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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
Near Death THROUGH Live Wire.

Beloit-Lucian Churchill, young
man, while passing along the street IN
the eastern part of this city, saw
wire on the walk and attempted to
move it. The wire was live one, and
Churchill was nearly killed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
nrnwns In Rock Rlvsr.

Observation-Disclosures Edward
C. knight was swept out into deep
water while swimming, by the wake
of a passing steamer, and drowned.
His companions, few feet away, did
not know of his death and he was not
missed until they were dressing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
Differ Over Primary Petitions.

Manitowoc-Despondent because he
Secretary of State Houser that pri-
mary nominating petitions are conf
Dental, and not open to inspection.
County Clerk Ed Schaffland declares
that the petitions are matter of pub
lie record and as such accessible at
all times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
AGED Man Dies for Love.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS because he
was told he could not marry Anna
Kirch, a neighbours daughter, Alois
Turkinsky, aged 95 years, the oldest
resident of the village of Reedsville,
this county, committed suicide by
hanging. He leaves one son, with
whom he was living, and two daugh-
tnrS
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
Mormon Preacher Drowned.

La Crosse.-The Rev. Aaron w.
Jackson, of Ogden, Utah, one of the
pastors of the Mormon church here,
drowned while bathing in the Black
river on the north side.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
Thinks Husband is Too Gay.

Milwaukee.-Mrs. Clara A. Fawcett
alleges in her bill for divorce that her
husband, Edward T. Fawcett. smokes
cigarettes, plays cards for money, and
has the habit Of getting drunk fire.
Quently.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
Convention for ApnIeton.

Appleton.-The biennial convention
of the state council of the Fraternal
Reserve association will be held here
September 5.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
Many Attend Railroad Picnic.

Fond du Lac.-Visitors from all
parts of the state were in attendance
at the picnic of the employees of the
northern Wisconsin division of the
Northwestern road, given in the grove
in the company's yards.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
Attempt at Rescue Costs Life.

Beloit.-Prof Henry d. Smith, gen
eral secretary of Beloit college, died
at Williams Bay, Wis, as result of
attempting to rescue Miss Ruth Ma
cumber from drowning in Lake &C.
neva
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
Girl Drowned in Lake Geneva.

Beloit.-Miss Ruth McCumber, aged
25 years, daughter of C. H. McCumber,
of this city, assistant state missionary
of the Congregational Home Mission
airy society, was drowned in Lake &C.
neva, near Camp Collie.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
Death of Watertown's First Mayor.

WATERFOWL. - Theodore Prentiss
died, aged 88. He served as Water
towns first mayor and was member
of the first state constitutional con-
vention, which assembled in 1S47, and
a member of the assembly of 1860
1851. A widow and three sons sur
ViV0
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
Wisconsin krei1er Verein.

Manitowoc.-June Is to II are the
dates fixed for the annual reunion and
convention of the Wisconsin Kreiger
Verein, which is to assemble here
next year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
improvements at Sheboyqan.

heboygan.-Besides spending
half million dollars in this city this
summer, the Chicago C Northwestern
will spend another at the south yards.
Eighty families will inhabit the new
place from the start.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
CAUGHT by Game Warden.

Marinette.-Deputy Game Warden
Nelson arrested Frank Strick, mag
azine writer and Russell Dunn. Each
paid $25 and costs for shooting deer.
Many others were given the same
dose.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
TWO Drowned AL MILWAUKEE,.

Milwaukee-Irene Carroll, of Mil
waukee, persisted while swimming in
the Milwaukee river and Gregory
Walsh fell into the stream and per-
ished in the business district.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
WiIl sue Lumber comnanv.

Rice Lake. Rogich, shot by
Dietz's son, will sue the lumber COM
pany for damages, claiming IT. was not
the county that instigated the latest
raid.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
Drowned in Milwaukee River.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Hammel, aged
IL years, drowned in the Milwaukee
river near the cement mills. He was
unable to swim and waded out be-
yond his depth.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
The bitterest dis

L TIC OlltCl CSl 0lo
appointment of a young
actress who comes to
New York with her
mind enthused over the
thought of studying
great artists is to have
her ideals shattered by
the persistent "guying"
which goes on in the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
soencer to Have Waterworks.

Spencer.-A proposition to bond the
town for $500 to extend the water
works was carried by vote Of SO to
II
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
Runaway Results Fatally.

Oscoda.-Emil H. Kuske, drayman
injured in runaway, died from his in.
juries. He was about 35 years old.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
"ShopIifter" a Puzzle.

