The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-10
WISCONSIN ITEMS
Some Interest z Happenings I'm the
Ia State.

James Eraser died at La crosse. lie
was we'll known contractor.
The residence of Rev. G. Sluyter at
La Crosse was robbed of $3.50.
The Stevens Point school board has
decided to erect a $4,000 school build
ing at once on the West side.
Mrs. A. Hartnett, a resident of RAJ
cine for over forty years, died at the
age of sixty-eight years.
The two-year-old daughter of Mr..
Bottle drowned at VirOqua while at
tempting to follow geese into shall
low pond.
Vivian Alcore, a resident of Brule
threw stick of cordwoOd at a COW
aid dislocated his back. He is in the
hospital at West Superior.
John Bruckham, an employee in the
city stone quarry at Madison. was
badly injured by the premature eX-
plosion of blast
Charles White of Neenah has brought
suit against the Chicago & Northwest
ern Railroad company for $3.50 dam
ages.
Mrs. John Kawatzki, wife of Supt.
Tohn Kawatzki of the Wisconsin Lakes
ICc COIIlDdIy, It'll OlOW IL SldIlS tlI Z
waukee and fractured her left arm
and sustained other injuries.
Otto Stamner of Freedom, who was
Oh trial before Court Commissioner
Hartman at Appleton for desertion
was neld TO the circuit court i'll $500
bonds.
Mrs. Turner, wife of farmer living
ten miles south of MOntellO, hung her.
self She left letter stating she had
been contemplating self-destructiOn for
four years.
Several residences have been entered
by burglars in the past few days at
Oshkosh, by boys, the police think.
The heaviest loser was Mrs. August
Bucholtz, from whose home $40 was
taken
A heavy rain and wind storm passed
over Sank county, laying fields of grain
and corn low. Over three inches of
water fell. The fine residences of
William Marriott and William Wallace
were struck by lightning and consider
ably damaged.
BY Sept the plant of the Wiscon
sin Grass Irvine company will be run
ming day and night at Oshkosh, with
CWO ClcNOs CdCA WIN ICh lAOuAo q
day The company has contracted for
1000 tons of suitable grass in the
country.
A hailstorm struck the tobacco grow
ing region i'll the west part of Milton
md the adjoining town Of Fulton. Cen
siderable damage was done the grow
ing crop, some of which has been
topped and will be ready to go into the
shed in a weeks time.
William OBrien, aged twenty -two,
employed in the BirOn paper mill at
Grand Rapids, jumped out of the mill
window, distance of thirty feet, into
the Wisconsin river. He burst a blood
vessel, from which he died an hour
later.
According to the annual report of
Surgeon Major Wilkie of the Second
regiment, there were fewer cases this
wear than ever before. The total was
20, as against 158 in 1896; $50 in 1895,
and 300 in 1894. The major says that
the sanitary condition of the camp was
the best the regiment ever had.
The municipal court of Douglas
county was a paying institution last
month, all previous records for the col
lection of fines being broken, an indi-
cation of better times. The court re-
ceiyed S725 in fines. or more than four
times as much as has been heretofore
collected in any one month.
Three lunatics were picked up by the
police at Neenah. Two of them are
rom the Northern hospital at Oshkosh.
They gave their names as Thomas Tor
riSOn of ManitOWOc and A. Hickey of
Ashland. They are patients who are
known as TRUSTEES" and are given
more liberty than others. They took
trip to Oshkosh and got intoxicated.
George NJ. Otis, representa- the
Grand Falls Irrigation company of
Grand Falls, Texas, was in Marinette
to secure coloniStS to settle in South
western Texas Eight families will
leave Marinette next month to locate
there. The Grand Falls Irrigation
company owns 100000 acres on the
PecoS river.
Harry Doughty, aged twenty-five, of
Durand, pleaded guilty to stealing To-
BOO shingles from lumber raft of the
Knapp Stout q Co., near Dunnville.
He was fined So and $50 costs. Harry
Tibbts and Fred Galloway, sixteen
year-old boys, each pleaded guilty to
stealing about 5000 shingles also, from
the Knapp. Stout & Co. raft, and were
fined So and costs.
The residents of Union Grove, Ra-
cine county, experienced an exciting
time in regard to the license question.
The village voted not to grant a liquor
license, and every saloon is Used.
The town of Yorkville has granted a
license, and one of the Union Grove
saloonkeepers crossed the line and put
up large saloon and opened it. While
the dry advocates stood on the cor
ners and lamented the facts, the saloon