The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-11-01
WISCONSIN ITEMS

So 5t9.
Ensign Nate c. Twining of Monroe
has been advanced to junior lieutenant
rank en the bat1leship Iowa.
DR.. c. f. Rodolf of Muscoda and
Miss Charity Meyer of Boscobel were
married at the latter's home.
Burglars entered the home of ". 0.
Nauscowen at Hartford and secured q
humber of small articles and clothes.
Miss Libbie elise of Lock Haven
Pa, and William Chesney of Oconto
Falls were married at the latter'S
home.
The three-year-old child of Mr., and
Mrs Joseph Backes of Kenosha was
terribly burned and died i'll few
hours.
J. G. Nord. who was bitten by dog
at Cumberland -ast June, is suffering
from hydrophobia. He lives at Red
Wing, Mimi.
Deaths in the state: Mrs. George
Melms, aged siXty-one, Hartford; Mrs.
Robert Melster, Palmyra; Mrs. Pitt
Cravath, Whitewater.
Former members of Company A Of
GAINESVILLE presented the wife of their
former captain, Mrs. Charles l.. Ham
son, with a silver tea set.
H. Frank Sons of Flushing. n. Y,
have brought suit against the Frank
Chickory company of Cedarburg for
infringement of trademark.
Mrs. Julia Rogers, mother of eX-
Mayor w. H. Rogers of Madison, and
formerly a resident of Dodge county,
died at Columbus, Neb.
Frank SamonslIi, of the town OF
Depere, aged eighteen, was accident"
ally shot and killed by his companion
while hunting.
Anton Kaufman, until lately of Two
Rivers los his right eye at Middle
town, n. Y as result of piece OF
flying wood striking the eyeball.
The two-year-old daughter of Francis
Dagio of Cumberland pulled coffee
pot off the stove and she was scalded
SO badly that she died in eight hours.
Hiram J. Smith of Racine has re-
ceIved notice that he had been APP
pointed one of the executive committee
of the National council of the q. A. X.
Ex-senator Sawyer has returned
from the Trans-Mississipp exposition.
Mr.. Sawyer is loud in his praises of
the big show, which he characteriZeS
as a monument to Western enterprise.
Rev. Mr.. Holsington has resigned
the pastorate of the Methodist church.
at La Crosse, and accepted the charge
eff the Evanston Gid Methodist
church
While D. Dingman, an empioye of
the Green Bay q Western railroad,
was making a coupling at Seymour,
a. o11d CT
upper lip. infiicting a serious wound.
John Kauth, Dodge county farm
er, aged thirty-fve, was killed by
ST Paul freight train, a mile south OF
Knowles. The coroner's verdict was
that he came to his death by his own
carelesSness.
Knudt A. Lee pleaded guilty to lar
ceny at GAINESVILLE, and was sentenced
to year al WauDI II. He has served
term at Waupun before OH charge OF
forgery, and six years at Joliet for
robbery.
Arthur Collins of New London has
made declaration for pension. While
Jumping from horse at Chickamauga
park he fell in such Il way as to rup-
ture himself The amount he expects
is So month.
Martin Jansen of Green Bay has
made an application for a pension for
the death of his son, Martin Jansen.
Jr., who was a private in Company H.
First Wisconsin, and who died at
Jacksonville.
The Rev. NJ. Kionka of Sturgeon
Bay has been called to the passionate OF
the German Lutheran church at
oil
Rev. c.. Covers. who resigned to ac-
cept a call to Elhhorn.
Samuel d. Mcmillan. formerly of La
| Crosse, has filed a petition to be re-
lieved from hio debt under the bank
1uptcy law. He was at one time owner
| of the Neshonoc water power and mill
and the Maple Shade stock farm.
Deputy Marshal Frank 7. Meehan ar
rested Clint Vaughn, an employe Of the
Wisconsin Central Railroad company
at Chippewa Falls. Vaughn is charged
| with sending obscene matter through
! the mails to the wife of an old resident
| of Chippewa Falls.
The Elmwood butter and cheese
factory at Fond du Lac was destroyed
| by fire. causing a loss of $500. The
factory was one of the best in the
county and had a daily capacity of
from 1000 to 5000 pounds. The origin
| of the fire is unknown.
Clothes saturated with gasoline
| caused an explosion while being
washed at Mayville. and fire followed,
causing damage Of about 500 TO the
| house of Herman Nation. His wife
and male assistant were burned
10.