River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-07-28
The News Condensed.


ton, was sent to the workhouse in
Oshkosh.
Private George A. kayler, company
c, First Wisconsin, died at the hos
pital in Jacksonville, Fla, of typhoid
fever. He lived in GAINESVILLE and the
body was sent there.
The contract for the state printing
for the year 1899 has been awarded TO
the Madison Democrat Printing com
pany.
The rye crop, of which an unusually
large acreage was planted in SauE
county, is almost a total failure be
cause of blight. Many fields will not
be harvested.
The Wisconsin board of medical eX-
aminers met in Madison and 36 certili-
Gates of license were issued. DR. Sam
uel Bell, of Beloit, was elected presi-
dent.
Jared Mathews, of Merrill, was muir
dered and robbed by highwaymen at
Wilmington, Del.
While gathering water lilies in Bass
lake Anna Burns, aged Is, daughter of
j. w, Burns, of Rhiuelander, fell into
the water and was drowned.
Alderman John Berg died in Eau
Claire, aged 46 years. lie leaves wife
and ten children.
The thirteenth annual reunion OF
the Waupaca County Veterans asso-
citation was held in New London.
The Serge Wagon company. manu-
facturers of carriages and wagons at
Mantle woc, made a voluntary assign
ment.
/ William Mancer, aged %. a brakeman,
was crushed TO death at Oconto while
/ coupling cars. 1t was his third week
/ as a railroad man, he having come off
a farm near Clintonyiile, where he
/ leaves young wife.
Fire destroyed three residences, the
/ McCuIloth cranberry warehouse and
seven barns in Stevens Point Total
4 loss, $1,000.
/ Irving circuit, Is years old. living
/ four miles north of Milton. was killed
/ by the running away of his team.
Prince, the largest elephant of the
/ Wallace shows, died of lockjaw at Wa
/ basha. Mimi This is the same animal
that recently killed his keeper at Ra-
cine.
The City brewery at Hudson. owned
/ by j. a. Casanova, was destroyed by
/ ire. Loss, $4,000.
/ Five prisoners escaped from the
county Jail at Black River Falls by dig
ging a hole through the brick wall.
While boating in Lake Superior near
4 Oatka beach Dean Palmer aud Ned
Brown, of West Superior, were
] drowned.
Isaac Bradley's two-year-old daugh-
ter got lost in grain field on her
! fathers farm near Sun Prairie and her
head was cut off by reaper.
Carl Luedllc. charged with the muir.
der of Edward Webster, was bound
over to he circuit court in NeiIIsyille
for trial.
William Fardy, of company {, First
Wisconsin volunteers, died al Jackson
Vile. Fla. He was a son of Lawrence
Fardy, of Eagle.
The school census in La Crosse
shows gain of o. names over last
yea1. The total is 1o237.
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