River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-08-18
The News Condensed.

The farmers in the vicinity OF Pardee-
Vile are losing great numbers of hogs
from cholera, some losing as high as 60
The golden jubilee of St. Johns
Catholic church at Green Bay was
celebrated, it being the seventy-ffth
anniversary of the founding of the
/ parish.
The members of Christ Episcopal
church have decided to build new
place of worship in Green Bay, to take
4 the place of the one burned on July B.
An order was issued in Washington
granting a discharge to Private
/ Charles Carlson, company d, First
! Wisconsin volunteer infantry, sup
/ posed to be confined in a Wisconsin
state asylum.
1 Several hundred persons witnessed
/ the largest blast ever made at Beloit
stone quarry. Six hundred cords of
stone was dislodged at Samp's quarry,
500 pounds Of powder being dis
charged.
A post office has been established at
Dewey, Dunn county, with William II,
johnson as postmaster; also one Al
Stowell, Monroe county, with Charles
T. Claflin as postmaster.
The German Veteran society held
memorial services in Green Bay in
honor of Prince Bismarck.
The tobacco harvest began in Yer
non county considerably earlier than
usual. The crop is exceptionally fine
and the acreage large.
Tommy Arnold, the four-year- old
son of the ianitor of the Broadway
high school in West Superior, fell dis
lance of 20 feet and was not seriously
injured.
Dr. and Mrs. Theodore Koch were
thrown from their buggy in runaway
In Baraboo and seriously hurt
An incendiary fire damaged Turner
hall in Green Bay 10 the extent Of
81 600.
Creditors Of the Commercial bank
in Milwaukee received notice from the
receiver that u dividend of 20 per cent.
has been declared and is payable on
demand.
John Fennell, G5 years Of age, was
sentenced in Racine to prison for one
year, having pleaded guilty to being a
habitual criminal.
The ninth annual convention Of the
Northern Wisconsin association of the
4. O. L. W. lodges will be held in Chip
pewa Falls August q.
Conrad Schuri. veteran of the civil
war and a resident of Oshkosh for
nearly 40 years, died of inflammation
of the bowels.
Miss Flora Tack wealthy business
woman in Stevens Point, died Of dropsy
and heart disease, age 80.
William Andrews jumped out of
second-story window in Marinett
while in nightmare and suffered
severe injuries.
Barney Bloch, who was sentenced to
Waupun for the burning of the Ameri-
can Bedding company in Kenosha two
years ago, has been pardoned by Gov.
Scofeld.
Joseph II. Harrington, pioneer resi-
dent, died in Hudson aged so years.
He was the first soldier of st. Croix
county to enlist in the war of the re-
bellion md was the oldest odd fellow
in northern Wisconsin
w w. Robe, a Mexican war veteran.
died in Lancaster aged II years. In
1s4s he married Miss Jane Utt. of
Wing, and their golden wedding was
celebrated last May.
Matthias Sohm committed suicide by
shooting in Milwaukee.
Mrs. John Goliher, OF Maple Grove,
was nearly killed by the upsetting Of
o buggy.
A young man named Doolittle, of
Sharon, while fishing on Delavan lake
was drowned. The body was rccov-
cred.
Herman Schoening, young German
farmer of the town of Polar, was killed
BY the premature discharge of gun.
f. s. Miner was nominated at Green
Bav for third term in congress by the
Eighth district convention. Not a
vote was cast against him.
The Madison Implement and Trans
fer company made voluntary assign
ment for the benefit Of its creditors.
The liabilities are over $4,000 and the
assets about $500.