River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-11-24
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Racine.-The annual meeting of
the county board of supervisors
was held. The county is up
against a serious problem in DISPOSE
ton of the water from the septic
sewer at the asylum. 1t drains on
adjoining lands and owners have
threatened to sue for heavy damages.
There is only one solution, and that
is to wait until the city of Racine
builds a trunk line sewer at the west
city limits and then run sewer from
the asylum to connect with this. It
lis expected that there will be a fight
for the position Of trustee of the
asylum to succeed William Shenken-
berg.
Because the city de-
layed repairs to one of it's
bridges until this time, just when holt
day trade is opening, and because of
5oss of trade as result, merchants are
lodging a strenuous protest and may
ask that the city make some provision
for ferrying people over the river, this
being especially true OF north side
merchants, two-thirds of the popula.
ton being on the south side.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of a threat
ening letter signed with the
BLACK Hand" several Italians at
Grimms, this county, employed as
quarry laborers, have left the village,
The letters appeared following labor
troubles at the quarry, when the com
pany substituted other employees for
firemen who struck. The matter is in
the hands of the authorities for investi.
cation.
Madison.-A complete reorganiza-
ton of the Student Farmer, Of
fetal publication of the college of agri.
culture at the university, was effected
at the directors meeting. The name
of the publication is changed to Wis.
consin Country Magazine, and it will
be closely affiliated with the course in
agricultural journalism.
Madison.-Phil1ip Allen, Jr, for
mer president of the First National
bank of Mineral Point, who is now
serving a sentence in the federal pris-
on at Leavenworth, has been appointed
assistant chaplain in the prison. Mr..
Allen was formerly an ardent worker
In Sunday school circles in southern
Wisconsin.
anesville-Thomas Cummisford,
an engineer on the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul road, narrowly
escaped death when the driving rod on
his engine broke, ripped through the
floor of the cab and pinned him to the
boiler head. He was released and was
found to be uninjured.
Madison.-Lack of sufficient funds
may mean the death of inter-
collegiate debating in Wisconsin;
Two contests are scheduled for Del
cember 8, one at Nebraska university
land one here with Iowa, but unless
some means of securing money for the
expense of the teams is devised the de-
bates will have to be called off. Lack
of funds may also prevent Wisconsin,
from sending representative to the
Northern Oratorical league contest.
Madison.-Dr. G. D. Clark, state
inc of tuberculin in Wisconsin. The
state department cannot begin to fill
the orders. A shipment was received
which contains 10000 doses. 1t will
take 21,O8O doses to meet the present
demand.
Beloit-Harry Reaf, 21z-year-old
son of Henry Reaf, died from
burns sustained. Mrs. Reaf had left
the child alone in the house with coal
stove but a moment, when she heard
him screaming and saw him running
from the house with his clothing a
mass of flames.
Madison.-Alpha Zeta, the hon
orary agricultural society of the
university, has made the following cleo
tons: Alfred H. Meyers, Grafton; War
rem w. Clark, River Falls; Martin J.
Hoppert, Sheboygan; Ebert G. Bailey,
West Bend, and Joseph G. Gilman, Ra-
cine.
Appleton.-Loading his pipe with
tobacco borrowed from Henry
Van Eyck, in which was deposited a
22-caliber cartridge, Benjamin Hertz
niger escaped serious injuries when
the cartridge exploded, ripping away
portion of his nose.
Eau Claire-Gerald Garden, a
theater singer, was struck in the
face, hands and body by bird shot, by
the accidental discharge of a gun in
the hands of another man while hunt
ing. He will live.
umberland.-Walter Shields, nine
teen years old, the son of Mathew
Shields, wealthy farmer here,
was drowned in Vervillion Lake,
three miles southeast of this city. In
company with his brother, Edward
Shields, and Fred Wallace, Walter
was sailing an ice boat, when the
craft, going at a high speed, ran off
the ice and plunged into that part of
the lake not frozen. The three boys
were hurled into the water Wallace
and the younger Shields boy managed
to keep afoat until the neighboring
farmers rescued them, but Walter
Shields was thrown under the ice and
drowned. His body has not been re-
covered.
Superior-The special investiga-
ton committee of the Commercial
club will ask the street railway
company to lower its fares and to i'm
prove the service. The matter of ex-
tension of lines also is to be taken up.
A four-cent fare with reduced rates
for werkingmen and school children is