The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-09-27
WISCONSIN ITEMS

Six freight cars were wrecked about
two miles from Waupaca. No one was
injured
f. J. Osberg, well known druggist
of West Superior. was found dead Oh
the foo, of his store.
Ex-senator Philetus Sawyer and Col.
Gabe BOuck advanced money to the
returned Oshkosh soldiers.
In the special election at Medford in
relation to license there was a plural
ity in favor of fixing it at $500.
Elmer Fullerton and G. w. Chamber
lain of Kaukaui1a arrived from Ponce.
Porto Rico, i'll weak condition.
DR.. J. j. Hewitt of Green Bay has re-
signed the pastorate of the Presbyte-
fian church. which was accepted.
Allen Snyder of Chicago, aged nine
teen, was badly mangled by q pulley
while wirking in a Rhinelandef box
factory.
Because there are no funds in the
treasury of the city of Racine, Cay la
borers on the city streets have been
discharged.
John d. Bullock of WATERFOWL has
been appointed as internal revenue
agent, under the new law, and goes to
Boston, Mass.
Harry Davis, a eolored lad, who
Scaled the workhouse while at Osh-
kosh recently, and spraihed his wrist,
will lose his arm, gangrenG having SET
in.
Fire broke out in the Racine Hard
ware Manufacturing company, and be
fore the flames could be checked the
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the extent Of $4,000.
A party of twenty-five Indian boys
and girls between the ages of four ana
twenty years, have gone from the
Oneida reservation to the lndlan
school at Hampton, Va.
Asa e. Pettingill, aged eighty-three,
the veteran clerk of the municipal
court at Madison, died at his home.
He had served twenty-three consecu-
tive years as clerk of the court.
At the German Methodist confer
| ence at Kenosha, and the West Wis
consin Methodist conference at Eau
Claire, 1t was decided to give laymen
and ministers equal representation.
Shingle prices have taken a decided
| lump, and orders are increasing with
local dealers at Marinette. Wright
brothers are now loading fifty cars for
shipment at noticeably higher prices
Private II. n. Norman of Fort At
| klnson. who was arrested with three
Racine soldiers for disorderly conduct,
was fined $40 and costs or ten days III
iail and, in default of fine, was sent
| to Jail.
Peter Barnard, a Frnch Indian, &C
| cusd of breaking into Stroeble "
Raumgartners hardware store Sept.
| II. was arraigned in the Neenah JUST
| ice court, and his hearing was set Tor
| Sept. 26.
Otto Anderson of Greenwood was
| showing Walter Willard his breech-
loading shotgun, and throwing out the
| shell, when it suddenly discharged, the
shot entering the foot and shatterlng
| the bones.
Peter Olum TruaX, living with his
sister at St Paul, a nephew of Peter
| Trl1ax. a capitalist of Eau Claire, was
| kicked by a horse at the latter place
and his skull was fractured. He Will
| probably die.
A man named Geoarge Smith of Lit
| tle Chute was struck by the North
western swithch engine at the Meade
street crossing at Appleton, the engine
passing over his right leg "beloW the
| knee. He will lose his leg.
Fred Strickland, alias Silver, ana
| his brother Charles, both OF Eau
| Claire. have been arrested, charged
with burglarizing the Taylor nose III
| Chippewa Falls, some time ago, ana
| curing a large amount of silyerWare.
While excavating for the new Ma,
sonic temple at Eua Claire, the earth
cayed in and partially buried William
CooDer and William Johnson, labor
ers Both are in the hospital john
| son sustained serious internal injuries.
A nine-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
| John Neels Of Racine climbed tree
and fell to the sidewalk, distance or
about fifteen feet. In the fall he dls-
located his right wrist, cut his rlght
ear half off and sustained conclusion
of the brain.
Someone set fire and burned the sep
arator of Seayert & Gilbertson, on the
farm of w. f. Christman, mile south
of Clinton. 1t was purchased TINS Iall
While traces are plain, no clue TO the
marty that did the work has been dis
covered
Chorson Bros store, at ScandlnaV"
ia. was robbed of 500 worth OF goodS.
The burglars ct away in handcar,
and when they reached Amherst lett
the car on the tracks. They were seen
in Waupaca, and officers have started
after them.
camp of Modern @Woodmen Of
ko,;o, VOC oroaniZpd at Cartwright