River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-06-10
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS

urea from actlVG service as a result
of the report made by the examining
board at San Francisco. During his
service in the Philippines he con-
tTacted foot disease which hinders
him in the performance of his duty.
He is a brother OF Chief of Police H.
c. Baker of Racine, formerly chief
at Madison.
Kilbourn.-After a desperate en-
counter with alleged violators of the
state fishing laws in which it is said
revolver was drawn, Deputy Game
Warden H. w. Hildebrandt of Port
age, aided by two assistants, arrested
local fisherman named Hoflander
and his companion, taking both to the
jail at Baraboo where they are to be
tried on a charge of illegal fishing.
Madison.-Dr c. A. Harper, secre-
tary of the state board of health, left
for Washington, d. c., to attend a
conference of the state provincial
boards of health to be held in that
city. He also holds a conference with
Surgeon General Wyman of the ma
tional hospital corps on Thursday In
addition he will attend a medical con-
vention at Atlantic City, N. J.
Fond du Lac.-At the session of the
| Winnebago Baptist association off,
GERS were elected as follows: Mod
Gator, Rev. E. r. Kinney, Appleton;
clerk, Rev. l.. L. Mann, Waupun;
| treasurer, J. Bussey, Omro. One of
the features of the session at night
was an address by Rev. F. A. Hayward
of Milwaukee on Successful Plans for
Building Up Sunday School,"
| New Haven, Conn.-Among the stu
dents who received the bachelor of
| divinity degree at the Yale divinity
school were Henry Stratton Martin of
| Spring Valley and Lawrence Albert
Wilson of Ripon. The former is B.
A. graduate of Carleton college, '03,
and the latter Phi. B, of Lawrence
university, 'O3, and Pennsylvania uni
versity, '07.
| Kenosha.-Jacob Dekok, aged 81
| years, died here as a result of an op-
Grafton. A few days, ago the. old man
suffered the amputation of one of his
| legs on account of chronic ailment,
and blood poisoning set in and caused
| his death. The deceased was the
| patriarch of the colony of Hollanders
in Kenosha, having lived here for
nearly forty years.
Racine-Judge Belden issued a
| temporary injunction restraining the
| Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light
| Company from building a bridge adj
| joining the property of F. J. Ayers in
Burlington. Mr.. Ayers alleges that the
| building of such a structure would
prevent his getting water to operate
| his mill
Green Bay.-While clinging to the
closed vestibule on a Milwaukee road
passenger train Attorney John Tracy
narrowly escaped serious injury. Tracy
had jumped onto the train while it
was in motion and after hanging on
| for about two miles let go. His nose
was broken, an ear nearly torn off and
his scalp badly cut.
| Kenosha-As the result of a race
| by Gilbert Johnson cab driver, to
catch train, Mary Spariskow, aged
IL years, was fatally injured. The
child was playing in the street and the
horse struck her on the head. She
fell, and the wheels of the vehicle
passed over her.
Kenosha.-The marriage of Mrs.
| Dell Smith, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
| A. G. Sharpe of this city, and Judge
| Clifford Ellsworth Randall of the mu-
| nicipal court of Kenosha county, was
quietly celebrated at the home of the
bride here.
Kenosha -Kenosha is to have a
hard fight N the saloon question. Res
| idents in the southwest portion of
| the city will demand an election to de-
eide whether or not licenses shall be
| issued for that section. At present
there are three saloons in the district.
Sparta-Mrs. liver Larson, aged so
years, and an inmate of the county in
sane asylum, committed suicide by
hanging herself in a closet. Mrs. Lar
| son had been an inmate of the asylum
about a year She had lived in Her.
SEVILLE and a husband survives her.
observation-disclosures by eating
hamburger steak, l.. A. Maloy is dead,
his 20-year-old daughter, Bessie, was
| dying, and his wife was not expected
to recover. Maloy was a prominent
farmer in the town of Turtle, south of
| the city.
anesville.-Colin G. MacLean,
prominent throughout the state as
| golfer and owner of a cash carrier
! factory here, committed suicide in the
office of his factory by taking the tip
| off gas jet.
Madison.-State Banking Commits
sioner M. G. Bergh approved an
amendment to the articles of incor-
poration of the Citizens State bank
of Sheboygan, increasing its capital
from $4,000 to 100000.
Racine.-August Lenzke, his wife
and three children at their home on
PaIica avenue suffered from ptomaine
poisoning from eating brick cheese.
| Administrations indictments were
| returned by the grand jury, although
| it cannot be learned who the indict-
| ments were against. Several former
| county officials and a former assem-
| blyman have been under investiga-
| ton.
Merrill.-Edward Olson, who had
been missing for the last two weeks,
! mae found dead in the Prairie river