River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-21
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citation of this place. The aim is to
make it still more popular as a sum-
mer resort for the people OF Milwau-
kee and other cities. The level of the
lake was definitely settled by the as
sociation in 1909. It is also planned
to place buoys in dangerous places, to
provide lights at night, to improve
the roads, obtain proper adjustment
of taxes, secure police protection, and
to provide regulation of launches.
Meetings will be held each Sunday
morning.
Manitowoc.-The question of the
rights of a hotel man in the &C.
commodation of the public is
question which is involved in $4,000
damage suit in which Judge Isaac
Cratic of this city appeared in Flor
ence county. The action is brought
against William McGorwan, hotel
man at Rice Lake, by two state game
wardens, who alleged that McGorwan
refused them accommodations in his
hotel. In defense the hotel man
claims that he had been prosecuted
by the wardens and that they sought
accommodations only to spy upon him
and accuse him of violating the state
game laws for serving venison.
Madison. That the illness Of
the six-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter Olson is due to an explosion of
a torpedo in his stomach, which he
swallowed on July 4, is the contention
of Madison physicians. On the Fourth
the boy accidentally swallowed the
torpedo. A few days later he became
sick and for time it was feared he
would not live. The explanation given
by the doctors is that the torpedo con-
tanned potassium chloride and nitro
gIycerine and that the action of the
stomach caused an explosion.
Appleton.-Wholesale arrests of
Oshkosh saloonkeepers will be
made on complaints filed by Frank
r. Hammond Of the Hammond De-
tective agency of Appleton, which in
stitutiOn works in conjunction with
the Wisconsin Anti-Saloon league and
has been engaged by Oshkosh people
to prosecute Oshkosh saloonists who
are sale to have been guilty of vio-
lating the excise laws Hammond re-
fused to tell what the specific charges
will be. He declares that his force
has amassed what he believes is evil
dence so conclusive that nothing but
conviction Of the thirty-fve saloon
EeeDers can possibly result.
WarHesha About seventy-fve
Republicans from all over the coun-
y attended a meeting held here
IN his address DR.. George E. Hoyt
stated that he had decided to be n
candidate for the senatorial nomina-
ton to succeed Henry Lockney, who
decided not to run again. DR.. L. E.
Youmans and Phillip Jones also stated
that they would be candidates for the
assemblymen nominations for the
southern and northern districts, re-
spectively.
Elkhorn. = Mrs Melissa Tiffany
Williams, wife of the late Abso-
lom Williams, died at the home of her
son, A. D. Williams of Lyons. She
was born in the town of Adams, Jeffer
son county, New York, in 1920, where
she grew to wOmanhood. She married
Absolom Williams and they came to
Walworth county in July, 1874, and
settled in the town of Lafayette. In
1853 they removed to Spring Prairie,
purchasing a farm, which was their
home for many years. Mr.. Williams
died Is years ago.
Chippewa Falls. - Attorneys Will
liam NJ Bows and Thomas J. Con
nor have gone to Portland, Ore, where
they will form law partnership un-
der the firm name of Bowe & Conner.
Mr. Bowe has practised law here for
the past 25 years and Mr.. Conner for
the last 80 years. Both have large
property interests here.
Racine-While the Starke Dredge
company was digging channel
in Root river, a copper cable,
weighing over 1000 pounds, was
picked up. How the cable came to be
at the bottom of the river is not
known 1t was sold at II cents
pound.
acknowledgements Davidson par
oled George Adams of Madison
from the state reformatory at
Green Bay, where he was sent four
months ago for the larceny of $40
from his father-in-law, George Wink
Ter, with whom he and his family were
living.
Rhinelander-Al. Payment, Mercer,
died in ST. Mary's hospital, fol-
lowing a brief illness from blood
poisoning. The disease is believed to
have been the result of an insect bite
which Mr.. Payment received while in
the woods near his home several days
ago.
Viroqua. the birds recog-
nize the present season as an ex-
tremely dry one, according to people
who claim to be acquainted with bird
habits. The robins are emitting the
second nesting, they say, because it is
so dry they cannot get worms to feed
their young.
La Crosse-Because he is over
flowing with human kindness, Jail
er s. F. Brown is alleged by the county
board and the district attorney to be
not a proper man for his position, and
he was removed by Sheriff Duncan.
Brown is blamed for the escape of nine
prisoners within the past few months.
It is not alleged that he connived at
their escape, but that he was too easy
with the prisoners.
Racine.-Frightened by dog,
Stephen Hush, ten years old, start
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