River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-01
The News Condensed.


James II. Minor, Ranney farmer,
read a matrimonial lad" He answered
on Sunday, was married on Monday,
and on tuesday the wife grew lone
some and left; divorce asked next day.
Arthur Roetger, aged IA years, was
struck by lightning at New Richmond
while eating lunch in a schoolhouse
and instantly killed.
Twelve beet sugar manufacturing
plants, each with daily capacity of
500 tons of beet and costing in the ag-
gregate over $5,000,000, will be built
in different parts of Wisconsin next
fall by Wisconsin and Michigan CAPT
talsts.
j. w. Babcock has been renominated
for congress by the republicans of the
Third congressional district.
Word was received in New Rich
mond of the death by drowning in
Manila bay, March 2, of Private Will
liam j. Callahan, troop ID, First United
States cavalry, son of John Callahan,
of Erin.
Mayor w. E. Nuzum has ordered the
laws regarding the running of saloons
in Tomah and for the first time for
years the saloons were closed on Sun
day.
The Sheboygan Gentlemen's Driving
club has decided on June 6 as Derby
day.
Mayor Schultz has notified Andrew
Carnegie that Neenah has bought the
site and all is now ready for the con-
struction of the new library building.
William Maher, who was found
guilty of criminal assault on a young
girl at Egg Harbor, has been sentenced
to IS years in the state prison.
County Judge H. j. Harrington,
aged 60 years, died suddenly in Green
Bay from an attack of angina pectoris.
He was prominent leader of the G.
A. r.
Fred Haak shot and fatally wound
ed his wife in Thorpe because
she refused to live with him and give
him money which he demanded. Haak
was arrested.
The farmhoue of James Irvine, treas
urer OF the IOWu VI Nd1ts was
stroyed by fire and all of his official
papers were burned together with
$500 in notes.
The governor has honored a requi-
sion from the governor of Ohio for
Wesley Legg, under arrest at Mari
nette, for stabbing affray in Pike
county, 0.
During a heavy thunderstorm IL
barns near Oconto were wrecked by
the wind as well as numerous smaller
buildings.
John Cert, farmer boy, was Grip
pied for life while hunting six miles
north of Racine.
Fire in Eau Claire destroyed the
barns of the Daniel Shaw Lumber com
pany, SO logging houses, the camp out
fits and 60 tons of hay. The loss is $780,
600.
w. w. Baker, pioneer settler, who
was for many years sergeant at arms
and postmaster of the Wisconsin state
senate. died at his home in Kenosha,
aged rs. He had lived in Kenosha over
60 years.
In the vicinity OF DldCh leiFSi = "iA'
forest fires have destroyed the pros
poets of the burberry crop. One
tract of good blueberry land, compris-
ing over 300 acres, was burned.
A. J. Empey had about 300 cords OF
wood burned at Milladore.
Former Judge Frank NJ. Fish, of the
circuit court in Racine, has retired as
a member of the law firm of Fish d
Gillen, and with his family he will go to
Beaumont, Tex.
Little nine-year-old Gretchen Hen
schel jumped the rope hundred times
in La Crosse, and then complained of a
severe headache and died in few min
utes.
To keep his wife from. getting di-
vorce, Herman Fuercher, for II years
drayman in La Crosse, committed
suicide by hanging.