River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-04-19

Copper ore assaying Sl42 a ton a
been taken III of a mine in the Kick
apoo valley, Expert miners viii pros
pect the country in that vicinity.
The stables, together with farm ma
chinery. two head of cattle and sew
eral tons of hay belonging to John
Buettner, of Pierce. were burned.
The democrats will meet in state
convention in Milwaukee June - to
elect delegates to the national conven-
ton.
Judge Emil Wallber has resigned as
municipal Judge in Milwaukee, to take
effect May 20. Judge Wallber will as
sumo the duties of judge of the coun-
ty court.
DIR. A. j. Benjamin will this year be
superintendent of the northern Chau-
tauqua assembly. He is the editor OF
the Wisconsin Christian Advocate.
The assembly will meet August >.
Robert Klein, aged % years, commit
ted suicide in Seymour by taking the
cap from a 12-gauge shell and touch
ing off the powder in the shell with a
match.
Wolves have become very plentiful
in the vicinity of Sparta and are an
moving the farmers.
Twenty-Five head of cattle and four
horses were killed in a fire that de-
stroyed the barns and residence of Au-
gust Slender at Picketts.
John Owsley, Sr., of Sparta, n of
the foremost pioneers of western Wis
consin. as well as of South Dakota,
died at Mendoza, aged 81 years.
Four new residences for the officers
of the state reformatory in Green BAY
will be built upon the grounds of the
institution this spring.
As a result of the addition Of sew
eral articles TO the covenant of the
Baptist church in Green Bay a num-
Der of well-known people who have
heretofore been considered good
church members have withdrawn.
The single mill of Fetterly Bros.
in the town of Coleman was burned.
The loss is 81, 1000. with no insurance.
Gov. Scofeld has appointed John b.
Bergman state Law librarian, to sue
coed A. l.. Sanborn, resigned.
Word has been received from Mo
line. H.. that +. +. Younggreen, a
former ieweler of Racine. was found
dead in an old house at that place.
The interest received by State Treas
urer j.. o. Davidson from state de-
positories for the quarter ended
March 81 and turned into the state
treasury was S5.734.I2.
The friends Of Mrs. Marie Pleva. who
was convicted Of murder in Kenosha in
1897. win appear before the governor
in a few weeks and ask a pardon.
Mrs. William Meyerperteo dropped
dead in Hartford while dressing. She
was 81 years of age.
The Oshkosh library has been en-
riched by the addition OF three large oil
paintings valued at $4,000.
The common council has decided to
annex to Milwaukee the settlement
living to the west of the municipal linn
lis. known as Silver City, with a popu-
lation of 2,Oo0.
Judge William i. Lyon, Of Madison,
has been reappointed a member OF the
state board of control by Gov. Scofield.
The appointment IS for a term of five
years.
Sixty families at Sawyer have peti-
toned Bishop Messmer to permit them
10 erect a church at that place.
Henry Phillips, an old settler in the
town Of Merton. Waukesha county;
died at the age Of - years.
Peck's sun. the humorous weekly pa
per in Milwaukee which was recently
resuscitated by former Gov. Peck, has
ceased publication.
Col. J.. McC. Bell. since the close OF
the civil war a leading citizen Of Mil
waukee, died at his home in that city
from a stroke Of paralysis.
Charles Nelson. 10 years old con
fessed to Chief of Police Schumacher
that he had committed numerous bur
glaries~ recently in Racine.
At the annual meeting in Stevens
Point or the Northwestern Medical as
sociation G. Won Newport. Of Stevens
Point. was elected president.