River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-02-01
BADGER NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

Racine - Traffic on the entire
division of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & ST. Paul railway between Mil
waukee and Chicago was tied up for
several hours on account Of freight
wreck near Franksville. Ten cars
loaded with merchandise and miscel-
laneous freight were piled up in
heap and the right of way torn up for
several hundred feet. All passenger
trains passed through here on the Chi
cago & Northwestern until the wreck
was cleared away. A broken brake
beam is supposed to have caused the
wreck The damage is estimated at
$4,000.
Madison-Miss Jane Adams OF
Chicago appeared here in the in
terest of woman suffrage and
spoke to a great crowd in the state
capitol building She accounted for
much of the new demand for political
acknowledgements to a desire to reform
social conditions and said the statutes
are defined in law and that women
should have some voice in the con-
struction of these laws.
Cumberland-Th farmhouse OF
Oscar A Morton, in Washburn
county, northwest of here, burned
to the ground with all contents, and
Mr.. Morton's year-old baby and two
year-old boy. The house, which was
log structure lined with felt paper,
caught fire from the stove while the
family was asleep. Mr.. and Mrs. Nor
ton escaped with two Of the children.
The baby and the little boy were
placed in the kitchen. They then
went back to get some clothing, but
the fire cut off their escape through
the kitchen and they had to break
through window BY the time they
reached the kitchen that part of the
house was ablaze
Madison.-Unless the officers of
some of the Wisconsin county
fair organizations, and those of the
state fair board, file their statement
of premiums within few days they
will lose all rights to the state aid or
80 per cent. OF the amount of the pre-
MUM. The law provides that these
statements must be filed by February
/. At present there are about thirty
out of the seventy-six associations in
the state which have not filed state
ments, including the state board of
agriculture The limit on the state
fair aid was increased by the last
legislature from $4,000 to $4,000.
Madison-Dr Charles Mccarthy,
director of the Wisconsin legisla-
tive reference bureau, has COM
piled a book on new Wisconsin legis-
lation, which is now in press of the
Mcmillan company and will be issued
soon. The book deals with the reform
movement In Wisconsin and with the
so-called reform laws passed by the
last legislature. The introduction is
written by Theodore Roosevelt
Madison - The Wisconsin Agri
cultural Experiment association elect
Norwood, Madison; v1ce-president,
William r. Leonard, Fort Atkinson;
secretary, r. A. Moore, Madison;
treasurer, H. N. Longley, Dousman.
An exhibit of pedigreed seeds will be
shown In connection with the meeting
and $1,000 in prizes is offered in the
competition.
Beloit = Twenty minutes before
the hearse started with the body
of Anton Sukowske, wife murderer
and suicide, his aged mother and two
sisters. who had refused to believe the
dead man was their relative, arrived
from Eagle to view the remains.
They were heartbroken when they
looked on the face and recognized it.
Neenah. = Rev. w. L. Clapp, Nee
nah, head of the men and religion
forward movement in Wisconsin, has
announced a state meeting at Milwau-
kee on February 25 to %. At that
time reports will be made and an idea
gained of the work that has been &C
COmpl1SneQ Since Lu0 luCSpIlOH a ySoA
ago.
Marinette.-James Lewis, who
pleaded guilty to assaulting his
employer at Niagara with a canthook,
was sentenced to two years at the
Green Bay reformatory. Ray Knapp
was given similar sentence for rob
bling the general store at Goodman.
Marinette.-Forced to fee for
her life in her night clothes from
her burning home, Jennie Culey was
badly frozen and was taken to the Me-
nominee River hospital in a serious
condition.
Madison.-The Wisconsin highway
commission issued a statement to
the effect that 80 of the "
counties of the state had adopted the
cash system of payment of highway
taxes. The highway commission be-
Iieves that more counties will soon
adopt the system.
Waukesha.-After being married
less than a year, Louis F. Grobe,
whose legs are severed at the
knees, filed complaint in county
court asking for divorce from his
wife, Nellie Grobe, to whom he was
married on May 26 last at Milwaukee.
Tho document alleges that the defend