River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-06-16
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

place.
Phillips came home shortly after
midnight and found his wife and Bore
man conversing on the rear porch. A
rifle was lying beside them, and it is
said that as Phillips entered Bore
man and Mrs. Phillips tried to get it.
During struggle over the weapon
Foreman was shot and bled to death
in few minutes. Phillips, not
knowing that the other man had been
wounded, went back to the station and
awaited the arrival of train. When
he returned to his home he was told
Boreman had been shot and killed.
A doctor called from Minocqua
found that the bullet had pierced the
heart and lodged in the right lung
The dead man is survived by moth
er, three sisters and brother.
No arrest has been made.
Portage. Driham, seven
ty-five years old and one OF the
pioneers of this community, was
struck by an automobile and re-
ceived injuries from which he died at
IhO hOoPlId1 Two nOu1 AoCOA nv
automobile was driven by Jud Clarke,
a prominent business man of West
field, who, with a party of four, was
returning from the picnic OF the Mod
ern Woodmen of the World, which
was held here The aged man was
crossing the street and was caught
between two automobiles. Bewildered,
he walked directly in front of the
Clarke machine, and was thrown to
the ground and crushed by the wheels
before Mr.. Clarke was able to stop
the car. The occupants of the car
assisted him to the, hospital.
Fond du Lac.-The Windecker
triplets, who claim to be the
oldest living triplets in the world,
celebrated their sixty-sixth birthday
anniversary in Wausau. They were
born June 9, 1874 in Lowville, N. Y,
and five years later came to this coun-
ty with their parents. The triplets
are Sylvester Windecker, Byron; Sgd
ney Windecker of this city, and Mrs.
Sedate Pier, Wausau. Each year
they hold birthday celebration.
Kenosha. - Michael r. Sievert,
sixty-six years old, a retired farm
er. died at his home here after a
short illness from blood poisoning.
Sievert bruised the thumb of his
right hand and went to physician.
The hand began to swell and within
a short time the poison was carried
to all parts of his system and caused
his death. He has resided in Kenosha
county for more than sixty years.
Fond du Lac.-The city of Fond
du Lac has notified the East
ern Wisconsin Railway & Light COM
pany, the Wisconsin Telephone COM
pany, the Western Union Telegraph
company, to remove all poles and
wires owned by them from Main
street within four months. The trac-
ton company must replace trolley
poles with iron standards.
Elkhorn.-Mrs. Orland Carswell,
wife of an Elkhorn pioneer mer-
chant, dropped dead of heart dis
ease in her home here. She was sixty
eight years old. Her husband and two
of New York, survive her.
Superior = Superintendent George
F. Penn of the state free en-
ployment office here, was arrested
charged with embezzling $3.50 from
the treasury of the Trades and Labor
assembly of which he was treasurer.
Edgerton.-The sixty-sixth annual
convention of the Primitive Meth
odist Western association of Wis
consin and Illinois opened at AL
bion Prairie, near here. Many min
listers are in attendance as delegates.
Green Bay-Florian Reinhart, a
farmer living near Cormier, was
struck by passenger train on
the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul
road and almost instantly killed. Mr..
Reinhart was sixty years old.
Beloit.-St. Jude's Catholic church
will be dedicated on June &c
and Archbishop S. G. Messmer, Mil
waukee, will conduct the ceremonies.
Waupaca.-Three prisoners escaped
from the Waupaca county jail by
saving the bar that locked the door
to the cage. After reaching the cor
ridor it was an easy matter to remove
enough bricks from beneath an outside
window to gain freedom. 1t is believed
that the saw was delivered to the men
by a confederate from outside. The
men were all awaiting prosecution
for burglary. They have not yet been
recaptured.
Superior.-With his throat cut
from ear to ear, the body of man
believed to be Magnus Nelson of SUI
short distance from the Country club
at Beltings park Evidence indicating
that the man might have been MUIR
dered has been found and is being in
vestigated by the police.
Eau Claire.-Judge Sanborn of
the United States court sentenced
Charles Kabat of La Crosse to one
year at Leavenworth penitentiary. He
had pleaded guilty to counterfeiting.
Racine.-Two hundred and fifty
union carpenters, who have been
on strike for three weeks returned to
work, the boss carpenters having
raised the scale of wages to so cents
an hour.
Mansion. = Robbers entered the
schoolhOuSe, rummaged through
several rooms, broke into the office
and took about $40 in cash which had
been taken in at the junior declama-
tory contest.
Green Bay.-The three-year-old
daughter of William Coppens died
as the result of Injuries received when