The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-01-18
WISCONSIN I ITEMS
Events of the Past Week in the
Badger State.

by a log which rolled from car.
The bonded Indebtedness of Brown
county is $93, $50, and that of the city
of Green Bay $161, 486.
Joseph Isaac of Fond du Lac coun-
ty. has sold his farm, and will go to
Alaska this winter
John Auchter of Lancaster fractured
his skull by fall while skating. He
is not expected to recover.
Louis Violin, a tailor, is suing the
city of Jefferson for $1,000 damages
for injuries received in falling on an
icy pavement.
GAINESVILLE City Lodge, I. o. o. F.,
has moved into new rooms in that city,
and will probably dedicate them on
Jan. 81
Negotiations are pending for the es-
Enlistment of big summer garden
or park on an island in Root river at
Racine.
The st. Johns Catholic society of
Sheboygan has adopted resolutions
protesting against the adoption of the
Lodge Emigration bill.
An ice pyramid more than fifteen
feet high has been formed in a park at
Fond du Lac by spray from fOunt-
ain. 1t presents beautiful sight
A dog belonging to Henry Saunders
of Kau<auna, while trying to leap
over fence, caught it's collar on
picket and was strangled.
Herman Melster of Whitewater has
patented a stopper which hermetrical-
ly seals the neckS of bottles by an au-
tomato device.
Rev. H. Wilson of the Rice Lake
Episcopal church, has accepted a cali
at Kokomo, Ind, and will soon leave
for that place.
The Aluminium Manufacturing COM
pany at Two Rivers expects to build a
large addition to it's plant in the
spring.
Large quantities of bullheads are
being shipped from Beaver Dam to
Chicago, Milwaukee and the Eastern
markets.
The city of Superior has failed to
give the contract for city lighting to
the local light and power company,
and the latter is taking their arc lights
off the streets.
Carl William Straube, charged with
committing an assault upon a siX-year
old daughter of Charles Domro, was
found guilty at Racine. The penalty
is from five to thirty five years.
Two men who were in Jail at ElrOy
on a charge of robbing a store at To
nah, broke Jail and escaped. They
were supposed to have $4,000 in mon
ey and jewelry buried near Elroy.
Frank Caller, who was charged with
robbing a store at Waunakee and who
was captured in Madison after a live
ly fight with the officers, has pleaded
guilty and will be sentenced to Wau-
pun.
Jonathan Decker of Rock county
has been committed to the state hos
pital for the insane at Mendoza. Joel
Eckman, who lives near Marinette, has
become insane because Of his failure
to make whisky from potatoes.
At a meeting of citizens held recent
ly at Omro steps were taken to fulfill
the provisions of the will of the late
John Webster, who left $4,000 to
build training school in that village.
In dance-hall row at Chippewa
Falls man named Lane had portion
of his nose bitten off. A man named
Wheeler was arrested for alleged COM
DllclJy In the dHdlr.
A gasoline stove in the residence of
J. l.. Estes of Oshkosh caused a small
blaze. The water poured on the house
by the fire department did considera
BILE damage.
A fish peddler left a load Of fish,
amounting to 12O pounds, outside of a
house at Kaukauna, and when he re-
turned the entire outfit, including his
scales, was gone.
Claude Schilling and Charles Kuhn,
two year-old boys of Sheboy-
gan, were sent to the WaukeSha in
dustrial school for committing petty
offenSeS around town.
Judge John E. Pannier of Chippewa
Falls is the youngest judge in Wiscon-
sin. At the time Of HE election to
the office of county judge last spring,
he was but twenty-three years old.
Joseph La Chance, a Marinette man,
who is in the regular army at VancOu
yer, has been chosen as one of the
members of the relief party which the
government will send to Alaska to aid
the poverty stricken miners.
A party of seven men will leave
Washburn soon for Alaska in search
of gold. They will go by boat from
Seattle to Talya, and from there will
proceed with dog teams, taking COM
Dlete outfits.
John Passage of Delayan wears a
coat which is thirty-one years old,
and, with good care, will last twenty
five years more. It is French tricot,
and was purchased by Mr.. Passage in
Boston, in 1865, the suit costing $75.
Iron county officials are trying to
discover some means to solve the
tramp problem. The county has been
paying rs cents day apiece for their
keep. and more than thirty are now