The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-12-22
WISCONSIN ITEMS.
Events of the Past Week In the
Badger State.

La Crosse, committed suicide i'll Chi
cagO.
Mrs. Esera A. Glover, ST., died at
Hudson of heart failure, aged eighty
one years.
The license of William Kuno, sa-
loonkeeper of Potter, was revoked by
the town board of Rantoul.
The stock of Dunning Bros in Me-
| nominee was sold at sheriff's sale. 1t
brought only $4,000. Beuhl Bros. &
Co. of Detroit were the purchasers.
Coal gas came mighty near ending
the lives of four Menominee people.
They were Mrs. Edward Souvin aud
three children.
1t cost the residents of Eau Pleine.
Marathon county, just $40 to learn that
there was a shortage of Is cents in the
| town treasury.
Goldbrick ami Vogel of Aniwa. Lang
! lade county, have invented and patent
ed a railroad cattle guard that is eX-
pected to supersede those now in use.
Charles Good of Elk Grove, Wis, is
the Oldest inhabitant of that section OF
the state. If he lives until next March
he will be 103 years old.
| The town of Montello has voted the
required aid, $1,000, for the construc-
| ton of the Chicago, Montello u North
western railroad. Work will begin i'll
the spring
The examination of Sophus MOrri-
son, who was arrested on a charge of
embeZZlement by Estey & Camp, was
continued to December Is in Justice
MitchelPs court at Kaukauna.
1t is not usual that hay is made
around Horizon at this time of the
year, but II. Meiske and son, about
three miles northwest Of there, have
been putting up large quantities the
| past week.
A man named Latter was walking
through the woods at Stratford when
| a limb fell from a tree, striking and al
most instantly killing him. He was
about fifty years old and leaves sew
eral children.
| Charles George, aged fifty-seven
| years, died at Sheboygau Falls of
| typhoid fever He was member of
company t. Twenty-first Wisconsin in
| fantry, and participated III Shermans
| famous march from Atlanta to the sea.
! Patrick Madden was arrested for not
| taking out a liquor license at Minoc-
| qua, and was fined $50 and costs.
Henry Rein and John La Page were
arrested on the same charge and fined
| $50 and costs each
! The prospects are that Marine tie will
| have municipal court in the near fut-
! ure. A bill for that purpose will be in
troduced in the legislature. At a meet
ing of the Marinette County Bar reso-
luton favOring it were passed.
Moritz Weidner died at Oshkosh at
the age of eighty. He was The father
of Julius Weidner, proprietor of the
| Wisconsin Telegraph, and one of the
| pioneer musicians of the city. He was
we'll known in German circles.
The French conSuls in Germany have
! been requested to submit to M. Bouch-
| er. minister of commerce, reports OH
the economic situation in Germany.
| with view to the development OF
| ranco-German trade.
One of the large buildings i'll the
yard of the T. +. NJ. & +. d. Shaw
company's tannery at Perkinstown was
partially burned The fire was check
ed after one vault in the sweat house
was burned. All of the vats were de-
stroyed.
e. B. Randall, eX-treasurer of Supe-
rior Lodge, /. o. O. f., is in custody Of
Deputy Sheriff Rice, to answer to the
charge of embeZZlement and fraudu-
lent conversion Of money. He waived
eXamina ton, bail being fixed at $1,000,
which he has not secured.
Supt Parent Of the Marinette Boom
company says reports concerning the
log cut have been exaggerated About
250,0O0,O00 feet is the amount Mr..
Parent places as careful and accll-
rate estimate of what will be cut dur
ing the winter Of 1867.
At a special session of the Ashland
common council next week an attempt
will be made to pass an ordinance for
| the issue of bonds to the amount of
| $4,000 to pay existing judgments Of
| $4,000 and put the city on a cash
| basis.
The Racine college has experienced
! considerable difficulty the past few
years to keep its head above water.
| Now a special assessment of $4,000 for
| lake shore protection is due and there
| is talk Of citizens subscribing the
amount.
/ The Wisconsin & Michigan Railway
company is putting the line in good re-
pair for winter logging, which will be-
| gin as soon as snow falls. A mile and
! a halfsof the light iron will be taken to
! equip the Hammond branch, which
generates large tract of pine.
There has been reaction regardins
| the discontinuance of the Oshkosh
Fair association, and the indications
| are now that at the next meeting there
| will be a representation of stock suffi-