River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-03-24
The News Condensed.

Gatrlck johnson, injured III an dccl-
dent year ago, died in Kenosha.
New city directories give Oshkosh a
population OF 1920 and Chippewa
Falls 10000 population.
The secretary of the treasury has
awarded to H. Ferge, of Milwaukee, the
contract for the erection of the Den
yer (Col.) mint building at his bid of
s223, sol.
In West Superior the delinquent tax
roll last year amounted to $500, GOO, and
this year it is not likely to exceed $780,
200.
Capt John Denessen, the pioneer ship
builder, died in Green Bay, aged Sc
years. Capt. Denessen built many of
the vessels which float on the great
lakes.
Adit. Gen. Boardman denies that the
state officials of the Wisconsin national
guard have taken any action looking to
preparing the guard for active service.
David S. Comfy, secretary of the state
board of control for many years, died
in Madison, after several weeks Illness.
William Van Dim, ~ years old, of
Amigo, has been committed to the re-
form school.
James s. Fowler, formerly one of the
Iurgest grain dealers in the west, died
in Milwaukee, aged GS years.
The Security Life association in Osh-
l,osh has gone into voluntary liquida-
ton.
John C. Kunitz. now a liyeryman az
Appleton, was Bismarck's coachman
25 years ago, and for years drove the
iron chancellor in Berlin and elsewhere.
Fifty cars of rails, to be used in con
strusting the first railroad in the Klon-
dixie gold fields, were shipped from Bay
View by the Illinois Steel company.
Fire destroyed nearly 100000 feet
of lumber in Kennedys lumber yard AT
Rib Lake.
The sawmill of Mitchell & Smith, or
the Chippewa river in the town of An
son, was burned, the loss being $4,000
with no insurance.
Mrs Herman Heinzelmann has come
out of her long trance, in Sheboygan.
Afire in the lumber yard of the Knapp,
Stout & Co. at Cedar Falls destroyed So
coo feet.
George W. Farrar, an old resident OF
Walworth county and a war veteran
died in Delavan, aged IS years.
Mrs. A. G. Warren, an old resident
dropped dead at her home in Stur,
geon Bay, aged So years.
The custodal building of the Home
for the Feeble Minded has been opened
at Chippewa Falls. 1t increases the ca
pacity of the home to $50.
T.. S. Moores, of Lake Geneva, has
been appointed to a position in the gov
eminent printing office at Washington
at a salary of $1,000 year.
Charles Gordon has brought suit in
Kenosha against the Milwaukee, Ra
cine & Kenosha electric road for $4,000
damages on account of his alleged eject
ment from a car last December.
John Burns, aged 46, died in Beloit
from lockiaw, resulting from painful
injury received TO one of his hands.
4 Young man named Harder, EN-
ployed by the Il. Conner company at
StratfOrd, was killed by being caught
under a rolling log. His parents reside
al Auburndale.
The general store of Frank Lumb at
Troy Center was with contents burned
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The house on the farm of Curtis
Halstead near Beloit was burned. Loss
$1,000.
Mrs Martha Thurston. the wife OF
United States Senator Thurston. who
died on a yacht in the harbor at Ha-
vana. Cuba. was Il Wisconsin woman.
and for several years lived in Madison.
w. Z. Spencer, aged IS, journal clerk
of the senate. who died in Washington
was native of Wisconsin.
Lucien B. Caswell. FOR 4 years nom
Der of congress, and Miss Anna \. Rog
crs, eldest daughter of the late Rev.
barton +. Rogers, were married at Fort
Atkinson.
Henry W. Niets, proprietor of a laun-
dry in La Crosse, is to receive from the
estate of his uncle. Amos r. Emo, late
Of New York. 100000
Wolves are becoming so numerous
near Cumberland as to cause the farm
ers much trouble and many of them
have been killed lately.
Henry NJ. Hurless, a well-known
Young farmer and stock dealer of West
Lima, made an assignment with liza
bilitics of $4,000.
The sesen-year-olds son of Fred Koepp,
of Caledonia, was shot by playmate.
accidentally, and died soon after.
BarziIla Douglass died at his resi-
denee in Brodhead. aged nearly 90
years. He was secretary at one time OF
the first temperance society organized
In Milwaukee.
John Rucks shot n badger on his
faTm near Fond dl Lac. The animal
weighed 81 pounds ana was the first of
that species seen there in is years.