River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-11-09
The News Condensed.

James Hanrahan, the engineer who
was so badly scalded in the Northwest
ern wreck in Frenchtown last winter,
has begun suit in Marinette against the
railroad company for $4,000 damages.
The corner stone of the new city hall
at Whitewater, to cost 500, was laid
by ST. Johns masonic lodge.
BY the accidental discharge of gun
while hunting, John Artza, of Chippe-
wa Falls, a farmer, was instantly
killed.
Albina Kassella, % years old, was
taken with fit and fell into a pond
near Weyerhauser and drowned.
All mails between Harvard, H., and
Fontana, passing through Big Foot and
Walworth, that have hitherto been car
ried by stage, are now carried by the
Chicago, Harvard e. Geneva Lake rail
way, an electric road.
Wright Bros, of Marinette, have Sc
cured the largest cedar contract of the
year. They will furnish the milwaukee,
road with 100000 tamarack and hem
lock ties next year.
Hans Hansen, moulder, was robbed
of $110 of his savings at his boarding
house in Beloit.
Capt. A. Riley Jones died in Madison,
aged 60. He served with the Twenty
third Wisconsin infantry in the civil
war
Charles S. Mears. a retired lumber
man and an old settler, died at Madi-
son, aged 81 years.
BY vote of 102 to Is it has been de-
cided to incorporate Bangor as a vii
lage.
The barn of George Haskins was
burned at Phillips, four horses being
suffocated. Loss, $4,000.
Word was received in La Crosse of
the sudden death in New Mexico of
Edward Fox, formerly a well-known
resident of La Crosse.
While hunting in Genesee lake, Stan
ley Clark, a school teacher at Eagle,
had his arm shot off above the elbow.
City Treasurer Frank T. Haven died
in Madison after long illness, aged 61.
He came to Dane county in 1854.
man John Kossow in Milwaukee a
month ago, has been found guilty of
murder in the second degree and SEN
fenced by Judge Wallbar to 25 years in
states prison at hard labor.
At the convention of the Team
Drivers international union at Detroit,
Mich, John Callahan, of Milwaukee,
was elected president.
Capt Gus Monti, a well-known upper
Mississippi river steamboatman, died
in Genoa.
Smith q Johnson, of Wausau, have
begun the erection of large hard
wood sawmill near Cumberland.
George Hoxie. young attorney of
Clintonville who was disbarred in 1897.
has been reinstated by Judge Webb,
his two years term of suspension hav-
ing expired.
Miss Hattie Helfrich. aged 10, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Helfrich,
dropped dead at her home in Burling-
ton. She had been in apparent good
health.
Stanley j. North, aged so, of the firm
of North & Evans, wagon makers at
Spring Green. was killed by ST. Paul
train backing over him.
Hull & Weeden, druggists, lost IS 900
by fire at Oshkosh.
At the annual meeting in Eau Claire
of the Wisconsin State Federation of
Moments Clubs reports showed 10 new
clubs formed during the year and a
total membership in the stale of 1900.
At Lawrence university in Appleton
the janitor who summoned the police
TO queIl the riotous students was
hanged in efiigy in front of the college
building.
A malignant form of hog cholera has
broken out in Mormon Coolie, La Crosse
county.
Mrs. Frank shanahan, aged 10.
bride of only five weeks, died in Sha-
vano
4 letter from Garrison, Neb.. an
nounces that u families of that vicinity
are planning 10 move to Chippewa coun-
~ ia settle on farms
james A. Rappe. aged 81, who walked
10 the G. A Il. eneampment at Cinein-
nati and wheeled TO The encampment at
Philadelphia. will next try to shove
wherIbarrow from Marinette to Chi
cago.