River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-12-31
WISCONSIN
BREVTTTES

Delta Delta sorority of the university
submitted to an operation In skin
grating for Miss Nina Johnson,
| sorority sister who was injured while
performing an experiment in chemis
try about eight weeks ago. One hun
dred and sixty square inches were
necessary and DR.. G. A. Harper, who
performed the operation, said after
ward it was the greatest exhibition of
nerve that he had ever seen.
Green Bay.-Death claimed Edward
Buscha as he was lying on cot in a
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road
baggage car as the train was pulling
into the city He was dying of tuber-
culosis as he left Lena and death came
before the young man could be taken
to his home here. His parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Felix Buscha, and his brother
were with him when he died.
Sparta.-GeOrge Thompson, a school
teacher, and William Mistle, student
at the University of Wisconsin, to-
gether with 10 other prominent resi-
dents in the vicinity of Kendall, this
county, were arrested, charged with
applying a coat of tar and feathers to
William Tatro, who was employed on
| the farm of the father Of Thompson.
Beloit-Acting upon what was per-
| haps the largest petition presented to
| him in a similar case, Gov. Davidson
| has ordered the parole of Walter
Searles and George knight, boys who
were sentenced to two years in the
Green Bay reformatory for stealing go
cents worth of brass from a wrecked
engine.
Milwaukee. = Former Alderman
| Charles Jungman in the municipal
court Wednesday pleaded guilty to an
| Indictment charging him with bribery
| in connection with special ordinance
in 1908. He was fined 5000 or an al
| tentative of 10 months Imprisonment.
The fine was paid.
Racine.-William Shenkenberg of
| Waterford, Henry Johnson of Norway
and Peter Nelson of Racine, trustees
| of the Racine county insane asylum,
met quietly in this city and elected
Henry w. Lewis superintendent of the
| institution, in place of Silas Bull, who
resigned
| Racine-Charles Baungard, well
| known on the North side, was placed
in Jail on a burglary charge. He is
said to have accompanied a saloon
keeper named Theodore Kosterman to
his home and then went back and
robbed the saloon of the money in the
| till
| Kenosha.-The charitable organiza-
tions have formed an alliance with
| the Salvation Army and the churches
of the city, and every needy family
will be taken care Of The work is to
be done mostly by the corps of the
Salvation Army and the Kenosha
lodge of Elks.
Fond du Lac.-By the will of Mrs.
| Mary A. Moore, who is dead in San
Francisco, the Harlin families Of this
city and the town of Eden are left a
| 100000 estate. She amassed her for
| tune by investments in California but
resided in this city about 80 years ago.
Superior-It is reported agents for
the Duluth Street Railway Company
| which operates the street car line in
| Superior and Duluth are buying op-
| tions on land on the so-called diagonal
| road survey to the new plant of the
| United States Steel corporation.
La Crosse-Frank Winter has been
appointed guardian ad Item for Leroy
| w. Bell, the Trempealeau county man
who is said to have decided his farm
over to Grace Baldwin without any
consideration. Relatives claim the
aged man is incompetent.
Racine.-Herbert E. Miles of the
| Racine Sattley Company will accept
the presidency of the Manufacturers
| Association of the Middle West, re-
Gently organized in Chicago. His an
swer to that effect has been forwarded
| to the association.
Madison.-Coroner M. w. Lynch
sought to indemnity an old man who
was killed four miles south of here
| by train on the Milwaukee road. The
victim was about 60 years old, a tray
cling blacksmith known as TONY, the
| blacksmith"
Fort Atkinson. 80 Former Gov
11OdIQ SIICLS CO11SCICuIlOn duu udIuy
vitality again have pulled him through
a severe attack of heart trouble, from
which he suffered. He was able to be
about Thursday.
La Crosse.-After a heroic effort to
| assist her coachman in stopping
| team of runaway horses, Mrs. Jessie
| Holway jumped from her cutter, strik-
| ing against the curb and fracturing
her right arm.
Florence.-Robert Olson, a super
visor, has been convicted of having
his saloon open on Sundays. The
prosecution was conducted by the
| clergymen of the town.
Green Bay.-Twelve government
markers for the graves of veterans of
the civil war have been received and
will be placed in the local cemetery.
Kenosha.-The city clerk turned
over the tax roll to the city treasurer.
The total amount to be collected is
S19S,92S.S3.
Misunderstanding $3.50 from the
hotels money and hiding it, Carl
| Welsh, night clerk at the Hotel Mad
ison, bound and gagged himself in the
hotel and then lying down on the floor,
awaited the coming of help" After
an hours sweating by Chief of Police
Shaughnessy and City Detective Boyd