River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-22

Because II lost her position IN q
laundry in Milwaukee Miss Emma
Van Bramer, 81 years old, killed him
self with poison.
The golf clubs of Fond du Lac
Green Bay, Appleton and Green Lake
will form the Fox Valley Golf league
j. A. ~Jureawski, aged 90, of Milwau.
kee, who was stealing his way OH the
Pioneer limited, slipped from the rear
of the tender at La Crosse and was
mangled beneath the train.
At the annual sale of logs banked
by the Menominee Indians on the
Keshena reservation, Col. Seymour
HOLSTER, of Oshkosh. bought the en-
tire IS, 00O. 900 feet for $243,750.
Brakeman Richard Boone, 33 years
old, was run over and instantly killed
at Marshfield. He was married, and
lived in Altoona.
The letter carriers of the state met
in Stevens Point and organized on
lines similar to the national organiZa-
ton. 1t was decided to hold the next
annual convention in La Crosse in
June, 1901.
In a wreck near Pembine on the
Holmes & Sons railway 10 cars and
a caboose were piled in the ditch and
Brakeman James MCCLELLAN fatally in
jured.
The directors of the Milwaukee
Carnival association have Fixed the
dates for the summer carnival of 1909
at June &c to 90.
G. b. Smith, one of the best-known
hotel men in the state, died in Sparta of
dropsy. He was the proprietor of the
Ida house at Sparta and a hotel at
Kendall.
At the Lakeside auditorium, in RAJ
cine, Danny Mcmahon, of Philadelphia,
put Jack Dougherty to sleep in the
first round of a fight.
The republicans of Milwaukee have
nominated Henry j. Baumgartner for
mayor.
Hon. Frank Pooler, capitalist, lum-
herman and politician of Onalaska, was
stricken with paralysis at Savannah,
ILL.,, and died there.
Lewis Wandell. of Kankauna, is
soon to become a rich man through
the death of an uncle, who died intes-
tate some time ago in New York,
leaving a fortune of $4,000 600.
Consolidation of the cities of Cen
tralia and Grand Rapids carried by
a large vote. The new municipality
has a population of 5000 and is to be
called Grand Rapids.
Buel Davis, aged II, o of the for
mer superintendent of schools in Osh-
kosh, drowned himself in the Fox
river. He feared that he was becom-
ing insane.
The body of Conrad Reiff, of Mari
nette, who disappeared about Christ
mas, was found in the Fox river at
De Pere.
Gov. Scofeld spoke at the Farmers
institute at Delavan.
1t is reported that the tannery in
Kenosha belonging TO the y. r. Al
lens Sons has been sold to the leather
trust for 81, 600. The tannery en-
ploys 1900 men.
/ new railway company. the Bay
llEIUt GQItIIbl anu AAiihEA pOltEs AAFn
articles of organization in Madison.
The line is from bayfield, TO Superior
and thence TO Minneapolis.
Rev. w. Shumway. for so years a
minister and resident of Sank coun-
ty for over 40 years, died in Baraboo.
Four men were caught while at
tempting to rob the dry goods store
of w. II. Lomke at Washburn.
Peter Decoster arrived home in
Green Bay after a 15-months' expert
ence in the Philippines as a member
of company b, Twentieth regiment
United States infantry.
Rev. Warren Cochran, who died in
Omaha, Neb.. at the age of SO years,
was at one time one of the most
prominent Congregational ministers
in this state. and lived at Baraboo.
The Rio Jail was burned to the
ground and Nels Ellingston, a pris-
oner. was eremated. He leaves a
wife and FIVE children.
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