The shoplifter is often the puzzle
to the matron of the Adams street
station. They come in great numbers
from the poor, shabby woman, who
has stolen a few pairs of socks, or
little frock for her baby, whom she
longs to have dressed like the babies
of her well-to-do neighbors, to the
woman of apparent wealth, who has
secreted some seemingly useless trit1e:
One woman, faultlessly gowned and
of undoubted culture and good breed
ing. who offered $500 not to be made
to sleep in a cell had been arrested
for taking three pairs Of 69-cent
gloves. She was indignant at her ar.
rest. but she didn't deny the theft.
merely offered to pay for the gloves.
That was a case out of many such
that Mrs. Boylan recalls from her ex
periences at the Adams street sta
ton, one of the things no one can ex,
plain. They. call it kleptomania with
the rich and thievery with the poor,
who. at least, have the prick of neces-
sity to lend palliation to their guilt
These are the ordinary happenings
in the life of the police matron. Theft
DAYS and nights are a ceaseless round
of watching the intoxicated, of stand
ing by to keep the suicide from her
intention, of dressing the woman With
delirium tremens, who tears her
clothes to shreds in the night. Of hear
ing over and over the stories OF
Indebtedness and misery and deprav.
ify
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16

time to kneel at her side and begin
his work before death closed upon
her.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
Made Nursery of Station.

One day not long ago 14-year old
girl brought in dirty little baby and
said the child was lost. The baby
spent the afternoon peaceably sleep
ing on the big quilt the matrons keep
for the purpose, and about five o'clock
man came in and asked the matron:
"Have you got for me baby?"
The matron assured him that she
hoped it was for him, as she was anxi-
Gus to turn the infant over to some
body. The baby was properly identi-
fed and the man started off with it,
complacently, when the matron asked
where his wife was that she had left
the child uncalled for all afternoon.
She had gone out, the man answered,
and she had telephoned to him at his
place of work over in Manhattan to
call at the police station on his way
home to get the babe. The man was
told very plainly that the next time
his wife wanted to go shopping she
was not to send her baby to the police
stations as a nursery.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16

1.-THE lady" was once ngure well
known In all the police stations, but
"the lady" is one of the figures that
has passed. whose life hurried her to
a pitiful end before she reached what
should have been her prime. The ma
irons all called her "the lady" be-
cause even in her worst days she new
er looked anything but the lady, was
always we'll dressed and never came
to the police station without her we'll
fitting gloves carefully buttoned,
though sometimes she was picked out
of the gutter in an almost hopelessly
deadened condition. Her story is one
that might have been the thread Of
some of the stories one used to read
in the Sunday school libraries, though
it comes with much more force to
hear the police matron who saw her
in the last days of her degradation tell
it.
She had spent her girlhood in the
country at her fathers home upon the
Hudson, where they took city board
ers in the summer time. The girl was
as pretty as a picture, had been care
fully reared and well educated. One
summer there came the inevitable
man from the city that won the heart
of the country girl, and they were
married and came to Brooklyn to live.
All went as happy as a marriage bell
for a while. There was little girl
baby after whose coming the young
wife was not very strong, and the doc
tor ordered milk punches every day.
The young woman began to like the
punches and wanted two instead Of
one a day, then after while she be.
gan to take the brandy without the
milk and soon she found the habit
fixed on her strongly. The husband
bore with her and did everything that
could be done, but things went from
bad to worse until the habit fastened
itself so that there was first visit to
the police station, and after the first
a second and third.
The woman, whose life had been
guarded as carefully as any girls
could be, who had been used in her
young days to take nothing stronger
than milk or sweet cider, began to be-
come used to the walls of cell and to
bow in abject slavery to the taste OF
whisky. Sometimes she would plead
with the matron to go and intercede
with her husband and promise better
things, and many time has Mrs. Cox
gone with the plea. Always it was
granted and the same result would
follow and ''the lady, would be back
in the station house crazed with drink.
The baby girl grew up into beautiful
young woman, who would come after
dark to visit her mother in the cell
and plead with her. It was like try
ing to check the north wind. The pas.
sion swept down everything in it's
pathway. One day Mrs. Cox was sent
for to come to a consumptive home.
and there she found "the LADY, in the
last stages of the disease. She wanted
to say goodby and to offer thanks for
the little kindnesses of the old days.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-06-15
An Indian Sea Serpent Legend.

