The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-04-05
WISCONSIN ITEMS
Events of the Past Week I'm the
badger State.

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year by the county board.
Rev. A. E. Irving, of the Baptist
church at Amigo, has resigned his 20
sitiOn
Rev. and Mrs. Griffith Jones of
Dodgeville recently celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary.
J. Roeder of Middleton, Dane coun-
ty, who was found unconscious from
coal gas, is dead. His wife is critically
ILL.,
Chenille A. Dowd, class of 80. of
Beloit, son of r. j. Dowd, and a law
yer at Omaha, was married to Miss
Clara Sherman of Beloit.
Elmer Granger, sixteen years old,
stepped off a train at GAINESVILLE and
fell twentyfour feet. He was severe
ly injured.
Mrs. Alexander Howard of Mount
Horeb, Dane county, has been commit
ted to the Mendoza hospital for the in
sane.
The home of James Gilbert at Win
gra Park a suburb of Madison, was
robbed by burglars of money and
goods to the extent of $50.
A horse belonging to William Blu
chanan ran away at GAINESVILLE and
dashed through a plate glass window
valued at $50, in a clothing store.
The contract for the erection Of the
additional buildings at the Indian in
dustrial school at TOmah, was let to
III. Roetiger of Fountain City for 3d.
1914. SO.
II. A. Clifford and wife of Edgerton,
who narrowly escaped suffocation by
coal gas, have nearly recovered, al
though they were nearly eighty years
of age.
The little son of John Klinger OF
New London was attacked by an en-
ragged heifer and severely gored in the
neck and face. The child is but three
years old.
Bruce Glyndon, WoOdsman, COM
mitted suicide at Menomonie by shoot
ing. Little is known of him. From a
letter found it is thought he has
friends at Riverside, Cal.
Henry Grebb, living near Appleton,
recently shot a wildcat which was
nearly five feet in length and had
whipped a pack of hounds before IL
was killed.
Rev. c.. T.. Stoeckmann who recently
graduated from the Rochester Theo-
logical seminary, has accepted call
from the German Baptist church OF
Sheboygan.
Twenty acres of the Robert Candisil'
farm, three miles south OF OSHKOSH,
was transferred to the Citizens Trac-
ton company The company Will III IL
up for a summer park.
Half a million lake trout were
planted in Lake Michigan, off Sheboy-
gan. by the United States commission.
Streams in the vicinity were also sup
piled with many thousand brook trout.
Dogs recently killed ten sheep and
wounded thfrty-eight more belonging
to Mr.. Kinney of Lake Geneva. The
killing of sheep has become great
nuisance to farmers in that vicinity
Martin Vetrover of Green Bay has
lived lust 102 years. He was born III
Bohemia, and has been a resident OF
Wisconsin for many years. His moth
err lived to be 1O4 years of age.
Ole Seamonson, the clerk OF the Nor
way house at Chippewa Fails, was as
saulted by some unknown person AFTER
nightfall and terribly injured. HIS re-
covery is very doubtful.
Seth Hurlburt, an aged Wagonmak-
err of Waukau, was held for trial be-
fore United States Commissioner Mer-
rilI of Oshkosh, on a charge of selling
liquor without a licnese.
II is stated that the Chicago u
Northwestern railroad will make Osh-
kosh the end of the division, the other
terminus of which is GAINESVILLE, and is
negotiating for the purchase OF certain
property in the former town.
three-days' convention of the Sec
ond district Y. M. c.. A. closed re-
GENTLY at Evansville. Delegates were
nresent from Rock, Green, Lafayette.
Grant. Iowa, Dane, Sank, R1chland
and Crawford counties.
The contractors Of the Wisconsin
valley Telephone company have now
reached Hurley with the extension OF
the line. placing the GOgebic range IN
communication with Eau Claire, emp
newa Falls, st. Paul and Minneapolis.
Two men were arrested at Green
Paw on suspicion of being implicated
~ tha New Franklin Catholic church
robbery. A schoolhouse in the town
Of Humboldt was broken into the
same night and several articles taken.
A lodge of Ancient Order OF United
Workmen was organized at MERRIAM
nv Grand Master Workman }. M.
Thayer of GAINESVILLE, assisted by a del
egation of twenty-five members from
the Neillsville lodge.
Hilbert Junction, Manitowoc coun-
ty. will be Incorporated as village,
the people having gained the consent
of Rantoul township, with which 1t IS
connected. The village tried to sever