The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-10-04
WISCONSIN ITEMS

Sparta for smoking cigarettes.
Prof. ]. j. Hayden, principal OF the
Centralia schools, died at Byron.
Peter Bernard was bound over on
$500 bail for burglary at Neenah.
The Marinette company has been
mustered out of the National guard
service.
Charles Goldenberger, a stonecutter,
living at Madison, drowned III Lake
Mendoza.
The Seventh Day Adventists have
begun the erection of a school near
Green Bay.
Lieut.. John Barron of Eau Claire has
returned to his home from a Phlladel-
phia hospital.
The trial of Mrs Julia Hands, at
Oshkosh, for alleged rioting, resulted
in disagreement.
Another dividend of 10 per cent has
been paid to the creditors Of the de-
funct Edgerton bank.
Private Fred Cousins, aged twenty
four Company E, First regiment, died
at Beloit of typhoid fever.
Arthur De Croft and George Esch Of
Sparta arrived home on sick furlough
in very low state of health.
The state Baptist convention will
meet in Beloit Oct. Silt is expected
that 500 delegates will be present.
The opening of Wayland academy at
Beaver Dam is indefinitely postponed,
on account of improvements in prog
reSS.
Neenah is to have a monument for
the soldiers from that city who sacri-
feed their lives in consequence of the
war.
MI and Mrs F. Ferguson, two Klon-
dikers from Racine, have returned,
bringing with them, it is said, 100000
in gold.
Special memorial services will be
held at Lakeside Auditorium in Racine,
in honor of the three deceased Racine
soldiers.
The last of the mortgaged property
of the Land and River Improvement
company was sold at West Superior
for $150,OOO.
William Bergan, of the Park Hotel
of Fox Lake, has bought the Clark
house at Beaver Dam, and will take
possession Oct 1.
G. Sarakuni Ishikawa, a Japanese
student in the Wisconsin university,
has been appointed instructor under
Dr. ]. G. ElsOm.
The estate of Nelson Bryngelson, de
ceased, who lived at Chippewa Falls,
will escheat to the state, in default of
either a will or heirs.
The three-year-old daughter of a
farmer named Larson, residing near
West Salem and Bangor, fell into
pail of water and drowned.
The body of an unknown man was
found on the Burlington track, near
Stoddard, a small town near Viroquay.
The remains were badly cut and mutt
lated.
The home of Bronislana Rogalski of
Stevens Point was struck by lightning
and burned. His wife was killed and
he and three children were rendered
unconscious.
The Ladies' Library Association of
Ripon has turned over the library to
the city for term of years, upon con-
ditions of improvement and leaving it
for public use.
Lightning struck and set fire to the
barns and Outbuildings of William
Ziehn, near Hortonville, destroying
them. The loss is very heavy; insur-
ance, $1,000.
Willie, the eight-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Zingraf, residing
north of Plymouth, died of lockjaw,
the result Of having stepped on a
chicken bone.
Frank Mclaughlin, a farmer, resid-
ing two miles north of Wautoma, re-
Gently killed two large gray wolves
which had been troubling the farmers
considerably of late.
NJ. D. Bresnan, a jewelry peddler,
was arrested at Neenah on the charge
of burglarizing cars on the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railway, and
bound over for trial.
Two mortgages, amounting to ST.
600, were burned at the Methodist
church of Rhinelander before a large
congregation, the church society hav-
irg paid off it's last debt
Chauncey Billings, a thirteen-year-
old farmer boy, residing near La
Crosse was attacked by a wolf in the
woods near his fathers farm. He shot
and killed the wolf instantly.
A telegram has ben received at
GAINESVILLE announcing that Peter Sen
net was killed, and that his remains
had been identified by employees. The
message was from Joliet, Ill.
Justice III. NJ. Bird of Marinette i'm
posed fine of 500 and costs, amount
ing to $50, in the case of Robert Nc