The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-09-21
WISCONSIN ITEMS
rome Interesting Happenings In the
Badger State.

/
John Allen, a river driver. was
| drowned at Marinette.
The supply of soft coal at Superior
IS running short
There are 1900 school children at
Marinette.
w. A. Cole, aged eighty-one years.
1led at Kaukana. Ee was an old resi-
lent of this state.
| Menomonee Falls has an anti-saloon
league, having been formed few
lays ago
Mary Arndt, who disappeared from
| the Sheboygan county asylum, has
been found.
| Mrs. Mary Geni9n died at Bay Set
| Element, Brown county. She was sew
| enty-eight years DID, and one of the
oldest residents of the county.
Mrs. William Silloway, an old resi-
| lent of Racine, is dead. She was six
| 5y-three years of age, and had lived in
Racine fifty-four years.
Mrs. Abbie Piper, an old resident of
New Richmond, died at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Kennedy She was
lightweight years of age.
The George Warren Company's big
blaming mill at Warrens, caught fire in
the shayings pit. Quick action on the
)art OF the employees saved it. Dam
age was about 500.
Rev. e. J. Baskerville, pastor of the
Episcopal church at Madison, has de
cided to leave that city A request
has been made to have him continue
IN charge.
Foo a1,o
north of Appleton for several months
past, seems to be dying out for the
reason that m )st of the hogs are dead.
One man named Ross saved only six
out of a herd of sixty.
Joseph Tenes the young man who
stole wheel some time ago from the
lower paper mill, and was arrested at
Grand Rapids, was sentenced by
Judge Murat at Stevens Point to state
prison at hard labor for nine months.
Twenty-Five telephones of the Wis
.onSln Telephone company We're
burned out at Racine, caused by tel
ephone wire breaking and falling on
the trolley wires of the Belle City
Railway company.
Mrs. Jerome Woodward, living about
seven miles south of WarrenS, tried to
commit suicide by takin gParis green.
Physicians saved her life. The first
wife Of Woodward killed herself by
taking poison, and at the same place.
The body of Chris Nelson, who was
drowned at Little Falls about June Is,
was found few days ago on an ISL
ard below Chippewa Falls. There was
nothing left but the skeleton of the
body. The legs and arms were both
gone.
Biackberryins nave been the
60 OF late anf for nearly two weeks
there has be Il a steady stream Of
pickers to tt berry patches north OF
the Keshen reservation, many from
points as ia away as New London.
One of the argest estates ever pro
bated in BroN Il county has just been
divided among the heirs of A. Weise.
Tine total value of the property is
Sl50O00, and consists of business and
residence property.
Those intending to shoot deer this
fall should remember that it will be
necessary for them to- procure a license
i'll order to do so without violating the
game law. A game license costs ST for
those who are residents of the state,
and are issued by the county clerk.
The Wisconsin tobacco crop being
now mostly shielded, is out of danger
from damage by hail or frost, but
there has been considerable apprehen-
sion that the very hot and dry wealth
er would dry the leaf out green in
stead of allowing it to properl you're.
John Ross, a river driver, was
drowned at Marinette while working
II al in l1n
ter at Twin Island Rapids, and was
swept away and drowned before the
eyes of a dozen fellow workmen, who
were unable to, reach him.
Michael Berg, aged twenty-one years,
was found dead at the bottom of
siXty-foot mineral shaft in Lost Grot-
to, near Cuba City. He and his broth
err were intending to work the mine,
which had been idle for a long time,
and deceased went there alone. and
was overcome by the foul air Ill the
shaft.
The lease under which the Fox Xiv
er Electric Railway company has been
operating the Mccartney Street rail
way during the past year at Green
Bay, expired Sept /. Negotiations are
pending for a renewal of the agree
ment, but no terms have yet been
agreed upon.
Under the will of the late George
Athearn. ST. of Oshkosh, his son
George and his wife Eliza are made
executors. The income of his estate
is to be given to his wife during her
life. and at her death the estate, val
ued at $50, 900, is to be equally divided
betW cen his two sons, George and
Fred.
Simon Knaggs, a we'll known farmer
of the town of Brockway, while NOW