River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-06-24
STATE NEWS

10 DulIQ S9,UUU nome Tor the school
sisters and to remodel the present
home into a hail. The upper floor in
the school building is now being used
for this purpose. The room will be
partitioned into two large school
rooms which will be ample for the
present to accommodate the children
now seeking education there. Plans
for central heating plant have been
abandoned
Mad1son.-A delegation represent
Ing preserved food manufacturers ap-
peared before Gov. Davidson and
urged him to veto the two bills fixing
a standard of purity for preserved
foods and prohibiting the use of ben
zoate of soda in such products. Chris
tan Doerf1er of Milwaukee spoke for
the picking manufacturers of the
state, who contend that a moderate
use of benzoate of soda in pickles is
not harmful.
Fond du Lac.-At the closing bust
ness session of the annual convention
of the Deutscher Kriegerbund of Wis
conSin Neenah was selected as the
place for holding the next convention.
Officers were elected as follows for
the ensuing year: President, Emil
Court, Milwaukee; vice-president, ].
Susemitt, Merrill; secretary, S. Guen-
Their, Chiffon; treasurer, G. F. G..
Wernecke, Fond du Lac.
Eau Claire.-Veterans of the civil
war belonging to the Wisconsin de-
partment, G. A. r., gathered here for
their annual encampment. The Wom-
ans Relief corps and the other allied
organizations also were in session.
The feature of the day was the elo-
quent address of Department Com
mander Lang. He paid a beautiful
tribute to his predecessor Edwin d.
Coe, who died May last
Fennimore.-The members of the
Rundell and Biddick families will have
a reunion June "a at the Rundell
homestead at Livingston, near here.
At careful estimate, over 200 are
expected to be present. The families
are closely related. AS the house will
be too small to hold them all, a big
dinner will be served in the grove
surrounding the homestead.
Brillion.-While the marriage VOWS
of Miss Catherine Mulhaney and John
Bartz, leading business man Of this
city, were solemniZed, Mrs. Joseph
Manlik, friend of the contracting
couple who attended the ceremony
fell dead from apoplexy. Her body
rrin cd out Of thu ahIJrnh n
stretcher preceding the wedding
party.
Stevens Point-William Plummer,
aged 40 years, formerly telegraph
operator at the railway station at
Plover, was held here on a charge of
horse stealing. 1t is alleged that
Plummer hired a horse and rig from
F. A. Ball, liveryman, and then dis
appeared with the outfit. He was ar
rested at Grand Rapids last week.
Green Bay.-The mysterious disap-
pearance of Edward Reed, former
well-known railroad engineer of Green
Bay, which occurred during the deer
hunting season of 1905, has been
solved. His snow-white skeleton was
found few days ago by some boys
who were fishing for trout at Arm
strong creek.
Racine.-John Kucera and Gottlieb
Beranek, employees of the Mitchell
Motor Car Company, were arrested,
charged with stealing nearly a wagon
load of automobile parts. When Off
GERS went to their home to remove a
sick man to the hospital, they discov-
cred room filled with gearings, ball
bearings, pinions, etc.
Green Bay.-Word was received at
the division headquarters of the Mil
waukee road that night train had
killed an unknown man at Ellis juno
ton station and the body was found
a mile south. The body evidently had
been dragged under the engine this
distance.
Whitewater.-Prof Carl e. Pray of
the Whitewater Normal summer
school will spend six weeks of his va
cation teaching in the Whitewater
Normal summer school. Miss Lucy
Darrit Hall will have charge Of the
drawing work in the same school.
Beloit-Rev. Paul Schaller of st.
Johns German Evangelical church,
has accepted a call to the passionate OF
the Reedsburg Lutheran church. The
.ReedsDurg church is one of the strong
est of the denomination in the state.
Madison.-Charles Ainsworth, con-
victed of theft and sentenced to one
year in the state prison, had the novel
experience of being taken to Waupun
in an automobile.
La Crosse.-The thirty-fourth con-
vention of the Wisconsin grand lodge
of the knights of Pythias closed here.
Nearly 400 lodges were represented.
Bayfield.-Charles Hellman fatally
shot his wife and himself. Jealousy
prompted the tragedy which occurred
at La Pointe, Madeline Island.
Kenosha.-The Swedish Baptist con-
gregation of Kenosha will erect &c.,
900 edifice this summer.
Askeaton.-Ludric Byers, aged 70
years, pioneer. died here.
La Crosse.-The trouble which has
been brewing between the employees
of the street railway company and
its officials on accodnt of the rules
laid down by the company, has been
temporarily settled and no strike will
result.
La Crosse.-Suffering the amputa-
tionS of his leg after an injury re-