The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-11-08
WISCONSIN ITEMS

for lnterment.
Daniel Powell pleaded guilty to for
gerry at Racine and was sentenced to
Waupun for two years
Big arches, deliberately decorated,
were erected at Tomah for the receD-
ton of the returning saldiers.
Christine FredericlSs of Lomira. Ju-
neau county, celebrated her Tooth an
niyersary. She has over 100 great
grandchildren.
A special election will be held at Elk
hart Lake OH the proposed issue of
$4,000 bonds fer the construction of 4
Waterwoiks system.
Oshkosh police have renewed their
war on the slot machines and will
make a test Of the ordinances empow-
ering the police board.
The Peoples Electric company of
Madison made voluntary assign
ment for the benefit of its creditors,
with G. K. Tenney as the assignee.
Charles Donnell, fireman on a switch
engine in the Chicago Il Northwestern
yards at Sheboygah fell from his en-
CINE and was quite seriously injured,
The potato harvest this fall has been
immense in the vicinity of Arcadia.
Carloads after carloads have been
shipped from Arcadia every day and
still they come:
Arthur Huntington was brought to
gainesville from Clinton to serve a Sell
tence Of thirty days i'll jail on the
charge of larceny. lie WAS convicted
of stealing a bicycle.
The body of Corporal +. r. Good
house Of MaustoD, who died at sea,
was brought home for interment, cons
trary to the custom of burying the
dead at sea.
Charles E. Jenkins of GAINESVILLE has
large collection Of Spanish war rel
les, including shells of the Vizcaya,
cables cut at San Juan and articles
from MORO castle.
The old steamer Portage. which for
merly belonged to the government, and
has been i'll dlydock at Berlin for sew
eral years, was sold by auction to
Mark barrow of Eureka for $50.
Mrs Gertrude Wakefield secured a
divorce at Oshkosh from her husband,
Arthur Wakefield, Oh the ground Of
non support. Both parties are we'll
known iii Oshkosh
Arthur Swanson, aged nineteen, Of
Mhrinette, died Sunday from the eff
fects of a kick In the abdomen, given
him by d playmate at school last
Thursday.
A Belle City electric car struck a
team of horses and wagon driven by
Edward Nelson. aged eighteen. 1T Ra=
cine The lad was internally injured
and his recovery is doubtful. One of
tie horses was badly injured.
Lawrence Ross, aged eighteen months,
fell from il Warren hotel window at
Baraboo to the stone walk below, "a
distance of twenty feet, striking OH his
head. His skull was badly crushed
and his recovery is doubtful The
child is a son of Landlord Ross
Francis Martell died near Dodgeville,
aged eighty-four He was a French
Canadian and built the first saw and
flour mills in Lafayette county and had
travelled on foot between Chicago,
Milwaukee and Green Bay when they
were trading posts.
Washington Quincy. the Oldest mem
Der of Stockbridge Indian tribe, died
at Stockbridge, aged seventy-four. He
would have been chief had he gone
with the tribe when it left here in 1896
for their reservation in Shawano coun-
ty. He leaves daughter.
barb Griffin and Ernest Beyers are
in jail at GAINESVILLE in default of $500
bail each. OH the charge of stealing a
dress coat and an oyercoat from the
Rev. J. Mallet, rector of st. Pauls
Episcopal church In Beloit. They also
took Bible and prayer book. ali of
which they found iii the church.
William Stockman. while out hunt
inc near Devils Lake. east Of Shell
Lake. in company with John BiXby
was shot accidentally by his own gun,
both barrels of which were discharged,
taking off one of his thumbs and MAX
inc a bad hole in his left arm.
David Walt, a millwright at the
Williamson & Libbey sash, door and
blind mill, at Oshkosh, had his left
arm torn completely off While working
near some of the shafting. 1t is be-
lieved he will die Walt is sixty years
old and has a family.
A barn belonging to the o. Van Dyck
Brewing company at Green Bay. was
totally destroyed by fire. Ten yaua-
BILE draft horses were consumed in the
flames. The origin of the fire is m
known. The loss is about $4,000 and
the insurance 500.
Mrs. Ellis of Bristol township near
Kenosha. captured a large American
bald eagle Saturday morning in her
henyard; she killed it with a rolling
pin. The eagle is a fine specimen,