River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-10-21
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BRIEFLY TOLD

ing students, were rescued from cap
sized sailboat by two young Madison
girls The young men were in the
water for half an hour before Emma
Pagenkopf and Sophia de Marinette,
who were hurrying home from Maple
Bluff in small rowboat discovered
their plight Exhaustion had almost
overcome them.
Beloit-The Second Congregational
church celebrated its fiftieth anniver-
sary. Among the speakers was Rev.
W. w Sleeper of Wellesley, Mass, for
ten years pastor here. dlsappoint-
ment was in the fact that Rev. H. P.
Higley, who was for 25 years pastor,
Is dangerously i'll at Elgin, I'll. The
Second Congregational church was an
offshoot of the First Congregational
church, established ten years before
the second.
Milwaukee. - Twenty-Five panic
stricken passengers, many of them
women, hurled themselves through
windows of east-bound Holton street
car No. 191, when it caught fire at
Seventh avenue and Mitchell street.
Several passengers were bruised in
leaping from the burning car. The
cause of the blaze was the falling of
a live trolley wire between Sixth and
Seventh avenues.
Naturalization the national dairy.
show which opened in the Auditorium
representatives of the various inter
io%, in hn
big show arrived here. They will be
busy getting everything into shape for
the exhibition. On Monday Secretary
H. A. Van Norman moved from his Of
flee in the Plankinton house to the
Auditorium, where he will have head
quarters until the show ends.
Naturalization more than "a
hours the body of an aged man, be-
lieved to be about 70 years old, and
dressed like a working man, has been
lying unidentified at the morgue. The
man was the victim of a railroad ac-
cident at Florida and South Water
streets when a Chicago & Northwest
ern switch engine struck him as he
was crossing the tracks.
Racine.-Cries of help" were heard
coming from the river at the coal
yards A dozen men rushed to the
spot and a man was seen foundering
in the water, but he sank and was
drowned The life-saving crew was
notified and hauled the body out. 1t
proved to be Hans Hanson, IS years
old, a stevedore who was nearly blind.
Omro.-A furniture packing COM
pany, which established an experiment
tai factory here early in the summer,
has it's plans perfected and made
trials with results which are satisfac-
tory. The company utilizes a grade of
marsh hay, which can be cut in the
winter, and which was considered
worthless until few years ago.
Green Bay.-Rev. ]. Stucki, pastor
of German Reformed church on the
Winnebago reservation, with the aid
of John Stacy, a full-blooded Winnie
bago, has just completed translation
of the major portion of the Bible into
the Winnebago tongue, and the work
will be published by the American
Bible society.
Kenosha.-Detectives of the Chicago
e Northwestern Railway Company sc.
cured warrants for the arrest of 20
Kenosha men, women and children
charged with stealing from the freight
cars of the company. The list of de-
PENDANTS is declared to be but half the
number for whom warrants have been
issued.
Eau Claire.-Warrants have been
served through the police department
upon two boys, William Wagner, aged
10, and Harry Hoff, II, for frequenting
saloons. These are the first cases to
come to the attention of the authori-
ties under the recently created law
relating to the presence of minors.
Oshkosh.-Thieves scaled the roof
of the F. H. Josslyn dry goods store,
entered the building through the scut-
tle-hole in the room anu then climbed
through a transom into the store
proper, from which they stole more
than $4,000 worth of high-grade silks.
Washburne.-Sheriff Happle cap
tured A. Carlone, the man wanted for
the murder of young Alberick at Drum
mond. At first Carlone would not adj
NIT that he was the man, but later ad-
mitted and said that he meant to kill
the father and not the boy.
Racine.-Frederick Hansche, one of
the oldest and wealthiest farmers of
Berryville, died Two weeks ago Mr.
Hansche was north on a trip. Stop
ping at Madison he bought and ate
some fruit which poisoned him.
Oshkosh-John Jungbauer hanged
himself at his home. He came from
Bohemia ave years ago. He leaves a
wife and three small children.
Portage.-The church formerly oc-
cupied by st. Francis Xavier congre-
cation has been entered at various
times and valuable furnishings stolen.
Berlin.-Carl Carlson, Swede, aged
81 years, was killed here by train.
His body was badly mangled.
Par Falls.-The Miller Manufactur-
ing Company's new Grating and wire
reel factory was burned to the
ground. The loss is estimated at $685.
900, insurance 100000 1t is not
known whether the plant will be re-
built.
Wausau-Two hold-up men robbed
two men near Dancy and Knowlton,
securing from each all the money they
had ana leaving the first man as