River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-07-27
The News condemned.

Rain ana nan Tell IN ciOuu DuFSl al
Campbell's Port, destroying hundreds
of acres of growing grain. William
Prehn & Sons large coal elevator, new
- built, was eoa,i,latalS wrecked
Congressman John j. Esch and SUI
perintendent of Rural Delivery Henry
| Casson were in Sparta, and with Post
master Fisher established free deliv-
cry route of about 25 miles, taking in
Big Creek valley.
A young man by the name of Roberts,
! of Aniwa. accidentally shot and killed
his brother at Maiden lake, in Oconto
county.
Joseph Gundry, probably the wealth
lest merchant in Mineral Point, died
suddenly of heart failure. He located
there in 1915.
w. II. Hay, vice president and treas
urer of the Hay Hardware company,
one of the wcalthiest men in Oshkosh,
has surprised his relatives and friends
by marrying his housekeeper, Mrs.
Julia McCourt.
4 steam pipe burst in Van Dusen's
sawmill in Prentice and scalded En-
gineer Fred Keller so badly that he
died He was - years old and leaves a
wife and two children.
The white pine sawmill men in La
Crosse and throughout the upper Mis-
sissippi valley announce raise in
prices on all grades OF lumber of one
dollar per 1000 feet.
4 Joint reunion of the Twentyfirst
Wisconsin regiment and the Peninsular
Veterans association was held in Green
Bay and $50 old soldiers were in at
tendance.
John c. Fredendall, a resident Of
GAINESVILLE for 43 years, and one Of its
pioneer merchants, died AT his home,
aged "a years.
The c. II. Sieg Manufacturing com
pany in Kenosha will be reorganized
and. instead of making bicycles, will
manufacture automobiles and gasoline
engines.
Jacob G. Gottfredsen, one of the ear
hest settlers of Kcnosha county, and
prominent resident of Kenosha, died
at the age Of Is years.
Mrs. Joseph W. Babcock. wife of the
Third district congressman, died at
her home in Necedah.
Judge johnson in the circuit court at
Milwaukee appointed Capt. Irving NJ.
Bear to succeed William fiankirton
as assignee of the defunct flankinton
bank.
4. NJ. Weber, of Oshkosh. formerly Of
Weber & Co. dry goods dealers, has
filed a petition in bankruptcy The LA
bilities are S74,oG0 and the assets nil.
August Hoeft. 70 years Of age, com
mitted suicide in Watertown by hang
ing. He is survived by widow and ten
children.
Two robbers blew open the safe IN the
Burlington depot at Prescott and Sc
cured SIS cash and some tickets.
Ii has been practically decided that
the First Congregational Church So
ciety will build a new church in Osh-
Ilosh to cost 100000.
Fire partly destroyed the building
and the contents Of the store Of Joseph
Bcntz in Clintonville. The loss is about
| 50 600. with insurance of $1,000.
| John Hansen. aged 70, was run over
by Wisconsin Central passenger train
at a grade crossing in Stevens Point and
| Killed.
Walter. the f2-year-ols son of Nels
! Hanke. of Rockville. fell from load
of hay and had his neck broken. Death
was instantaneous.
Tie school census shows that there
are 3.907 children of the school age in
Kcnosha. If the population of the city
were figured on the usual basis from
this report ii would be $4,000
Gov. Scofield has signed the commits
sion of Rev II. II. Jacobs. of Milwaukee,
as chaplain of the First regiment. Mr..
Jacobs was the chaplain OF the Fourth
regiment during its service in the Span
ish war.
John Sontag, of the firm Of sonAg d
Co. dealers in general merchandise,
died suddenly in Wautoma. He was a
veteran of the civil war and 20 years Of
age