The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-10-26
WISCONSIN ITEMS
Events of the Past Week In the
Badger State.

Pewaukee claims to have haunted
ohuse.
A colony of Bohemians will locate
near Eau Claire.
A new Baptist church was dedicated
at Silver Lake.
Burglars robbed house in Oconto of
Deer Greek.
A colony of thirty Swedes has set
tied near Medford.
John Rice was fatally injured in a
runaway near Tigerton.
Dodge county will have a new work
house costing $1,925.3S.
Christian Fisk died at Fond du Lac
at the age of seventy eight.
A postoffice will be established at
$40 by chloroforming the inmates
Surveys are being made for a new
street railway at Chippewa Falls.
PardeeviIle win have an electric light
plant run by water power.
John Van Shack of Evansville died
of heart trouble, aged eighty-two years.
The residence of Joseph Parkers,
near Poynette, was robbed of $500.
The epidemic of hog cholera is in
creasing in the town of kaukauna.
The Baptist chapel at Green Bay has
been dedicated. 1t cost $1,000.
Sweeny's meat market at Madison
was robbed of nearly $40 by burglars.
Peter Kelly and Fred Bent were
found guilty of melting Il dOg-tight at
Kenosha.
Theodore Hansen. a Scandinavian
farmer of Whitehill, hanged himself
on account of family troubles.
III. Searles of OmrO sold to J. H.
Sayer of Chicago 10000 pounds of wool
at 20 cents per pound.
Richard Northcott of New Lisbon,
aged twenty-one. was killed by the ac-
cidental discharge of gun.
The barn of Archie Willet of Eau
Claire was burned by the explosion of
a lantern. The loss is about 1000.
Leopold Lefebre, an old resident Of
Green Bay and native of Belgium,
died at the age of seventy-four years.
Henry Hammas has been found
guilty of DEMONSTRATING at GAINESVILLE.
A motion for a new trial was entered.
A federal union of the various labor
organizations in Oshkosh is under con-
sderation by the Workingmen of that
city.
Emmett Linsdau. aged fourteen. son
of Aid. Jacob Linsdau of Menasha, at
tempted suicide last night by taking
laudanum.
J. B. Stone, one of the oldest and
wealthiest residents of the town of Az
ITALIAN, near Lake Mills, died, aged
eightythree.
Burglars stole gold watch, valu-
able gold ring and a small sum of
money from the residence of J. ]. Kes-
Senich of Madison.
The insurance rate at Neeaah has
been declared off. The board has been
reorganized and they have established
a new schedule.
In the circuit court at Washburn
John Jingray pleaded guilty to forgery
and was sentenced to one year at
Waupun.
The Scott Lumber Company, which
has sawed 100000 feet of lumber at
Omro during the last three months,
have closed down for the season.
Thieves entered the saloon of John
Heating of KenOsha and removed $50
Ill cash, WHICH UGcu IcIC III Tic
drawer. The robbers escaped.
Racine policemen broke up a prize
fight in the outskirts of that city. One
of the principals and one of the specta-
tors We're captured.
The two-year-old son of Herman
Wachs of Kenosha was kicked in the
face by a horse, breaking the jaw and
badly decorating his face.
The Woman's Club of Berlin has
made a collection of pictures which
they will present to the various pub
lie schools of the city.
GAINESVILLE Odd Fellows who are
fighting the Wisconsin Mutual Life In
surance Company will appeal their
case to the circuit court.
Two ore trains on the Northwestern
road collided at Ashland, damaging
one of the engines and derailing a
number OF the cars.
GAINESVILLE city authorities want to
have new fire station built The APP
paratus and other city property it has
is at present kept in defective rented
building.
Insurance Commissioner Fricke has
licensed the Aetna Indemnity company
of Hartford, Conn, to do business in
Wisconsin. The company does tidel-
ity and surety insurance business.
Albert Rausch was appointed by
Gov. Schofield as sheriff of Oconto
county in place OF Charles Quirt, de-
ceased. Mr. Rausch has been under
sheriff of the county.
Charles Sexton, the oldest blacksmith
in the state celebrated his ninetieth
birthday at GAINESVILLE. He learned the
trade with his father when but seven
rrnn,.c old Hn has resided at lanes