River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-10-06

John T. Kingston, of Ashland, pri-
vate in company L, Second Wisconsin
volunteers, who is reported dead in
Puerto Rico, was an eX-state senator
and one of the best known lawyers in
the state.
The First Wisconsin regiment will
be mustered out in Racine October 10.
Jesse Gleason, of company Z, First
Wisconsin, died at Jacksonville, Fla,
of typhoid fever. His parents live in
Beloit.
Gen. John B Calls died at his home
in Lancaster after an illness of is
months.
Thomas Malbon pleaded guilty in
GAINESVILLE to arson and was sentenced
by Judge Sale to four years in prison
at Waupun.
Former Senator Sawyer, of Oshkosh,
passed his eighty-second birthday.
The home of Bronislana Rogalski
was struck by lightning in Stevens
Point and burned and Mrs. Rogalski
was killed and the husband and three
children were rendered unconscious.
The directors of the northern Wis
consin fair held a meeting in Chippe-
wa Falls and decided to pay all
premiums in full. The fair was a sue
cess and there will be balance after
paying all obligations.
William Pratt, aged As, a farmland,
and a team Of horses were Killed 1t a
railway crossing near Monroe.
The two and one-half-year-old son
of Christian Strauss, living in the town
Of Mount Pleasant, fell into a cistern
and was drowned.
Lewis Clark a resident of Beloit for
over so years, died at the age of so
years.
Frank Smazanske, private, company
c, Third infantry, whose home was at
Berlin, died at Fort Mcpherson, Ca,
of typhoid fever.
Frederick Welde. of Milwaukee, com
mitted suicide in St. Louis by taking
prussic acid.
Judge James B. Taylor, of the Co
lumbia county court, died at his home
in Portage, aged IS years.
The Seventh Day Adventists have
begun the erection of a school build
ing near Green Bay.
In wreck on the Central road near
White River Harrison Fifeld was in
stantly killed and Walter Sharple ia
tally injured.
o. f. Anrud, formerly of Eau Claire
was drowned with II others in the
wreck of the steamer Jessie on Kisko-
win bay en- route to the Klondike.
What is known as the Valley Cheese
factory, about two miles west of Ply
mouth, owned by \. c. Refs, was
burned together with contents.
Joseph Bohn, pioneer Of Racine,
died at the age of 76 years. He had
been a resident of the city continuous
" for "a years.
Tls Catholic church at Lena was to-
tally destroyed by fire.
Francis Furk, a Milwaukee sports
man, was accidentally shot while he
and Adam Mudler were duck hunting
near Pewaukee.
Asa f. Pettingill, clerk of the mu-
nicipal court since April 90 1875. and
one of the best known free masons in
the state, died at his home in Madison,
aged So years.
The Windsor house, the oldest hotel
in Eau Claire, was burned. Several
women jumped from the fourth story
and Mrs. Churchill was so injured that
she was not expected TO live.
Six freight cars were hurled down a
20-foot embankment at Trempealeau
and wrecked and two tramps riding on
one of the cars were killed.
The Baker-Ogden Furniture and
Hardware company IN Oshkosh, of
which A. W. Priest is president, made
a voluntary assignment.
Conrad Fleckenstein, a teamster in
Madison, dropped dead in his wagon of
heart disease. He was 80 years old and
leaves a widow, but no children.
Henry Van Seggern. the 15-year-old
son of H. d. Van Seggern, chairman
Of the town Of New Denmark, was
killed by team ofrunaway horses.
E. J. Osberg, a well-known druggist
in West Superior, was found dead on
the floor of his store. Death was due
to heart failure.
Charles H. Lingard, painter, was ia
tally injured by falling from swing
ing scaffold attached to the federal
building in Madison.
Rev. ]. w. Cabeen, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Sheboygan, has
resigned to take up new work along
special evangelistic lines.
Charles Wetherby, aged 60, living
near River Falls, committed suicide by
hanging himself in his barn. Poor
health was the cause.