The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-06-28
WISCONSIN ITEMS
BADGER state.

MIS-. OdFOllne IISlu, dSeu LII lille,
died at Racine
Thomas Williams of Portage, aged
seventy-seyen, is dead.
The son of Fred Hanson of Holland,
Brown county, has disappeared.
Miss Mary Little Of Star Prairie was
married to E. A. Harding of Hudson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Fohrman of
Green Bay celebrated their golden jul
bilee
Mrs. Samuel selleyiod of Marinette,
aged thirty years, died OF puerperal
peritonitis.
Elmer, the eight-year-old son of ]. H.
Hansen of New Lisbon, drowned in the
Lemonwier river.
Harper Evans son of Rev Matt Ey-
ans of Oshkosh, accidentally shot him
self near Waupaca.
William Hoyle and Frederick VALID
are in Jail on the charge of highway
robbery, the alleged victim being Hen
ry Thale of Kenosha.
The Catholic church at Stark, fifteen
miles from Green Bay, was destroyed
with an insurance Of $1,000.
At a Neenah fire Fireman Albert
Staffeld, who was sent to the engine
house after something, on his wheel,
collided with another Wheelman. lie
is delirious, and it is thought his in
juries are very serious.
. w. r. Wagner, cashier Of the Citi-
zens' National Bank Of Green Bay will,
with the aid of business men of Kiel,
Wis, establish a state bank in that
city this fall. The new institution will
have a capital Of $4,000.
Frank Hiskish, Jr., son Of wealthy
merchant of La Crosse, while swim
ming in Black river, got tangled in
some driftWood and drowned. The
body was recovered. He was a high
school boy and fayQrite.
Robert A. Etter of Monroe has been
appointed deputy internal revenue col
lector, to succeed Henry Harr Of OAR
liDgton. The district includes Green,
Grant, Iowa, Lafayette Sank, Rich
land and Crawford counties.
J. NJ. Hill, alias j. III. Smith, was
sent to Waupun by Judge Bum of the
United States court at Madison, for
robbing the postoffice at Burton, Grant
county, last year. He pleaded guilty,
and was given eighteen months.
The Fox River Valley Interurban
line was put in operation recently, a
car being started on the line between
Neenah and Appleton. The other cars
were not finished but will be put into
service in a few days at the latest.
While Mr.. and Mrs. George Hodgson
and family were driving to church at
Pewaukee, the horses ran away, over
turning the buggy and throwing out
the occupants. Mrs. Hodgson suffered
a broken wrist and the rest of the fam
lily were badly shaken up.
Henry Reynolds, aged fifty, was
killed at Cottage Grove While unload
ing car of lumber at the Birmingham
& Dixon yards. He knocked out a car
stake that let several large timbers fall
on him. One struck him on the back
and another on the head.
A competitive examination has begun
at Hudson, to select a cadet to repre-
sent the Tenth district at West Point,
by request of Congressman Jenkins.
w. D. Dyer of West Superior, Dr. N. L.
Howison of Menominie and d. Cam
eron of Cumberland are the examining
board.
At flag-raising exercises at Ithaca,
Richland county, Amasa Grover, TWEEN
ty-eight years old, was almost fatally
injured by the unexpected discharge Of
a cannon Mr. Grover was loading,
and when the last charge was put in q
few sparks which remained caused
premature explosion. He may recover
Mr.. and Mrs. William z. Sayles,
Mrs. David Fifield, Miss Harriet FL
field and Edwin Fifield, all well known
GAINESVILLE people, were seriously poi
soned by eating toadstools, which they
mistooll for mushrooms. The prompt
arrival of physicians who worked over
them the greater portion Of the night,
saved their lives
The Week log drive is hung up on
the Rib river three miles west of the
point where it enters the Wisconsin.
1t is piled into jam three miles long,
but the water is too low to float it, and
unless another big rain comes it will
probably remaiii there the rest of the
season. The drive contains about s.
000, 1000 feet.
Chippewa Falls capitalists have or
ganized a big lumber company. which
viii operate in the pine woods around
Lake Superior. Ii is known as the Ne
bagamon Lumber company, and the or
ganization will build a mill on the
shores of Lake Nebagamon which will
be the biggest and best equipped of all