River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-01-20

y new Jdll is 10 Je bu'It a. JohcSNilc
to cost $4,000.
The Norwood Fire Insurance com
pany of New York has been reliccnsed
10 do business in Wisconsin.
Justin p. Switzer committed suicide
at Madison by hanging.
Mrs. Christine Eichert died in her pew
in church in Eau Claire of heart disease.
Wisconsin university has accepted
challenges to debate with the uniyer-
sites OF Illinois and Iowa.
The Fox River Electric Street railway
at Green Bay has gone into the hands
of receiver.
Marquette county is the first county
to pay any part of IFS share of the state
tax, the state treasurer receiving $4,000.
The improvements IN Madison during
1897 in new buildings foot up 10 $780,
600
George Kloredahl, a farmer, dropped
dead IN the woods near Wittenberg. He
was % years OF age and unmarried.
The forty-fourth annual meeting Of
the Green County Agricultural society
was held in Monroe and the treasurer's
statement shows the resources of the
society to be $l3 100, with liabilities of
81 .30T
Twenty miles of nets and many hun
dred pounds Of fish were captured by
Oshkosh game wardens on Lake Winnie
bago
The county board let the contract for
5000 addition TO the county Jail in
Marinette for juvenile prisoners.
4 letter filled with cartridges eX-
ploded while being stamped in the post
Office at La Crosse, hut no one was in
iurcd.
Municipal Judge Phelps received
telegram in GAINESVILLE notifying him of
the death of his only child, Frank b.
Phelps. a well-known newspaper man of
New York city.
The MayvilIe exchange bank has been
sold to the State bank of Mayvile.
The wagon and carriage works OF
Johnson Brothers were burned in
Washburu. causing loss of $1,000.
Charles Williams was sentenced in
West Superior TO the penitentiary for
five years for grand larceny.
Fred Russell and Joseph Brost, of
Marshfield, left for Copper River, Alas
ka, TO join the rush in search of gold.
Abbie Stone was granted divorce
at Gainesville from Edgar II. Stone on
the ground Of dcsertion aud was given
permission to resume her maiden name,
Abbie Lcfiin9weil The couple were
married in Clinton four years ago.
The Arlington hotel in Waukesha
was destroyed by fire. the loss being
$4,000
DR.. w. \. Ddrtt, one OF the most prom
incut dentists of Milwaukee, was de
cIared insane by Judge Mann.
J. Edmund AIil,ard, who has been pro
bate judge for Green Lake county for
90 years, has turned over the office to bis
successor, sherman G.. Potter
John Langosky's cigar factory was
burned in Stevens Point, the loss being
s 900.
Mrs. Hutson. widow of Sol IIutson,
one Of the pioneers Of Rock county. died
at the home 81 her daughter, Mrs Jo-
seph McCabc. Of Tacoma, Wash, where
she was visiting.
William Bernard a brakeman on the
Chicago. Milwaukee e ST. Paul railway.
fell under a moving car at Tomahawk
and was instantly killed.
c. II. Cope, dealer in glassware and
crOckery at La Crosse. made an assign
ment with assets OF 50 800 and liabilities
of So 900
Richard Cochran. aged GO, was SEN
fenced at Ashland to one year in Wan
pun for perjury. He claims to have
been drunk when he committed the
deed
A company has been formed a Mari
rette TO improve the power at Chappie
rapids. on the Menominee river.
James Langley and Henry Waithers,
who escaped from Marathon county
Jail New Years day. were captured 25
miles northeast Of Amigo.
William Griffiths, Of Wilmot, has been
appointed county superintendent Of
schools for Kenosha county to succeed
john y. Maloney, who resigned
Joseph Davis and Charles Quincy.
United States prisoners convicted OF
robbing the mails in Chicago, escaped
from the house of correction in Milwau-
kee.
Fire destroyed the barn owned by
John Busch two miles from Algoma,
with 200 tons of hay, wagons, sleighs,
farm machinery and 20 head of cattle.
The Ames creamery in the town of
Emmett, operated by Mays Creamery
company, of Watertown, was destroyed
by fire.
A fire at Cashton destroyed the store
building of Carroll g. Leyden, the total
loss being $4,000,