The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-08
WISCONSIN ITEMS.
Events OF the Past Week in tho
Badger State


home in GAINESVILLE after a long illness.
Billy Kinds, a La Crosse pugilist, is
wanted by the Richland county au-
thorities.
-Four Chiffon young men went to APP
pleton ito do" the town. They landed
in Jail and each paid fine.
Mrs. Catherine Umbreit, aged 81,
wife of Rev. I. Umbreit, died after
lingering illness at Beaver Dam.
Mrs. Anna Kratochvil of La Crosse
has been declared insane. She will be
sent to Mendoza asylum.
The residence of Henry Guillaume at
Oshkosh was destroyed by fire. The
loss is 81, 400; insurance $500.
Mrs. Rebekah Wiggin, wife of Rich
ard Wiggin, died at GAINESVILLE, aged69
years. A husband and three children,
two daughters and son, survive.
Andrew P. Booth, a wealthy mer
chant and lumberman, died at his
home in Colby of peritonitis after an
illness of only forty-eight hours.
William Doherty, an old and respect
ed citizen of Augusta, died after a
long illness. He leaves wife and
three children.
Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Gallagher,
living a short distance east of Madison,
in Blooming Grove, We're quite badly
hurt by being thrown from the buggy.
The grocery store of J. E. Stanton
was closed Fridey evening on a chat
tel mortgage of 5000 held by George
III. Miller of Beaver Dam.
Editor Stone of Sheboygan, wha was
run over by bus, suffered compound
fracture of the right arm and was also
bruised somewhat.
The first frost of the season fell at
Baraboo. The only damage reported
was to vines and buclWheat. Most of
the corn has been cut.
An Omaha train ran into a wagon
containing Mrs. Glenz and three chill
dren near Eau Claire, and all were Sc
verely injured.
A lesson to bicycle thieves was adj
ministered by Judge Holgate at Mar
inette. Ernest Martin, who pleaded
guilty to a charge of stealing one, was
given year in Waupun, the limit.
Miss Marion Juttner, who was in
jured in a runaway accident at Mari
nette, has not entirely recovered from
her injuries and it will be two or three
Ferdinand Overkamp, ST., died at
his home at Bassett Station, aged 81
years. He came to the town of Wheat
land from Germany nearly fifty years
ago.
The village of Stanley is to have
Catholic church. 1t will be erected in
October and will be a handsome one.
A priest from Coztergom, Hungary,
will have charge Of it.
A man giving the name of George
Williams and claiming Buffalo, n. Y,
as his home, complained to the police
department at Eau Claire that he had
been robbed of $500 while asleep in the
back room of a north side saloon.
James Bacon and William FINLEY,
confined in the county jail at VirOqua
for alleged larceny and burglary, es
capped by breaking down the door of
their cells. They had outside assist
ance. They have not been recaptured.
Madison had no trouble in disposing
of it's city bonds. The $4,000 of spe-
cial street improvement bonds author
lied by the common council at it's July
meeting have all been placed at par.
They bear 6 per cent interest.
Fred Cess, an aged German, COM
mitted suicide at the farm house of
August Kuener near PeShtigo. He
gashed his throat in a fearful manner
with a razor and died soon after medi-
cal aid reached him.
Samuel H. Railway, an old and high
ly respected resident of Berlin, died
from the effects of 81 paralytic stroke
which he received two weeks ago. M.
C. Railway, Ripon architect, is a son
of the deceased.
Richard Francis of WaShburn was
accidentally shot while out hunting at
Ashland His right ear was entirely
shot away and the side Of his head
was badly mangled, but he may re-
cover.
An eagle that the fond parents Of
Lafayette were afraid would carry off
all their children was shot by Fred
Janke the other day, when it was
found to be no screaming bird at all
but big owl that measured nearly
four feet from tip to tip of wings.
Master Willie Spiegelhoff of Lyons,
Walworth county, while playing in a
neighbours barn one day last week, fell
into a hay chute, coming out at the
other end, a distance of over twenty
feet, and landing on the barn floor,
where he was found in an insensible
condition. He will recover.
The sheriff's sale of the late Prof.
David Swings property on the south
shore of Lake Geneva was concluded
last week. The place was purchased
by Mrs. Wallace, the Chicago woman
who is putting up the Idaho worlds
fair building here, the consideration
being $4,000.
Fred Hartsworm. a farmer of Cen