River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-03-17

The News Condensed.
Action was begun in Eau Claire by
John Degneau and others against f. c.
Allen, late president of the defunct
Commercial bank. The plaintiffs de-
mand that all the stock, $50 $50, be paid
up for the benefit of creditors.
Green Bay and Sturgeon Bay are to
be connected with a metallic circuit TO
be built by the Wisconsin Telephone
company in the spring.
The paper mills at Neenah and Me-
nasha are now running q hours day
and the daily output of paper is rs
tons.
The State Historical society suggests
that in each county there be appointed
one or more county historians to pre-
sent the result of their Investigations
at the several local celebrations on the
2Sth of May.
Ex-County Judge George b. Carter,
of Lancaster, has been adjudged in
sane and sent to an asylum. His mis-
fortune dates from a sunstrokc while
serving in the civil war
John Hanson, the ten-year-old son
of liver Hanson, was killed by an Omaha
train in West Superior The boy was
deaf and dumb and was running across
the track
The branch of the W. c. 7. L. in Osh-
kosh has inaugurated war against
cigarettes, and especially their sale to
minors.
w. II. II. Nichols, alderman of the
Sixth ward, died in Eau Claire, aged SO
years.
Mrs Hicks died at Fremont. She
was the first white woman who went up
the Wolf river as far as Fremont. She
leaves three sons and two daughters.
Mrs. Theresa Landgraf was fatally
injured on the Menasha & Neenah street
railway tracks at Menasha.
Gov Schofieid has appointed +. F.
Wheeler, of Waupaca, to fill the vacant
district attorneyship for Waupaca coun-
ty.
DIR. Daniel w. King died at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. j. w. Rogers, in
Racine, aged 81 years. He was a vet
eran of tie Blackhawk war.
Henry Fowler, for 25 years a resi-
dent of Oshkosh, was killed in an acct
dent Mt Poulson, Mich.
Langenkamp Bros, extensive brew
ers at Tisch's mills, near Kewaunee,
have filed an assignment in bankruptcy.
Judd Vance, the 11-year-old son of
Mark Vance, of Hayward, WAS killed at
Rice Lake by falling from a scaffold
distance of 100 feet.
The family of L. Higginbotham near
ly met death in Sheboygan by asphyXi-
alton from coal gas which escaped from
stove.
James L. Gifin sold his farm near
Plymouth to William Trowbridge, of
Plymouth. GifIin has lived on the farm
- years.
p. Verbccll aged so, member of the
county board of supervisors from the
town of Menasha, has resigned and Lud-
wig Gmeiner has been appointed his
successor.
An electric lighting plant has been
put in operation on the Oneida Indian
reservation.
The body of child was found in
small paper box in the river at James
Vile. The box was wound with a cord,
to which stone was attached.
Mrs. Ann Crowley, widow, aged rs,
was burned to death at Dodgevile, her
clothing having caught fire from the
stove.
1t is estimated that the output of ore
from the Gogebic range next summer
will be from 100000 to 100000 tons.
The ceremony of installing Thomas
T. Eoddy as chief of the Winnebago In
dams, under the name of White Buff
falo, will be held April 80 near Black
River Falls.
Mary Prucia was granted divorce
in GAINESVILLE by Judge Bennett from
Henry Prucia on the ground of cruel
treatment. The parties reside at Evans
Vile
Peter b. Moore, aged 90. one of the
best known colored men of Racine, was
found dead.
Reuben Black, a clerk in the store of
NJ. S. Trobridge in Lancaster, acct
dentally killed himself while cleaning
a rife. He was about 40 years of age
and leaves wife and two children.
The Interstate Telephone company
has been organized in La Crosse with a
capital stock of 100000.
Charles II. Bates, Jr., aged so, was
found dead near his barn in Porter.
Heart disease was the cause.
Mrs. Mckee, a widow living near
Dodgeyille, dropped dead in her door
way.
Edward Guenther, one of the first /
residents of La Crosse, aged GO years,
committed suicide. Dependency was
the cause.
Mrs. Emma L. Crandall was granted /
a divorce in Oshkosh from Rev B. Gram /
dali on the ground of nonsupport. The
pair were married in 1896 and she is the
daughter of a rich farmer of the town !
of Ninland.