River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-24
WISCONSIN NEWS
TERSELY TOLD

Appletoa.-Calvin Dreyer, fourteen
years old, and Harley Hunting
ton, twelve years old, known as
the boy bandits of Shawano county,
were arraigned before Judge Good
land and sentenced to the state in
dustrial school for boys at Waukesha.
They pleaded guilty to charge OF
shooting at Sheriff Anderson and rob-
bling the Upham hardware store at
Shawano. and to later barricading
themselves in deserted building
and, with rifles, defying the officers
to arrest them. Dreyer told the court
he did not intend shooting Anderson,
but was game" having agreed with
his little pal not to be taken by the
authorities without giving them
fight.
Racine.-It is believed that an
attempt was made to wreck the
north-bound passenger train on the
Northwestern road by the placing of
a heavy oak tie on the track just
south Of the high railroad bridge. The
tie was picked up by the locomotive,
and was caught in front of the for
ward trucks. Railroad officials say it
is remarkable that the tie did not
strike the front wheels and send the
train down a 100-foot embankment.
Merrill.-Just as Ambrose Gaz-
decke of Milwaukee and Miss Julia
Gorski of Lincoln county arrived
at the church at Merrill, in COM
pany Of friends and relatives, the
sheriff of Lincoln county, upon adj
vices received from officials at Mil
waukee, arrested the prospective
groom. Gazdecke protests that the
charges against him are false and Sc
cured a special dispensation. The
couple were married later by Judge
Helms of the municipal court. The
wedding festivities were held at the
home of the bride here, her parents
being well-to-do farmers of Lincoln
county.
Kenosha-John Schlax, a black
smith of Wilmot, his wife and
two children, had a narrow escape
from death when the automobile in
which they were riding turned turtle
and plunged over an embankment in
to Fox river, near Bullen's bridge.
Mrs. Schlax and two children were in
the rear seat of the car and they
Ieaped out just as the car turned over.
Pinned in by the steering wheel.
Schlax was unable to release himself
and he went into the river with the
car. He managed to release himself
and swan the river to safety. His in
juries were of a minor nature.
New Richmond.-Henry and AL
bert Wrinkle, aged thirteen and
eleven respectively, together with
Mrs. Elizabeth Shoop, aged eighty
years, all met death when the resi-
dence of Louis Wrinkle, a prosperous
farmer eight miles west of this city,
and one mile south of Somerset, was
completely destroyed by fire. 1t is
not known how the fire started. All
other members of the family were
saved
Grand Rapids.-Norman Wood, a
resident of the town of Saratoga,
was stabbed in fight which
took place in Gashs saloon at Nee
koosa. 1t is alleged that the insti-
gators of the quarrel were Norman
Wood and Emery Lee, who soon be-
gan to fight. Others attempted to
separate them, with the result that
several received knife wounds.
Madison.-For the purpose of
organizing the Wisconsin Peace So
ciety as a branch of the American
Peace society, meeting will be held
ON October 25, at which an address
will be given by Baroness Won SUIT
ner of Vienna, Austria, noted wri-
ter on the subject of peace. Chief
Justice John b. Winslow Of the SUI
preme court will preside.
Ashland-Fred Bosley, paint
er, was instantly killed when a
ladder on which he was working top
pied and he fell 20 feet to the ground.
Several ribs were broken and one of
them pierced his heart. He was I'M
married and is survived by a mother
and sister
La Crosse.-G. H. Hayek and
Emil Graslire were painfully burned
while at work in candy fac
tory in this city when a kettle of
boiling candy was spilled upon them.
The men were carrying the kettle of
hot candy when one Of them slipped
to the floor Both will recover.
Antigo-In a fire which destroy
ed the Athin hall, south of this
city, the proprietor's family was ava
kened in time to escape by the heavy
smoke that filled the building. The
loss to the building and contents is
about $4,000.
Oshkosh.-Trafic on the 500 road
here was blocked for three and one
half hours by a freight wreck, caused
by head-on collision between a
switch engine and a freight train
Chippewa Falls. - Thomas, the
four-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Scheppe, was terribly burned
about the face and neck and died in
great agony. He found a box of
matches and while playing with them