged 60, an in
mate of the poorfarm at Sheboygan,
snf1 10 &c 81
West Superior.
The bequest of $4,000 left by Father
Ritter, who died at st. Joseph's, has
been received by St. ,Ioseph's orphan
asylum. his estate. amounting to $751;
900, having just been settled.
John Ebell, farmer in the town of
Marion, was accidentally shot and
killed.
Glenn Lindke, saloon keeper at Man
ston, was found guilty of having rifle
in his possession belonging to the state
ard was fined S45 and costs.
Mrs. John Tonnes. aged "a years. was
buried at Burlington. She was native
of England.
Robert Wootton. one of the most
prominent business men Of Madison,
died after short illness. He was 65
years old and had lived in Madison for
81 years.
The parishioners of ST. Johns Catho-
lie church in Marshfield will erect a
$4,000, eight-room, brick school here
in the spring.
Surveyors are now at work on route
for an electric railroad from Oshkosh,
Winnebago county, through Waushara
county to Stevens Point.
BY order of Receiver Stevens the
Western Paper Bag company at kau-
kauna has resumed operations.
f. II. Brill. aged SO. one of Racine's
apoplexy at his store.
Mrs. Marie Graf, over 90 years of age,
died Of the grippe at Ripon. She had
been resident of that city for a quar-
ter of century. and previously lived 20
years at WATERFOWL.
Warden Reynolds died in Green Bay.
aged 81 years. For 25 years he was
chairman of the committee of corre-
spoDdence of the grand lodges of the
old fellows of Wisconsin.
Thomas Il. Bently. contractor in
Milwaukee, made an assign ment to
Henry Ferge, who gave bonds of $50.
900.
The Wisconsin Odd Fellows Mutual
Life Insurance company, which was or
ganizeG in Milwaukee in 1859, made an
assignment. During the last year over
Z Onn r,aapsherS drained ont
Peter Meyer. of Pennington. was
struck on the head by the limb OF
falling tree and killed.
Mrs. William Mash, of Eau Claire,
tried to start fire with kerosene. Her
face. arms and chest Were terribly
burned, but she might live.