The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-31
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Some Interesting Happenings in the
Badger State.


GAINESVILLE Baptist association will be
held in GAINESVILLE Sept. Z, s and 8.
p. V. Moberg of Marinette was
kicked by a horse and badly injured.
His face was cut and his arm broken.
The n. Ludington Lumber company
of Marinette has sold 100000 feet of
Gull lumber to Chicago parties.
Frank Monroe and William Graham,
accused or highway robbery at Marin
cite, have been held for trial.
An effort is being made to raise $780,
600 to assist the Electric Street Rail-
way company at Oshkosh.
Burglars drilled through the safe i'll
the South Superior postoffice and eX-
tracted $500 in stamps and $50 in cash.
Lizzie, the siX-year-old daughter of
John Anderson, was fatally burned at
Marinette while playing about a bon
fire.
A school for deaf mutes will be
opened in Green Bay Sept. 1, by Miss
Maggie Sullivan of Bear Creek. Sew
Ell pupils have been secured.
NJ d. Keith of New London effected
q sale one day last week of 100000
bee hive sections to man from Hig-
ginsville, Mo.
The Marshall Chair and Manufacture
ing company has assigned to j. G.
Marsh. The assets are 100000; labili-
ties, $4,000.
Wheat cutting is finished in Burnett
county. The acreage is much larger
than before and the yield good. Late
potatoes are looking well. The potato
crop is estimated at 10000 bushels.
Twenty-one Menominee Indian chill
dren left Shawano in charge of Prof.
Leslie Watson, for Carlisle, Pa, for
three-year course of training at the
government school at that place
John Cook of Iowa, laborer, at
tempted to steal a ride to the Dakota
grain fields, and fell between the cars
at Superior His legs were severed.
He cannot live.
Carl Saunders, an aged farmer, liv-
ing two miles east of PeShtigO, at
tempted suicide. He secured a razor
anil cut the flesh from his lower jaw
and part of his throat
S. J. Lang, young man who worked
at the printers trade at Cambria, and
young man named Jennings of Wau-
pun, have bought the Record at Mar
shall.
Matthew Seller, the alleged counter
feiter, of AlgOma, was placed under
bonds of $1,000 at Green Bay to APP
pear before the United States court at
Milwaukee.
Judge Burnell of Oshkosh held, in
the suit of the AleXian Brothers hos
pital against WinnebagO county, that
such institutions are exempt from tax
alton.
Congressman Cooper has recon-
| mended the appointment of the follow
| ing pOStmasters in the First district:
Lake Geneva, Charles S. French; Be
| lott, Chalmers Ingersoll.
AS a result in the advance in the
price of wheat, the bakers of Fond du
Lac have combined and agreed upon
a price of cents a loaf-a raise of
cents.
Lightning struck the city electric
light wires at Sparta and ran into the
dynamo room, knocking down G. De
Long, who was in charge. Physicians
were summoned and he was revived.
The twenty-eight cars of pulp which
is stored in the Paul Paper company
plant at Menasha is being removed,
and will be all out in a few days. The
mill will be started in a couple of
weeks and will be run full time.
Filson's horsepower elevator and
warehouse, with all it's contents, was
destroyed by fire at Osceola. The fire
extended to HOmmerburg's lumber
yard, which was partially burned. The
loss is $4,000; fully insured.
August SomnitZ, a wealthy farmer of
kasson, Manitowoc county, was killed
by the ears at Reedville. He was try
ing to cross the track with his team,
when he was struck by the switch en-
CINE. E[e leaves a large estate.
jim Crone, the burglar who was shot
by the marshal while attempting 10
escape, at Durand, had his preliminary
hearing before Justice MOrsbach, and
was bound over to the circuit court.
Crone is still in feeble condition.
Ferdinand Reppin, an old resident
of Cedarburg, fell dead while conduct
ing services in the place of the regular
minister of the Evangelical Lutheran
church He was a member of the G..
A. r. post.
A tWelve-year-old son of August
Newman of WonewOc was probably
fatally injured by Delng dragged by
team which he was driving, which had
become frightened by a traction en-
CINE.
The trial of w. r. O'Hearn, the
cashier of the Jackson county bank,
who was arrested charged with re-
ceiving deposits after he knew the in
stitution was insolvent, was held at
Black River Falls. He waived exam
ipation and was held i'm 81 600 bonds
The board of public works of Rhine