River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-02-11
The News Condensed.

II. 0iIO III OtdA VII
Bay, aged As years. He leaves wife and
five children. DIR. Mullen served several
times as mayor of Sturgeon Bay.
Ben w. Allen, single is:an, 81 years
old, employed by the Downing Manu-
featuring company, was killed by big
log falling across his body.
John Newhouse, William Dewey, Gil
bert Marcue and Walter Schilling were
arrested at Thorpe on the charge of
spiking logs in the woods.
Charles Finske left his home in Edger-
ton to purchase medicine for his sick
wife, but became intoxicated and laid
down on the road and was frozen TO
death.
On execution of judgments amounting
TO $4,000 the sheriff seized the prop
erty at Racine of b. ID. Eisendrath IL
Co., tanners.
Ex-Judge Louis Finn and S. l.. Mark,
a well-known junk man, were sentenced
in Ashland to fines, respectively, of 5000
and $500, including costs, for receiving
and concealing stolen property.
The Superior Cut Stone company as
SiknCb W W. IL l-tabtliNtNSs %-fs
600; assets, $4,000.
Mayor Desnoyers has received from
the Hagemeistcr Brewing company
a donation check for 81 900, the amount
tc be distributed among the poor of
Green Bay.
Il. b. Thompson, the veteran lumber
dealer at Flroy, has sold his yard. He
1. 4oI h0 AVlx. StnPQ tho
infancy of the city.
The Phoenix Touring mill. located
three miles north of Waul<esha and
owned BY ex-Sheriff Charles G. Deiss-
ner, was burned, the loss being $780,
BOO.
Matt Byrne, one OF five brothers, we'll
known acrobats of theatrical company
playing Eight Bells" dropped dead in
Appleton. His body was taken to Nor
witch. Conn, for burial.
Rev. j. ii. Winder, for five years pas
tor of the First Presbyterian church in
Galesville, has accepted a call from Day
ton, o.
Three large black bears have been
killed in the woods near Peshtigo.
DR.. L. NJ. Kards, of Burlington, died
at the home of ii. S. Bunker in Chi
cago. Death resulted from an opera
ton for appendicitis.
Fire destroyed the Corey feed mill in
Osceola.
Carl C. Carlson, laborer in Madison.
who supported his family by fishing
through the ice, was lost in Lake Mo
mona.
Lang G. Shaarman will build foundry
and machine shop at Marshtield TO en-
large their business to manufacturing
farming implements.
4. A. Bigelow & Co. of Washburn,
have closed all their lumber operations
for the winter, throwing over 200 men
out of employment.
Fire destroyed the saloon and hotel
of John SchOmert and the grocery of
Mr.. Gaines at Freedom. Loss, $4,000:
insurance half.
Mrs. Wolf. of Wrightstown, while in
a fit of d-Iirium brought on by typhoid
fever, jumped from the bridge into Fox
river and was drowned.
The . o-year-old daughter of Joseph
Grueiner, of La Crosse, while playing
with matches set fire to her dress and
was burned so badly that she died.
I'be depot of the Ahnapee & Western
at Sturgeon Bay was burned and a large
amount of freight and express matter
was lost.
The firm of McAuley & Babbitt, hard
ware dealers at Depere. made an as
signment with assets of $1,000 and iia-
bilities of $500.
Engineer William Wood, of Altoona,
has fallen heir to 100000 left him by an
uncle in Australia.
Joseph Odds, Little Prairie farmer
and pioneer settler, died OF paraly sis.
aged 65 years.
In Milwaukee a fire DESTROYED the
Kuenstlerheim, a famous resort for Ger
man artists and journalists. and a num-
Der of adjoining buildings. the loss be-
ing $4,000.
The old soldiers of Superior have pur-
chased GO acres of land near Hawthorn
for a cemetery. and will build monu-
ment and remove the bodies of all old
soldiers from the Nemadiji cemetery.
Frank Hoyt and Thomas Bailey were
sentenced by Judge Seaman in MiIwau-
kee to two years each in the peniten-
tiary for the robbery of the post Office
in Kingston.
c. w. Dotou, of Neenah, died at Fres-
no, Cal. He was former passenger
conductor on the Northwestern road.
w. Z. Reed, prominent business
man and ex-alderman of Kenosha, died
very suddenly of heart disease, aged 65
years. He was mason of high stYpd-
ing.
Capt. Samuel It. Lawson. aged so,
well-known vessel owner in Milwaukee,
was killed by trolley car.