The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-03-16
WISCONSIN ITEMS.
Events of the Past Week I'm the
badger State.

Aid. Joseph Hallada has resigned his
position as alderman of Ashland. He
is at present the court collector.
Philip Zahringer was given forty-tive
days in Jail at Chiffon for pulling re-
is at present the port collector.
John Grant was severely injured by
premature explosion of dynamite at
Chippewa Falls.
w. A. Horton and family of La
Crosse were taken violently ill from
eating cheese Prompt action saved
their lives.
At the Democratic county convention
at Ashland, j. J. Miles was nominated
for municipal judge and E. e. Larson
for county judge.
Mr.. and Mrs e. G. Kerry were over
come by gas from a coal stove at their
home, in GAINESVILLE. They have been
critically Ill since.
Mrs. Sarah S. Blodgett, widow of Il.
P. Blodgett, one of the pioneer settlers
of Wisconsin, died at Boyceville, aged
eighty years.
The trial of Perry Richardson, who is
charged with a murder committed
twenty years ago, will come up at Bar
abOO this week.
In the case of Frank Schaefer VS..
The City of Fond du Lac, for injuries
resulting from an accident, June %,
1895, verdict of $500 was rendered.
Louis Yagers, switchman in the
Chicago & Northwestern yards, had his
face badly hurt while at work at Green
Bay.
The town of Dundas, Ontario county,
is considering an offer from an Eastern
firm to put in an electric lighting sys-
tenn.
John Wilmer, an old resident of Mar
inette county, and father of Henry Il.
Wilner business man of Green Bay,
died of the grippe. He was seventy
six years old.
David Carpenter, aged eighty-nine,
one of the first white settlers of North
ern Illinois, died of old age at his home
in ROcton, Ill. He was well known in
Beloit
A. NJ. Hatarell, principal of the Read
district school, was convicted of as
sault and battery in the municipal
court at Oshkosh and fined 81 and
costs. Sentence was later suspended.
Henry Kreilkamp, ST., one of the pi-
Oneer settlers of Washington county,
and a much-respected citizen, died at
the home of his son, Henry, in the
town Of Addison, near Attention.
The crop prospect for Brown county
during the coming season is not favor
able. Hay and winter grain has been
severely injured by the almost entire
absence of snow.
Isadore Weinfeld was arrested at
Appleton on a charge of embeZzlement.
The case was continued until March
| 10, the defendant furnishing bail in the
sum of 5000.
Philip Coleman died at his residence
in the town of LemonWeire, Sank
county, of heart disease. He was in
| the Fourth Wisconsin battery during
| the war.
A telegram has been received by A.
| J. Bung, the postmaster at Kenosha,
from r. A. Maxwell fourth assistant
postmaster general, to the effect that
system of free delivery will be in op-
GRAFTON in Kenosha by June 1.
Guy Morris, William Lovelace and
Napoleon Coke, the young men who are
charged with robbing the Marinette
pOstoffice, were bound over to appear
before the federal grand jury in Mil
waukee. All but Lovelace gave bail.
A single log recently banked by the
Little Wolf River Lumber company at
Manawa, scaled over 1000 feet. 1t is
of white oak, and is thought to be, be-
yond question, the largest log cut IN
that county for years.
George Palmer, the boy murderer,
In To IN
Waupun to begin his life sentence.
Since receiving sentence he has shown
no remorse for committing the crime,
nor does his sentence seem to disturb
him.
Henry Huber, the Alma stockman,
! who was injured in Chicago in Decem-
Der, 1895, by being run over by Wag-
on belonging to the United States EX-
press company, obtained verdict of
$500 damages in the federal court at
Madison.
The railroad companies at Ashland
have at last combined to prevent citi-
zens using Fourth avenue west as
thoroughfare. Fences have been erect
ed north of the Central tracks and
couth of the Northwestern tracks.
"Lonny'' McMullen of New Lisbon,
aged nineteen years, shot himself acct
dentally in the stomach while handling
a gun at his home. He died soon after
His mother is a widow, and the family
is in poor circumstances.
In the case of Ernest Peters VS.. The
Fox River Electric Railway company,
at Green Bay, Judge Hastings nom
suited the plaintiff In this case the
testimony showed that Perry attempt