The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-10-12
WISCONSIN ITEMS
Events of the Past Week in the
BADGER State.

with beer mug at West Salem and
badly injured.
C. Goldberg's secondhand store, at
La Crosse was robbed of considerable
jewelry, etc.
Frank Pulaski, farmer living
three miles from New London, lost his
barn and contents by ire.
E. r. Davis, one of the old residents
of Wild Rose, died of tumor of the
throat after long and painful illness.
Mr.. Davis was about eighty years Old.
Joseph Michaels of Tomah has pur-
chased what was known as the Hol-.
bek farm, in the town of Sheldon, con-
sisting Of 200 acres.
No agreement has been reached be-
tween the striking coal beavers and
the coal companies for increased pay
at Ashland.
The residence and greenhouses of
Carl Helm We're nearly destroyed by
fire at Stevens Point. Insured for
$4,000.
Mrs. Anna Herrick died at the fam
lily residence, Racine, aged seventy
six. She had been a resident of RAJ
cine since 1886. Two sons survive her.
An insurance rate war has been car
ried on at Neenah for several days.
Rates have been cut in two by several
of the companies doing business there.
Edward MichaelSki, treasurer of the
town of Stevens Point. was arrested
on a charge of embezzling S152.29 of
the town funds.
Mrs. Belle G. Buob, formerly of
GAINESVILLE, now of Rocktton, H.. has
brought suit against Mrs. Hannah
Gleason, wife of a well-to-do farmer,
for 5000 damages for alleged SANDER.
Charles E. Smith. carpenter, fell
from a scaffold at the residence of DR..
Harvey Dale, Oshkosh, sustaining
fractured collar bone and internal in
juries that will cause death.
The Doherty Lumber company of
Ashland has been dissolved by vote
of the stockholders. The site where
the mill stood before it was burned
was sold to B. Doherty for $4,000.
i. A. Carroll, former resident of
Shawano, was found dead in bed at
Mountain. He was fifty years old and
unmarried His nearest relatives re-
side at Oakland, Cal.
Nels T.. Gregerson, a well known dali
ryman, dropped dead in Caledonia.
Apoplexy was the cause. He was for
ty years old and leaves a wife and
two children.
M. A. Hurley, of the firm of Silver
thorn, Hurley, Ryan 81 Jones of Wau-
sau has returned from California,
where he has been living for several
years.
The farm residence of ex-Assembly-
man John Brill, large, two-story
frame building, burned at Kaukauna.
The loss is $1,000, with an insurance
Of $500.
Viroquans are taking steps to get
the ST. Paul company to build new
depot at that place, claiming the old
one is inadequate for the amount Of
business done there.
Robert Freeman of Wausau has sold
the Bohemian colony, near Mnsoiee,
3.S71 acres of land in the towns OF
Mosinee and Emmett, the considera-
ton being S36,774.
The damage suit of Mrs. Sarah
Moves against the city of Baraboo for
S., ZOO for injuries sustained by fall
on a defective sidewalk has been set
tied The city paid her $175.
1t has been proposed by some mem
berS of the county board that Chippe-
wa county build the worShouse eX-
elusive of Eau Claire. The estimated
cost is $1,000.
The Marinette & Menominee Hy-
draulic Mining company has leased it's
properties in British Columbia to the
Wal Lee company. The latter is
rich company of Cinnamon
The Shell Lake Lumber company
has completed an extension of eleven
miles to it's logging railroad, besides
making improvements in the equip
ment and grade of their old road.
John Sake who took carbOlc acid
at Sparta last week, but who has re-
covered, will be taken to the asylum
for treatment. Financial troubles and
sickness are said to be the cause of
his mental arrangement.
The r. Conner company of Marsh
field will begin work at once on eight
miles of logging road, starting from
their mills at StratfOrd, extending in
southeasterly direction, and termin-
ating at the Eau Pleine mill.
Secretary Heimstreet of the state
board of pharmacy has commenced
action against Mrs. Gustave Jansen Of
Scandinavia, Waupaca county, on the
charge of selling drugs without
pharmacists permit.
James Miles of Milwaukee, it is al
legged, went to the home of his di-
vorced wife at Evansville, while she
was away. and took her two children.