River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-14
SEEN AND HEARD
In WISCONSIN

checked the forest fires which have
been raging for several days in
the pineries north of this city and
which already have caused losses ag-
gregating more than a million dollars.
The burned area extends about fifty
miles north Of Prentice and about for
ty miles wide between Stanley and
Thorpe.
Several farmers in the district have
been burned out and scores are pros
trated fighting to save homes and
crops. The heaviest losers are lum-
Der and logging companies.
twenty-five villages in the burned
district narrowly escaped destruction.
More rain is needed to prevent the fire
from spreading further.
Holcombe was saved by heroic work
OF nearly every inhabitant. Fires have
been raging near Holcombe for a
month, tut the high southwest winds
drove them into the village.
Water was hauled from the Chippe.
wa river in barrels. The Chippewa fire
department was asked for aid and
special train was ordered. In an hour
the wind had ceased and the flames
were checked.
For time the state home park was
in danger, but attendants fought the
fire back. The east portion of Taylor
county reports big forest fires. The
villages of Gilman, Policy, Ruby, Ar
mold and Hannibal are fighting fires
and trying to save the sawmills Great
quantities of cordwood, logs and tim
Der are burning.
La Crosse.-Roland Dickson, Ores
bach, Mimi, and Mrs. Bertha Nc
Govern, this city, are in hospitals
believed to be fatally injured as the
result of the alleged attempt of Mrs.
McGovern to commit suicide following
lovers quarrel. Dickson claims
Mrs. McGovern sent word by the po-
lice that she was seriously i'll, and
that when he reached her home she
locked the door and, backing into a
corner, flashed revolver and fired
The woman claims she shot herself
twice and that Dickson was shot while
trying to wrest the gun from her
Neither will throw any light upon the
motive One bullet entered Mrs. Nc
Governs intestines and a second was
prevented from piercing her heart by
a corset stay.
Milwaukee.-The funeral of Rev.
Carl f. W. GausewitZ was held
from the Grace Lutheran church, Rev.
John Bading, an old friend, officiating.
Interment was at Union cemetery
Rev. H. Knuth, John Jenny, 0. Hager
dorm, e. F. Dornfeld, H. Bergman and
Adolph Baeberoth acted as pallbear-
ers. All three sons of Mr.. Gausewitz
his only children, were present. They
were Rev. Carl Gausewitz of the Grace
Lutheran church, William of Ovation
ma, Mimi, and Herman of TT. WORTH
Tex, superintendent of the Ft. Worth
& Denver railroad. The funeral was
attended by many Wisconsin pastors,
members of the Wisconsin synod, who
had known Mr.. Gausewitz intimately
and in Minnesota.
Eau Claire-Fires which orig
! mated northeast of Eau Claire
swept down two farmhouses and
threatened to gain Roadway on the
| city. Mayor Flemming issued hur-
ry call to the police department to
gather all men possible to battle the
flames. An interurban car took a
load to the scene. The fire depart
ment was useless, as it was out of
range of the hydrants. The danger
is now over, with little property dam
age.
| ManitoWoc. - Her dress catching
fire from paper which she lighted
while starting fire, Mrs. Carl
Henschel, pioneer resident of Center
vile, was fatally burned and died
within a few hours. Her aged hus-
band was in the room at the time of
the accident, but, being deaf, did not
hear his wife's screams for help, and
the woman rushed from the house into
the yard, where she attempted to ex-
tinguish the flames under pump.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Harms, a
carpenter, seventy-three years old,
committed suicide by hanging him
self in woodshed. Mental de-
rangement, caused by the extreme
heat, is supposed to have led to the
act. He leaves a wife and family.
oughton-Tollef Olson, seventy
nine years old, reputed one of
the wealthiest men in Stoughton, died
of hemorrhage of the brain, following
sunstroke, at Madison. The funeral
was held at Mcfarland. Olson came
to America from Norway in 1848.
Wausau-Mary Glodcheski, 112
years old, died In Parcherville.
She retained all her faculties up to
within few weeks.
Waupaca.-Breeze Klemsbed, eleven
years old, drowned in Columbia
lake, while bathing. His mother,
widow, lives at Glencoe, Ill.
Menasha-A Prohibition county
convention for Winnebago county has
been called to meet in Omro in Good
Templars' hall.
Appleton-A horse, said to belong
to Jacob T. Griesbach, Greenville,
dropped dead from fright.
Menasha-John Kuepper, a wealthy
Harrison farmer, was struck by
a Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
passenger train at the Sherwood
crossing and probably fatally injured.
The carriage was smashed to splinters.
Beloit.-While climbing cliff
at the lodges, Roy Hammil was
attacked by a mother eagle, which he
killed with a club after it had at
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