River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-28
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NEWS BREVITIES


the sick list The day after his cleo
ton to the Office Irvine scratched his
hand with pin and blood poisoning
has set in. He has been taken to the
general hospital for expert treatment.
In his absence his place will be filled
by Harry w. Ross of Sparta, assistant
sergeant-at-armS.
Manitowoc-Eire, which is pre-
sumed to have started on the second
floor of the Dempsey block, one of the
landmarks of the city, shortly after
midnight, Quilted the building and
caused a loss of more than $4,000. Six
firemen were overcome by smoke. The
building was frame structure two
stories in height and covering half
block on the main street of the city.
twenty-five years ago it was known
as the Haveland hotel.
Chippewa Falls.-William Mcdonald
was sentenced to 80 days in the county
jail because he embezzled ten dollars
of Ide Tupper's money. Mcdonald,
who is not supposed to be able to OBJ
tain intoxicating liquors in saloons,
was given ten dollars by Upper to
purchase medicine, according to the
testimony. 1t was alleged that instead
of going to drug store he hied off to
Eau Claire.
misunderstanding that the in
terests of the state are best served
by giving him his freedom, Judge
Belden suspended sentence on Frank
WOjciekowski, who pleaded guilty to
having set fire to his saloon The de-
PENDANT has a family which he is try
ing to support, and the court holds
that no real criminal intent was
shown.
Wausau.-W. M. Post of Milwaukee
was elected temporary chairman at
the opening of the state Y. M. G.. A.
convention and Charles r. Hersch of
Racine secretary Carroll w. Smith
of Milwaukee urged more personal
service in work of organizing branches
in factories, recommending that lead
ers be found among the men them
selves.
Milwaukee-Vera Lee confessed she
shot and killed her husband, Otto
Lundstrum. They quarreled over a
bottle of whisky, she told the police.
Lundstrum refused to give her a drink
frum the bottle which he carried She
shot him with his own revolver. For
more than fifteen hours she main
tanned her husband killed himself.
Wausau.-The thirty-fourth annual
~ he tota
closed with mass union meeting in
the Presbyterian church at which C.
V. Hubbard and G. S. Phelps, located
at Tokyo, Japan, told of their expert
ences during the Russo-Jap war Keno
sha was the only city extending an in
vitation for the next convention.
La Crosse.-Caught between the
ends of two street cars which he was
endeavoring to couple together. Her.
bert Lucas, the oldest conductor on
the lines of the La Crosse City Rail-
way Company, was seriously crushed
about the shoulders and chest and had
a narrow escape from being danger
ously injured
MadisOn.-The one hundredth ami
versary of the birth of Abraham Lin
coin on February IL will be commem-
Grated with appropriate exercises by
the University of Wisconsin, Uni
versity day, which has heretofore been
celebrated on Washington's birthday,
having been transferred to that oc-
casion.
Eau Claire.-N. C. Foster, the Fair
child lumber millionaire, is reported
on good authority to be one of the
men back of the project to build a
Farmers along the line and Gilmanton
business men have already raised
nearly $4,000 by subscription.
adison.-President Charles Van
Hise of the University of Wisconsin
has just received word from Clifford
Washington, D. c., that Wisconsin is
in danger of losing the laboratory of
the bureau which was to have been
established here.
Eau Claire-Harry A. Gowdy, who
has been in Jail here for the last four
months, has been bailed out by the
untiring work of his wife, who cleared
up nearly 5000 in newspaper work
This, with other money she had, and
$50 furnished by Attorney Gilbertson,
made up the necessary $500.
Eau Claire-Frank L Tour. who has
been in Jail for the last four months
awaiting trial on a charge of high
way robbery, was released when the
necessary bail of $500 was raised. La
Tour was married while in Jail and
this has resulted in considerable senti-
ment in his behalf.
Washington, d. C.-The secretary of
the treasury approved the organization
application of the First National bank
of Crandon The capital is $40,-
900. The directors are Henry Hay, w.
B. Macarthur, A. H. Anderson, A. J.
Eidsmoe and S. A. Clifford.
Nashotah.-Prof Hughell e. Fos-
broke of Nashotah house has accepted
a call to chair at the Episcopal
Theological school at Cambridge,
Mass. His field will be the teaching
of the history and religion of Israel
Eau Claire.-Petitions are being cir
culated in this section of the state
asking the annulment of the warrants
now out for the arrest of John F.
Dietz of Cameron Dam.
Menasha.-Every fish shanty on the
Butte des Morris lake was robbed of its