River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-09-21
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NEWS BREVITIES


conference of the M. E. church
formally opened its annual meeting
in this city, with Bishop Hamilton or
Boston presiding.
Preliminary to the opening of the
meeting a class of fifty young men
were examined at the Congregational
church preliminary to determining
upon their application for admission
to the ministry About 400 guests are
in the city and it is stated that the
conference will be the most largely at
tended ever held in this district. The
Epworth league held large anniver-
sary meeting at the M. e. church, be-
ing addressed by some of the famous
churchmen in attendance at the con-
ference.
Fond du Lac.-Delos H. Smalley,
fifty-nine years old, for % years
general agent for CHM & Co.,
school book publishers, and one OF the
best known school book men in the
state, was found dead at his home on
the lake shore road east of this city.
When Smalley retised from the book
business two years ago he set about
establishing model stock and dairy
farm. On one of his last trips through
the west he had an interview with
Joaquin Miller, the famous poet OF the
Sierras, and brought home a photo
graph bearing the authors autograph.
Racine-Ernest frankie, aged nine
teen, awaiting trial on charge
of burglary, broke jail. He eff
fected his escape by breaking off a
piece of an iron radiator with which
he tore a hole through the ceiling of
his cell, gained access to the attic and
from there lowered himself to the
ground by means Of rope made from
his bed blanket.
La Crosse.-Peter Bolavois, rail-
road laborer, sacrificed his life
unavailingly for the sake of a
friend in the yards of the Milwaukee
road at Sparta. Riding home from
work on the engine of a train, Gus
Larengaon fell under the wheels.
Leaping quickly to drag him out, Bola-
vols failed to get to him in time, and
both were killed.
Plainfield.-J. w. Bovee, notary
public, established a record when
he issued a hunting license to
Edward Smith, aged eleven. Edward,
who will hunt deer with his father,
weighs 81 pounds and is four feet six
inches tall. He is good shot and ex-
poets to attach his coupon to a deer
before the season ends.
Racine-Capt. James Easson, one
of the oldest mariners of the
great lakes, celebrated the seventy
ninth anniversary Of his birth. For
many years Capt. Easson was in COM
mand of the fastest and largest sail
ing vessels on the great lakes and re-
tired when steamboats, replaced the
sailing vessels.
La Crosse-It is estimated here
that the loss in the city of La
Crosse by the hail storm was $4,000
or more. Every greenhouse in town
was riddled and windows were
smashed. Official records were taken
of hail more than three inches in d1-
ameter.
Fond du Lac.-Delia Soellner.
seventeen years, daughter of
Jefferson family, is being sought by
the authorities here. The girl left
Wild Rose, after attending the we'd
ding of a brother Her failure to come
home alarmed her family. No trace of
the young woman has been found.
Oshkosh.-Joseph Hobbins, aged
twenty-seven years, a lineman in
the employ Of the Wisconsin Tele-
phone company, was fatally shocked
by a live wire while at work here. A
wire he was repairing for residence
came in contact with a gas company
light wire.
Kenosha-The government having
taken cognizance of the Wiscon-
sin state fair by formal order of
the postoffice department, all the let
ter carriers of the Kenosha postoffice
went to Milwaukee on Tuesday for the
big show.
Sheboygan. - The controller of
the currency has received applica-
tons of the following persons to or
ganize the National City bank of She
boygan, capital 100000: C. R. Cronk,
R. Rein, C. J. Mehning, w. Kaufman
and A. Hahn.
Sheboygan.-Carl Harms of Cleve-
land, O., and Walter Philer, New
Glarus, students at the Mission
House at Franklin, were struck by
lightning and instantly killed A storm
broke suddenly and they took shelter
beneath a tree.
Kenosha.-The will of the late
B. F. Windsor, formerly president
of the Windsor Spring company, was
fled for probate in the county court.
Appleton.-An unusual accident
was witnessed by Fred v. Helm
emann, George Fannon, Arnold Knup-
pei of Appleton and William Woll-
mer of Milwaukee, while cruising In
the Heinemann launch near the New
London cutoff on the Wolf river One
of party of five girls occupying an
other launch accidentally fell over
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