The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-08-23
WISCONSIN ITEMS


Jack Hill, Kenosha lad. chief me-
chanic on the warship Texas, is at
home on furlough of seven days.
Prominent Racine society ladies have
started a chain letter to raise funds for
Company L.
Michael G. Dickinson, a resident of
Racine for thirty-fve years, is dead,
aged seventy-eight.
Rain and hail has damaged the Wis
consin tobacco crop. The crop is the
best in years.
The yacht Peri, which it was feared
had been lost in the recent storm, has
put in at Racine.
Three boys who escaped from the re-
form school at Red Wing were cap
tGred at Trempealeau.
William De Steese of Fond du Lac
has been appointed aide-de-camp on
the department staff of the G. A. X.
Rolla Clark of Big Bend writes that
he has reached Seattle on his way
home, having seen enough of Dawson
City.
The Brown brothers of Racine are
on their return from the Klondike,
very much Disguised with the gold re-
gion.
During the recent storm bolt of
lightning struck the Methodist church
at Appleton, making five holes in the
ceiling.
The cranberry crop estimate for this
year has been placed at 10000 barrels
for Wood county and 5000 barrels for
the Berlin district.
The potato crops near Stevens Point
and Stockton are reporte as excellent
this year, farmers receiving 20 to 70
cents per bushel.
Forrest De Lap and George Davis of
Mansion, who have returned from the
Santiago fight complained bitterly Of
the ungrateful Cubans.
The end of the war was celebrated
at Fox Lake by the booming of cam
non a display of fireworks and bon
fires. Patriotic addresses were made.
George Weber, eighty-four years Of
age died from injuries received from
a Wisconsin Central train on a cross
ing.
: "A letter from Corporal Leo Haben
Of Oshkosh, who is at Fortress Mon
roe, i'll of typhoid fever, says that he
will recover.
Green Bay is to have two new
school buildings, to cost when complet-
ed, about $4,000, with the sites. Plans
have been accepted.
Friends of Andrew Follett, the young
man who disappeared from Marlnette,
are making every effort to get clue
TO his Wherpa bouts
George Westmon, we'll known res
ident of Marinette, has returned from
Seattle, where he has been fitting out
a Klondike expedition for the last
three months.
At the annual picnic of the Rock
county Caledonian society, held at
GAINESVILLE, the attendance was about
1900 from Southern Wisconsin and
Northern Illinois.
Charles Wood, aged twenty-one, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself with
revolver, at the home of his parents,
a few miles from Viroqua. He had
been in poor health.
The log trains of the Diamond
Match company are bringing in about
ninety cars of logs daily. The total
son will be about 30,000,000 feet.
II. Il. Wetherby, of the United States
infantry, who was wounded at Santl-
ago in the battle under Gen. Shafter,
has returned to his home at New Lon~
DON on a furlough of thirty days.
Grace Pearsall of Elroy, aged four
teen, attempted to commit suicide by
taking paris green. An emetic was adj
ninistered, and she is improving. She
feared whipping from her father.
w. A. Ellis, who has been treasurer
of the Peshtigo school board for forty
years, has resigned. He became treas
urer of the board when it was organ
lied
James Harrison, while working OH
the state historical library building at
Madison, fell forty feet sustaining no
injuries except a broken rib and few
bruises.
William Pendergast, of Company F,
Second Wisconsin infantry, has ar
rived at Kaukauna from Charleston.
He has been in the hospital since the
regiment made it's forced trial march.
President Mckinley has appointed
Warren Dean of Appleton to lieu
tenancy in the regular army, the nom
nation coming through Adjt Gen. Cor
bin and the efforts of Deans mother.
J. C. Davis, an insane man at Sparta,
awaiting an examination, tried to COM
NIT suicide by eating pounded glass.
He was found in time and prompt med
ical assistance given.
Charlie Johnson, a travelling cigar
maker. who claims no place as his