River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-04-28

The formal opening OF the oshkosh
fish hatchery took place.
Charles E. Hoyt dropped dead at RAJ
cine while working in factory as engi-
neer. He was 60 years of age and was
one of the first engineers on the old
Racine & Mississippi railway.
Fred Ortiz, of North Prairie, was in
jured fatally by the premature explo-
sion of a blast.
Joseph Pilly, aged 20, who was hurt
in a runaway at Baraboo, died from his
injuries.
Frederick Mike hanged himself in
Ripon. He was 70 years of age.
horn, declines to qualify, and this will
necessitate a special election.
John Edin, farmer, committed sui
eide in Grantsburg by taking paris
green. He was old and had been sick.
He was a widower.
Lefevre g. Schumaker's building in
Green Bay was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000.
Antonio Dontie died of a gunshot
wound received in fight in Milwaukee
at the hands of Napoleon Perugi.
Roy Smith fell through an elevator
shaft 30 feet in Menasha and was dead
when picked up.
About 10000 brook trout have been
planted in the White river few miles
west of Wautoma.
Mirror lake at Baraboo will be stocked
with 100000 black bass from the state
hatchery.
The old settlers of Hollandtown,
Brown county, have organized a semi
centennial celebration for June 6.
1t is now definitely known that the
Northern Grain company will build an
other elevator in Manitowoc with ca
pacity of 1,O0O,O00 bushels.
Julius C. Gilbertson. of Eau Claire,
who has been elected judge of the mu-
nicipal court, is only % years old.
John Allen, who lives on a farm south
of Warrens, is said to be JOG years old.
Some of his children are over 70 years
of age. He is in good health.
Thomas Hoyt, of Stevens Point, re-
ported to the Central station police in
Chicago that he had been robbed of his
pocketbook, containing $58, shortly
after reaching Chicago.
Carl Rabe, a well-to-do farmer near
Sheboygan, was terribly gored by a
bull.
Weyauwega is represented in the navy
by Albert Auklham, 10 years old, who
enlisted in Texas for three years on the
Franklin.
DIR. Oliver Z. Wolcott, the venerable
physician and one of Milwaukee's oldest
settlers, celebrated in Milwaukee the
ninety-sixth anniversary of his birth.
Phillip II. Labundy, aged AZ, dealer
in pumps, windmiAs and plumbers ma
terials, committed suicide in Elkhorn
by shooting Financial embarrassment
was the cause.
The explosion of a lamp caused fire
in Washburn which destroyed the house
of Grace Thompson, and Archie Barn
hardt. one of the inmates, lost his life.
While County Treasurer j. Q. Brig
ham was at dinner in Madison a sneak
thief stole $500.
Gov. Scofield has denied the applica-
ton of Patrick Mccain for a pardon.
He is serving four years for killing John
Flanagan at Wausaukee about year
ago.
Alphonse Elkey, who killed his wife
and shot himself slightly, is in Jail at
Appleton. He says he will show in his
trial that the killing was justifiable.
Charles Schwcigel, IS years old, was
killed in a runaway in Troy while at
tempting to shoot wild geese from the
wagon.
Fire caused a loss of $4,000 to the
Combined Locks paper mill of the Van
Nortwicks in Appleton. The mill is
the largest of the kind in the west.
The box factory at Manitowoc of
Rank & Naus, which was just complet-
ed and started, was destroyed by fire,
the loss being $4,000
DIR. John L. Ingersoll died in Pros
pect after an illness of nearly three
years, aged rs years. He was brother
of Col. II. G. Ingersoll.
The factory and warehouse of the
Charles Abresch company, carriage and
wagon manufacturers, was burned in
Milwaukee, the loss being 100000.
Prof. Hiram A. Jones, the oldest
teacher in Wisconsin in point of service,
! died in his class room at Appleton.
Rowland r. Minturn, superintendent
of the northern division of the st. Paul
road, died in Green Bay. He was a
native of Vermont, where his body was
taken for burial.
Mrs. Jane NJ. Dumbolton, aged 80
years, pensioner for so years, died in
Beloit. Her husband was in the war
Of 1872.