The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-08-30
WISCONSIN ITEMS

ROSSeau Post, @. n. H., OF oltdSe'
voted to admit Spanish-Amerlcan war
veterans.
Mike Schultz fell from scaftold at
Marinette and was badly cut about the
head and hands.
A house at Sparta owned by Mrs. f.
hitting, occupied by e. e. Palmer, was
destroyed by fire.
Joseph Maloneys barn at Boomer
filled with hay, burned. Loss, s2,ooo'
partially insured.
Joseph Hintz of Stevens Point, elev-
en- years old, fell off a pier into the flV-
er. and was drowned.
Hans p. Larson Of Neenah who was
twice shot at Santiago, has arrived
home Oh furlough.
All GAINESVILLE did honor to the re-
mains of Private Henry Gliford, VINO
died at Jacksonville.
The annual meeting OF the state LII
theran Young Peoples league VIII De
held in Beloit Aug. %.
Frank Vieth of Marinette fell with d
tray of lemonade on an excursion podt
and injured his spine.
TIE OaIl Ut tie COlllGI1Cd 1ONiA' -@N
Appleton broke away and left the peu
of the pond almost dry.
Fire destroyed the public school
building at Boyd. The loss on school
property is about $4,000.
Ernest Wierski, an old resident OF
GIenwood, has begun the erection OF
large flour and feed mill.
C,on,oroJ Dow NJouI,ord dip1 at Hack
sonyille while his mother was on the
way there to nurse him.
The finance committee Of the l.. A.
w. meet, held at Green Bay last week,
will report deficit of $500.
Green Bay officials have begun
siege on disorderly houses, upon petl-
ton Of a long list of citizens.
Ex-members of Company e, of Be
lott, First regiment W. n. g.. have or
ganized a veterans association.
A polecat created CONSERVATION and
stirred up a big odor in Northwest
err passenger coach neaEOconto.
The wife of William Turner. a Bran
don druggist, gave birth to three fine
boys, weighing 4, 4 IL and 5 pounds.
The state reformatory at Green Bay
is nearly completed, and convicts from
WaUpun will be taken there shortly.
The little two-year-old child of {. IL.
Smith of Rolling Prairie was run over
by milk wagon and picked UP sense
less.
Edward A. Lee, of the firm of Lee u
Diebels, and Miss Mile Steckart,
daughter of John Steckart, were mar
ried at Depere.
The residence of William Vanden-
plass, located on the Shawano road,
near Green Bay, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire.
The Green Bay & Western Railway
company has begun the construction of
the largest water reservoir in the
Northwest at Green Bay.
l.. D. Harvey, nominee on the Repub-
lican ticket for state superintendent of
public instruction, spoke at the teach
ers' institute at Deerfield.
The Murphy Provision company of
Chicago will erect large warehouse
at Peshtigo for the storage of potatoes
and other farm products.
The new Bayley block at Platteville
is to be the most deliberately construct
ed building in Southwestern Wiscon-
sim Construction has been begun.
George Johnson of Marinette, while
fishing with a Milwaukee friend, cast
his line at golden eagle, which was
sitting Oh a stump, and lassooei it.
The funeral of Private Evenson of
Racine was the largest attended and
most elaborate ever known in the city.
The procession was nearly two miles
long.
The grocery store of NJ L. Leonard
at Stevens Point wa sdamaged by
fire. There We're two fires in the store
and another week before. The insur-
ance is $3.50.
Farmers in Southern Wisconsin have
just finished harvesting the largest
crop of wheat and cats in twenty
years. The yield of oats has been be-
yond all expectations.
Robert Sears of Company E, Twelfth
Minnesota volunteers, returned to his
home at Ridgeway, Wis. He claims
that sickness at Chicamauga was due
to unsanitary conditions
News was received of the death OF
OttoMerkel of Appleton. Private Me1k-
ell was a member of Company G for
some time, and has relatives in Apple
ton.
Owing to the illness of President Al
bee, of the Oshkosh normal school.
Prof f. A. Mann of Chicago will as
sist in the duties heretofore performed
by Mr.. Albee.