The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-11
WISCONSIN ITEMS.
Events of the Past Week I'M Nn"
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his home, aged fifty-eight years.
Joseph Lautcot was sentenced from
Bayfield, county to twenty-five montnsl
i'll state prison for adultery.
Hiram A. Jones, an early resident OF
Juneau, died at his residence, AFTER a
long illness, aged siXty-nine.
THE dam at Delavan was damaged
during a recent storm and was in dan
ger of going out.
Engelbert tlatten, a pioneer OF st.
Anna, Marquette county, died at the
age of eighty-twO years.
Fred Olds of Vernon county was SEN
fenced to one year in prison for lar
ceny.
Samuel Matthe VS.. aged twenty, was
drowned in the Calumet dam While
bathing at Houghton.
Joseph Hussen, aged eighty years,
died at his home in the town of Har-
ward, Brown county.
Michael Johnson's house, at Marin
cite, was destroyed by fire. The loss
is $500.
Alfred Anderson was handling gun
at La Crosse and didn't know 1t was
loaded. He lost two fingers.
The dwelling of Felix Sprentles, near
Green Bay, was burned. The loss is
1900; insurance. 500.
Joseph Christ was run down by a
freight train at La Crosse and had his
right leg cut off.
A new draw will be placed in the
bridge over Fox river at Green Bay.
Mrs Rosa Lange, formerly resi-
dent of Chiffon, died at RantOul.
Meiklejohn Il Hatton's hardwood
drive containing about 100000 feet,
has arrived at Shawano, and is now
being run through the pond.
The North Wisconsin Lumber compa-
ny, at Hayward, and the Daniel Shaw
and Empire Lumber company at Eau
Claire will shut down their mills Sept.
l. Full yards and dizziness of the lum-
Der trade are given as reasons.
The case of the state against G. A.
SwartWood on the charge of obtaining
goods under false pretenSes, was
called in Justice HOLSTERS court at
Tomah. The defense took change of
venue to Justice MaXwelPs court.
Fire broke out in the moulding room
of the Fuller q Johnson cOmpany'S
plant at Madison. 1t threatened to be
a disastrous blaze, but the flames were
checked. The loss is about 81 800, COW
cred by insurance.
L. G. Bomrich has begun a suit
against the NJ. III. Petit Mating COM
pany of KenoSha, to compel the issue
to him of $4,000 paid-up stock. He
says that the company, to retain his
services, offered him as an inducement,
stock to the amount of $4,000.
Game Warden Wright of Marinette,
saws that deer are being slaughtered
in scattering numbers by hunters. He
also states that next fall he will make
war on pOt-hunterS, those who run
deer with dogs and others who shoot
out of season. He is going to begin
early and see if he cannot curtail the
slaughter of deer.
While eXcavating for a warehouse at
the paper mills at Marinette, an lndi-
an burial ground was unearthed. The
remains of four Indians have already
been uncovered, and the contractor has
ordered his men to do as little work
with the shovel as possible to preserve
the remaining graves intact.
Moses I<reider, a young Wausau boy
working in a paper mill at Stevens
Point, was caught in the winding ma
chinery and swung a dozen or more
times around the shaft. Two hundred
stitches were required to dress his
wounds, but he is now rapidly recover
ing.
The six tramps who were arrested at
Chippewa Falls on the charge of shoot
ing at Conductor Gavin, were ar
raigned in the municipal court and
pleaded not guilty. Three were dis
charged and the three others held I'M
til Aug. Z, when they will be tried.
J. S. Clark, a jeweler of Berlin, was
seriously injured while walking in the
st. Paul railroad yards. A runaway
horse hitched to wagon, daSned
through the roadway and struck him.
He was thrown against a car with
great force A bone in one of his fore
arms was broken and he received other
severe injuries.
The jury in the case Of the Drovers'
National bank in Chicago, against Mrs.
J. Kersten of Depere, for the collection
of a note of $50, given by her to the
Chicago Supply company, brought in
verdict in favor of the defendant at
Green Bay. The case will in all prob
ability be appealed by the attorneys
for the bank to the circuit court.
A paper in the nature of confess
ion was found in Patrick Christies cot
at the Neillsville Jail, after his death
by hanging. 1t was written in capital
letters mostly, and almost unintelligi-
BILE. and, although not given out for
publication, is understood to be an
effort on his part to eXonerate his son
Bert, who is charged with having shot
and killed Miller.