River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-08-11

The state board of control has signed
| a contract with the Listman Milling
! company, of La Crosse, to supply flour
| for the state institutions for August.
Boys wading in the river near Neenah
found the body of William Meuller, a
farmer, 90 years old, who had lived
in the town of Clayton and was well
| to do He had been demented for some
| time.
| The La Crosse Plow Works company
has been offered 100000 to remove to
another city.
The fftieth anniversary of the ordi-
| brated at St. Jerome's church in Ocono-
mowoc.
| 1t is learned from farmers in diff
| ferent parts of Winnebago county that
chinch bugs are creating havoc among
| the wheat fields.
| Allowances to be expended by the
| government for musical attendance at
Indian schools in Wisconsin have been
made as follows: Lac du Flambeau,
$500; Tomah, $500; Wittenberg, $500.
! Thomas Holland was sentenced in
Racine 10 nine months in the state
prison on charge of having deserted
his wife.
John Rogers, charged with the shoot
ing of Duncan McDougal in Elroy, was
bound over to the circuit court on
charge of murder.
The school census just published
shows s,591 school children, 527 more
than a year ago 1t is estimated that
the population of the city is nearly
10000.
Many of the farmers throughout
Chippewa county have finished cutting
the barley crop. The grain runs from
/ 80 TO 40 bushels to the acre.
Among the men who returned to
Seattle with Klondike gold recently
was Samuel SpiegeI, of Madison, who
brought home three bags with about
! $4,000 worth of treasure.
| The largest whaleback ever built.
the steamer Alexander McDougall, left
| the slip at the barge works in West SUI
| perior and went to the Missabe ore
docks to load with 5000 tons of ore
for its maiden trip down the great
lakes
Knud Nelson, teamster, "a years of
age, was found dead on Wisconsin
street in Racine.
| The farm buildings of John b. Ander-
son and lot of hogs were destroyed
by fire near Viroqua.
| Capt. y. Robbins, superintendent of
the Eleventh life-saving district, com
/ ~ al ;rh
died of apoplexy at Bailey's Harbor,
while on the revenue cutter Fessen-
den.
Fire burned farm buildings, hay and
grain in stacks near West Salem, the
loss being $1,000.
Stephen II. Sage, a pioneer of Ra
cine, celebrated his eightieth birthday.
lie settled there in 1884
George S. Whitcher, of the town of
Lima. one of the oldest and best known
Grant county farmers. died at the age
of IS years.
The iewelry store of Theodore
Schele has been closed by the sheriff in
Milwaukee on an execution for S10,-
SOS.56.
JOstpt ItlHtuif a. NOou anu COdt
dealer in WATERFOWL, arrested on a
charge of forgery, pleaded guilty, and
was sentenced to the state prison for
a year.
The Sieg Bicycle company in Keno
sha passed into the hands of re-
ceiver
p. d. Armour & CO., of Chicago, have
leased from the Chicago, Milwaukee
g. St Paul railway four large elevators
in Milwaukee known as A, B, C., and E.
Fire almost destroyed the business
part of Bay City, eight miles from Els
worth.
f. D. Smith, of Menasha, has author
lied the purchase of IS travelling libra
ries of so volumes each, which will be
sent to the rural districts of Winnie
bago and Calumet counties.
Jacob Schatzmann committed suicide
in Appleton by taking carbolic acid.
He leaves a wife and four children and
was 80 years of age.
The large barn of Patrick Dobbins, /
near Auroraville. was struck by light
ming and burned with large quantity
of hay.
The tank department of the Fair
banks-Morse company's shops was
burned in Beloit, causing loss of $685. /
600.
Mrs. S. Malcomson, an early settler, |
fell dead in Palmyra, aged 81 years.
DR.. f. II. Bodenius, who had prac-
ticed medicine in Madison since 1879. |
died at a hospital in Baltimore, Nd, /
where he had gone for en- operation on 1
his throat for cancer.
William Halverson, of Chicago, a /
sailor on the schooner Lucia A. Simp +
son. fell from the crosstree TO the deck I
in Milwaukee, receiving injuries that
proved fatal.