River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-11-02
The News Condensed.

Fire burned about 1000 bushels of
pats on the farm of ID. L. Remington
near Osseo.
Conner & Kraus, of Marshfield, have
sold to Oshkosh parties 1,400 acres of
pine land in Villas and Forest counties
for S21,000
Albert Cardin has sold four pearls
found in the river at Prairie du Chen
TO Mr.. Howard, of Comanche, for $169.
He found another valued at over $500.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway company has established a sta
ton at Arbor Vitae.
The German NJ. E. church celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary of its estab-
Iishment in Watertown.
julius Behnke, of White Lake, aged
about 20 years, broke his neck by fall
ing from his wagon.
John Driscoll, of the town of Somers,
who has seen service in the Philippines
for the last year as member of the
Eighth army corps, has returned to his
home.
Capt. A. w. Allyn died in Beloit, aged
SO years. He was a member of the
Third Wisconsin cavalry in the civil
war.
Burglars entered the home of NJ. May
in Racine and secured $500. OF that
$27o belonged to a son, Peter May, who
had saved it and was to be married
soon.
Ex-Mayor John Black, of Milwaukee,
died at his home, aged II years.
David w. Small, ex-judge of the Sec
ond judicial district of Wisconsin, died
at his home in Oconomowoc, aged ~
years.
The Kiel Cheese, Butter & Cold Stor-
age company has been organized at
Kiel by Green Bay men with a capital
of $4,000.
Z. ID. Lotus, Green Bay volunteer,
has returned from the Philippines
where he spent 16 months. He was a
member of company E, Thirteenth Min
nesota, and took part in is engage
ments.
Ex-senator Philetus Sawyer has con-
tributed $4,000 to aid the Ladies Benev-
olcnt society of Oshkosh in building a
new NOME JOE tilc lIlFAidiS0o "iiN sc
curing an endowment for it.
The general store of A. o. Crowell at
Almond was robbed of considerable
merchandise, and the post office was
also entered and several registered let
ters opened.
Miss Ida Norder, of Sylvester, aged
10 wears, is the first woman in Greene
county TO take out hunters license.
Fire destroyed the haystacks, barns,
farm machinery and other property of
Ernst Smith near Racine.
The good roads convention in Manito-
woe was a success. The counties of
Calumet, Kewaunee, Sheboygan and
Manitowoc were all represented, over
1850 farmers being present.
Mrs Thomas r. Mercein, recently re
elected president of the Society of Co
lonial Danes of Wisconsin, died in Mil
waukee as the result of surgical OPP
GRAFTON for cancer.
Otto Knuesli. city editor of Germania,
died in Milwaukee of heart failure, aged
81 years. He was well known in Ger
man newspaper circles throughout the
northwest.
The City brewery in Kilburn was
burned, the loss being $4,000, with 49,,
900 insurance.
An order has been issued discontinue
ing the post office at Adsit, Dane coun-
ty. Mail will be sent TO Marshall.
DIR. f. G. Hazelton died in Kenosha,
aged SIS years He organized the first
water system in Kenosha, being for
years the manager and largest stock
holder in the water company. He
leaves a wife and one daughter.
The planning mill of Erdman q
Schultz. in the town of Lake, was de-
stroyed by fire, causing loss of $1,000.
Two cottages and barn were also de-
stroyed.
Two deer were killed by train on
the trestIe work near KEENAN,.
The Northwestern Railway company
has bought the creamery plant in Be
lott of Robert Miller for $4,000.
1t is estimated that 75,000,0O0 feet of
logs viii be put in on the Wisconsin
river at Merrill the coming season.
There win be greater amount of hem
lock and hardwood put in than ever be-
fore.
Rev. Henry T. FELTON,, aged 80, pastor
for 10 years Of the Lutheran Bethlehem
church, died in Sheboygan. a wife and
four children survive him.
Horatio Ryder, of Hustisford. bad an
arm taken off while feeding corn husk-
er and shredder.
David T. O'Keefe, of Ashland, who re- |
Gently resigned as district attorney, |
has gone to Denver to practice law.