River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-12-07
WISCONSIN NEWS
.TERSELY TOLD

Ashland.-Clara, the nine-year-old
daughter of Al Dillon of Glidden,
was run over by a switch train
and killed. The child was playing
near the track and when the train
backed suddenly she was caught be-
heath the wheels. Her death followed
two hours later. Mr. Dillon is an ems
ploye Of the Miller Lumber company,
MadisOn.-Thomas Jones, eighty
five years old, who on Septem-
Der %, 1884, was sentenced from
Barron to life Imprisonment on his
plea of guilty to murder In the first
degree, filed in the office of the COVER
nor petition for pardon. He killed
man during fight over money which
belonged to Jones and which the VIC
tim grabbed from a card table. Jones
pleaded guilty through fear of being
lynched. He says in his petition that
the crime could not be greater than
manslaughter and that he has now
served q years, or two years more
than the maximum penalty for the
highest degree of manslaughter.
MtlwEukee.-E. L. Phillips, who
will direct the Taft campaign in
Wisconsin, will call a meeting OF Taft
regulars to be held after the progress
sive conference December 5. The cam
paign will be managed by congress
s1onal districts, some one being select
ed in each district to do the organic
ing. These district leaders likely will
be chosen at the Milwaukee meeting.
Activity of the La Toilette forces in
Ohio has something to do with the re-
vival of preparations for a campaign
in this state.
Madison.-State Treasurer A. H.
10 from the citizens of Superior to
be applied to the relief fund for the
sufferers Of Black River Falls. Mr..
Dahl suggests that the 100000 school
children in the state send from two to
ten cents each for this fund The
children of many cities In the state
have done this and several other
cities have held tag days for the
fund.
Tomah.-Dr. j. A Murphy, head
of the physical department of the
United States Indian bureau, and
an eminent authority on tuberculosis,
is making an examination or condi-
tions among Wisconsin Indians in re.
gard to tuberculosis. That disease has
destroyed more of the Wisconsin
tribes than any other factor and the
bureau is seeking ways of combating
1t.
Green Bay-Rt Rev. r. H. Wei
Ter, d. D., bishop coadjutor OF the
Episcopal church for the Fond du Lac
diocese, will dedicate the new $1,000
chapel and parsonage of Christ church
in this city on January z. He will
also administer the sacrament of con-
firmation upon class of children on
that date. The chapel is a gift OF
Bishop Grafton.
La Crosse.-By a decision hand
ed down by Judge Higbee in cir
cult court here, Cora Haas, an office
girl, loses her right to twenty shares
of Missouri Pacific stock. The stock
is awarded to the estate of DR.. II. j.
Mcdonald, her employer, in whose
name 1t was purchased. Miss Haas
asserts the stock was bought from her
savings.
La Crosse.-Amand Olson, Glen
wood, school teacher who disap.
peared between school and home, was
located in Chicago. Friends believe
1t was a case of temporary loss OF
identity due to overwork.
Neenah. Two horses and four
COWS owned by Adam Meister, a
farmer, were killed when a straw
stack which they sought for shelter
fell over and buried them. The ami
mails died of suffocation.
Hayward.-The case of the wife
and children of John Dietz, who
now is serving life term in the peni-
tertiary for the murder of Deputy Os-
car Harp, has been set for trial on De-
cember 4.
Oconto.-With the flames shoot
ing sky high so that the country
for fifteen miles was bright as day the
Cook Land, Construction and Produce
ing company's plant, together with a
half dozen other buildings, burned to
the ground. The loss Is $4,000 Start
ing in the Producing company's plant,
the flames ragged unchecked, as the
buildings are outside of the city limits
and could not be reached by the Ocon-
to fire department.
Ashland.-Three Washburn boys,
Frank Legacy, Carl Taberman and
Carl Behrem, were brought here
and charged before federal
court commissioner with breaking in.
to the postoffice. The boys confessed
to committing a number of small
burglaries and were bound over for
trial.
Oconomowoc.-The body OF Her
man Bartelle, aged twenty-five, was
found heside the tracks of the
Milwaukee road. He had evidently
been struck by train and killed. He
was an unmarried laborer and had
go Io1,, eoov, alive ~, fhic 1ify ~ v,nid