The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-09
WISCONSIN, ITEMS
Events of the Past Week in the
Badger State.

Green Bay citizens are petitioning the
city council to place street signs on the
corners
Burglars blew open the safe in Edison
SaWyer's grocery store at Stevens
Point, but failed to find any money.
A fire, supposed to be of incendiary
origin, destroyed the residence of VII
Lam Bowles near La Crosse
The new public library at Sheboygan
was opened recently. The dedication
ceremonies were very simple.
Somebody painted the doors and win
dows of two Chippewa Falls churches
q bright carmi he hue Halloween night
St Croix Falls expects to have a
steel bridge across the river at that
place $50 feet long and costing $685.;
The corner stone of new Methodist
church was laid at Spring Creek, near
Durand.
A dog which was taken from Portage
county to Amigo Travelled the entire
distance back, seventy-tiye miles, on
foot in twelve hours.
Sylvester n Rice of Horizon died sud
denly Of apoplexy. He was eighty-one
years old and was born i'll New York
state.
Thieves broke into the Bohemian
Catholic church at Prairie du Chen
and stole the sacred vessels of the al
tar.
Citizens of Merrill will subscribe
money to build Il new hotel in place of
the Lincoln house, recently destroyed
by fire.
A Dane county farmer recently gath
cred fifty bushels of hickory nuts from
a few wild trees OH his farm and sold
them for ST per bushel.
The new Baptist church of Barron
was dedicated by Rev. d. w. Hurlbut.
secretary of the Wisconsin Baptist
society. The building cost $1,000.
Louis Wilson. a bootblack in the
Windsor hotel at Fond du Lac has just
received word that 1900 crowns We're
left to him in Denmark by the death of
"a relative.
The annual meeting of the Lemon-
weir district convention will be held liz
Pittsville. Twenty congregational min
listers from various parts of the state
and several from Chicago will attend.
Racine's militia will not disband as
reported. A more thorough training
VIII be given the company this winter
and new officers will be chosen in place
of those who recently resigned.
Charles Golbeck died at Pewaukee
from the effects of taking rat poison
during a temporary fit of Insanity. He
came here from Germany and settled
in Pewaukee twenty years ago
The first stock fair is being held in
Green Bay. For some time the ques-
ton of holding Il fair has been agitated
and the result is a large attendance and
a fine display of stock.
Sheriff La Buive of Dodge county is
the youngest sheriff in Wisconsin.
When elected to the position last fall
he had but just reached his twenty
second birthday anniversary.
The well of the Kaukana Water
works company at that place has been
bored to depth of $50 feet Every foot
of it thus far has been through solid
stone.
The steamer Sheriffs arrived at Bay
field with 500 tons of rails for the Bay
field Harbor & Great Western railway.
The grading and bridging is nearly
completed and the track will be laid
before Dec. 1.
A new system of gates and locks will
be put in the outlet of Lake Mendoza
at Madison, by which it is hoped to
regulate the stage of water in the lakes
and keep them free from impurities.
A factory for the manufacture of
axles will be established at Racine
Junction. Fifty thousand dollars will
be spent in the enterprise and 100 men
will be given employment.
Holmes station, near Superior, of the
Chicago lumber firm of Cross, Badger
x CO.. has been sold by the sheriff. \.
r. Mills CT the Mills 4 Leclair Lumber
company purchased it for $1,000.
Otis Tucker left Depere with his
schooner Trader on a trip to New On
leafs, via the Fox and Wisconsin riv~
ers. The boat is two masted and has a
neat little cabin with sleeping apart
ments and Il kitchen fully equipped.
The barns on the farm Of John Cal
lendar. in Racine county. and occupied
10y Gus Boyer, were consumed by fire,
together with a cow hay, straw. fodder
and other property. The loss will
amount to nearly $1,000.
BY means Of skeleton keys several
offices in Superior were entered. The
New York Life Insurance company's
office was ransacked and money and
stamp stolen. Titus 4 Mcintosh, at
torneyS, lost SD.
Wesley VanGerhof of Sherman has
an eagle which he secured alive, rifle
shot having broken its wing. 1t is
known as Il bald eagle, is two years
old and measures more than eight feet
from tip to tip.