River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-09-22
The News Condensed.


fathers law firm, intends to go to
Puerto Rico about the middle of next
month, TO hang out his shingle and
practice law.
The state board of equalization re-
duced the assessed valuation of Mil
waukee from $160,O52,3 1855 to $13O,sS5,-
1856.
Blanche Roosevelt Tucker, the noted
singer, composer and author who died
in London, was born in La Crosse and
spent her girlhood there. She was the
daughter of the noted Col. Tucker who
was in command of Camp Douglas at
Chicago during the civil war.
After holding out for three weeks,
90 girls who struck at the Diamond
Match factory in Oshkosh returned TO
work.
Lemuel Ellsworth, one of the best
known republican politicians in the
state, died in Milwaukee, aged GO years.
The body of Charles Durdick, of
Watertown, was found hanging in the
barn of Fred Gehrke near that city lie
was employed as a farmland by Mr..
Gehrl1e, was 80 years old and leaves a
wife and several children.
Lieut. Ernst Eckhardt, assistant en-
gineer on the Massachusetts,, arrived
in Sheboygan from Brooklyn hos
pital, where he had been i'll with fever.
He was In the battle of Santiago and
saw Cervera's fleet destroyed.
The first annual fair of the Hillboro
Agricultural and Driving Park asso-
citation will be held on the new grounds
in Hillboro October 3. A, and 5.
Nearly the entire crop of buclwheat
growing in Marinette county was
ruined by the intense heat in the early
part of tie month,
The Kcwaunee county fair was one
of the most successful ever held.
Benjamin Kurtz Miller, member of
one of the most prominent law firms
in the northwest, died in Milwaukee,
aged 68 years.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Schnell, of Helm
thai (Home Valley, Manitowoc coun-
ty, is los years old.
john S. Hawks, of the State Journal
printing department, died in Madison,
aged 90 years. He was one of the
veteran printers of Wisconsin.
Mrs F. y. Brazeau, one of the oldest
residents of Oconto, dropped dead in
St. Peters Catholic church from heart
disease.
Frank Schippman, of Beloit, mem
Der of company L, First regiment, Wis
consin volunteers, died at Jacksonville,
Fla.
Thieves broke into the dning-room
of the Taylor house in Chippewa Falls
and carried off all the silverware, val
ued 1T $500.
John Isaacson, a well-known char
acter, fell through an elevator shaft
in Richter's warehouse in Ellsworth
and was killed
The Fourth Wisconsin volunteer in
fantry, which has been at Camp Doug
las all summer, has been moved to
Admission, Ala.
An order has been issued raising the
following post offices in Wisconsin
from the fourth to the third class:
Alma, Arcadia, Plainfeld and South
Superior.
The f. II. Hough Dry Goods company
at Oshkosh assigned with assets of
$4,000 and liabilities Of $4,000.
A telegram from Capt Rogers at
Jacksonville announced the death of
Frank Chapman. Of company +, First
Wisconsin volunteers. His remains
would be brought to Beloit for burial.
Hiss Jennie Scott, of Monroe, a grad
uate of the New York Hospital for
Trained Nurses, has been appointed
government nurse at Atlanta. Ga.
John Wiley lost his legs by falling
between two moving cars on the Bige-
low Logging railway near Wasbburn-
The Wisconsin Central station a Col
fax was destroyed by fire, with the
company's warehouse and loaded box
car.
Forest Clinton, a young man, was
killed by falling from load of wood in
Stanley.
The property of the Wisconsin Cen
trail lines in Milwaukee, estimated to
be worth S1,25o,0O0, will shortly be
placed upon the market.
William Hummel, a farmer living
two miles north of Greenwood, died as
the result of an accident. He was "a
years old and leaves two children.
NJ. Altar, aged 90, one of Seymour's
oldest residents, is dead. He was a
veteran of the civil war and endured
many hardships during long confne-
ment in southern prison.