River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-09-29

Adam OFT, of Hammond, Ind, for
=, -. ....eiaant IF West Bend. and whose
parents and a brother still reside
there, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the West Bend cemetery on
the grave of sister.
William Bestor, one of the men who
killed an old couple at Black Earth
few months ago, and now serving
life sentence at Waupun, made an in
effectual attempt to escape.
The dead body of Melvin Wood,
farmer living in the town of Albion,
was found along the roadside two miles
west of Edgerton. He was probably
killed in q runaway.
Mrs. Hattie NJ. WiXom was granted
divorce in GAINESVILLE by Judge Bennett
from Clarence A. WiXom on the
grounds of desertion and failure to
support. The plaintiff is>only 10 years
old.
Three companies of the Second Wis
consin regiment, comprising troops
from Oshkosh, Appleton and Manito-
voc, have arrived home from Puerto
Rico.
The annual reunion of the veterans
of the Baraboo valley was held in Ell
roy.
Mrs Emma Foley, of Bismarck, n.
D., wife of the city editor of the Bis
marck Tribune, was drowned ey fall
ing from pier in West Superior.
j. H. Eaton, an attorney in Monroe,
was robbed of 5000 in Cincinnati, o.
Anton Mas, aged II, died in Sheboy-
gan. He was a member of the Thirty
seventh Wisconsin infantry.
p. g. Collipp, lawyer in Friendship
who won the recent nomination for
district attorney, was knocked sense
less by a brick thrown through his Of
fee window.
The West Wisconsin Methodist con-
ference in Eau Claire voted unani-
mously in favor of equal lay repre-
sentation in the general conference.
Rust, drouth and frost combined
have damaged the potato crop in the
vicinity of Rio fully one-half
The assessed valuation of all prop
erty in Manitowoc county is $12,077,-
T5s. The total value of all personal
property is 81, Gal AS; value of farming
lands, S7,419,sS9; city and village lots,
$3,01G,451.
The Cooperative creamery at Cen
tervilIe was burned, the loss being $4,-
900 with no insurance.
The value of all property in Sheboy-
gan county by figures furnished by the
county clerk is S1S,991, POP.
St. Johns military academy at Della
field opened with more students than
ever before.
The tie between the Tarpon of Nee
nah and the Iota Of Oshkosh for the
championship of Lake Winnebago was
sailed at Neenah and was won by the
Tarpon.
A sensation was caused by the elope-
ment of Carrie Kramer, daughter of
Henry Kramer, farmer at Redwood
Falls, Mimi. and Stephen f. Welch,
half-breed Indian of Calumet.
John Kipke shot and killed Frank
Krause near Merrill, installing the lat
ter for a deer.
Fire broke out in the upholstering
department of the Racine Hardware
Manufacturing company and caused a
loss of $4,000.
Mrs. Barbenia Barbowsk, aged 40
years. died in Milwaukee as the result
Of burns due to the explosion of kero-
sene oil. She had tried to start fire.
William Swanson (white) was killed
at Lac du Flambeau by an Indian
named Big George, as the result of
drunken quarrel. Big George was ar
rested.
The infant daughter of Joseph p.
Carney, foreman of the Daily News,
was burned to death by gasoline in
Milwaukee.
Col. George w. Hall has gone into
winter quarters with his circus and
menagerie on his farm adjoining
Evansville.
Some purchases of the '9s tobacco
crop have been made in the fields and
sheds near Niroqua. Prices range
from six to eight cents pound,