River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-06-06
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Fond du Rehabilitation exer-
cises, marking an innovation in
the memorial customs of the state
were held by the Fond du Lac school
children. when ten oak trees were
planted in honor of Fond du Lac vet
Grams. The dedication exercises were
| attended by the G.. A. r. and w. K. 9.
and the trees were planted on the
! grounds of the ten city school build.
/ ings Lieut. Col ]. A. Watrous, Mil
waukee, was the principal speaker.
/ Madison-The proposed new con.
stitution of the Wisconsin union.
submitted to the student body
for ratification through a referendum
vote, was turned down, 655 to 450,
The feature, which is said to have de
feated the proposition, is the system
of self perpetuating nominations
two men to be nominated for each va.
cancy each year by the board and to
be voted on by the students
La Crosse.-Wasting fifteen years
keeping company" with George
Bauer was worth just $1,000 In cold
cash to Miss Anna Smolek, according
to verdict rendered in circuit court
here. Miss Smolek's testimony was
to the effect that Bauer courted her
for a decade and half and then went
to Montana Shortly after she read OF
Bauer's marriage to another woman.
Madison. - Requests for nearly
1000 copies of the state indus
trial commissions first bulletin on
safety rules and devices have come
from manufacturers.
Neenah.-A plea for the par
don of John Matthews of this city
will be presented to Governor Nc
Govern on June IT, In 1910 Matthews
pleaded guilty to charge of murder
in the second degree.
Fond du Lac-At a meeting 1t
was stated by suffragette that 1t
would probably be necessary to "elect
a mere man president of the local
branch, as none of the suffragettes are
willing to serve.
Rhinelander-The infant daughter
Of Mrs. George Ramsey, Cavour,
died after drinking a small guam
tity of carbolic acid. The poison had
been used by sister in dressing an
injured hand.
Madison.-A meeting of the state
highway commission was held at
the capitol, at which arguments
were heard in contests arising under
the highway improvement plan in
Dane county and other counties of the
central part of the state.
Marinette. - During the electrical
storm Mrs Harry Dwyer of Pesh-
tigo Harbor was struck by light
ming while driving home from this
city. She was found unconscious and
died short time afterward. The
barns of David Cloutier, farmer in
Porterfeld, and Robert Hurd, in Gro
and farm machinery, entailing loss
of about $4,000
Green Bay-W. L. Kellogg, cashier
of the Kellogg National bank, one
of the Oldest financial institutions
in the state, died suddenly at his
home of apoplexy. He had returned
from Madison, where his son and
daughter attended the university. Kel-
logg had been engaged in the banking
business since boyhood and was cash
Ter of the Kellogg bank nearly twenty
years. He was sixty years old.
Milwaukee.-The Wisconsin board
of medical examiners conducted its
censes to practice medicine in Eng
lish, despite the protest of the Ger
man-American alliance that Germans
were being Disseminated against by
the board not allowing examinations
in German. Fifty-seven are taking the
examination, which will last three
days.
Madison.-It may be years be-
fore the dome which adorned the
old state capitol will surmount the
main hall of the University of Wis
consin. Architect Peabody said that
the legislature made an appropriation
only for taking the dome down and
removing it to the grounds adjacent
to the main building. No appropria-
ton was made for placing it in posi-
ton.
Fort Atkinson.-Frank Dietz. while
riding a motorcycle, attempted to
pass closely a horse hitched to
a buggy. The horse reared and
coming down crushed both the
rider and motorcycle under his feet.
The young man sustained several in
ternal injuries.
Beaver Dam. - Leo Kowalick
drowned in Beaver Dam lake. He
was in a small canoe fishing and the
occupants of a boat that passed him
say that Kowalick was asleep.
misunderstanding of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin let the con-