River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-09-09

Myron II. Kilbourn, only son of Byron
Kilbourn, one of the founders of Mil
waukee, died al his home at North Lake,
aged Sc years. He was a second lieu
tenant in the Third Wisconsin regiment
curing the war.
May Gilett. 1G years old, and Carl
jay. aged IS, were secretly married ia
Warren by Justice. The affair became
known and the girl took poison. Doc
tors were summoned and there was
some hope of her recovery.
Another discovery of gold has been
made in Ashland county, on John
Holmes farm near Melien.
Twenty-one Menominee Indian chill
dren left Shawano for Carlisle, Pa, for
a three-year course of training at the
government school of that place.
\ school for deaf mutes has been
opened in Green Ray by Miss Maggie
Sullivan, of Bear Creek.
Mrs Kate Welch dropped dead of
heart disease at funeral in Eau Claire.
Thomas Driver & Sons planning mill
at Racine was destroyed by fire. Loss.
$4,000.
III D. D. III Wv u hAIh AAA t1tlNhtN al IA
paralysis. He was war veteran and a
physician of note
The commission appointed 10 ex-
anime the mental condition of ex-Mayor
Icchead. of Glenwood, reported him in
sane.
Ex-Gov. W. b. Hoard was chosen
president of the farmers national con-
gress at the session in st. Paul MINI.
At meeting of business menin Hud-
son it was decided to hold a street fair
on the Faribault plan. The fair will
be held the last week in this month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Calet d. Webster cele-
bra ted the sixty-fourth anniversary of
their wedding at Elkhorn. They are
pioneers of Walworth county.
The school census of Baraboo for 1897
gives sos school children between the
ages of five and q. an increase of six
over last year.
Mrs. Jacob Nicholson, aged 63, of the
town of Clayton, was killed by Wis
consin Central train.
The body of Mrs. Michael Nicholson.
aged GO years, of Neenah, was found in
Lake Buttes des Mortes. 1t is thought
she committed suicide.
C. L. Burpee, aged %, business man
Of Beloit for about 30 years, is dead
lie was paralyzed in his limbs for q
years.
The barns, granary, sheds, farm ma
chiuery, oats. hay and other grain To-
Gated on the Frey farm ia th- town Of
Mi. Pleasant, owned by Charles \.
Brown, were burned.
Miss Caroline Wolf, age, %, who tE-o
weeks ago was kicked by horse, die
i'm Fond du Lac from The effects of her
injuries.
Ben Hill, who is to be hanged in Cali
fornia for the murder of his wife, was
formerly a resident of Black River
Fails.
The shoe factory Of the Putnam Shoe
company, the largest manufacturing
plant in Berlin. was burned. the loss
being $4,000
Fred Huebner and George Drye were
found guilty at Monroe Of selling IN
merchantable milk and were fined s2j
each and costs.
The valuation of property in Green
Bay, according to the new assessment.
is S4.50s. 200 The valuation last year
was S4.19O,6l3.
Judge ID. L. Downs. who has held he
office OF probate Judge L years, was
stricken with paralysis at Richland Cen
ter.
Nineteen Oneida Indian boys and girls
LEFT Depere for Carlisle, Pa, where they
will attend the government training
school.
Elinora Rohda, 11H years of age, died
in Milwaukee al he Presbyterian aos-
pital as the result of "A peanut shell
which lodged in her windpipe-
c. T. Willard, Young married man.
was killed at the Fairbanks-Morse shops
in Beloit by being caught in a revolving
shaft
The Marshfield Chair and Manufac-
turing company assigned to }. c. Marsh.
The assets are $4,000. Liabilities. 3d.
OoO.
The seyen-year-old son of Mic Mueller
was shot and killed in Hartford by
PLAYMATE named SPubler, VINO pointed
rifle at Mueller's head. not knowing
ii was loaded.
Frank Gould, son Of \. y. Gould.
Peshtigo, accidentally shot himself
while bear hunting
Mrs Cusick and Daniel O'Rourke were
killed By the cars near Wilton and w. J.
Bennett and Bryan Want met like fate
a Reedsburg.
Fire destroyed the factory of the
Thomas Driver & Sons Manufacturing
company in Racine, the loss being SEQ
600.
Z. S. BedeIl, aged Ga. q var veteran
who lived at Manitowoc. d ed in Buffalo.
y. Y, while attending the G.. = r. en-
campment.
Joseph Leclsire, of Bay Settlement.
Was arrested for The murder u sis wife,
who was burned to death in her dwell
ling.
Miss Kitty Dabler, young woman IN
Monticello. took dose Of carboii" acia
and led shortly after. She had beea
disappointed ia love sffsir'