The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-07-28
WISCONSIN ITEMS.
events of the Past Week In 'ne
Badger state.

w OK HAS CO1IlluOAA~SN -
building at Madison.
The Fox rive. Electric Railway com
pany carried 1000 persons from Greeh
Bay to Depere last Sunday
Mrs. John Sommerfield of Wheat
land, Kenosha county. was seriously
hurt In runaway accident.
George Dubois, five years old, son OF
widow, vas drowned in ciStern III
a neighbor's yard at Beaver DAM
George Stone. who shot George AT
lendorf at La Crosse will set up the
plea of temporary insanity.
A horse belonging to Louis Kalb OF
Green Bay backed off the dock INTO
the river and was drowned.
Mrs. J. NJ Smiley, aged fifty, fell
dead in her home at BelOit from neu-
ralgia of the heart.
Hugh O'Donnell died at Montello of
brain trouble. He was WidoWer ana
leaves a son.
The school census at Ashland shows
a total of 3,449, a small increase over
last year.
Mrs Horace Frazer of GAINESVILLE has
been declared insane and committed
to the Mendoza asylum.
Inc WGDDoF BOY, no WIS AOoC III 'AlN>
Woods at Marshield has been found.
He was nearly dead from hunger ana
exposure.
Fire at Green Bay destroyed d.
Flatley's livery barn end Joseph Gig
ler's cigar store. The loss is about
500.
The work of driving piles for the
substructure of the new Duluth-Supe-
md in q
few days it is expected that the laying
of stringers will be started.
The negro, Green, who ran away
with woman i'll the town of Pacific,
Columbia county, was arrested with
the woman near Sparta, ana is now
lodged in jail at Portage.
Leon England aged twelve, was IA
tally hurt on the Wisconsin & Michi-
gan railway at Marinette. He fell off
The front of a rap:6ly-moving hand
car and was badly crushed.
Mrs. Julia Williams, who died sud
denly at Augusta, was the mother of
O. A. and F. e. Williams of that
town and T.. l.. Williams of Eau
Claire.
Robert Crangle, e resident of Wa
tertown since 1910, died at the age of
seventy-three years. He was a native
of Ireland and came to Wisconsin
from Canada.
Judge Siebeckec, of the circuit court
at Madison, granted a rev trial in the
case of William Schultz against Hugh
Baird, both of Verona, in which judg-
ment for $1,000 vas secured for the
plaintiff.
John Borowski, ason tender, was
cf1 hxyo1 io1,f trof In
the st. Paul road at GAINESVILLE and in
stantly killed. He was thirty -four
years old and leaves wife and three
children.
The Marathon County board has de-
cided to erect a tWo-story frame build
ing on the poor farm in the near fut-
ure. The plans of the building are
now ready and it will cost about
$1,000.
The first official act of the new
school board at Stevens Point was to
increase the pay of the assistant grade
teachers from $40 to 500 per month
These teachers are employed in rooms
having an attendance of over fifty pu-
pills.
The house and buildings on the
Christie farm, neal Greenwood, where
Christian Mayoleth was murdered,
July 4, were burned. The fire was no
doubt Of incendiary origin, many
threats of burning it having been
made.
An order went into effect at Neenah,
July 49, that mill men who, before this,
have been using 265,OOO cubic feet of
water per minute, shall reduce it to
$4,000 feet, on account of the steady
falling of the water. The order will
not have any serious effect on the run
ming of the mills Neenah and Menasha.
Elizabeth Gertsch was granted a di-
vorce from John Gertsch at Oshkosh.
The grounds for the divorce We're cruel
and lnhuman treatment and deSertiOn
Charles j. Page was granted divorce
from Carrie l.. Page on the grounds Of
desertion. The parties reside at Fond
du Lac,
Elliott Carter, an Eau Claire young
man, was jailed some time ago at Chip
pewa Falls on q sixty-days' sentence
for shooting cattle He and two other
prisoners broke out recently and Ell
lott went to Eau Claire. He was
caught and adjudged insane, and he is
now in Mendoza asylum.
Ex-senator Adam Apple of the town
of Norway, Racine county, states that
the farmers In the vicinity of Wind
Lake canal are UP in arms. They have
formed vigilance committee, and
have all the old guns to be found, and
will give any Milwaukee sports warm
reception if they venture out that way
to fill up the canal.
The United States government served
q notice on Mayor McCarty that the
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