The red men Of the west have many
curious legends concerning the rivers,
lakes and mountains of that region,
none more weird than that which is
told concerning Rock lake, Washing
ton. Since time out of memory the
Indian tribes of that vicinity believed
the lake to be inhabited by sea mon
ster which never grows old and whose
chief diet is Indian flesh. According
to the legend, no Indian ever entered
it's waters and returned therefrom
alive, no matter whether the rash act
was committed by approaching it's mar
gin for drink, for a plunge and a
swim Or for a canoe ride upon it's
placid bosom. All of the Indians of
the northwest know of the terrors of
Rock lake, and each and every one
would prefer death with a poisoned ar
row rather than to touch it's waters.
The last Rock lake horror, according
to the legend, was in 1858, when a
whole band Of noble red men were
sent to the happy hunting grounds by
the monster.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-06-15
The Willy Ways of Dumas.

The we'll known Paris theater man
ager Doligny relates in his remi"
niscences an encounter he once had
with the elder Dumas which furnishes
an illustration of the novelists will
ness. Doligny produced Dumas drama,
"Kean," with the rather peculiar stip-
ulation that the author should receive
one-third of the gross receipts when
these exceeded 5000 francs and moth
ing at all if they fell below that fig
ure. Dumas, who was always hard
up, came late one evening to get his
share.
Luck is against you again. said
the manager ''You don't get anything
tonight Here is the account"
Dumas glanced at it and went away.
In a few minutes he came back and
said:
'Just look over the account again
and then pay me 1000 francs. The
ticket that I just bought for 3 francs
brings the total up to 5000 francs and
30 centimes."
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-06-15

How 81 Fish Breatheso

The gills of fish are situated at the
back part of the sides OF the head and
consist Of a number of vascular mem
branes, which are generally arranged
in double, fringelike rows, attached to
the parts by the base only. In some
cases these membranes are feather
shaped, in others mere folds attached
to the sides Of the gill cavities. The
fish is a cold blooded animal-that is TO
say, its temperature is seldom more
than a degree or two higher than the
water in which it lives. This being
true, the creature needs but a very
small amount Of oxygen to keep the
blood at temperature sufficiently high
to sustain life. This oxygen is sup
piled to the blood of the fish by reSpir
ing large quantities of water, or, rath-
er, drinking large quantities of water,
and respiring the air separated from
it by the gills. This explains why a
fish cannot live in a tank Of water
which has been sifted through the gills
time and time again any better than
human being or her animal can IN
air that has been del-4ved Of all it's OK
ygen by being taken into lungs and eX-
PEELED without being aerated. Fish
that die in the stale water of aqua
RUINS may be properly said to drown,
because they perish for want OF air,
the same thing which occasions death
by drowning in man and other lung
breathing animals.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-06-15

and cheerfulness soon
disappear when the kid
neys are out of order
or diseased.
Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
that it is not uncommon
for a child to be born
afflicted with weak kid
neys. If the child urin-
otec too oftap Is the
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-06-15
Too Personal.

"What caused you to strike the Gus
tomer?"
HE sets down, an when I asts hinl
what it'll be-" explained the new wait
er, che SEE, You amt got no brains,
have you?' an then I soaked him one"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-06-15

urine scalds the flesh or if, when the child
reaches an age when it should be able to
control the passage, it is yet afflicted with
bed-wetting, depend upon it. the cause of
the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards the treatment of
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble is due to diseased condition of the
kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as
most people suppose.
Women as we'll as men are made mis-
cradle with kidney and bladder trouble,
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect of
Swamp-Root is soon realized. 1t is sold
by oynt druggists sgg s,o in d fifty
sizes. You may have sssis;:
sample bottle by mail s-ss@ 9a a.l.::ssss44sg9e
free, also pamphlet tell Home of swamp-Root
ing all about it, including many of the
thousands of testimonial letters received
from sufferers cured. In writing Dr.. Kilmer
& Co., Binghamton, N. Y, be sure and
mention this paper.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-06-15

Those who wish to appear wise
among fools, among the wise seem
foolish.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-06-15
Women as Well as Men
Are Made Miserable by
Kidney Trouble.

Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis
and lessons ambition; beauty, vigor
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-15
MINES MAY BE SHUT DOWN.
Supply of Fuel Is Much Greater
than Probable Demands.


1t is intimated in New York, following
the meeting of the presidents of the an
thracite roads, that the anthracite coal
which had been mined is SO much in ex-
cess of the demand that shutdown in
the mines may be necessary if there is no
strike on April /. Henry S. Fleming,
secretary of the Bituminous Coal Trade,
which includes most of the large soft coal
firms, and the secretary of the Anthra-
cite Coal Operators Association, made
public estimates which he had been col
Letting as to the probable proportion CT
In the anthracite district he said, 30
per cent of the miners would strike. In
the soft coal districts he said the union
miners were much weaker than was usu-
ally supposed. 'As to anthracite" he
said, the average summer consumption
is 100000 tons a month, and the aver
age winter consumption 100000. Up
to the present, the consumption has been
far behind the quantity mined. Close TO
100000 tons of anthracite have been
mined in excess of the demand, and there
are nearly two months before April i in
which coal can be mined. For some time
back the railroad companies have been
stocking up anthracite, and they never
had such a large supply" Mr.. Fleming
estimated that even allowing for cold
weather, there would be easily a five
month supply of anthracite on hand on
April 1.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-15
CHURCHES TO UNITE
ONLY HITCH is IN NAME OF
CONSOLIDATED BODY.
Trichurch Council AdjOurns in Day
ton, Ohio, TO Reconyene Within
Eighteen 3Tonths-Braye Student
browns After saving Girl.

