River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-04-07
The News Condensed.

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signment in Madison to James |. Conll-
lin. The liabilities are believed to be
about $4,000 and the assets about the
same amount.
William Woocl1, a well-lnown capital
list in Baraboo, was adjudged insane and
was taken to the Mendoza asylum.
DR.. Trippe and l.. II. Washburne re-
ceived 10000 brook trout from Madison
hatchery and placed them in Palmyra
lakes.
Rev. John Il. Daniels, well-known
Welsh preacher, died in Randolph, aged
~ years.
c. n. Casper, for many years promi-
nent book dealer and collector of old
editions in Milwaukee, made an assign
ment.
The contract for the erection Of the
additional buildings at the Indian in
dustrial school in Tomah has been let
for $8,994.GS.
The GAINESVILLE high school basket ball
team won the state championship by
defeating the Milwaukee East side
high school team by a score Of 20 to 10.
The clothing of Mrs. Louis Barrett
caught fire in West Superior while
she was lighting a fire with kerosene,
She jumped from a second-story stair,
way and was found horribly burned and
dead.
The state convention of the Travelling
| Mems Protective association will be
held in Green Bay Friday, April %.
NJ. II. Mcmahon, Of Green Bay,
dropped dead in the St. Charles hotel
in Manitowoc from heart disease. He
was until recently superintendent OF
schools at Green Bay.
The committee which investigated
accounts at Marinette of the deposed
poor commissioner, Fred Liable, recon-
mends that he be prosecuted. His
shortage is estimated at $500.
a hand car ran eff the dock at Ash,
| land and plunged to the ice, 60 feet be-
low. William Schuster and Gus An
derson were killed.
Gustave Lindquist, an old fisherman,
and NeIs Munson quarreled over fence
at Marinette and in the excitement
Munson dropped dead lie was about
70 years old.
The wife and daughter of John Ten,
mel, of Lima, have been adjudged in
sane.
\ stick of dynamite exploded at the
residence Of Mrs. ID. +. Ewera in Reads
town, causing serious injury to Mrs,
Ewers and the death of q daughter
Albert Gamelin, eight years old APP
piled a match to a dynamite cap in Mar
inette and it exploded blowing his left
hand off and his right hand was hurt
and his face marked.
The jury at Eau Claire in the case Of
Mrs. Olegard jacobson against John
Kildahl, for damages for kiss, brought
in a verdict Of no cause of action.
Thomas h. Wilson, a prominent mem
Der of the Knapp, Stout d Co. firm, eN-
pired suddenly in the Office of his COM
pany in Menominee. No serious i'll
ness preceded his death.
Bruce Glyndon, a woodsman, com
mitted suicide in Menomnee by shoot
ing. Little is known of him. From
letter found it is thought he has friends
at Riverside, Cal.
Mrs. Eleanor Evans Jones committed
suicide in Portage. She had been UNI
balanced for some years.
The county board AZ a special ses-
sion in Chippewa Falls fixed the salary
of the sheriff at 1000.
Miss 4. Evans, sister Of ex-Alder-
man Thomas c. Evans, committed sui
eide by drowning in shallow pool of
water in Portage. She was recently
discharged from an insane asylum.
Fire in the Parmentier block at Green
Bay caused damage to the extent of
So 500 on the building. while the depart
ment store OF Simon q Oppenheim was
damaged 100000.
William Fischer, GO years of age, was
killed by a Wisconsin Central train in
Milwaukee.
Half million lake trout were planted
in Lake Michigan off Sheboygan by the
United States commission.
The team OF Vogelsang e Murphy ran
away in Manitowoc and Christian Bar
nth, an old settler, was knocked down
by the horses and killed. He was 81
years old.
The double funeral of John Charles,
aged IS, and of his wife, aged 60, took
place at their home north Of Neillsville,
where they have lived since 1850.
At a meeting of the Racine council
an ordinance was passed m king eight
hours a days work for an city work.
Hilbert Junction will be incorporated /
as a Village, the people having gained +
the consent of Rantoul township, with 1
which it is connected.