The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-12-08
WISCONSIN ITEMS.
Events of the Past Week In the
Badger State.

waiter Scout pharmacy WAS clOSeu
at Eau Claire on a chattel mortgage of
$3,100 held by |. d. Hall.
Chris Solberg was crushed to death
by a falling tree III a lumber camp
near Chippewa Falls.
William Lipkey was severely cet
with an ak in a logging camp near
Marinette
Edward Price, a well-known colored
man OF Racine died at his home, aged
seventy-seyen years.
Joseph Mallory, an Oshkosh con-
tractor. was thrown from his bike and
badly injured
The residents of Cuba City want
the city fathers to pass a curfew ordi-
nance.
Five men were arrested at Cunlber-
land on charge of violating the OK
else law
In the circuit court at Green Bay
William Pierce pleaded guilty Of en-
bezzlement and was sentenced to six
months in state prison.
The liabilities of the German-Amer-
Jean bank at Portage which failed, are
placed at $4,000 and the assets at
$150,000.
Mrs. Joseph Lestofska. a resident of
Columbia county for over half cen
fury, died a her home in York town
ship, aged eighty-five years.
Charles Plcmb, an employe at the
Upham power house at Marshfield, dis
located his right shoulder while en-
gagged in the boiler room.
Louis Mcdowell the ten-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs Robert Mellow
ell, drowned while skating on a creek
i'll Peshtigo. His body was recovered.
Col r. t. Mccormick of the North
Wisconsin Lumber company CT Hay
ward, had the misfortune TO fall on a
slippery road and break two ribs.
Brown Bros. of Rhinelander have
purchased some timber of the Land,
Log and Lumber company, near Buck
ataubin, and will log it this winter
At McCullum's camp, near Rice
Lake, all the roads for the winter are
cut, and the crow already has about
100000 feet on the skidway
The Dodge county poorh0use has the
reputation of being the best kept in
the state, and the only one that has
ever paid expenses and balance
over.
A hired man, giving his name as
George Williams, and who has been
working for Herman Eisner in the
town of Polk, Washington county, has
disappeared.
John Watson, one of the earliest set
tiers of Sank county, died ut his home
in Excelsior at the age Of siXty-nine
years. He leaves wife and four chill
dren.~
John e. Engels, who was ip jail at
Marinette for long while and was
later taken to Green Bay to be tried on
more serious charge, has pleaded not
guilty.
W. G. Carson of Kenosha. who was
incarcerated in Racine county Jail, is
working up case for damages against
that county for alleged false impris-
on ment.
-Four tramps were jailed at Trenl-
peauleau on charge of larceny, hav-
ing stolen dry goods from e. ]. Han
keys store. The entire gang broke Jail
and made good their escape.
The school board of Marinctte has
adopted vertical pellmanship for the
city schools. Vertical writing is grow
Ing in popularity throughout the coun-
try and Marinette wants to be up to
date.
The Valley Lumber company is the
heaviest loser by the flood at Chippewa
Falls. Six strings of lumber were car
ried down the river. A large crew of
men were kept at work trying to save
the lumber but could not rs the cur
rent was too strong.
In the amount of business done, the
tobacco market at Deerfield has as
Isumed the proportions of boom.
Long lines of wagons loaded with to-
bacco have been filing into town every
day since the roads became passable
after the recent thaW.
Cadwallader Roberts, a resident OF
Racine county since 1913, died a the
age of seyenty-three years. At one
time he was one of the most prOmi-
nent stock raisers in Southern Wiscon-
SIM A wife and five children survive
him.
William Saunders, AIenominee
wood contractor, was injured by
breaking through a township bridge
near Wilson with a team and wood
saving outfit, and threatened TO bring
suit against the county for 81 900
damages. The matter was settled by
the payment of $3.50.
A fourteen-year-old daughter of r..
d. Hayford, a mill workman, fell
through the Ice while crossing on her
way to school at Rhinelander and was
drowned. An older sister preceded her
but did not miss the girl until she
went home at night and found her alb
sent,
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