River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-08-18
WISCONSIN
BREVITTES

/ Charming, Mich, was killed by DyraS
Sceele, aged thirteen. Sceele Is un-
der arrest, charged with murder and
! it is said that he confessed. The mo-
tive was the fact that Murphy's par
ents had forbidden him TO play with
Sceele. The story is that young
Sceele found a shotgun on a woodpile
| on a neighbours premises and then
asked another little fellow with him
to shoot Murphy. When he refused
Sceele took the gun and as the Muir
| ply lad was trying to escape shot
him in the back of the head. Death
was instantaneous After killing him
he secreted the body in the bushes,
| where it was found by a searching
! party. Two other youngsters wit
messed the crime and told their par
! ents-
| Portage. Because Timothy Nc
Mahon objected to his wooing, Ed.
ward Lennon shot him from ambush,
| according to confession said to have
/ been obtained from Lennon by Dis
| trict Attorney H. A. Gunderson. Len
non is in jail here, having been. ar
rested by deputy sheriffs just after he
| had become unconscious from trying
to hang himself to a rafter in his barn.
| According to the confession Lennon,
| who is a widower and has two young
sons, paid court 20 McMahon's dPugh-
| ter and resented the fathers obiec-
ton tc his pressing his suit. Twice
| he fired at Mcmahon from ambush,
but the bullets went wide each time.
On the night of July 81 his aim was
better and the highway commissioner
was found dying When the officers
reached Lemons home they found
him hanging from a rope, nearly
dead.
Sheboygan ludicrous tangle
over a missing $12 Panama hat
has occupied local official circles since
/ the headgear owned by Justice Adam
Trester, which he took to a cleaning
toner and disappeared. Principal A.
G. Kingsford of Sheboygan Falls was
given the Trester hat and wore it
some time A writ of replevin was
issued but Kingsford returned the hat
and now says he will sue the cleaner
for his hat.
Superior An opened registered
letter envelope, containing two bank
certificates for $4,000 each, was
! found in the residence district here
and an investigation shows that the
letter contained third certificate for
| a similar amount, which is missing.
The letter was sent from the Amer
lean Exchange bank in Duluth to the
! Superior State bank, and the letter
was stolen during the night. No ar
rests have yet been made.
Oshkosh. = In a meeting of the
common council the committee ap-
! pointed to investigate the ACCESSIBILITY
of municipal ownership of the water
power plant, presented report favor
able to the project which was accept
| ed by the council and a resolution
was adopted by that body, providing
for the submission of the question to
the people at the time of the regular
election in November.
Waupaca. - Chief of Police e.
j. Newhall captured Elmer Mynard,
whom he believes is foremost in
writing "black hand" letters which
have been received by several persons
! lately. With him at the time of the
capture were two other men. Last
week E. L. Devine received a notice
threatening his life unless $500 was
left at certain spot.
Green Bay-Two men were given
state prison sentences by Judge
N. J. Monahan in municipal court.
One of them, John Warpinski, was
sentenced to three years, after plead
ing guilty to larceny, and the other
Floyd Hoagland, was given six months
for failure to support his wife and
family of ten minor children.
La Crosse. = 1t is announced that
no further effort will be made
| this season to re-establish the Dia-
mond Joe traffic on the upper Missis-
sippi river, owing to the extremely
low stage of water. The regular sea-
son has usually closed about Septem-
Der 1, when the water is ample for
the big packets. The present river
season has been complete loss.
Beloit-The Southern Wisconsin
Young Peoples Lutheran federation
elected officers as follows: Presi-
dent, Rev. o. Wilke, Madison;
vice-president, Miss Alice Strampe,
Evansville; treasurer, Carl Kirchner,
Beloit; secretary, F. E. Eckstein, Lo-
Evansville. The next meeting place will
be Johnson Creek.
Portage.-A warrant was issued
for the arrest of E. D. Lennon
for the fatal shooting of Tim Nc
Mahon, county highway commission
err Lennon was before court of in
vestigation and was to appear later
but failed to do so. He was arrested
and is now in Jail.
Green Bay. Professor Nor
cord of the University of Wiscon-
sin will conduct a demonstration for
farmers of Brown county at the Wis
consin state reformatory farm
Racine. - The dairymen of this
county have agreed to an increase
in the price of milk and cream to take
effect next Monday. Milk will be sold
at seven cents quart, an increase of
one cent, and cream at % cents a
quart, an increase of four cents.
George Austin, charged with burglary
of the store of the John Dixon com
pany, was brought to Racine. He pro-