The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-04-19
WISCONSIN ITEMS
events of the Past Week I'm the
Badger State.

of $4,000.
The Oshkosh Plating Works will be
removed to Galesburg, H., soon, and
the entire force of employees will ac-
company the concern
Joseph Runge, convicted at Kenosha
of an assault ON Mrs. A. ID. Forester,
was sentenced to twelve years in the
penitentiary at Waupun.
Mrs Oscar Heilman of Amigo took
q dose of carbolic acid with suicidal in
tent. Physicians have hopes Of her re-
coyery, however.
Paul Vanderboom' saloon at Mari
nette was robbed of a small sum of
money and some cigars and liquors by
burglars.
sam Way, a log-driyer on the North
fork Of the Eau Claire river near Stan
lev was injured fatally by log rolling
over him
The house of Henry SHERMAN and its
contents were destroyed by fire at Ber-
lin. The loss is $1,000 with insurance
of $500
Peter Johnson was arrested at Keno
sha and brought back to his former
home in Racine to answer to a charge
OF HuullbIY. liz w DIS CO1ll1llIIlGll W .Jd1l
and bail of $500 was required of him.
The patriotic ladies of Racine will
present the members OF Co. +, w. n.
G., with a silk flag to be carried in case
the company is called to fight Spanish
soldiers.
Judge Hubbard of Eau Claire has
decided in the Carson will contest that
Mrs. Henrietta Proctor, the contestant,
must file security for costs in the sum
of $3.50.
The explosion of a lamp caused
fire which destroyed the house of
Grace Thompson at Washburn. Ar
chic Barnhardt, one of the inmates,
lost his life.
The Mccormick Machine company
is about to erect a $4,000 building at
Madison to be used as a storehouse
and factory 1t will be two stories high
and built of brick.
S. II. Zickert was sentenced to eight
cen months in states prison for forgery
by Judge Gibson of Fond du Lac. John
Hartung was given one year for COM
plicity in the robbery of Fred Day on
a freight train in Fond du Lac county.
The following articles Of incorpora-
ton were filed at MadisOn: p. d. Muir
phey Grain and Mercantile company,
Bear Creek, capital stock $4,000; Post
Publishing company, Appleton, capital
stock $4,000.
Mrs A. II. Davis of La Crosse was
held up ON the street by a man who
knocked her down and robbed her of
her pocketbOOk, which, however, con-
tanned but little money. She was not
badly injured
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kendall cele-
brated their golden wedding anniver-
Sary at Beloit They have resided over
fifty years in that city. Mr.. Kendall
has been a justice of the peace many
years.
John II. Hull, Jr., agent for the Chi.
cagO u North Western railway at Han
over, Rock county, was arrested on the
charge of unlawful detention. Hull
pleaded not guilty and was released
under $500 bail.
William de Sautelle, the 17-year-old
son of Frank de Sautelle, fell under a
freight train at Madison and died soon
after the accident. De Sautelle and
several companions were boarding the
freight as it pulled out. No blame is
attached to the train crew.
\ man named Smith, claiming to be
a cigarmaker from Milwaukee, was
arrested at Fond du Lac and sent to
jail after fierce struggle with officers.
He is alleged to have made threats to
assault Policeman Louis Ecke and the
officers who apprehended him.
The Oshkosh city council passed an
ord in io1, ,Nrn1liJN;fc cfO in co
looms under q penalty of from SO to
500 fine. This action is the result Of
the agitation caused by several sensa-
ti0nal incidents occurring in stall Sa-
looms in which girls figured,
Vita park and the Vita Spring Park
hotel. formerly a summer resort near
Beaver Dam, have been leased by DR..
William Augustus Pratt of Warrens
and will be changed into hospital,
TO be known as the Vita Spring Park
hospital.
MIR. and Mrs. A. G. futile of Bara-
boo recently celebrated the siXtieth an
nlFersaTy of their marriage The couple
came to Wisconsin in 1916, first set
Ting at Madison and Portage and af-
rewards at Baraboo, where Mr.. Tut
lie entered the nursery business.
John Walsh, recently elected judg on
the municipal court at KeWaunee, is
me Youngest member of the Wisconsin
bench. He was born in 1872, educated
he common schools and at the state
university law school and has practiced
Tor three years at Kewaunee.
Capt Conrad Feige, of the famous
John Barr Glenn company, Knights of
1ythias, of Eau Claire, and Capt. John
6elSang, formerly camptain of the