River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-24
WISCONSIN
BREVITIES

central city conference of the
Young Women'S Christian association
was opened here and will continue
until August %. Over eight hundred
delegates are expected from nine
states Of the middle west, represent
ing every aspect of association work.
Mrs. Annie M. Reynolds, a member of
the national board, will preside over
the conference, and the executive
leadership is intrusted to DR.. Anna l..
Brown, city secretary for the national
board. assisted by Miss Emma F.
Byers, executive secretary for the
north central territorial committee.
Madison.-State Fire Marshal T.
M. Purtell was notified that VIII
liam Kloth, living near Water
town, has been bound over to the Oc-
tober term of the circuit court on
charge of arson. 1t is alleged that
Kloth on July 20 burned the barn of
William Pietz. The fire marshal has
caused the arrest of Mrs. M. E. Lutz
of Menomonie, who is alleged to have
burned barn belonging to Henry
Cranes on July 80.
Madison.-The estate Of the late
Halle Steepsland Of this city paid
an Inheritance tax Of $3.50 in
Dane county court The state re-
ceives 921a per cent, or $6,151, the
remaining 71a per cent. going to the
county. The Steensland estate is val
ued at $448,O84. This is the second
largest inheritance tax paid by Dane
county estates, the William F. Villas
estate paying $10,262.
Eau Claire.-District Attorney
Fred Arnold has filed papers in
an action in behalf of Eau Claire coun-
ty against Joseph w. Singleton to re-
cover certain fines alleged to have
been collected by the defendant dur
ing the time he was municipal Judge,
and which he had failed to turn over
to the county.
Appleton. - Ernest Ferg, aged
seventy-four, and Mrs. Frederick
kNOuhS1 dSGu SONSllIy -0SNSu, AOAO
the record for this county as appli
cants for a marriage license. They
were sweethearts in their youth, but
their paths diverged
Chetek-While ten-year-old Guy
Mogensen and Alta Friberg, aged
ten, were playing in the haymow
hoY nil
over the side and struck the plank
floor head first. The boy died.
uderay.-Blueberry pickers re-
port having discovered wild man
in a large BURBERRY marsh near
Chief lake in the Couderay Indian res
ervation He wears no clothes and
carries a small satchel.
Wausau.-John Schwister of this
city, on the first occasion the
atmospheric conditions are favorable,
will attempt a fight from his aviation
field to the county insane asylum,
across Lake Wausau, a distance of
three miles. The biplane will be
equipped with alright tanks to pre-
vent 1t from sinking in case of being
obliged to alight in midlake, and for
his own safety he will have boats and
men stationed on the lake along the
course of flight.
on.-Appointment Of dele
ro+oc fr0ro WiccOncin tn the AM
erican mining congress to be held in
Chicago on August 2629 were an
nounced at the governors office as
follows: J. W. Murphy, Platteville;
H. S. Timball, Platteville; Robert I.
Dugdale, Platteville; Sherman Harms,
Platteville; w. N. Smith, Platteville;
w. A. Jones, Mineral Point; William
Crawford, Hazel Green, and Henry F.
Cochems, Milwaukee.
Neenah.-The police in the en-
tire eastern part Of Wisconsin have
been ordered to search for Royal
Luebben, 6 years old, son OF Arthur
Luebben, who was kidnapped by
woman, it is said, who mat the boy in
a moving picture theater, bought him
candy and spirited him away in an
automobile. The father, who has been
separated from his wife, made
search in an auto, but was unable
to locate the child.
Appleton.-The Medina road in
the town of Grand Chute, run
ming west from the city limits of
Appleton for a distance of two miles,
will be the first in the state to secure
state aid under the new highway law.
In two days $500 in cash was raised
among the farmers and others 1ntes-
ested in the road.
Jefferson. William Sullivan,
charged with robbing a conductor
of the Milwaukee and Watertown in
terurban railroad of the sum of $18 in
cash and STA worth Of communication
tickets, pleaded guilty before County
Judge Charles B. Rogers and was SEN
fenced to one years imprisonment in
the state prison at Waupun.
Green Bay-Ducks are plentiful
on Green bay. Four deputy
game wasdens are protecting them.
Sportsmen anticipate great sport
when the season opens on September
[. Both shores are thick with teal,
mallard ard wood ducks, and there
- 1o,,oo couyhiIIc and vUidOn0n