River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-04-04

Eau Claire.-Benjamin l.. Runkle,
former undersheriff of Washburn
county, was arrested here charged |
by Christian T. Wiehe, secre-
tary of the Edward Hines Lumber
company, with criminal libel and at
tempted blackmail. 1t is alleged that
Runkle tried to get money from Hines
on the charge that his company set
fire to their own plant at Washburn
in 1906.
Ashland.-AndreW Engstrom, the
Ashland man arrested for the
shooting of George Wright, who
accidentally touched one of the wolf
traps alleged to have been set out
among the Apostle islands by Eng
strom, was bound over to the circuit
court for trial, after examination IN
the municipal court. Engstrom denied
that the particular trap which caused
Wright's injury belonged to him, but
admitted that he had a large number
of explosive traps set out among the
islands and along the shore of Lake
Superior for fifty miles. He declares
he has killed in this way about seven
ty-fve wolves during the last two
years
Waukesha.-That his son-in-laW
grasped him by the collar ana
forcibly elected him from his own
home when he ventured to suggest
that a settlement of a board bill or
several months standing would be &C
ceptable, is the complaint of Herman
H. Baker, who filed suit for divorce
from his wife, Marie. Batker, who IS
seventy years old, and a veteran OF
the Civil war, declared that MS Wlfe,.
who is forty and the mother OF nine
children by a former marriage, has
mistreated him since he consented to
transfer half of his property, consist
ing Of a house and six lots and bank
account of $500, to her name.
Madison.-A conference will be
held by the members of the
state industrial commission and repre-
sentatives of Wisconsin pea packers
to determine whether women may be
allowed to work more than ten hours
a day during the rush of the pea can
ming season. The provisions OF the
state law prohibit longer working
shift for women. The pea packers
will be represented by Attorney w. c.
Leitsch Of Columbus
Couderay.-The loggers through
this section are closing one OF
the most successful logging sea-
sons for many years. Conditions
were ideal most of the winter, and the
cut is far above the average. Camps
are closing up and every day outgoing
trains are filed full with homeward
bound happy lumberjacks. About 5000
men are employed in the woods IN
this section during the logging season.
Observation-Disclosures will meet soon
at Odanah to protest against
an order from Washington en-
forcing the old law requiring all
persons not full bloods who trade on
the Bad River reservation to give
bond of $4,000. It is said the law,
reservation were full bloods and its
enforcement now will put all Indians
out of business.
Madison. - Fred F. Wettengel
Of Appleton and Henry n. Cul-
bertson of Greenfield, candidate for
state senator in the Fourteenth dis
in
office of the secretary of state. The
nomination papers of w. t. Stevens
of Rhinelander, a candidate for state
senator from the Thirteenth district,
were completed.
Shawano.-Barred from their fran
tic mother by the leaping flames
which enveloped their farmhouse
home, the three little children of
Gustav Zeimer-Edward, aged four;
Alice, aged three, and baby girl,
Edna, aged five months-were burned
to death in the blaze which destroyed
the dwelling, eight miles from this
city. Mrs. Zeimer, who had just re-
turned from the village of Richmond.
a half mile away, with the mail, en-
tered barn to care for the cattle. AS
she left the building on her way to the
house, smoke and flames burst from
an upper window, and before she could
act the fire spread with astonishing
rapidity. Rushing frantically to the
front of the house, she entered in a
desperate attempt to save the young
est of the family, but was driven back,
painfully burned about the head and
shoulders.
Racine.-Two men were struck
and killed by a south-bound Chi
cago & Northwestern railway pas
senger train. One of the dead men,
just before he died, said his name
was Frank Farrell, thirty-eight years
old, his home Providence, r. l. The
other man, twenty-five years old, is
not known The men were walking on
the tracks, and stepped out of the way
of one train directly in front of the
other.
Acknowledgement McGovern par
doned Thomas Burns OF Racine,
convicted April "a, 1911, of lar
ceny as bailee and sentenced to one
year in prison. The parole results
merely in restoration of citizenship,
as Burns time would expire within a
few days.