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The News Condensed. A railroad five miles long from Union Center, in Juneau county, to Hillsboro, Vernon county, is to be built. The A. Fuermann brewery made an assignment in Watertown to W. H. Woodwar with liabilities of $35,000. Paul Wagner, aged 45, and his wife Fredericka, aged 64, were suffocated by coal gas at their residence in Milwaukee. At West Superior the State trust and savings bank closed its doors with liabilities of $40,000. Hotel Malavey, at Itasca, was burned, the loss being $5,000; insurance, $1,000. Jacob Hirsch, a clothing dealer in Milwaukee, made an assignment to Philip Hirsch, who gave a bond for $15,000. The license of the National Mutual Life Insurance association of Minneapolis, in this state, was revoked Monday by Insurance Commissioner Fricke. Charles Lembrich was caught in the freight elevator shaft at the Blatz brewery in Milwaukee and his head was crushed. Therewas born to Mr. and Mrs Walker at Cataract a girl having two well'ormed front teeth in her lower jaw. Edgar C. Jennings, for more than 30 years cashier of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company, died suddenly in Milwaukee of paralysis, aged 78 years. W. Peplinski, postmaster at Pulaski, was arrested, charged with abstracting money from a registered letter addressed to Armor & Co., Chicago. The Reedsburg woolen mills, the largest in that part of the state, have opened on full time. The flax and feed mill at Union Grove, owned by Henry Box, of Evanston. III., was burned, the loss being $10,000; no insurance. The sheriff attached the E. A. Ellinger & Co. cloak factory in Racine on claims of over $20,000. H. B. Hinckley, well known in football circles and captain of the Beloit team of 1896, was attacked by a savage dog in Beloit and badly bitten. Gen. Edward S. Bragg celebrated his 70th birthday at his home in Fond du Lac. Mike Neganup, a half-breed, in a drunken fit of jealousy stabbed his brother John through the heart with a hunting knife at Spooner. Christian Malschner, aged 60, an inmate of the poorfarm at Sheboygan, committed suicide. His home was at West Superior. The bequest of $10,000 left by Father Ritter, who died at St. Joseph's, has been received by St. Joseph's orphan usylum, his estate, amounting to $15,000, having just been settled. John Ebell, a farmer in the town of Marion, was accidentally shot and killed. Clem Lindke, a saloon keeper at Manston, was found guilty of having a rifle in his possession belonging to the state and was fined $45 and costs. Mrs. John Toomes, aged 94 years, was buried at Burlington. She was a native of England. Robert Wootton, one of the most prominent business men of Madison, died after a short illness. He was 65 years old and had lived in Madison for 37 years. The parishioners of St. John's Catholie church in Marshfield will erect a $12,000, eight-room, brick school here in the spring. Surveyors are now at work on a route for an electric railroad from Oshkosh, Winnebago county, through Waushara county to Stevens Point. By order of Receiver Stevens the Western Paper Bag company at Kaukauna has resumed operations. E. H. Brill, aged 53, one of Racine's oldest merchants, died suddenly of apoplexy at his store. Mrs. Marie Graf, over 90 years of age, died of the grippe at Ripon. She had been a resident of that city for a quarter of a century, and previously lived 20 years at Watertown. Warden Reynolds died in Green Bay, aged 84 years. For 25 years he was chairman of the committee of correspondence of the grand lodges of the old fellows of Wisconsin. Thomas R. Bently, a contractor in Milwaukee, made an assign ment to Henry Ferge, who gave bonds of $50,000. The Wiseonsin Odd Fellows' Mutual Life Insurance company, which was organized in Milwaukee in 1869, made an assignment. During the last year over 5,000 members dropped out. Peter Meyer, of Farmington, was struck on the head by the limb of a falling tree and killed. Mrs. William Mash, of Eau Claire, tried to start a fire with kerosene. Her face, arms and chest were terribly burned, but she might live.