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The new flour mill at Bloomer is completed and will be put in operation immediately.
Mrs. Charles Kellett of Neenah dropped dead while making purchases in a dry goods store.
O. K. Ranum, a druggist of Menomonie, has made an assignment. The assets are about $2,000.
County Judge J. A. Murat recently celebrated his golden wedding at his home in Stevens Point.
The improvements in the capitol at Madison during 1897 in new buildings foot up to $450,000.
The La Crosse Board of Education has made a rule not to employ married women as teachers in public schools.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Gardner, pioneer residents of Sheboygan Falls,, celebrated their golden wedding recently.
A company has been formed at Marinette to improve the power at Chappie rapids, on the Menominee river.
A Northwestern passenger train struck a team and wagon at Fenwood. John Trask, one of the occupants, was killed.
The body of a babe, wrapped in a newspaper, was found by a party of boys under the La Crosse river bridge in La Crosse.
Isaac Varino, a well-known resident of Two Rivers, sustained such severe injuries by a fall on the ice that his recovery is considered doubtful.
The Shaw Hardware Company of Racine has made an assignment to Hayland Daymond. The assets are about $5,000 and the liabilities are not known.
Thieves entered the store of Huetter & Peterson at Appleton and stole cutlery valued at $20. A small amount of money was taken from the saloon of Mr. Kamp the same night.
A horse and cutter were run down between Sagola and Randville, Mich., by a St. Paul train and the driver, an unknown Sagola man, narrowly escaped. His horse was killed.
The will of R. P. Elmore of Milwaukee leaves an estate of $100,000 to his four children. The widow is given the homestead and enough cash and securities to amount to $25,000.
William Bernard of Necedah, a brakeman on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, was run over and instantly killed while making a switch at the Tomahawk paper mill.
The home for the friendless at Sheboygan is in financial difficulty and fears are expressed that it may be compelled to close. A meeting will be held to consider means to aid the institution.
Owing to the lack of the signature of one witness to the will of the late Charles W. Stolla at Milwaukee, W. E. Hedgar, to whom an estate of $50,000 was bequeathed, will have considerable difficulty in securing the fortune.
The State Treasury has been paid $1,300 by the receiver of the Bank of Edgerton as interest and bonds collected by the bank for the State. The claim of the State as a preferred creditor had been recognized by the bank officials.
The Patton flour mills, owned by J. J. Steiger at Fremont, were burned to the ground. There was an insurance of $4,500 in Waupaca agencies. Mr. Steiger paid $9,600 for the mills about a year ago. They will probably not be rebuilt.
Marinette can lay claim to the smallest baby in the State. Mrs. Fred Carlson, wife of a woodsman, is the mother, and the tiny infant weighs but two pounds. It is about six inches long and its head could be inclosed in a man's fist. It is healthy and well.
Persons who have been closely connected with the Northern Pacific and Wisconsin Central litigation and are acquainted with enterprises in which John D. Rockefeller has been concerned, credit that gentleman with being back of the movement to secure control of the Wisconsin Central properties.
As a result of a barroom fight, in which "Bob" Fitzsimmons, Martin Hughs, an attorney; Charles Seaman, a son of Judge William H. Seaman of the United States Federal Court, and Edward B. McDaniels, a comedian in Fitzsimmons' theatrical company, engaged, Attorney Hughs lies in a precarious condition at Sheboygan, and there are some doubts as to his recovery. The trouble grew out of a criticism passed on Fitzsimmons' show by Hughs, which was resented by McDaniels, who, it is alleged, struck the attorney over the eye, rupturing a vein.
The Marinette Traveling Library Association has completed arrangements for supplying the rural district with books and magazines. The books will be sent to those districts in chests or cabinets, each one containing forty books. No two chests will contain the same matter, and when one district shall have finished reading the contents of the chest new matter will be placed therein. The donations of reading matter for these traveling libraries have thus far been very liberal. Many hundreds of magazines and periodicals have been contributed and the system will be in full operation this winter.
The report of the State Treasurer for December shows the total amount of cash on hand in the State treasury Dec. 31 to be $189,142.67, including all funds. The balance in the general fund was $44,-
