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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1898
Page
13
A jumbled list notes dances at the opera house, church events, teas, and suppers. civic and business updates cover tax receipts, a new boiler, and a monument contract. Local residents, family visits, rail roles, and school notes fill the page with community life and minor incidents.
The council met Thursday evening and approved amendments granting an alephatte franchise to Dr K W Joeze and Th TL Kraus. Salaries for city officers were fixed, including mayor $100, clerk $800, city alucracy $150, marshal $56, policeman fdr per Wynooth, aldermen $15. Election registration rules were set for April 1898 under existing laws. A liquor license transfer from Peter Liekolf to John Raab was granted. Phil Adler’s request to be removed from paying taxes on shows in dais papers house was opposed, with a report favoring license fees for visiting troupes under ordinance No. 100.
The committee adapted. prisoner prayer refused. Motion carried to purchase a gas generator for fumigation and disinfection by the Board of Health. City treasurer ordered to pay annual hydrant rents to Water Works Co. totaling $277.00 due January 1, 1893. A proposed ordinance grants a street tax to Wisconsin Telephone Co and another for a telephone franchise. readings referred to select committees.
Adolph L. Leutgert was convicted of murdering his wife after her disappearance on May 1 1897. Evidence including rings found in a sausage cabin led to the verdict, and he was sentenced the following morning to a term in the penitentiary.
A Spencer fire last Saturday night destroyed the home of August Mavis with only part of the household goods saved. Total loss estimated at 4200 with about 400 insurance. Rev. McManus, Mt. Ti pastor, entered the smoke-filled cellar to save jars and battlers, was driven out by heat and smoke, suffering burns to face and hands before escaping.
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