River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-09

George Wagner, the ls-year-old son
of William Wagner. a farmer near Fond
du Lac, accidentally shot and instantly
killed his two-year-old brother
James NJ. Steele a pioneer of Dane
county, aged 70, after conveying his
property in Roxbury to his second wife
and two sons has been sent to the poor
house.
4. Meyerhauser sold in Chippewa
Falls to Street. Chatfield & Keep, in Chi
caeo. and to Ritteuhouse d Embree,
also of Chicago. land in Ashland and
BAYFIELD, counties on which there is
20O.000.00O feet of pine. The price paid
was 81 900, 600.
Miss Caroline Hatchwell and Fred
erick L. Monroe, two well-known So
ciety people in Racine. were recently
married at Milwaukee by Rev. f. W.
| White.
Judge Bennett granted a divorce in
GAINESVILLE to Wilhelmiua Sellnow from
Frederick Sellnow on the ground of
cruel treatment. The parties reside at
Waterloo.
The new Polish Catholic church at
Eaton was almost destroyed by fire.
Only the brick walls are left. Loss, $I0.-
600.
According to The sworn statement
filed in rhe Office of register of deeds
in Milwaukee it cost Joseph Y. Quarles
lust 81 230 10 be elected a member of
the United States senate.
At the annual meeting in Bara boo
of the Sank County Agricultural So
ciety it was voted TO organize on the
basis of a stock company. Eight hun
daed shares are to be issued at ten doll
Iaus a share.
Mrs. Marion Rose Pingree. the
daughter Of Commodore William ii.
Wolf. has been granted divorce in
Milwaukee from her husband. Frank
r. Pingree. The charge is desertion
and failure TO support.
Five Mormon converts were baptized
in the South Side natatorium in Mil
waukee.
L. II. Crowley. aged 30, an early set
tler. was burned fatally in Fond du
Lac by THE explosion of a kerosene
lamp
The sun Prairie business men have
organized an association with &. NJ.
Smith as president
L. G.. Woodwork. well-known
farmer and dairyman died in Ran
dolph of pneumonia, aged AZ years.
George Allen. aged ~. heavy owner
of southern Wisconsin cal estate, died
at his home in Bloomfield
John Rottmann, who was found Feb
ruary by an officer with both hands
frozen and unable TO speak, died at
Fond du Lac hospital.
George Lang. a farmer living between
the towns of Mount Morris and Pine
River. committed suicide by shooting
himself. He leaves wife and six chill
dren.
+. A. Murphy, prominent hardware
merchant at Platteville, has struck a
rich find Of lead One piece of mineral
weighed almost 500 pounds.
j. II. Noble died in Darlington. He
was a veteran of the civil war and re-
ceived pension for total disability.
Fire destroyed a block of buildings in
the business section of Nebagamon,
The damage Will aggregate about S12,-
coo.
Some one entered the office of Robert
Parker, real estate agent in Eau
Claire and took $3.50, two gold watches
and bracelet from the safe.
Dav ID Evans has been elected assem-
blyman from Washara county 10 fill the
vacancy caused by the death of William
Hughes
Miss Emma Beh!er aged q, commit
ted suicide in Manitowoc by hanging
Dependency. caused by severe attack
of he grippe. was the cause.
Seventeen freight cars were wrecked
on the Chicago q Northwestern road in
front of the North side passt niger depot
in Oshkosh
Eleven horses belonging TO the Mil
waukee Coal company. and Is sheep, the
property of r. Gumz & Co, packers,
were burned to death.
John Yaeger. ii farmer, having lost
three sheep set a trap and caught two
large wolves His land on which the
trap was set is inside the city OF Eau
Claire.
The First ward school building in
Stevens Point was ruined by fire, the
loss being $4,000.
\ painter named Nern Mattason,
aged s., committed suicide in Racine by
shooting himself Domestic trouble
was the cause
John kunz. 4 weIl-kuown farmer liy-
ing in Kossuth was adjudged insane
and taken 10 the hospital al Oshkosh.
The dry kiln and contents belonging
to the Glenwood Manufacturing com
pany was destroyed by fire 1t was
vauled al $4,000
Fire destroyed three buildings
Portage occupied by y Il HeHrl gr
Gerry and feed store the Sta, geSi1Hv
and BaEer.s Magon shop lin -.