River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-11-25
The News Condensed.

The last assets of the Keystone ma
tional bank in Nest Superior were sold
TO H. G. OgilSie for $3.50, and the re-
ceiver will be discharged on approval
of final report.
The saving season has closed al Cum
berland aud the men have gone into
the woods for the winter. Wages are
better than last year.
There are at present over so logging
camps in Bayfie county and the win
ter's cut is placed at 100000, 900 feet.
The La Crosse county board of super
visors has raised the bounty on wolf
scalps to five and four dollars.
The Vernon county board reelected
Elijah Tilton superintendent of the
poor and w. Il. Knower county surveyor
10 fill vacancy.
James Hardhead. the Indian who is
charged with killing James Waubegon
in Forest county. has been captured and
put in Jail at Crandon after a four
weeks search.
DIR. A. j. Patchen died in Manitowoc
after a brief illness, aged 6S years. He
was war veteran.
Miss Naomi Melville, assistant prin-
cipal in the public schools at Bangor.
while out riding in a carriage was struck
by a locomotive and killed.
The MariGette county board decided
10 build a $1,000 addition to the county
jail. II viii serve rs q place OF con-
iinemeut for juvenile prisoners.
Five horses belonging to -. c. Burns
were ran over between Trempealeau
and Houghtou's Crossing by a North
western freight train and three of them
were killed outright
y L. Butler aud Charles Benton
pleaded guilty 10 burglary of Shaver
e Sous store at Spring Prairie and
each was sentenced TO state prison for
three years.
Arthur SCHNEIDER, aged 1G, son of eN-
Postmaster Andrew SCHNEIDER, while
skating on the lake at Wakefield broke
through the ice and was drowned.
The Grant county board of super
visors adopted resolutions approving
the organization of a county historical
society under the plan suggested by
the State Historical society.
James Hardhead. an Indian, was ar
rested in Laugdale county for the muir
der OF James Waubegon.
G. l.. Hawley, alias 4. c. Curtis, was
given a year IN Jail at GAINESVILLE for
forgery.
Hog cholera is raging to an alarm
ing extent in jefferson county. One
farmer has lost 50 hogs. A fatal cattle
disease has also appeared.
Frederick T. Day. erstwhile presi-
dent Of he defunct Plankinton bank in
Milwaukee. was made a free man so
tar as the charges Of = criminal nature
pending against him GO.
After living together so years Mrs.
Ludw,g 1Tofemeister died in Milwaukee,
aged Sc, ard soon her husband died
from grief. They were buried together.
The Saint Croix county board has
decided to sell the county poor farm
and erect poorhouse on the asylum
farm near New Richmond, at cost of
$4,000
G. H. Hawley, alias A. c. Curtis, was
sentenced at GAINESVILLE to one year in
Waupun for forgery.
Charles Richmond. of Green Bay went
to sleep in a paper mill and some one
daubed his face with red and blue ami
line II will not wash off.
Rev. Hugo Stubenvoll. pastor Of the
St. Paul German Lutheran church in
Racine, was probably fatally stabbed
BY an unknown assassin.
Karl Roeser. a well-kuowu German
so,,~raIfes d;ad -
ton, ayed 81. Mr.. Roeser was one of the
founders of the republican party in
Wisconsin.
While Mrs. Carrie Knudson. IS years
old. was putting wood in the stove at
Wevauwega her dress caught fire and
she was fatally burned.
AT his home in Palmyra Ephraim
Harlow. who had lived there IS years,
celebrated his ninety-first birthday.
The warehouse Of the Lake Superior
& Lake Michigan transportation com
pany and two stores were destroyed by
ire in Milwaukee. the loss being $4,000.
A l2-year-old son Of John Holverson.
residing between Belgium and Cedar
Grove. killed q wildcat With a pitch
fork.
The Wisconsin State Grange will
hold their annual meeting in Marsh
field December IA.
Nels Osen while attempting at Ellis
worth to couple his thresning engine
TO the separator was caught between
the two and crushed 10 death.
The jury at La Crosse il the case of
ex-Banker John Kupp. formerly OF Ban
gor. whose bank closed In 1925, disa-
greed Nine were for conviction and
three for scquittaL