River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-09-16
BADGER
NEWS BREVITIES

Cumberland-Cum is becom-
ng model town. Owners of auto
!ars have been notified that they must
lot exceed the speed limit within the
! ,ity, and the restaurants have been
obliged to close on Sundays, and the
sale of ice cream nm Sundays has been
prohibited in the drug stores. 1t was
:umored mat not even teams would
De allowed to leave the livery barns
md that preaching would be stopped,
put other counsels prevailed. The
| Sunday closing is the result of a
quarrel between two factions.
| Viroqua.-Because her mother re-
fused to let her wear thin null dress
10 school, Miss Nellie Brown, aged ii
J roform. 1t was with difficulty that she
was revived. The mother is said to
have struck her with a whip. The
daughter screamed and the father
said he, too, would punish her if she
rid not behave. She then asked for
dime to purchase tablet, but spent
the money for chloroform.
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possible remains of their savings
among the charred ruins of freight
car in which they had been living for
few weeks, six Italian laborers in
the employ of the Milwaukee road at
| lakewood, 13 miles south of the city,
came upon the blackened skeleton of
an unknown man. The men were
working on the track about a mile
from the freight car when it caught
fire.
ayward-Helmer Carlson, a IT.
year-old-bOy, was instantly killed at
the sawmill of the North Wisconsin
Lumber & Manufacturing Company.
He started to get drink of water, but
instead of walking around stepped
across cOnveyor chain leading to the
burner. His clothes caught in the
chain, pulling him into the sprocket
wheel, which bruised his body, caus-
ing immediate death.
Madison.-Allen Beaumont, a young
boy, confessed to the police that he
had committed series of rObberieS
which puzzled the police for six
months or more. Beaumont said he
had no permanent residence. He was
arrested while trying to steal some
costly kodaks in Colonial hall He
roomed at 10 North Menry street, and
the police found a large quantity of
loot in his room.
New Richmond.-The Bank of
Downing, at Downing, a small village
on the 500 line just over the line in
Dunn county, was blown up and
wrecked. The first explosion wrecked
the building and the second explo-
sion opened the vault Though booty
was in light, a quantity of silver, gold
and currency being in the wreckage,
the yeggmen were evidently afraid to
go near it.
Reedsburg. dairy interests of
Sank county are on the increase. More
barns are being built and farmers
are adding more COWS to their herds
than ever before. The latest fac
tory to incorporate is the Glover
cheese factory. The incorporators are
Clamp Tourdot, Henry Schulze and
John Loughney, all practical farmers
in the town of Ironton
Chippewa Falls.-The raising of
peanuts on a commercial scale is at
tracing attention here, owing to the
bumper crop on the William Bartz
five-acre tract west of this city 1t is
figured that the profits will run
about $3.50 an acre. There is talk Of
establishing a peanut butter factory
there
Marathon City-Krasin Brothers of
Tigerton have started on the Blodgett-
McCready cold storage warehouse and
expect to have it completed by jan
uary 1. 1t will be of brick veneer
and fitted with all the latest mechan-
ical cooling apparatus. The estimated
cost is $4,000. 1t will have a ca
pacity of 1875 cars of cheese.
Chilton.-William Wagner, young
man near Brandt, met with a serious
if not fatal accident while engaged in
thresking grain. He was climbing
grain stack with a pitchfork in his
hand. He slipped and fell in such
manner that the three tines pene-
trated his abdomen almost their en-
tire length.
Portage-The county rural carriers
in annual session voted to attend the
state meeting at Baraboo May 80,
1910, in a body. They elected Mark
Tcmlinson of Poynette president;
Howard Wood of Wyocena, vice-pres-
ident; Raymond Brown of Lodi treas
urer, AND Thomas Clithero of Portage
secretary.
Winneconne.-Riding his bicycle off
the Winenconne bridge, through the
open draw, Arthur Sink, employed on
the farm of John Davis, near this viii
lage, was drowned. He was about
nineteen years of age and was for
merly resident of Tigerton, where he
had relatives.
Ashland-William Boyle of this city
was drowned in Chequamegon bay
while returning from Bayfield, with
his son and Mike Martin in a sail