River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-04-20
BADGER NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD


all shops to the effect that unless
the employees joined the National
Society of Stone Cutters, they would
lose their jobs in favor of members
OF that society. The members of the
Journeymen Association of Stone Cut
ters of North America refused and
left their work. II is said by mem
bers of the union that the master
stone cutters have imported stone
cutters from other cities who are
members Of the society.
Milwaukee.-A campaign to make
Wisconsin the next state to adopt
woman suffrage begun at huge
mass meeting in the Pabst theater,
is being pushed here. Women from
all parts of the state gathered to
listen to the suffragist arguments.
Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout of Chicago,
president of the Illinois Political
Equality league, was among the speak
ers. Others were leading Wisconsin
club women, a minister and a mem
Der of the state legislature. Daffodils
We're distributed to all the men in at
tendance
Neenah.-Tramps will not bother
Mrs. James O'Brien again in a hur-
ry. Two tried to force open the door
of her kitchen. She dragged them
into the house and beat them with a
horsewhip until their cries could be
heard half mile. Then she marched
them out into the yard and forced
them to saw lot of wood while she
stood over them with a whip. Mrs.
OBrien weighs nearly 800 pounds
and has muscles to match her weight
Hudson.-County Clerk II. S. Offer
dahl issued a marriage license to
Louis B. Littlefield of Sacramento,
Cal, and Eva S. Childs of st. Paul,
who married each other forty years
ago. Later they secured a divorce
and each married again. Mr.. Little
fields wife died and Mrs. Childs re-
Gently got a divorce. Chance threw
them together and love returned and
now they are going to try it again.
Racine.-Members of the state
board of control visited Franksville.
this county, to look over the site of
883 acres offered for the new home
for the feeble-minded which the state
is to build. Shortly after their ar
rival William II. Graebner of Milwau-
kee, president of the board, was
taken i'll and returned to Milwaukee,
The members who inspected the tract
seemed favorably impressed.
Madison.-Norman p. Curtis, in
structor in railroad engineering at the
the university grounds, near Lake
Mendoza, with a bullet hole in his
head and a revolver clutched In his
hand. Mr.. Curtis graduated from the
college of engineering in 1904. He
spent some time as a civil engineer
in Biloxi, Miss, where he was vice
president of the Philbrick-C Courtney
Curtis company, a contracting firm of
civil engineers. He was nephew of
George Curtis, Jr., member of the
state tax commission, and brother of
Arthur H. Curtis, prominent former
Wisconsin student. Other brothers
are Alfred, residing in Merrill, and Ma
than, in Carrolton, Ala
Racine.-Attorney for Thomas J.
Burns, constable of the village of Cor
liss, who was found guilty of the
charge of larceny az bailee and sen
fenced to serve one year in Waupun,
appealed to Circuit Judge e. B. Belden
to parole their client. The court took
the matter under advisement The at
torneys filed petitions signed by al
most every resident of COrliss, many
county officials and nine of the twelve
jurors who found Burns guilty.
Superior-Eight sticks of dynamite
were found in an empty box car on
Northwestern coal dock No. here.
1t is not known IL dynamite had been
placed there for the purpose Of blow
ing up the dock.
Kenosha.-Max Hottelet of Milwau-
kee, president, and Gustav Guenther
of Chiffon, secretary of the German
Veterans association Of Wisconsin,
were in Kenosha completing arrange
ments for the twelfth annual meeting
of the organization, which Is to be
held in Kenosha on June II to 10.
welcome to the soldiers who took part
in the wars of the fatherland, and
Kenosha will be in festal attire for
the three days.
Rosendale.-W. J. Gillett, nationally
known as breeder Of Holsteins,
showed the courage of his convictions
in speech following demonstration
of the tuberculin test here, when he
warmly advocated the test despite the
fact that 1t recently cost him $4,955.
Milwaukee.-WhiIe driving team
at st. Paul avenue and Twenty-slxth
street Albert KRISTEN, thirty-one
years old, 696 Orchard street, threw
up his hands with a cry and toppled
from the seat to the ground. He died
on the way to Emergency hospital
The horses were prevented from run
ming away by a companion, who
climbed out on the wagon tongue and
brought the animals to a STOP
New London.-John Ludwig and Ar
thur Kruger were drowned here. The
bovs. including H. Ludwig and John
Knoak, were in boat which ran into
a snag and was capsized. Knoak
SWAN TO shore and H. Ludwig hung
to the boat and drifted to shore. The
other two boys sank. Their bodies
were recovered.
Green Bay.-Pat Nolan, who claims
TO have served eight years in the
navy, was sentenced to two years in
state prison by Judge Monohan, after