The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-06-08
WISCONSIN ITEMS.


driver at La Crosse and badly injured.
Abort forty cases are on the calen-
dar al Oshkosh for the June term.
Miss Olive Owen won the oratorical
contt st at Arcadia.
w. ZitSke has been held for trial at
New London. He is charged with hav-
ing forged a note and having it cashed.
Mrs. Charles Runals, aged eighty
one years, died at SOmers, KenOsha
county.
Isaac Mariner, aged eighty-three, an
old resident, died at Beloit He has
been blind for many years.
Oscar P. Frank, aged tWenty-siX
died at La Crosse He was we'll
known young man.
Firebugs tried to burn the store Of
John Bauer at La Crosse The damage
amounted to 500.
f. A. F1orine and family of Cuba
City were taken seriously i'll from eat
ing canned fruit. They are recovering.
A five-year-old son of Mrs. George
HOhl of La Crosse was badly Scalded
by an older sister. The child may die
A representative of Eastern capital
lists is at Amigo negotiating for a site
on which to erect a large tannery.
Fifty orphans from New York were
distributed a nOng different families
around Marinette
Friends of August Kopitzke of Ra
cine, who was found dead in Chicago,
are of the opinion that he was MUIR
dered.
George d. Fellows of Racine was
capSized while sailing a boat at Pc
Waukee lake, and narrowly escaped
drowning.
Corydon 2. Northrop, aged seventy
seven years, died at MenaSha. He
built the first house in the city. He
leaves a wife and six grown children.
Miss Clara Smith of Brodhead, who
has been an inmate of the Rock coun-
ty insane asylum for the past year,
died at the age of thirty-siX years.
P. Kerrigan, route agent of the Unit
ed States Express company, has re-
ceived orders from the general manag-
er to close the office Of the company at
KenOSha.
John A. Kerwin of Madison, one of
the best-known railway men in the
state, has resigned as roadmaster of
the Northwestern road between Madl-
son and Milwaukee.
Fire broke out in the Athearn house,
formerly known as the Colby house, at
Ashland. A prompt alarm by police
man saved the building. The loss will
be about 5000.
Henry Beckham brought suit against
Julius Cousins, a farmer of the town
of Newark, for damages in the sum Of
$4,000 for biting off his ear. The jury
found for the defendant
P. G. Murphy, charged with assault
by Emil KelbS of Chester, father Of
eleven-year-old Emma Kelbs, was
bound over to the next term of the
Fond du Lac court in bonds of $4,000.
While giving directions for the pre-
paration of the monday meal Mrs
Andrew Mollsted, aged forty-siX the
mother of nine children, fell dead from
heart disease at Beloit.
In the case of Rebecca Sykes Miller
VS.. The City Of GAINESVILLE for $4,000
damages for falling on a defective
sidewalk last July, settlement. has
been effected.
Miss Mertie Wright, aged twenty
four, daughter of e. M. Wright of Prai-
RE du Chen, died from typhoid fever
Her twin sister died three weeks ago
from the same disease.
The appointment of John A. Ogden
of Amigo as secretary of the new state
board of immigration is announced
The board consists of the governor and
the secretary of state.
Ernestine Miller was arrested at
Green Bay, charged with stealing a
diamond ring belonging to r. A. Holl-
man. She had been employed as lzitch-
en- girl in the family.
The work of grading the lake front
at ManitOWOc where the large coal
docks Of the Pennsylvania & Ohio Fuel
are to be erected, was begun
last week.
Members of the First Baptist church
have subscribed $1,525 towards build
ing new church at Green Bay. J. III.
Taylor offered to give So for every 81
raised by the othe members up to
$1,000.
At depth of about twenty feet, we'll
1iggers on the Arthur Leadbetter farm,
a mile and a half from Palmyra, in a
spur Of the Kittle Morine, found sever
al inches of pure copper, thought to
have drifted there in the glacial period
Peter Risager, sixty years old, was
found hanging in his cellar at Racine
1t is supposed that on account Of finan-
cial diculties he committed suicide. He
had been a resident of Racine for thir-
ty years.
Perley Lowe of Chicago has pur-
chased the seasons cut of the Peshtigo
Lumber company, 100000 feet. The
lumber will be piled, planed and ship
ped from Lake PeShtigO The conSid-