The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-08-24
WISCONSIN ITEMS
.,a interesting Happenings I'm the
Badger State.

christian OleSOn, aged SeVeHIy-lOuI
rosiIpnt of Palmyra forty-five years,
a doad. Four sons survive him.
mo school census gives the number
e children at Fond du Lac at 1920, a
,afn of 214 over 1896.
Hracinth Waymel, a farmer, former
:. r. Green Bay, died at Stevens Point
aged siXty-ohe.
Frank Sinclair, one Of the men who
,,,ae held for rObbing old man Oppelt
" roIumbus, some months ago, COM
p,itrnd suicide at st. Louis recently.
The Arcadia Telephone company has
,,odn connection with the Luce-Veitch
line at Centerville, an extra wire hay
inc been run for this purpose.
Mrs, Nancy James died at her home
IN tho town of Hampden, Columbia
nountv. at the age of ninety-One. She
is survived by seven children.
4 Dctftion is being circulated at Port
ace encouraging the Wisconsin Cen
traI company to build their new depot
in the First ward.
Articles of incorporation of the Twin
CITY Electric Light company were re
corded at Centralia. The capital stock
is $4,000.
Il. Il. Jones, for many years a dry
Goods merchant at Oshkosh, and mem
her of the firm of Jones Bros, died,
aged forty-eight years.
John Affelt, aged seventy-fve, was
found dead in bed in the town of Me-
con. near MOntello. Death was caused
bv heart disease.
Mrs. George w Within of the town
of Sheboygan Falls died of cancer.
She was an old resident of the town
and a sister of Mrs. Zillier, the wife Of
Sheb0ygan's postmaster.
Shelby Davis, center rush for the
Madison high school football club, has
fallen Il victim to a severe stroke of
paralysis 1t is feared he will never
recover from it.
James Smith of Trempealeau, who
but recently was released from the
state asylum at Mendoza, was returned
to that institution by Sheriff Jensen,
having again shown signs of violent in
sanity.
Miss Nellie Somenberg was struck
and killed by the engine of a freight
train as she, with another young lady,
was attempting to cross the track at
Maust0n. She was about twenty years
of age and had lived in Mansion sew
eral years.
Some of the threshers have already
commenced operations in Door county,
the object being to get out wheat for
seeding during the entire month. This
will be followed by contract peas, a
large percentage Of which have been
secured
While playing a social game of cards
at his home in Sheboygan Falls,
George LAYER, without any warning,
fell forward in his chair and died i'm
mcdiately Of apopleXy. He was ma
tive of England and seventy years of
age.
The new church of the German Evan
gelical Lutheran, st. Johns cOngrega-
ton, was formally opened at Beloit,
Aug IL, the Rev. Mr.. Rubel of MilWau
kee preaching the dedicatory sermon.
The new pastor, Rev. III. Studtmann
late Of the st. Louis seminary, was in
stalled.
Francis Bullo. while fishing for bass
near Cumberland, caught a forty
pound swapping turtle on his bass
hook. The turtle was too large to go
into a large washtub, and could walk
of with two men on his back without
any inconvenience whatever.
The prospects for the farmers of
Door and Kewaunee counties for this
fall are good. The greater part of the
grain has already been cut, and nearly
all the farmers are now stacking it for
fall threshing. The yield is good and,
with the advanced prices, there is a
bright outlook for the "horny-handed
uller' of the soil.
Robert Johnson, a brakeman on the
st. Paul road, was probably fatally in
Jured by a fall from his train near
Cross Plains, Dane county. Just how
the accident occurred is not known.
lie sustained severe injuries to his
head and spine, and it is hardly posi-
pie that he will recover. He is fifty
four years old, and has worked for the
1t Paul company thirty years.
While Mrs. Oliver McClain, who re-
SIDES between Walworth and Bigfoot
NalWOrth county, was engaged III
packing household goods, she in some
manner knocked from its place on the
wall, Il loaded shotgun, which, falling
to the floor, discharged its contents
INTO her left nip, wounding her very
severely.
The arm of Charles Shook, a conduct
or on the Milwaukee, Racine q Keno
Sha Electric railway, was broken by
an accident. The car was running
down grade, near Cudahy, when 1T
struck large rock, the collision throw
ing Shook against the seats. The fact
that a car was thrown from the track
several night ago and several persons
injured, the result of block of wood
being placed on the track, leads the
officials to believe that an attempt is