The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-03-30
WISCONSIN ITEMS.
Events OF the Past Week I'm the
Badger State.

James McCOrd was nominated for
mayor by the Republicans at La Crosse.
The freight blockade at Manitowoc
is nearly over.
Two bridges were washed away by
the heavy rains at PeShtigO.
Mrs. William Paine died at New
Richmond, aged seventy five years.
Bernard Casper died at Oconomowoc,
aged fifty years.
Peter KakatoSh, a Marinette Indian,
was badly hurt while loading logs at
Gill
The state meeting of the Woman's
Christian Temperance union will be
held at Appleton in May.
Fred Mesow, section foreman on the
Northwestern railroad, died at Fenni-
more suddenly.
Mrs G. D. Fox, an elderly resident of
Racine, is dead. She was sixty years
old
Stretch Bros carriage factory, which
was recently burned at Oshkosh, will
probably be located at Manitowoc.
The body Of man supposed to be
John Fest, a lumberman, was found in
drift of snow at Hayward.
Rev G. NJ. White, pastor of the Con-
gregational churches at East Troy and
Lafayette, has resigned.
Large consgnments of brook trout
from the state fish hatchery were put in
streams near Whitewater and Palmyra.
Burglars entered the store of Stanley
& HOags at Baraboo and carried Off
considerable clothing
The question of license or no license
will be voted on at the coming spring
election in Viroqua.
The Indians on the reservation near
RCZellville are said to be in very needy
circumstances.
A petition is circulated along the
Lancaster division of the Northwest
ern railroad, praying for another train
daily. There is only one at present.
The powder house and car barn of
the Citizens Traction company at Osh-
kosL are ready for occupancy, and
track laying will begin in a few weeks.
Mrs. Alexander Dereze died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Julia Mar
shall, in Green Bay. She was seventy
two years of age.
Edward Kennedy had his arm caught
in the winding rope of a piledriver at
Marinette and suffered a compound
fracture.
An effort is being made to develop
a waterpower about eleven miles above
Oconto. The power will be used to
light the city of OcOnto.
Washington park at Green Bay will
not be sold this season, but will be
opened and run under the management
of the park association, the same as in
previous years.
C. j. Vaughn, a travelling salesman of
Cincinnati, while OH his way to the
depot at Fond du Lac, intending to go
to Neenah, fell and fractured his right
wrist.
Fred DAVE, an inmate of the Wis
consin Industrial school for boys at
Waukesha, was drowned in Fox river.
He was fishing drift lumber from the
beach railway bridge and fell in.s
City expenses are to be reduced at
Green Bay, and at the council meeting
a resolution was adopted providing for
the reduction of the salaries OF the clerk
and treasurer to 1000 year each.
George WondeEly, man weighing
245 pounds, rode donkey up and down
Main street at New Lisbon as a conse-
qrence of a wager lost on the COrbett-
Fitzsimmons fight.
Roettke and Mead, two of the men
who escaped from the work house at
Oshkosh about two weeks ago, were re-
captured in West Algoma. They were
returned to the stone pile.
M. Lillihammer of New Lisbon had
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nasSing over it in the yard of the
George Hiles Land and Lumber COM
pany at Dexteryille. AmputatiOn was
necessary.
John Kelly, a Marinette woodsman,
now at Rapid River, Mich, met death
in a peculiar manner. A piece of beef
steak lodged in his windpipe, and he
expired in few minutes. He was
about thirty years old.
Bernt o. Benson, an insane man sent
to the Mendoza institution from Green
field, starved himself to death, having
literally refused to eat. For two weeks
he had stubbornly refused to eat any
thing and the little nouriShment he re.
ceived was administered artifcially.
In the circuit court at GAINESVILLE
Judge Bennett granted Mrs. Fanny I.
TIollenbeck 500 month temporary ali
mony and $50 suit money, in an action
for divorce brought by her against her
husband, Norris Hollenbeck, whcl1 she
claims deserted her in 1892.
Sam Wing has purchased from H.
w Gosseline & Co. the plant and good
will of the Green Bay Steam laundry.
1t will be operated by Sam Wing here
after This gives Sam practically the
control of the laundry business i'll that
city. he now owning four laundries