The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-08-25
WISC( NSIN ITEMS.
Events of the Past Week In TIM
Badger State.

en- and robbed of $50 in Chicago.
An electric light plant is being put
in the state prison at Waupun.
The new telephone system at Wau-
pun is in successful operation.
The Madison street bridge at Eau
Claire base been completed.
Peter Christ has been appointed mar
shall at Wausaukee.
NJ. MulqueeD, aged siXty-six years,
died at his home in Ormo.
Racine is to have a new telephone
system.
4 new tannery will soon be built at
Marinette.
The two telephone operators at Mar
inette receive over 1000 calls each uay'
Mrs. James Thomas of the town OF
Waupaca died at the age OF seventy
six years.
George Madison, night Waterman
at Cadott. was shot at by tramps, put
escaped injury.
Mrs. Mary w. BeI tley died at her
home in Schofield, Marathon county,
aged sixty-three years.
Harvey Fitch, a young man living at
Osseo. drowned in the Eau Clare river
while bathing.
Eighty thousand dollars worth OF
Racine city bonds have been dlsposeu
of in Boston.
The residents of Greenbush, Dane
county, want the saloons closed there
ON Sundays.
Mrs. Anna Helm, aged ninety-four
years, died at Baraboo. She had resld-
ed there forty years.
T.. V. Huschka, we'll known con-
tractor of SPARTA has made an assign
ment.
The school census at Racine places
the number of children of school age
at 1927.
e. M. Anderson, who was supposed
to have been drowned at Ashland, has
turned up alive and well.
Ralph Smith, aged twenty three, son
of ex-Chief of Police George Smith,
died of bowel trouble at Racine.
The contract has been let for setting
out $50 shade and ornamental trees in
the Wausau cemetery.
The Farmers Cheese company of
Medford shipped $500 pounds of
cheese to Chicago last week.
The eighteenth annual meeting of the
Fond du Lac Sunday School associa-
ton will be held at the M. e. church,
Oakfeld, Aug. % and 26.
In a runaway accident at Whitewa-
ter Miss Hattie Dawley was severely
injured, suffering a diSlocation of the
bones Of the leg, besides numerous con-
tusionS.
George HaWley died at his home in
Oshkosh, after a brief illness. He had
served in public office several years,
and was elected to the state legislature
in 1857 from Waukau.
The state board of pharmacy fin
ished a three days session at Madison.
II. X. White of Whitewater was grant
ed registration. he having passed ex-
animation in Illinois.
The preliminary examination in the
breach of promise case, Mrs. Emily T..
Thompson VS.. Robert r. Pinkerton, al
leging $4,000 damages, is being heard
at Waupaca.
Mrs. i. Groerich, the wife of a Ger
man farmer living near Racine, was
kicked Oh the head by colt. Her in
juries are quite serious, but she will
recover.
The telephone system at Appleton is
undergoing a thorough overhauling and
repairing at the hands of large crew
of linemen, and extenSiv eimprove-
ments and alterations in the system
are promised for next season.
The North Wisconsin Lumber COM
pany, at Hayward will close it's mill
for the season Sept. 1, throwing over
200 men out of employment. Full
yards and dullness of the lumber mar
ket are given as the reasons.
The street car system at Merrill will
soon be i'll operation again. A new car
barn has been built and leW cars re-
ceived. The barns and cars of the
street railway company were burned
about six weeks ago.
Three weeks ago an old man sold
horse and buggy at Monroe to Henry
Wells for $40. He said he bought it Of
a Milwaukee doctor for $65, and was
in hard luck arc had to dispose of it.
Reynolds & Ellis Edgerton liverymen,
arrived and claimed the horse.
Clancy Bros, one Of the largest dry
goods houses in Racine, made an as
signment to Thomas Clancy of Berlin.
Stringency of the money market and
depression of business are assigned as
the cause. The assets are given at
$4,000, but the liabilities are not stat
ed.
The mill, dry-sheds and lumber be-
longing to the Green Bay Planning Mill
company were destroyed by fire. No
detailed estimate of the loss can be
given by the members of the firm at
present, but it will be about 100000,
with only $4,000 insuraI &c.
A serious and probably fatal accident