River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-03-11
STATE NEWS

mon, mason contractor, and narrow
ly missed either wounding or killing
three other men in the shoe store of
Tony Schwartz. He was captured an
hour after the murder in a field about
| mile from the city, offering no re-
sistance to officer H. Bando, who
made the arrest. He still had the re-
volver and 20 cartridges when cap
| tured
observation-disclosures and nervous
ness from lack of sleep caused Miss
Merle Mills to seek to take her life.
| She went to a drug store and asked
for an ounce of carbolic acid. Instead
of giving her the acid, the druggist
! gave her listerine. She went to her
| boarding house where she was then
| living and announcing in a dramatic
manner that she was going to commit
suicide, drank the listerine, thinking
it was carbolic acid.
Whitewater-A notable birthday
celebration took place at the home of
| Mr.. and Mrs. o. B. Williams, being
the eighty-fifth birthday of Arthur
Leadbeater, Mrs. Williams father.
Among those present were: Durias
Reed SO years of age, who was a
member of the assembly in 1854 and
| 1856; Prof l.. H. Lyman, go years old,
who taught singing school here 60
years ago, and Arthur Larson 50 years
old.
Marinette.-Clain lg that by the
turning over of it's franchise to the
| state railway commission, the Mari
nette Water Company has forfeited a
contract made with the city whereby
| it was to receive during the life of its
| franchise $3.50 as the interest on an
investment in a filtration plant, the
city has refused to pay the amount
claimed. The company will contest.
| Chippewa Falls-Miss Matilda Chris
Hanson of Minneapolis, who claims to
be common law daughter of the late
/ Ole Christianson, withdrew her con-
test for a share Of the $150,000 estute.
She filed her claim on February 8, de-
handing an equal share with this de-
scendants, two children. 1t is 1ot
! known whether a settlement with &er
| was made.
| Oconto-What is believed to have
been deliberate attempt to murder
number of people in the town of
| Surfing was frustrated by the acct
dental discovery of package of en-"
velopes, each of which containing sui
ficient strychnine to kill several per-
sons. Mrs. Robert Jaket found tho
| package in the street near the post
office.
Green Bay-W. J. Fisk, pioneer
banker, philanthropist, aged rs years,
| is dead. For more than 35 years MI.
Fisk has been identified with banking
| interests of Green bay. His public
| benevolences have been generous, the
handsome Y M. G. A. building being
one of his personal gifts. He was re-
puted to be worth 100000.
Marinette.-Mrs. William Ellis of
Peshtigo has started a divorce action
against her husband, one of the most
prominent men of Marinette county.
Ellis was a business partner Of Dun
can McGregor, whose remains were
found in the Menominee river a year
ago. The divorce promises some sen.
sational revelations.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is to be one
of the first states to have a town
named after William H. Taft, the
president-elect. Sawyer county takes
the lead. A bill has been favorably
acted upon which detaches certain
territory from the town of Roosevelt,
and creates the town of Taft.
Kenosha-Peter Steinbach, for
many years manager for the Schlitz
Brewing Company at Kenosha, owner
of Central park, a resort between Ke-
nosha and Racine, has been adjudi-
Gated insane. The mental collapse is
said to have been due to business
worry.
on.-Assemblyma Brew ap-
peared before the state board Of agri-
culture and asked it to grant the city
of West Allis the privilege of using
part of the state fair grounds for band
concerts and other public amuse-
| ments.
Racine.-President Peter B. Belson
of the Racine Refrigerator Company
| plant, destroyed by fire, says that the
| loss will hardly exceed $4,000. The
| old Belle City Sash & Blind factory
| has been leased as a temporary fac
| tory.
Superior.-Peter Helsten, painter,
while employed in painting the stack
at the plant of the Iron River Lumber
Company, fell a distance of 100 feet to
| the ground when his line broke, but
| escaped with a few minor injuries.
Eau Claire.-The local branch or the
| Wisconsin Retail Liquor Dealers as
ISOLATION adopted a resolution to obey
the closing laws to the letter and as
sist in the prosecution of those saloon
keepers who fail to do likewise.
Janesville.-Three hundred mem
bers of the Knights of Pythias from
southern. central and southwestern
Wisconsin met here for district con-
vention. The affair closed with a ban
| quet
Wausau.-The $4,000 damage suit
| brought by w. G. Hickox against
David Goldberg was decided in favor
| of the defendant. The complainant al
| legged that he was seriously injured by
being thrown from a delivery wagon
/ owned by Goldberg.
| Sparta-Monroe county sportsmen
/ are organizing clubs in the towns to