River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-12-29
WISCONSIN NEWS
TERSELY TOLD

commission. Judge Pereles was
chairman of the commission. Mr..
Hatton's term will expire June 1,
1914. The governor also announced
the appointment of e. A. Edwords,
Appleton, as member of the board
of regents of the university, for the
term expiring in February, 1913.
Mr.. Edwords succeeds Adolph Keller
of the same city.
Fond du Lac. - Two skeletons,
supposed those of Indians, were
unearthed this week in gravel
pit on the farm of Matthew Michels,
seven miles east of the city. The
skeletons were found in a reclining
posture and crumbled to pieces soon
after being brought to the sur
face.
misunderstanding Fred Brock
hansen of Milwaukee was in Mad
ison and engaged quarters in the
lodging place for 10 of the Il So
cial-Democratic members of the legis-
lature for the coming session. The
fourteenth member will bring his
wife to Madison and keep house dur
ing the season.
Frederick large crew of sur
veyors is at work surveying for an
extension of the Polk county branch
Of the 500 line north to Duluth and
will leave from Frederic and probably
strike the Wisconsin Central at some
point near Gordon.
Madison.-Athenae defeated Philo-
mathia in the fortieth annual joint
debate, the decision of the judges
being 4 to 1. The question
was: Resolved, That in labor dis
putes that no injunction shall be is
sued other than against intimidation
or acts of violence directed against
physical property Athenae sup
ported the negative, it's representa-
tives being E. A. Meyers, GAINESVILLE;
John A. Dorney, Stevens Point, and
David ]. Saposs, Milwaukee. The
Philomathia team was composed Of
Fred Meek, Milwaukee; Leroy John
son, Wausau, and Samuel Barber,
Lexington, KY. John A. Awkward pre-
sided
Superior. - Bishop McGolrick of
the local Catholic diocese says
the railroads are refusing to accept
shipments of wine for sacramento
purposes to churches in territory
made dry" by the federal Indian
bureau order. Some priests have been
obliged to get wine from other
parishes and take It to their own.
| Steps to secure governmental modifi-
cation of restrictions so as to permit
the entrance of sacramento wine to
prohibition territory will be taken up.
The district attorney says the orders
include no bar to sacramento liquors.
Conference.-The quarantine on
the Russian settlement in the
town of Almena, which had been
strictly enforced for the last two
weeks, was raised and Gotlieb Jaen
ske, the Russian immigrant suspected
of having cholera, was released, as
also were the five immigrants who
accompanied Jaenske to this country
from Tagenrag, cholera infected
village in Russia.
Madison. - More than 600 per-
sons from all parts Of the state
were in Madison to be examined by
the livestock sanitary board to quail
ify for administering the tuberculin
test in cattle. 1t was the largest
number ever assembled for that pur-
pose. From every portion of the state
came candidates to enlist in the war
fare against tuberculosis.
Eau Claire. = Iver Shellum, a
young farmer from South Dakota,
came to Eau Claire on Tuesday in
search of Nels Bergslein, whom he
charges with a serious offense while
Shellum was away from home on a
visit. Sheriff Everson of this city
captured Bergslein here. The South
Dakota sheriff will take him back to
face the charge.
Marinette-Senator Isaac Stephen
son is home from Washington.
He states that he will immedi-
ately write to the engineer in charge
of the Milwaukee district in refer
ence to the low water in the Me-
nominee harbor.
Jefferson.-Aw mass meeting was
held hero to lay plans to Sc
cure for jefferson county the pro-
posed new home for feeble-minded
children Several tracts of land have
been offered to the state board of con-
troll
La Crosse.-As a result of push
ing sticks into the stove, Willie
Kumm, the year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Kumm, Medary, over
turned a kettle of boiling water which
stood on the stove and was so badly
burned that physicians say he can
not live.
Beloit.-A baby of Mr.. and Mrs. Bert
Smith was scalded by tipping pail of
hot water upon herself.
La Crosse.-The late Senator
James H Stout, founder of the
Stout Manual Training school at Me-
nomonie, did not make any disposal
! of the school in his will, it is said
here. AS it is one of the most famous
! institutions of the kind in the coun-
try it is thought probable company
will be formed to buy it from the
heirs
Kenosha. - John Fender, twenty
| FIVE years Of age, employed in
IL e construction of the new Keno
sha hospital, escaped from death