River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-21
STATE NEWS
In BRIEF

it's but the fire department worked
hours trying to get an engine to the
deep drainage ditch for water supply
to fight the flames The engine sank
to the CRATES in the soft swamp earth
and could not reach the water. Act
ing Chief Duket says he fears the
fields and buildings may be destroyed.
The rainfall checked the forest fires in
this vicinity, but they are again burn
ing. The middle bridge over the Me-
nominee river caught fire, but the fire
was extinguished with little damage.
Manitowoc.- and Mrs. Har-
ry Gilmore, twenty-one and nine
teen years old, respectively were SEN
fenced to Waupun after having been
found guilty of robbery in municipal
court. Mr.. Gilmore is to serve IL
months and his wife eight months.
The young people said that their home
was in Bay City and that they were on
their honeymoon, having left Bay City
two weeks ago and crossed to Canada
to be married 1t was alleged that
Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore's plan was to
visit a respectable home in pretend
ed search for apartments to rent.
While in the house Mrs. Gilmore
would engage the attention of the resi-
dents, while Mr. Gilmore would search
for such valuables as he could carry
In his pockets, and that they were
successful in one Manitowoc home be-
fore being detected.
GAINESVILLE. = John Splittsloesser
died here from lOckjaw caused
by a sore on his leg. For two days
the man worked with his jaws firmly
locked before he called medical aid.
He was born in Watertown and was
l'fifty-three years old. He has two sis
tiers, Mrs. Goblin of GAINESVILLE and
Mrs Benjamin Waters of Madison.
Sheboygan.-F which started in
pile of dirty rags caused $4,000 DAM
cry company.
Waukesha-Miss Hattie Miller,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam H Miller, 823 Raymond street,
has disappeared from her home, and
her absence is causing great anxiety
to her parents. The police have been
notified, but all their attempts have
proven fruitless. Hattie was employed
in the kitchen of the Resthaven hotel
and came home June II with her pay
check for SIS and told her mother
she was going to cash it. Nothing has
been heard or seen of her since.
Monroe.-The stockholders of the
Commercial and Savings bank in
their annual meeting elected d.
rectors as follows: Jacob Benkert, G.
w. Bennett, Jacob H. Elmer, John
Cuttings, Joshua Klassy, E. T. Kundert,
Edward Ruegger, Simon Saucerman,
J. L. Sherron, F. A. Shriner, George E..
Thorp, A. c. Trachsel, Joseph Trumpy
and C. w. Twining The directors met
after the stockholders adjourned and
reelected President Twining and the
other officers.
Fond du Lac.-Fire near Eland
Junction is threatening all the
standing and cut timber of that region,
particularly that of the Hatton Lum-
Der company, New London, of which
Senator W. H. Hatton is the president.
of it's crews to the scene, but had met
with little success in bringing the
fires under control.
Merrillan-Fire from the forest
entered the village limits several
times. It was only by the COM
bined efforts of citizens and the fire
department that several residences
A Gov 4 III
mile from town on what is known as
the Rusce place came to town to get
help to save his farm buildings from
destruction.
Neenah. - Plans have been COM
pleted for the annual reunion of
the Tenth Wisconsin regiment to be
held here and in Menasha on August
a. The reunion will be held at the
old log cabin home of Governor Doty,
now owned by John Strange.
Manitowoc-While rejoicing over
the visit with her daughter, Mrs
Edward Braune1, whom she had not
seen for several years, Mrs Catherine
Johnson, Chicago, died.
Beloit.-Prof. F. E. Converse, for
fifteen years superintendent of the
public schools at Beloit, is at
Claremont, Cal, investigating an offer
of a similar position there.
Fond du Lac.-Eveline Harris, col
ored, died here at the age of one hun
dred and fourteen years.
Chippewa Falls.-Angus Robertson,
thirty-one years old, a farmer of
Barron county, was made a de-
PENDANT in divorce action in this
county by his wife, Christina Robert
son, twenty-six years old, after a
honeymoon Of 35 days. On May 81,
1910, Mr.. Robertson married Miss
Christina Lancefield, in Midland, Ont.
Wild Rose.-Wild Rose may have
high school soon. In the re-
cent school meeting a large majority
were in favor of the district taking i'm
mediate steps to providing the higher
grades.
New Richmond. = Mayor Charles
Donohue has had the saloonkeep-
ers of the city up on the carpet"
mission has supplemented his instruc-
tions by issuing orders to the police
to see to it that saloon are not opened
on Sundays, even to be scrubbed
out" and that the law is obeyed.
Observation-Disclosures Frank Baas
and two of his brakemen, who
were sleeping in the caboose of
a work train, were held up and robbed
by two men. The robbers secured
considerable money and the watches