The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-17
WISCONSIN ITEMS
-. Interesting Happenings I'm the
BADGER state.

1obn Burdo of Wausaukee has been
.ommitted to the Northern asylum.
rba total assessed valuation of Mad
.s.n property is $7,850,000.
Mrs John A. MakOusky, pioneer of
Caledonia. Racine county, died at the
o% " Of seyenty-fOur years.
+ is reported in Marinette county
.,.a+ many deer are being killed in yio-
Iation Of law.
CONGRESSMAN S. A. Cook of Neenah
has purchased the Paul paper rliH at
that place.
Horny Wander camden was thrown
from his wheel at Depere and lady
injured.
Hoo cholera has broken out in
drove Of hogs belonging to Edward
poes in the town of Grand Chute. Ten
Lavp died and the others are infected.
robn Arquette, a well known charac-
+or of GAINESVILLE, has been arrested,
o6orqpd with stealing goods from st.
PonI freight car.
The st. Mary's German Catholic
ohurch congregation at Oshkosh is rent
with a dissension that will probably
,pcuire the courts to settle.
Eleven mail carriers and eX-mcil
carriers had $500 distributed among
tbam ut Oshkosh, for working over
time between 1886 and 1894.
DR.. II. p. Chute, state veterinarian,
has gone to Ephraim, Door county, to
investigate two cases of supposed
CHAMBERS in horses.
Sheriff benson of Galesville has re-
turned James Smith to Mendoza. He
had shown symptoms of violent insan-
ity,
AIarinette county will soon have a
number of cheese factories. Several
are already in operation and another
one will be built.
Judge Michael Kirwan of Manitowoc
will he candidate for circuit judge
for that circuit. The election takes
place next spring.
Work will soon be commenced on
tie belt line around Sturgeon Bay. 1t
is expected that the line will be COM
pleted this spring.
While riding a bicycle on the fair
grounds at GAINESVILLE, Fred Isaacs,
aged twenty, collided with another
rider Isaacs was injured internally
and may die.
An injunction has been applied for at
Menasha against the inter-urban rail
way, the allegation being that the COM
lany is using part of the highway in
the town of Harrison.
Charles Peabody, farmer living a
couple Of miles south of Wilson, Clark
county, was killed by lightning while
lying on lounge, talking to a neigh
bor The EeighbOr was stunned.
Little Hazel Gentle of Hebron, JEFF
ferson county, is suffering from a
pitchfOrk wound in her side. The fork
slid from hay stack and penetrated
her body.
Mrs. w. ]. Harris, aged seventytwO
years, was killed by a gravel train on
the Northwestern road near KenOsha.
She was crossing the track when
struck.
County Judge Holgate of Marinette
has appointed Donald j. Bell of that
city a member of the soldiers relief
commission, to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of G. J. Ellis.
The coal sheds of the Youghiogheny
y Lehigh Coal company, at Superior,
were struck by lightning and burned a
short time ago, and, being rebuilt,
were blown down during a storm.
The barn of Mrs. Peter Oellermann,
near Fox Lake, was struck by light
ring and destroyed. Three horses and
some grain and farm machinery were
also burned. The loss is about ST.
800
1t is rumOred that a London compa-
NY has been organized, with capital
of S25000,0000 to mine gold in Flor
ence county. The company has ex-
pertS on the way to Wisconsin to in
Spect the mines.
Charles Balduzzi, pioneer settler
and well known contractor, died at La
crosse. aged fifty-four. He was a
member of the Catholic Knights, and
leaves wife and eight grown chill
lren.
The contract for rebuilding the front
lhrd story of the normal school were
~ at stevens 1OlnI. 10 ADJ N Jen-
sen were awarded the carpentry and
masonry work, at 81, 431 go; Eggleston
y Redtield, the heating and plumbing,
at A9lS.20, and r. A. Cook the iron at
$500
OF all the Indians that formerly oc-
'IEied the head of the Little Sturgeon
only five remain, the others having
either died or removed to some other
place. OF the five, two are old people
ana three young children. Another
SeneratiOn will see the end of the alb
'ri%nes in Door county altogether.
The Holmes logging camp is hauling
TIMBER to the landing on the Menomi-
nee river at the rate of about 100000
Get day. Two hundred men are en-
l-0Nol in the timber and lOgging OBJ