River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-02-03
STATE NEWS

mon council. Mr.. Baker receives
| $1,000 a year from the city and about
| $500 year for filing reports on births.
deaths, etc. He also receives $500
from a city official who agreed to pay
that amount until such time as the
common council fixed the salary of the
chief of the police department at
| $1,000. Chief Baker made a request
of the common council that his salary
be increased to $1,000 a year and at
the same time other city officials
asked for increases. Members of the
board of aldermen have been in con-
year.
Superior.-Mike Peyooeoh, who
shot Paul Boich in a saloon Sat
urday night, is still missing, and his
victim is at st. Mary's hospital, alive
but in a critical condition. The po-
lice are convinced that the shooting
was an accident. According to eye
witnesses, Boich was talking to
Peyooech, who was tending bar and
showing a revolver. Suddenly it ex-
ploded Boich clasped his hands to
his stomach and fell groaning to the
floor Peyooech rushed from behind
the bar and with others examined the
injured man. One of them went to
call a doctor and in the excitement
following the shooting Peyooech dis
appeared
Madison-Co-eds at the univer-
sity are planning an aggressive
campaign to aid the shirtwaist work
ers in New York by cooperating in or
dering a large number of shirtwaists
from the strikers. Prof. John R.
Commons will address a meeting of
all womens organizations in the uni
versity on the movement. The uni
versity branch of the Consumers
league and the Round Table Literary
society are fostering the movement.
Waukesha.-Barney Picora, aged
55 years, an Italian laborer, de-
string a warm place to sleep, went
! to the stone quarries and crawled up
the incline to the top of one of the
lime kilns where he removed his
shoes and after placing them under
his head for a pillow, lay down to
sleep When the kiln was fired up
Picora suffocated. His body was found
by workmen.
Kaukauna.-After a long chase
covering several days in which
a large number of men participated,
the mad dog that started on wild
rampage at Seymour some days ago
was finally killed in Blacks woods, a
short ways south of Kaukauna, by
| Otto Hoehne. The dog bit several
dogs and horses in and near Seymour
and also number of dogs at Kau-
kauna.
Oshkosh-The Oshkosh police,
unable to secure any clew as to
the identity of the man who COM
mitted suicide in a local hotel Sunday,
| January 16, have had a photograph
/ taken in an effort to learn who his
relatives are and in what city they
reside.
Ashland-Rev. August Lutz has
won out in circuit court in the in
junction brought against him to keep
him from preaching in the Ellis Ave
nue. church. Judge Parish sustained
Mr. Lutz's demurrer and also vacated
the temporary injunction.
Sparta-Chris Olson, black
smith, committed suicide at his
farm southeast of town. He drank a
half pint of wood alcohol, but before
taking it smashed the telephone in or
der to prevent the family calling for
assistance.
Merrill-Rev. Gustave Luedke of
the town of Maine, is dead, aged
Sc. year. He had charge of the
Lutheran church in the town of Maine
for nearly two and one-half years;
previous to this he had charge at Glen
wood
Fountain City.-CharIes Becker, the
| 16-year-old son of Henry Becker,
residing a few miles from here,
died from injuries received when he
was accidentally shot by the discharge
of shotgun while hunting.
Plum City.-Charles Carlson was
instantly killed by being struck
by a falling tree while cutting
logs near Maple Ridge, about two and
half miles southeast of here. He
Appleton.-Cornelius Williams, aged
sc years, one of the oldest resi-
| dents of Kimberly, died after an
illness covering a period of about six
months. Mr. Williams was severely
kicked by horse.
Manitowoc-Robert Zerier, Kiel
farmer, is suing the Milwaukee
road for damages for the value Of
a field of grain destroyed by fire,
which he alleges was started by sparks
from a locomotive.
Ladysmith.-In an examination
before Justice Manning Sylvester
McAvery was freed from the charge
of numbering Ernest French, in the
woods near here last summer
Beloit-Fearing a flood from an old
mill race the city is tearing away the
flume of a mill.
Beloit.-The $4,000 gift of Mrs.
Frances Curtis of Chicago to Be
lott college is the fulfillment of a
$4,000 pledge made by her years ago
to found the Edward Ely professor
ship of astronomy at Beloit college.
She was then Mrs. Edward Ely and
had since married again. She paid
$4,000 of the pledge at the time.
Wausaukee.-Guy Boyere, aged
Is years, was mortally wounded
by playmate named Topper The
boys were coasting and Boyere handed
his friend a revolver which was out
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