River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-01-13
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

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affairs OF the bank. J. Scott Ellis
was convicted by a jury, but appealed
to the supreme court, which set aside
the verdict, holding that the evidence
! introduced did not sustain the YER
dict of guilty. Following the instruc-
lions of the supreme court, District
Attorney Pierrelee went to Neillsville
before Judge O'Neill and made mo-
ton dismissing the criminal proceed
ings against both President Ellis and
Cashier Kennedy.
Oshkosh. &C. H. Hartley of this
city, general manager of the Wis
consin & Northern Railway Company,
emphatically denies that the company
has abandoned it's work for the next
year on account of lack of funds.
There is absolutely no truth in the
report said Mr.. Hartley. "The COM
pany is making every preparation to
carry along the work during the COM
ing year. Naturally there is more or
less conjecture among people along
the line of the proposed route as well
as among others who have watched
the progress of the work, as to where
the next piece of construction will be
carried on
West Bend. Rev. G. C. Car
michael, superintendent of the. Fond
du Lac district of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, announces that Bishop
Mcdowell has transferred Rev. e. u.
Saunderson, D. D., from the Minnesota
to the Wisconsin conference and reg
ularly appointed him to the pastorate
of the West Bend church. DIR. Saun-
derson has just returned from five
years in India, during four OF which
he was editor of the leading mission
airy weekly in that land, the Indian
Witness. During eight months he
was pastor of the English congrega-
ton at Hyderabad, Deccan.
Madison - Probably 1,500 birds,
including the best fancy poultry
in the northwest, are to be on exhibit
ton in the live stock pavilion at the
university January 25 to %. This will
be the initial poultry show in Madi-
SON. 1t is being managed jointly by
the newly established poultry depart
ment of the university and the Wis
consin Poultry asso. iation. The asso-
citation is composed of about 100 OF
the breeders in this section of the
state. Management .hus by a COM
bination of fancy and utility poultry
breeders naturally puts this affair in
class by itself.
Oconto.-Suit has Leen started
by the Holt Lumber Company
and other taxpayers of Oconto re-
straining the city treasurer from col
lecting taxes on personal p.'operty for
the purpose of paying for Lain sew
ers and also to declare invalll the or
dinance changing the manner of pay
ing for main sewers from sew .>r dis
tricts to the general IunGe The prin-
cipal question to be tried out is
whether the ordinance referred to is
legal.
Racine - Members of the new
Country club held meeting, elected
officers, named committees and talked
of opening the $4,000 clubhouse,
which is to be completed and fur
nished about the middle of February.
The officers are as follows: President,
Capt. William M. Lewis; vice-presi-
dent, A. j. Lunt; secretary, P. M.
Wackerhagen; treasurer, Frank J.
Miller
Madison. = That the majority of
his mining investments are of
little value was the statement made
by Phil Allen, Jr., convicted banker,
in bankruptcy proceedings before
Referee Lewis. He occupied the
greater portion of the day with his
testimony which principally concerned
enumerating his holdings in the sew
eral mining ventures with which he
was connected.
Grand Rapids. = Adam Brush of
this city, who was arrested some
time ago on the charge of breaking
into freight cars, was sentenced to
| five years in the state penitentiary.
James Montgomery, who was cap
tured while trying to break into the
butcher shop at Milladore about two
weeks ago, was given four years in
Waupun.
Janesville.-The next meeting of
the county board Will be held
in the courthouse on January II. Some
action will be determined in regard
to the Improvement of roads in Rock
county. The salaries of the county
officers will be gone over at length
and there may be some changes adj
vised by the committee appointed for
that purpose at the last session.
Menasha. - Menasha young wom-
en- have organized a Shaping"
society. Washers will be the ones
| to get slapped The girls say if slap
ping faces will not be effective, hat
pins will be used.
Milton Junction. = Edward Bing-
ham, a farmer living near Lake
Koshkonong, shot bald eagle. The
bird measures eight feet from tip to
tip.
| Waukesha-As the result of a
visit of the state board of control
| to the State Industrial school, between
thirty and forty inmates will shortly
be paroled from the institution. The
| list of those recommended for parole
| is submitted by Superintendent A. j.
Hutton and the action is based on
the records of the boys.
Grand Rapids = Anton Kubisiak,
died at the River View hospital
here where he was brought, suf-
| fering from injuries sustained by fall
ing on a stick, which he ran into his