River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-04-29
The News Condensed.

Francis Hinton addition to the Milwau-
zee Protestant home for the aged,
which is TO be erected by Mr.. and Mrs.
John w. Hinton as a memorial to their
son, out of gift of $4,000 TO the home
from Mr.. Hinton.
Fire swept the mill town of Toma-
hawk Lake. About ten buildings
burned. including the braves hotel and
Lake Shore Lumber company's store.
The depot and Chapman's hotel are the
only buildings left.
Jacob Katz, for so years dry goods
merchant of Milwaukee, recently il the
real estate business, was found dead in
/ his Office 1t is believed he suicided.
Sister Margaret Clare, preceptress
of Kemper hall. has purchased two acres
on the lake shore adjoining the semi
nary in Kenosha. where a summer home
I for Chicago working girls will be
built
4 Fire burnt out the interior of the
! store of Andrew & Somerville in Mar
1 inette and caused a damage of $4,000
/ 10 stock and 500 on building.
/ The board of control has inspected
1 the new county insane asylum at New
( Richmond, which they pronounce the
best county institution of the kind in
the state
Rev. W. w. Pattengill has rendered
his resignation as the pastor of the BaP-
fist church in Beaver Dam.
The new Fond du Lac council met
and elected officers, all democrats. Ed
Delaney, for &c consecutive years city
clerk. was deposed.
Society people in Racine were sur
prised by the announcement that Stacy
J.. Gage and Fred L. Wright, artist,
were united in marriage at Elkhorn,
eli October 8, 1896.
The location of the beet sugar fac
tory at Mcmillan by the Northwestern
Beet Sugar company, in consideration
Of a bonus of $4,000 acres of Jackson
county land, is an assured fact.
Frank Nook. an old man, dropped
dead while attending services in the
Polish Catholic church at Manitowoc.
Mrs. Theodore Bertrand, of Marinette.
woke up in the morning and found her
baby dead in her arms. She rolled over
while asleep and smothered the chi!d.
Thomas Irving, aged 6s, proprietor of
Irving Wood hotel, Delavan lake, and q
prominent citizen of Delavan, was found
dead in his bed.
In a glove contest in Stoughton be-
tween Hines, of Madison, and Heayey 1
of GAINESVILLE, The match was given &c /
Hines on a foul in the second round.
The William Spalding farmhouse in /
the town Of Harmony, one Of the land |
tlarks of Rock county, was burned, the |
loss being $4,000.
Six lads have been arrested on I
charge of stealing wheat from box cars /
in the Green Bay & Western yards a;
Green Bay.
Rev. Father Hoecken died in Milwau- 1
kee in his eighty-third year. He had (
been Jesuit for nearly 60 years and |
mas one OF the pioneer Indian mission /
aries of the far west.
ID. j. Dey, the Northwestern mail /
agent, was bound over at Ashland for /
trial in the federal court in bonds of /
$4,000.
The governor has signed the civil /
service police and fire commission bill 4
for cities of from 10000 to 10000. 1t /
goes into effect at once and mayors /
now in Office make the appointments.
The vinegar factory a Marshfield was
burned. the loss being 100000
CARROT Dunck, a weil-known politi-
cian, died suddenly at his home in Mil
waukee Of peritonitis.
w. l.. shannon, aged CO, a farmer iiv-
ing in the town of Cottage Grove, was
instantly killed by being thrown from
his wagon. He was war veteran.
Frank Mahen was sentenced in James
willie TO Is months in The state prison
at Waupun for voting illegally at the
recent municipal election.
John Neville, for years steward at
the Northern hospital for the insane
in Oshkosh. was struck by n freight
train while going to his home in Win
nebago and instantly killed.
President Mckinley has selected Jul
las Goldsmith. of Milwaukee. for con-
sui general TO Berlin.
Lyman Thompson, of Spring Vale,
was arrested at Rio on the charge of
an unnatural crime. He
waived examination and went TO Jail
to await trial at the May term of court.
James o. Raymond, one of the best
known attorneys and counselors in the
state. died at Steyeps Point, aged 81
years. He was a mem Der of the state
board of normal regents.
f. T.. I.enna, of Stevens Point, tray
cling lrmberman. was sandbagged and
robbed in Anderson. Ind. of $500.
Charles Goode. who few weeks ago
celebrated his one hundred I'D third
birthday, a veteran of the Blackhawk
war and an early pioneer, died at Bel
mont.
John Becker. of the town of Oak
Grove, died suddenly in his yard. He
was c. years of age and had held many
offices in Dodge county. being at one
time sheriff.
Andrew Benson, postmaster at Bar
rornett, committed suicide by taking
paris green and cutting his throat.
Six hundred employees of the Two
Rivers Manufacturing company struck
for higher wages.