River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-05-04
WISCONSIN NEWS.
.TERSELY TOLD

and at last reports was rapidly wiping
out the town. About fifteen residences,
bank, post Office, Bramworth's jew
elry store, a livery barn, the Jump
River hotel and three stores, including
those Of the Prentice Mercantile COM
pany and C. F. Lundberg, had been
burned. The fire started in the oil
room of store and spread rapidly, as
the large oil tanks had just been filled.
A house in which about half car Of
dynamite was stored is III the path Of
the fire, and efforts are being directed
to save it.
Oshkosh.-Fred Hunter, the insane
negro, patient who escaped from the
Northern Hospital for the Insane, Is
believed to be the man who robbed a
house at C1emansville. People in this
vicinity are terror stricken and have
adopted the greatest precautions to
guard children since, the escape OF the
negro.
Green Bay-Miss Hattie Kuehl Of
Kewaunee, was attacked here by two
men, one grabbing her by the throat
and the other attempting to tear her
handbag from her. She struggled and
her screams attracted two men a
block away to her assistance, but the
highwaymen had fed.
Milwaukee-The annual meeting
of the Wisconsin Pharmaceutical asso-
citation will be held at Elkhart Lake,
June q to July 1. Secretary E. B.
Heimstreet of Palmyra was in Milwau-
kee comforting with Local Secretary
Raeuber. There will be concerts
every evening. One of the features
will be a Venetian night on the lake,
followed by a picnic lunch.
Green Bay.-Lyle Delaney, aged
nineteen, son of Joseph Delaney of
this city, was killed at Columbia, S.
c., when an auto backed into him in a
garage. The auto was being cranked
and the gear was not properly adj
justed. An artery in the boys right
leg was severed.
Eau Claire. G. Geodecker,
aged fifty-fve, a farmer, died here of
arsenical poisoning Goedecker's young
stepdaughter and wife say he told
them he had taken poison. Mrs.
Geodecker says she and her husband
had slight quarrel at noon. An in
vestigation is being made.
Green Bay.-Believing in coopera-
ton, farmers of Brown county will
meet the end of this week for the pur-
pose of organizing a stock company
to purchase the business and plants Of
three creameries in this city. Stock
will be sold in ratio to the amount of
milk delivered.
Appleton his mother
into the yard when she went to hang
out the family washing, Norman, the
little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Krause, fell into an open cistern while
trying to catch a pet kitten, and was
drowned.
Green Bay-As the result of an ele-
vator dropping from the third floor
of the Sheridan building, Lydia
Gauerke, chief operator of the Fox
River Valley Telephone company, and
Elevator Boy Wouters are believed to
be fatally hurt.
Green Bay.-While at work on.
wrecking train which was called
to Gillett to put two box cars on the
track, James Mcnamara of this city,
fireman on the Northwestern road, was
scalded to death when the engine
tipped over Engineer Ingalls, of the
wrecking engine is said to have been
also badly hurt and a brakeman slight
ly. Local railroad officials have been
unable as yet to get full particulars
of the accident.
La Crosse.-The button cutters
strike, which has tied up the pearl
button industry down the river,
spread to La Crosse, when 70 cutters
in the employ of the Wisconsin Pearl
Button company struck against a new
wage scale which they claimed meant
a reduction of wages, but which the
company claimed meant no reduction.
Other departments of the big plant
are not yet affected.
Milwaukee.-Miss her three
year-old son Arthur, Mrs. Sophie
Binger, 955 Holton street, went to look
for the boy and, after a half hours
search, found the body floating in a
cistern in the rear of the house. The
mother last saw the boy go out
through the rear door with sprinkling
can. The boy said he was going to
play in the yard and it is believed
that he fell in while trying to fill the
can with water.
Observation-Disclosures Mallow, for
mer convict, a resident Of Me-
nominee, Mich, broke away from Sher-
if A. E. Schwittay on the Marinette
side of the Menominee river, while be-
ing taken from court to the county
Jail. The sheriff and undersheriff
fired several shots, but Mallow got
safely across the river and Is now at
large in Menominee.
Marinette-The efforts to tighten
the schooner Ottawa and get her
off the rocks at Clay Banks have
failed. The deck load was removed
and the steamer dynamited in order
to save the lumber, which was in
sured for $4,000.
Kenosha.-Civil war broke out
between two bands of gypsies in
camp west of Kenosha, and after
battle lasting all night, two wounded
men were brought to Kenosha. One
of them, George Corking, had frac-
tured skull and half dozen scalp
wounds, while Frank Brown was ter
ribly cut about the face and head. Fiji
teen tents made up the gypsy village.
In the camps were over 100 people, in