The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-11-23
WISCONSIN ITEMS
Events Of the Past Week In tne
Badger State.


James Horning of Barron was fatal
" stricken with paralysis While saw
ing wood.
DR.. w. S. Sullivan, one of the best
known physicians in Madison, dled at
Lake Geneva of nervous prostratlon.
The logs to be cut this winter IN
camps around Ashland are estimated
to aggregate 100000 feet.
A large deer was shot in the town OF
Vernon. only eight miles southwest OF
Madison, by John Anderson, farmer.
The county board, in session at West
Bend. has voted in favor of erecting
an insane asylum.
Hog cholera is raging to a large eX-
tent in the country around Palmyra.
One farmer has lost fifty hogs. A IA
tai cattle disease has also appeared.
The Rock county tax levy this year
is $91 ,639.79. Added to this IS the
state tax of $73,375.54, making total
of $165, 015.33.
Levison Brothers, proprietors of the
Columbus Clothing store at oshkosh,
have made an assignment to DR.. VIII
lam Decker.
The Waushara board of supervisors
has made the office of register OF deeds
a salaried one . The salary was liked
at $500.
The twenty-first annual conference
of the Unitarian and Independent So
cieties of Wisconsin is i'll session at
Madison.
The Green Bay county board OF SUI
pervisOrS voted 500 to the Trans
1F;a fn no
Omaha.
James Ennis, an employee. is suing
the Racine Hardware company Tor
$4,000 damages for injuries sustained
in the factory during fire.
Robert Van Dusen of Madison was
knocked down by a rush of foot pail
players while watching Il game. A leg
was fractured.
Edward Jones of Rhinelander fell
under a moving freight train and his
right leg was crushed so badly that ne
died from the effects.
Ashland county taxes are % per
cent lower than they have been Tor
many years past The tax levy was
$4,000 les than last year.
Five horses belonging to d. G. Burns
were run over at Trempealeau by
Northwestern freight train. Three OF,
them were killed outright.
Grandma Hammond of Viroqua,
who is past niDety-siX years of age,
husked wagon box of corn recently.
She is still in excellent health.
The Juda postoffice was robbed for
the second time recently, but the last
time the thief was caught in the act
Tri1
He gives the name of Frank Hencael.
A young pugilist, Archie Lewis, who
is in Jail at Racine, was seized with a
fit while clergymen were holding
prayer meeting in the jail, and Great
ed no end of excitement.
A countryman visited Stevens Point
with a $40 Confederate bill, which he
innocently attempted to pass in pay
ment for gods The note was passed
to him by a cattle buyer.
For the benefit of st. Johns guild
of Evansville, a large number of lead
ing women of that place BACKED their
faces and gave a good minstrel enter
tainment recently
The county board of Winnebago
county has demanded that the regis
ter of probate pay back $50 per month
allowed him for clerk hire, on the
ground that he did not hire clerk.
The Rock county board of supervis-
ors has declined to allow the city OF
GAINESVILLE to use the county jail any
longer. A new Jail will probably be
built.
Louis Stauble rode off an open
drawbridge at Green Bay. He swan
ohn nd fish
wheel.
Members of the Trades and Labor
council of Racine sent resolutions to
the county board asking that it make
eight hours a days work for all coun-
ty work, and fix wages at $1.50 per
day for labor for eight hours.
Frank Dresser, who was serving a.
tcn-dayS' sentence in the county jail
at Madison fro drunkenness, was dis
covered dead in bed by a fellow-pris-
oner. A coroner's jury returned a
Verdict of death of heart diease.
The Eastern Minnesota railway is
building some immense flour sheds in
Superior. One structure will be 100
feet wide, 1900 feet long and two sto-.
ries high, containing some 5000
square feet of storage space.
The Catholics of Shiocton, in Brown
county, are making preparations to
build new church at that place. The
church will be the first Catholic one
in that city, will be 3Ox5O feet and will
cost about $1,000.
The Racine Water company has pre-
sented bill to the city for $159,OOO
for water used in flushing sewers.
The city officials are indignant over