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Frederick Thompson, aged 9 attempted to board a freight train at Racine Junetion. He fell under the wheels and his left leg was crushed below the knee. Amputation was necessary. Michael Bohamn, a Marinette milkman, was jerked through the glass front of his milk wagon in an attempt to stop his runaway team. He was badly cut by the glass on the head and shoulders. The mother of Miss Naomi Melville, the school teacher who was killed by the cars at Bangor, will bring suit against the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Company for damages for her daughter's death. a Mrs. Frank M. Kernan, formerly resident of Plainfield and sister of J. H. Kernan of Racine, was burned to death at Ogden, Utah, by an explosion of gasoline while she was try ying to light a fire. Janesville storekeepers have been notified that the law against selling cigarettes to minors will be enforced in the future and violators will be promptly prosecuted. The churches are backing the movement. Assignee Humphrey has paid off the final assessment for the Hudson Savings Bank, which failed in 1893. The amount about $41,000, or nearly per cent. The 57 total amount paid to the creditors is per cent. The Wisconsin Butter and Cheese Company's creamery at East Troy was burned to the ground. Considerable butter and supplies and all the machinery was destroyed. The loss is $5,000, with $2,500 insurance. John Lyden, a farmer, who was brought to Rippewa Falls with a broken neck, His died after living more than a week. wonderful vitality surprised the physicians, who predicted that he could not survive twenty-four hours. D. M. Blackwood of Appleton has received three gold bricks from his mining property in the Seine river country. There is $10,000 worth of gold in the bricks and they represent the product of three weeks' running of the stamping mills. Edward Schwartz, a Marinette butcher, while attempting to hang piece of meat on a hook, impaled his hand on the point and was unable to release himself until helped by others. The hook penetrated the hand and inflicted a severe injury. R. E. Sherwood of Duluth has been convicted at Eau Claire of being a trandealer without a license and must $25 for a State license Mr. Sherwood sold pay sient the trial. and represented books costs of in Eau Claire, claiming that he local firm. Dr. Lawrence A. Hoffmier, who was recently fined at Grantsburg for illegal sale of liquor, was not personally guilty a of the offense. He was partner in drug store at which the liquor was purchased. The doctor is a regular practicing physician. An iron railway bridge, three-quarters of a mile in length, will be built over Lake Butte des Mortes near Neenah by the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company. It will be an immense piece of engineering and will not be finished for more than a year. The works of the West Superior Iron for and Steel Company have been sold of $60,000 to George Welwood Murray New York, representing John D. Rockefeller. The property sold cost, when erect. sale ed five years ago, $2,000,000. The was made under a foreclosure judgment granted by a local court to the plaintiff in the action, the Central Trust Company of New York, which controlled the bonds, amounting to $1,630,000. Emil Traschler had a horrible experiat Ableman. He was engaged in reence moving short pieces of wood as they were cut off by a swiftly revolving saw. While engaged in this work his coat sleeve was caught by the teeth and the clothing was all torn from his arm. leaving the flesh lacerated. He was force against the balance great badly skull hurled wheel and with in- of the machine, fracturing his flicting injuries from which he died some hours later. Christian Schimmelpfennig, an unmar- with man 35 years of age, residing his ried parents at Manitowoe, was taken his father violently insane and brutally beat and mother, who were alone with him at the time. He has been taken to the Northern hospital at Oshkosh. The alumni association of the State offiuniversity has elected the following Blue cers: President, Christian Ruste, McConnell, Mounds; vice-president, William T. Wilson, S. MadiRipon; treasurer, secretary, H. I. Shockley, Darling- the son; ton. The association decided to hold next annual meeting at Madison. Fire at Spence destroyed the residence the conof August Martin, with most of The Rev. J. H. McManus, pastor life M. E. Church, nearly lost He assisting in removing and of while nts. the goods. head his was badly burned about the face. St. Paul paper claims that the Lake body A murdered woman, found at remains of Lambert, a Minn., recently, is the in the Miss Puliette Pulver, a teacher of schools at Superior, who disappeared public very mysteriously about clothing a year and It is said that the found, ago. hands of the dead woman recently of Miss have been identified by friends Paul. Pulve who was last seen in St. The case of Jerome I. Case concluded, against Fish at Racine has been Titus being seventeen years in the courts, The by after the discharge has of been the receiver. the third sucpresent to receiver that office. The claims against of cessor the company had been paid at the rate 37 per cent. The largest lumber deal or the recently. season the Menominee was made on Perley Lowe & Co. of Chicago purchased Witbeck the entire season cut of the H. feet. during 1898, over 35.000.000 $350.mill consideration is not less than the 000. This lumber will be shipped to Chicago and Buffalo yards of the company. alarm of fire from the residence Grantsburg of An J. Nylander called out the fire N. department. O.J. Nylander set in his room. -ome smoke for his lungs. to fire he some needed paper claiming he that The fire got beyond his trol and gave tue alarm. At Darlington, Richard Walkey, Cal Lovelace and young man by the brought name were arrested and the justice for hearing, the lock OD poultry before with and of Torkelson stealing breaking several chickens Company. belonging charged house guilty and was in prison at hard one Walkey to to one the year Darlington pleaded Lumber labor, sentence day to be spent in solitary confinement.
