River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-09-15
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS


ter Olsen celebrated the silver ami
yersary of their wedding at the Nor
wegian Lutheran church. The couples
were married on the same day in
Marinette and have lived here since.
Two witnesses to the marriage cere-
monies, Mrs. Sophia Malmsted and
Mrs. Ellen Larson, were present at
the silver weddings Prof. William Pc
terson of Minneapolis, authority on
Norwegian literature, addressed the
couples and their friends. Rev. e. G.
Larson, pastor of the church. also
spoke.
inquest into
the cause of the death of The
odore Muldovan, near Mapleton,
on September /, was held before Cor
oner Hill in Oconomowoc. 1t was found
that Muldovan came to his death by
a gunshot at the hands OF Mike Lubi-
witch in the town of Oconomowoc on
September 1. The whereabouts of
Lubiwitch, who was the night watch
at the camp, had not been learned.
La Crosse.-Called upon unex-
pectedly, in the absence of Sen
ator-elect Otto Bosshard, to defend
the low liquor license fee in La Crosse,
in debate before the Franklin club,
Rev. Ambrose Murphy, priest of St.
James Catholic church, so ably ar
gued against an increase that the jury
decided unanimously that the license
should remain at 5000.
Fond du Lac-Grafton hall, the
Episcopal school for girls, will
open for the new year on September
20. A feature of the opening will be
the unwilling of the rail presented by
the 1910 class, which was not finished
in time for the graduating exercises
in June. All the rooms in the dormi-
tories already have been taken.
La Crosse. - John Humphreys,
member of the Wisconsin state
board of arbitration, arrived here
and will make an effort to secure
an arbitration of the difficulties be-
tween the woodworkers and their en-
ployers here, which hav kept practi-
cally all of the woodworking factories
closed for several monthz.
Madison. - State Game Warden
Rickeman's force prosecuted 80
persons for violating the fish and
game protection laws. The fines I'M
posed amounted to 1882 and the costs
$12O34, making $602.34 in all. Most
Of the prosecutions were for violating
he fishing laws.
Black River Falls.-Joshua Wood
worth, ninety-two years old, died
in the home of his son Darius, If
Shamrock. He came to La Crosse
county from Ohio in 1868. He was ar
active farmer until age prevented fur
her labor.
Plainfield.-The farmhouse OF Mrs.
Angelina Summers was destroyed by
fire. The loss is $1,4O0, with $500 in
surance.
Marinette-Frank, the eight-year.
old son of Frank Cummings, g
farmer living near Oconto, saw
what he believed was a missing
black heifer in his fathers fields
about dusk and ran to drive it to the
barn. The "heifer." which proved tc
be big black bear, turned on him
and the boy narrowly escaped with
his life.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in charge
of the construction of the new
normal school here faced sus-
pension of work as the result Of
charges that the employees have been
permitted to work ten hours day.
while the laws provide that no men
working on state buildings shall work
more than eight hours day.
Whitewater.-Three hundred mem.
bers of battery F, Forty fifth regiment
field artillery, passed through White.
water on their way from Sparta to
Fort Sheridan.
Washburn.-During temporary in.
sanity, caused by worry and loss
of sleep during his wife's illness
N. J. Nelson, a jeweler, committed
suicide here by shooting.
Superior.-At a special meeting
the school board voted to en-
force the penalty of 500 a day for
failure to complete the new high
school July 1.
Mondovi-Two robbers broke into
the postofice ard secured AZ cents be-
fore they were scared away by
The city marshal They fired sew
eral shots at the marshal and es,
capped.
Cavour.-The body of Levi E.
Raiche, a resident of Menominee
county, Mich, was found lying near a
railroad track here.
Rhinelander.-From letter from
prominent timber owner of
Spokane, Wash, the timber losses in
Washington, Idaho and Oregon in the
recent fires exceed the reports pub
lished.
Manirowoc. = Burglars attempted
to blow the safe in the office
Of the J.. G. johnson company, ex-
ploding two charges of nitroglycerine,
but failed to force the doors. The
robbery is the sixth within three
weeks and has created much alarm.
Less than $50 has been secured in
the robberies.
Appleton. - James James, who
was arrested here for fleeing
|. Gustav. Polzer of Milwaukee, out of
SIS, pleaded guilty in municipal court
to petit larceny and paid a fine of $50
and costs, after repaying the money
to his victim. James was immediate
~ rearrested and will be taken to
Oshkosh on the charge of robbing
Martin Peterson of Neenah of $500 on
a Coo train In tho NeAQah wards nm