River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-03
The News Condensed.

At a special election the citizens OF
Stoughton, by large majority, voted
in favor of bonding the city in order
to build municipal light plant.
Thomas Murphy, disappointed in
love, took a dose of laudanum at Chip
pewa Falls, and when revived cut his
throat with a razor.
At the meeting of the state board
Y. M G. A directors and general Sec
cretaries at Fourth street Y. M. G. A.
Fond du Lac was chosen as the next
city for the state convention, which
will be held in the spring.
James Dean, a pioneer and personal
friend of Solomon Juneau, is dead at
Seymour.
C. W. Howard, the millionaire Nee
nah paper man, denies that he is to
sell his paper mill to John Strange for
100000.
Plans are under consideration by the
supreme officers of the Equitable Fra
ternal union, whose offices are in Nee
nah, for the erection of a $4,000 tenn
pie.
The fight against the so-called wild
cat" insurance companies in Wiscon-
sin has been taken up.
The corner stone of the Danish Broth
erhood hall was laid in Racine with i'm
pressive ceremonies.
Lars Finstad, of Onalaska, and Miss
Mollie Erickson, of La Crosse have been
married. The bridegroom is 80 years
on age and the bride 49,
Charles Erblich, the Kenosha artist
who was injured by falling from scant-
ling, is dead.
Tom Hauser, Fl years old, was crushed
to death near Twin Grove while telling
large tree.
Seven cattle belonging to Phil Miller.
of Preble, Brown county, were poisoned
with paris green, administered, it is be-
lieved, in piles of salt.
"Craw craw," the new osculatory dis
| ease, has struck La Crosse. Physicians
have not officially diagnosed the dis
ease, but it is an itch" that is irritating,
and is caused by kissing.
Mrs Robert M. Work, wife of prom
inent undertaken at Elroy, dropped dead
w
Archbishop Messmer, of the Milwau-
kee district, announced that the next
diocesan synod will probably forbid
Catholics attending Saturday night and
Sunday dances and Sunday funerals,
and make saloonkeepers ineligible as
church officials.
Charles W. Argrelius, a Monroe &C.
togenarian, was found guilty of horse
stealing and was sentenced to Is years
in Waupun. This is his fifth term
there.
Paul Parkhurst, nine years old, of
GAINESVILLE, was awarded a verdict OF
$4,000 against Drs. Nuzum and Suth-
erland, of Brodhead. 1t is alleged they
amputated the wrong foot during an
operation.
At the annual meeting of the Chi
cago, st. Paul, Minneapolis e Omaha
railway in Hudson, the purchase of the
Chippewa Valley & Northwestern and
the Eau Claire, Chippewa Falls & North
western railways was completed.
The golden jubilee of Watertown's ST.
Marks Lutheran church was celebrated
church was organized October 2, 1854
with % families, of whom only four
members are living.
A beggar having 81 LAG slowed away in
his grip was picked up in Kaukauna and
warned to desist from his operations by
City Marshal Conlon
The state bank of Mauston, for some
time in charge of the state banking de-
partment, has been turned over to the
directors and reopened
Agitation has been started in Superior
to force the mills of the Standard Mill
ing company to do business or the flour
combine to go out Of business.
During the absence of his wife and
four children who are on visit to
WATERFOWL, Frank Buelow, of Jefferson,
aged 40 years, committed suicide.
Miss Catherine Rickinger left 500
900 to st. Mary's Catholic church for the
founding of hospital at Port Washing
ton.