River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-01-26

/ The News I9DHenscu.
| NJ. Z. Seymour has given the First
| Baptist church of Beloit $1,000 towards
purchasing parsonage, in accordance
with the wishes of his father, the late
Deacon Isaac W. Seymour.
At the annual meeting of the Wall
worth County Agricultural society the
! receipts of the fair for 1895 were shown
to be nearly $4,000. THIS sum Will
place the society out of debt G. a.
| Morse, of Whitewater, was elected pres
| ident
Col. Theodore Yates, at enc time COM
mander of the national soldiers home
| and a well-known army officer, died in
Milwaukee of pneumonia, aged 6Syears.
| 1t is estimated that one-seventh of
the population of Milwaukee is sick
with the grip.
John Dumez, for is years citizen of
Ashland, died suddenly of heart failure
and grip, aged CO years.
Fitzgibbons Brothers carriage works,
the largest plant in Monroe, was totally
destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
William Evans was sentenced in Mil
waukee to five years in the Waupun
prison for attempting to kill Minnie
Parish on the night of November 81.
The store of w. S. Roach, at London,
was entered by burglars and goods
worth 500 stolen, principally clothing.
The Fox River street railway in Green
Bay was sold at auction and bid in by
Charles E. Vroman for the recognized
company. The amount paid was $751;
! 00O
The sixth annual charity ball in Mil
waukee realized for local charities
about $4,000.
! The board of university regents has
created the office of dean of the faculty
! of engineering and elected Prof. j. b.
johnson, of St. Louis, Mo-, to the place.
Green Lake county is to have a new
courthouse at hartford to cost $4,000.
! An order has been issued discontinu-
ing the post Office at Reesburg, Clark
county. Mail will be sent to Thorp
! Company was mustered out in
Portage by Capt. Andrus and about S.,
| 500 was distributed.
Irving NJ Harrington, secretary of
! The Rock River Cotton company, died
in GAINESVILLE, aged 81. He was a vet
eran of the civil war.
Miss Jessie Mcdonald, principal of
school in Chippewa Falls, within few
| days received news of the death Of two
sisters, a niece and two nephews, all
| from scarlet fever, at Highborne, S. d.
James Meigher, a brakeman on the
Milwaukee road, was killed in the yards
at Waupun.
A diamond robbery was committed at
the residence of Joseph Miller, in Ra-
cine. The gems stolen belonged to
Frank Miller and wife and are valued at
So 900.
Adam Schauer was found dead in his
cell in the house of correction in Mil
waukee. His family lives at East Troy
Mrs H. X. Stratton, the landlAdy of
the Viola house, at Viola, committed
suicide by shooting herself. No cause
was known
John Richards meat market and ma
chine shop, a. p. Merrill's esidence and
Mr.. Kelley's barn were burned at Maid
en- Rock. Loss, sc, 800
Mrs. Elizabeth Schmidt, a niece Of
Stephen A. Douglas, died alone and Z
poverty in her humble home in Mil
~aulee.
John Clark, for 45 years a resident of
GAINESVILLE, died of pneumonia. aged 90
years. He leaves eight children, four
sons and four daughters.
AIhor+ Of he Aor,ror,
company, sash and doors, died at Phoe-
nix, 4. T., aged AZ years. He went west
on account Of lung trouble. He leaves
wife and three children.
Best g. Loucks, owners of the new
single mill in Bayfield,. made a con-
tract with eastern parties for 1o, 100000
shingles.
The Sturgeon Bay stage went through
the ice near Peshtigo Harbor, and the
horses drowned and the driver had
narrow escape. There were no pas
sengers.
Louis c. Hyde, banker, died at his
home in Beloit at the age Of SIS years.
The engagement of Miss Maria
Wilmington, of GAINESVILLE, to Henry
Martyr, of London, England. has been
announced.
Judge Burnell set aside the judgment
of divorce rendered in the case of H. c.
Moulton versus Anna Berchinski, Of
Berlin.
Henry a. Salzer. manager Of the John
A. Salzer Seed company in La Crosse,
sent the Charles City (Ia.) college a
New Years gift of $4,000 in gold.
The Appleton Wire Works company,
which furnished goods for the paper
trade, has determined TO double the
size of its plant.