River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-01-13
The News condemned.

Inc news commenced
The office of insurance inspector has
been abolished in Wisconsin.
Capt. Rich, of Stevens Point, has been
made director general of railways in
I China.
| j. II. Selleck, of Menominee, has by
/ the death Of an uncle at Reading, Conn,
become the principal heir to property
valued at 100000.
/ The will of Il. =. Gilmore, of Nilwau-
kee, leaves an estate of 100000 to his
/ four children. The widow is given the
| homestead and enough cash and securi-
ties to amount TO $4,000.
A dozen or more Marinette people ex-
pect to accompany large party OF Chi
capo people to the Klondike in the
spring.
G. S. Luscher has been appointed dep
uty collector of internal revenue at
Oshkosh to succeed himself.
\ company has been organized in
Ashland to start party for the Alaska
gold region about February a, by way
of Edmunton, \. w. r.
Triplets for Christmas present!
That's the way Santa Claus remem-
bered Mr.. and Mrs. l.. a. Mosher, of
Chippewa Falls.
Walter Mikolewski pleaded guilty in
Stevens Point to burglary, and was
sentenced to Waupun for three years.
The total state debt of Wisconsin is
$4,000 600 of 31a per cent. option bonds.
The La Crosse board of education
has made rule not to employ married
women as teachers.
\ Northwestern passenger train
struck wagon at Fenwood, killing
John Trask.
The state fish commission at its an
nual meeting in Madison voted to es-
tablish a temporary hatchery at Osh-
kosh for the propagation of wall-eyed
pike.
William Carson, president of the Val
ley Lumber company, of Eau Claire, aud
of the Carson-Rand Lumber company,
of Kcokull, Ia, and vice president of the
Eau Claire national bank, died in Eau
Claire of pneumonia, aged 10.
Samuel j. Osborn, one of the Oldest
residents of Oshkosh and for many
years DiOI IttOA VI Il VI bS5 SUI - - N'N''N
at the age of 81 years.
Mrs. Charles Kellet, of Clayton,
while making purchase in dry goods
store dropped dead at the counter. She
was IS years old.
William Malone, aged %, a teacher at
the Wisconsin industrial school in
Waukesha, died of blood poisoning re-
sulting from a cold sore.
Jesse Stone resignedas one of the mem
bers at large of the new state board of ag-
riculturc, and Gov. ScOfield appointed ).
d. Hubbard, of Mondoyi, president of
the Wisconsin State Agricultural So
ciety, as his successor.
Peter Steffens, of Menasha, was killed
while cutting down large tree.
James Bagley, John Sutton and Sam
uel Foat, former residents of Genesee,
by the death of relative in England
have fallen heirs to $4,000 each.
Five horses and three cows persisted
in the burning of the farm buildings of
Herman Boettcher, near Manitowoc.
j. II. Rhyder pleaded guilty in Mad
ison to charge of forgery and was
sentenced to is months in the state
prison.
Mrs. Effie Gilmore ended her life in
Sturgeon Bay by taking arsenic. She
and her mother had been arrested on
the charge of fleeing a Norwegian out
of ten dollars.
Anna NJ. Knudsen, an old resident of
New Denmark. was pronounced insane
and committed to the Northern hos
pital.
Mrs. George Davis. OF La Prairie, died
suddenly, the result of fall. She
leaves a husband and three children, the
youngest born just before her death.
Ashland county viii have a big auc-
ton sale next March to realize, If posi-
BILE, 500, 900 cash Cd the only negotiable
resources the county possesses, delln-
quent tax certificates.
The Shaw Hardware company made /
an assignment in Racine. The assets /
are given at $4,000.
Mrs. Myrtle Nichols, Of Gladstone,
Mich, recently convicted Of enticing
girI under the age Of IS years from her /
home in Marinette, was sentenced to
term of from one TO five years in state /
prison.
Mrs. Bangs, Of Sheboygan. offered to
pay $1,000, the cost of putting in opera
chairs in the new First Church of .
Christ.
A camp Of Modern Woodmen of
America was organized at Reedsville.
Leonard Engle accidentally killed his
wife in Hancock. He was cleaning his
shotgun when 1t was discharged, the
contents entering The woman's side.