In Dayton. Ohio, the tri-church coun-
Gil which is seeking the union OF the
United Brethren, Congregational and
Protestant Methodist denominations, adj
journed to meet, it was understood, with
in year and half. The work of pre-
pairing creed, polity and arranging prop
erty and vested interests had been in
trusted to committees. The only hitch
apparent was as to the name the united
denomination shall bear. Many names
were proposed. the Gospel Christian
church, the United Congregational church,
the United Christian church, the Chris
tian church, the United Church of Amer
lea. The last name was said to be the
most generally accepted. The creed is a
modification of the articles of faith now
held by the several denominations. The
committee on polity recommends sys.
TEN of church government that is not
unlike that of the Congregationalists with
the conference system added. The mat
Ter of name was left to a special com
mittee of six. 1t is the belief of the
delegates that union is practically accom-
DliShp1
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-15
CT IN TRUST SLAIN.
Supreme Tribunal of Nebraska Up
holds Autobiography Law.


holds Autobiography Law.
Nebraska's so-called grain trust was
dealt knockout blow and the farmers OF
the State were saved more than s2,O00,-
600 a year, according to a conservative
estimate, by a DECISION of the Nebraska
Supreme Court unfolding the constitu-
tionality of the antitrust laws embraced
in what is known as the Junkin act. pass
ed by the last Legislature. The case be
fore the court was that against the Ne
braska Grain Dealers Association, COM
prising all the larger elevator lines and
grain companies in the State. The court
declares the association to be an illegal
combination in restrain of trade, and or
ders that it be dissolved. Attorney Gen
reral Norris Brown brought suit for a
restraining order to prevent certain grain
dealers from combining to control the
price of grain in Nebraska. The case
was put before the court in such man
ner that the opinion would decide the
con stitutionality Of several anti-combina-
Ion or antitrust laws now on the stat
utes. Statistics of the State for pc
Rod of several years prove that practically
30 per cent of the total grain production
of the State is sold or shipped to The
grain markets each year." it was said at
the Attorney Generals Office. While the
grain combination was in control practi-
cally none of this vast shipment was free
from its influence, and the lower prices as
a result averaged cents per bushel.
Taking the crop of 1905 as a basis, the
gain to the farmers as a result of the
disruption of the trust amounts to g.
3SO,SGS."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-15
GnarkA from the Wires.

Thirteen States were represented when
the annual convention of State fish and
game wardens met in st. Paul.
The grain mill and elevator of Close
Brothers at Schenectady, ~ Y. was burn
ed, entailing a loss of about $4,000.
Tests made at Cornell university cause
experts to fear that recent warm weather
has damaged the New York peach crop.
The Philippine commission has decided
TO sell 81 100000 of 4 per cent bonds I'M
der the act of Feb. 6, 1905, proposals to
be received up to Feb. 10.
The freight steamer Calderon, bound
for England. stove hole in her bow in a
collision with single float in New York
She was forced to put back.
The japanese legation at Rome will be
raised to the rank of an embassy and NJ.
Uchida, the japanese minister at Pekin,
will be appointed ambassador to Italy.
Frederic E. Crotois, New Jersey man.
ager of the Germania Life Insurance
Company, is missing. He is said to be
short about $1,000. He also is short
$500 with the Mystic Shrine.
The nail mill of the Southern Steel
Company at Birmingham, Ala, was burn
ed. causing a loss of $4,000.
The Minnesota Supreme Court upheld
the law governing the regulation of the
sale and redemption of transportation
tickets of common carriers as being con.
stitutional.
The New England State Limited. an
express bound from Boston to Montreal.
was wrecked near Bolton, VT. six cars
being demolished. No one was iniured
seriously. The accident evidently was
caused by a train wrecker who had tam
pered with the switch, causing the train
to run into freight cars, and had set a
signal for a clear track.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-15
Life Inquiry Hits omciaI..

Malfeasance in Office is charged against
former Insurance Commissioners Luhr,