River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-29
The News Condensed.

When John Rogalinski closed his
saloon in Milwaukee he left Paul
Prepka inside asleep on a chair. When
the saloon was opened in the morning
Prepka was dead.
Rev. p. Lang. who has been pastor
of the Lutheran church in Weyau-
vega during the past 10 years, died
at the age of Sc years.
Isaac Stephenson completed, in
Marinette, the largest lumber deal of
the year on the Menominee, selling to
the Edward Hines company, of Chi
cago, 5000, 900 feet for 100000.
A deal was closed in Fond du Lac
by which the largest Independent
yeast company of the United States,
the Wafer company, of this city, is
absorbed by the trust.
The Merchants and Manufacturers
association, of Milwaukee, has been
given until April 10 to raise the re-
mainder of the promised $4,000 bonus
to insure the holding of the state fair
in the Cream city next fall.
The handsome 100000 high school
DullulnS III NduSdu was ANAii"iJ
opened.
Adam Piescheek, of Green Bay, who
failed to marry Nellie Kuklya after
the girl had purchased her wedding
trousseau and who was sued for $1,000
damages for a wounded heart, will be
compelled to pay $500.
Fire in Packwaukee burned the gen
eral store of +. T.. Ward, entailing a
loss of $4,000.
EIkhart will be connected by an
electric railway running between
Sheboygan, %Sheboygan Falls, Ply
mouth and Elkhart.
Carrie Hogan, OF Wausau, gave
birth to a child while being driven to
the hospital.
Eleanor Maud Kluwin was granted a
divorce from John Kluwin on the
grounds OF desertion. The defendant
is city attorney for Oshkosh.
John and Joseph Chasmor, brothers,
were struck by a train on the Wiscon-
sin Central while crossing the track
in a buggy near Cadott, and both were
instantly killed.
Frederick Yungans, aged 30 years,
died in Racine. He was the oldest
German resident of the city and lived
there over 50 years.
Patrick Regain. aged 90 years, a
well-known resident of Madison. died
from paralysis. During the civil war
he was a member Of the Twelfth Wis
consin infantry.
Isaac Woodruff. of Chippewa Falls,
and well known throughout the state,
dropped dead on the street.
young son of Charles Hass, a farm
er living east of Fox Lake, was killed
in a runaway accident by being thrown
out of a wagon.
The death of Gen. Harnden, com
mander in chief of the Wisconsin g..
4. r.. advances to that position Sam
uel II. TaIlmadge, of Milwaukee.
Ever Leum. j%anitor of the Westby
Lutheran church in Yiroqua, dropped
dead during services. He was II years
of age.
Charles Henry Bunting died in La
Crosse. aged IS years. He was the
Oldest commercial traveller in point
of service in the northwest.
Howard ". Nickerson, aged As, a
well-known lawyer, member of the
firm of Nickerson Roemer q Ahrens,
died very suddenly in Milwaukee.
The resignation OF Miss Annie Cros-
by Emery. dean OF women at the Uni
yersity of Wisconsin. is announced to
take effect June /. She has accepted
a similar position at the women's col
lege at Brown university.
At the burial of George Smith in Be
lott one of the cross-sticks supporting
the easket broke, letting it plunge for
ward. breaking the coffin and exposing
the remains.
At a meeting Of Independent tele-
phone companies in Weyauwega it
was decided to organize a state asso-
citation and operate all the toll lines
under one system.