River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-08-05


y. o. White. aged 20, resident OF
Omro for IS years, dropped dead after
calling on heighbor
Gov. Scofield has appointed Albert
Webb forest warden for the f,wn OF
Wautoma.
Burglars entered the tardv re store
of Stroebel & Baumgarten at Neenah
and stole cutlery and reyolyers valued
at several hundred dollars.
Rev. Warren Barnes died in Wautoma.
aged rs years. He had resided in Nau-
shara county 80 years.
The Tenth Wisconsin infantry held
reunion at New Lisbon and unveiled
a soldiers monument in the city park.
Hiram Palmer, one of the Oldest set
I Tiers of Clark county, died suddenly a.
his home near Neillsyille.
Fire Damaged the Kemnitz furniture
factory in Gree Bay TO the extent OF
$4,000.
The Wisconsin State Dental society
held its twenty-seventh annual confeh-
ton at Madison.
The bones of an immense mammoth
we're found near Richland Center.
A storm at Glenwood washed out half
a mile of track on the Wisconsin Central
and wagon bridges in all directions
were wrecked.
The barn on William Og'e's farm near
Thorpe was struck by lightning and
consumed with its contents.
Walter BrumIn, aged three, stepped
on a piece of glass in Marinette while
barefooted, blood poisoning set in and
he died.
Albert Sander, a young man of is,
died in Madison from the effects of
fall from a wagon.
The cabinet shop warerooms and
dwelling of NJ. Kaudy were burned with
their contents at Colby, the loss being
s., 500
The house of Henry Wetzel, treas
urer of the town Of Ludington, was
robbed of $3.50 in gold.
The little schooner Myrtle Camp left
Sheboygan for Homo Ia with crew Of
six men. She VIII gone five years.
trading along the South Pacific islands.
c. II. Dunklow, a molder at Kenosha.
will lose one eye and possibly both by
the scattering of molten iron in his
face.
j. II. Thomas, of Oshkosh. became
the owner of the cup presented to the
Fox River Hunting and Fishing club
by winning it third time. The cup
was first shot for in 1595.
Harry Vincent was struck on the
head with pitcher, it is alleged, by his
bTother-in-law. David NicOl. in Ke-
nosha. Vincent's skull was fractured.
City Marshal Walker fatally shot a
burglar in the act Of entering a store
in Eau Claire. The wounded man gave
his name as James Crone, of Scranton,
Pa.
Rev Charles Irish, aged 90 years, died
at the home of his daughter at Chetek.
He had been a member of the West
Wisconsin NJ. L. conference for Is
years.
Hubert Hurd, vice president of the
Cole savings bank, died in Fond du Lac.
Work on the big sarcophagus, which
will hold the remains of Mrs. L. 5. Grant
al some future time, has been begun in
the yards Of the Berlin & Montello Gran
lite company at Montello.
At the last regular meeting Of the
city council an ordinanc- was A. 7sed
changing the name of = 4napee to =
gonna.
Mrs. Augusta Lam Y has been ac-
quilted at Oconto Of T. charge Of muir
dering her husband.
Thomas Murray, Of c icago, fireman
on the Chicago d Northy stern r. "a,
fell against a switch at Racine and re-
ceiyed probably fatal injuries.
Tramps set fire to three barns on the
Fairfield farm, three miles east of James,
vile. and they with their contents were
burned.
Beloit merchants have organized a
Market Day association and will have
monthly sales days for -armers. A
movement was also started 10 organize
a fair association.
An Arabian woman, name unknown,
carrying a peddler's pack and basket,
was struck by a train in the Milwaukee
Railroad company's yards at La Crosse,
and instantly killed.
Father John, for 20 years a mission
airy among the Chippewas, is dead
Sheriff I. L. Acheson will sell the
property of the Rock County Agricul-
tural society at auction in GAINESVILLE
September 4. There viii be no fair next
fall.
William III. Weightman, aged u. an
officer in the Mexican war, died IN Be
lott
Julius Zuelke. the man who attempt
ed to murder an entire family near
Waukesha April 4, has been located IN
northwestern Montana.
The Bell City street railway was pur-
chased at receivers sale in Racine by
Frank j. Miller, who represented the
bondholders, for $4,000.