River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-14
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS

obey an Injunction issued by Court
Commissioner Gibson of Trempeleau,
ordering her to return property said to
have been eXtorted from Leroy Bell,
farmer. Miss Carney has returned over
only part of the property, it is claimed.
Fond du Lac.-After holding his job
just two days Mic Giebel who was
elected overseer of the county work
house has had enough of it, as his
$1,000 salary is not sufficient to feed
the tramps, furnish medicine and
leave competency. The suggestion
that the tramps be given bread and
water diet, he said, would be opposed
by the state board of control.
Racine.-John Gardiski, aged 10,
was sentenced to the reformatory at
Green Bay for two years and Peter
Barowsky, 16 years old, to the indus
trial school at Waukesha, until 81
years of age. They stripped the
tracks of the Milwaukee Electric Rail
way & Light Company, between this
city and Kenosha, of hundreds of
pounds of copper wire.
Oshkosh.-Basing his opinion upon
the proposition that the state law pre-
cedes the city charter when the two
conflict, City Attorney w. G. Cowling
has advised the city controller that
the Wisconsin fire insurance COM
panies should pay license fee of two
per cent. upon all premiums written in
The city of Oshkosh as we'll as the for
eign companies.
aukesha.-Charlotte e. White of
this city was awarded $4,000 damages
by Judge Lueck in circuit court
against her mother-in-law, Francis l..
White; her husband, Frederick H.
White, Jr., and Mary A. Stewart, a
member of the White household,
whom she sued for $125000, alleging a
conspiracy to separate her from her
husband.
Superior.-Superior and Ladysmith
commercial clubs celebrated the in
auguration of service on the new line
of the Wisconsin Central between
these two cities The train arrived at
two o'clock and besides other passen-
gers it brought a delegation of rs
from Ladysmith. This party was the
guests of the Superior Commercial
club.
Waukesha-The big elevator of the
Waukesha Grain and Produce Com
pany was destroyed by fire. The
building was owned by the Milwaukee
road and the loss is $4,000 covered by
Insurance. 1t contained 10000 bush
els of grain of the produce company
on which the loss is estimated at
$4,000 with $4,000 insurance.
Reedsburg-A dog running at large
and supposed to be mad, bit small
child of Gustave Rosenthal In the
face, decorating it quite badly, and
later bit two men, neither of whom
were badly injured. Later the dog was
shot. DR.. S. J. Collins, veterinarian,
examined the dog and pronounced it
case of hydrophobia.
Beloit-The common council of Be-
lott is considering the adoption of an
ordinance prohibiting the keeping of
chickens in the city. The ordinance
was drafted following the petition of
Mrs. Helen Lee Fraser, prominent in
the Beloit Humane society, who said
she had endured her neighbours chick
ems to the limit
Green Bay.-John Robinson, one of
the wealthiest residents of this city
and a man widely known among drug
gists in the northwest, died suddenly
in the Bijou theater. He had gone
to the theater in apparently perfect
health ten minutes before his death
occuMed. He was rs years old.
anesville.-Deserted by his wife,
two of his small children in the Spar
Ia home, third in the care of an
older married sister, John M. Sweet,
formerly of Stoughton, went violently
insane while locked in cell in the po-
lice station and tried to murder his
cell companion, Ole Kroker.
Madison.-The matter of the COM
plant of the independent telephone in
terests Of Wisconsin against the Wis
consin Telephone Company, charging
combination to restrain trade and in
crease prices, before Attorney General
Gilbert has been postponed
Oshkosh.-The Oshkosh chamber of
commerce has completed arrange
ments for the annual convention of
the International Lyceum association
and the organization will hold it's 1909
chautauqua at this city from August
81 to September 5.
Fond du Lac.-There was a small
panic in the help quarters and kitchen
Of the Palmer house when an i'm
mense water tank located on the roof
with a capacity. of 5000 gallons col
lapsed and deluge of water poured
down into the hotel.
Wausau.-At the annual meeting of
st. Stephens Lutheran congregation
here a contract was awarded to Otto
Zwack of Dubuque, Ia, for the erection
of a $4,000 church edifice, work to be
begun Immediately. The old structure
will be RACED.
Chilton.-At the annual meeting of
the Calumet County Agricultural asso-
citation the following officers were
elected: f. j. Egenen, president;
Gregory Dorschel, secretary; w. S.
Sloy, treasurer The annual fair will
be held at Chiffon September /, 2,
and A.
Hartford-Twenty farmers of the
town of Hartford have formed a CO.
operative company and bought the
Schodron Corners cheese factory for