Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-06-24
WISCONSIN ITEMS.
some Interesting Happenings I'm the
badger State.

III luphtna ldke at MIOlSOn.
A branch of the humane society has
been formed al Berlin.
Andrew Kupfer, aged ~sixty-one years,
died at Racine.
Mrs. John Mckay Of washburn is
missing.
! Mrs. Elizabeth Buffham died AT Ra-
enc. aged ninety-three years.
George Kelly. aged eight years. was
drowned at Marinette His father IS q
paper mill employe.
Mrs. John Murray died at GAINESVILLE
of apoplexy. aged sixty-three. She set
tied in Wisconsin in 1855.
The remains OF Daniel Tiedman. who
was shot by a burglar NJ Omaha, were
Inferred at Mansion.
The plant of the Diamond Match
company at Green Bay will start up
about July /.
Louis Polenski. his wife and daugh-
| ter. We're badly injured in a runaway
at Chippewa Falls.
Bertha Russary, aged three years.
was struck by a train at superior and
fatally injured.
-Four farmers have been arrested at
Appleton on n charge Of selling impure
| milk.
August Bechaud. son of a wealthy
brewer at Fond du Lac, dropped dead
while playing bah.
Prof. Hill Of Oshkosh, has been ap-
pointed 10 the chair Of philosophy OF
Nebraska university.
The modified plans Of the new histor-
ital building AT Madison viii save $780,
! coo.
in the United States court at Oshkosh,
charged with selling liquor TO Indians,
failed TO agree.
William ID. Sherwood a well known
farmer. and for several years chat q n
Of the town Of Hixton, died of dru.sy,
aged sixty five.
Mrs. Charles Charlie, aged s1einty-
two, and Frank Zenghan, aged fifty
nine years, died from the effects OF the
heat at La Crosse.
j. w. Bats, the Beloit lawyer recent
Nv arrested and taken East on & charge
of forgery, has been acquitted and Is on
his way home.
The mayoralty difficulty was settled
at Kewaunee by the election OF John
Wattawa by the city council. There.
was no opposition.
Oscar Syostrom is under arrest at
Birch Lake, Ashland county. on q
charge of stabhing John Anderson at q
dance. Anderson will ecover.
Gustav Eisholt, a young man living
with his parents about n mile north OF
Sheboygan, was drowned while bathing
in Pigeon river.
Edward Lazatte of Marinette is dead.
! His death was due TO an injury which
he received in the III. Whitbeck mill
last fall.
Cord mill at Superior, while trying to
control n frightened horse, was thrown
off a tram, fell a distance Of twenty
five feet, fracturing an arm and leg.
H. Eichmeier, an old settler and coun-
try merchant living at Newton, seven
miles from Manitowoc, committed sui
eide by shooting himself through the
head. He was forty-three years Of age.
The ladies of the North Presbyterian
| church at La Crosse had charge OF the
street cars for one day, ladies collecting
the fares. The receipts were given 10
charity.
The ~ten-year-Old boy of Frederick
| Stuhr of La Crosse was drowned while
bathing in a slough near town. He was
q poor swimmer. and the little boys
who were with him could not ave him.
Prof. N. O. Whitney OF the State uni
| versity will spend the summer in Eu-
rope inspecting railroads and bridges.
He has sailed frcm Philadelphia to
Liverpool.
j. ID. vavre, a one-handed man who
has been soliciting orders for groceries
among farmers the past month, was ar
rested at Grantsburg on a charge of
forgery.
Sherman Brown, twenty-one years OF
age, was drowned Mt Sweeney's pond.
| three miles west of Barron, while bath
ing. He was taken with cramps, and
went down in an eddy.
Stephen Gill has brought a damage
| suit for $4,000 against Welsh & Duff
| fy the stevedores at Superior. Gill re-
Gently led a rival gang. and, 1t Is al
legged, was beaten by the Welsh men In
q fight to load the steamer Nicholas.
Philip King OF Wausau was taken
| before Judge Watson at Fond du Lac,
| charged with watering milk brought
| to the Bacon cheese factory. He en-
| tered a plea of not guilty, and his ex-
| animation was adjourned to June %.
Johanna Kennedy died at st. Francis
| hospital, La Crosse where She had re-
| sided for two years past, aged seventy
| two years. The remains will be buried
| beside those of her husb2nd at Prairie
| du Chen.
The body Of J. III. Haugan, the miss
| ing boarding house keeper, was found
in the bay at West Superior. Haugan
left May 2S. On the following day his
| wife received a letter saying he would
| drown himself.
Johnny. the eieht-yearold son Of Il.
A. Bullock Of Shawano, was drowned
while playing on the dam. He was
looking down into the log sluice when
! he probably became dizzy and fell in,
and was at once carried to the eddy
below the dam.
Gen. Hollen Richardson OF Chippewa
Falls. whose name was prominently
| mentioned in connection with the office
OF commissioner Of the general land
Office, is said to have been offered by
President Mckinley a position in the
interior department.