River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-07-25
BADGER NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

Kenosha-De that judges
| in Milwaukee had no idea of TO
nance and that they had declined
to issue a permit for an immediate
| marriage after the issuance of IL
1 cense, Miss Nellie Maude Yost,
bookkeeper, nineteen years old, and
! Lee II. Warner. salesman for the
Peck Furniture company. both OF
Chicago, were forced to elope twice.
! They eloped to Milwaukee and Sc
cured a license, but could not have
/ the ceremony performed. They again
| slipped away from their friends and
came to Kenosha, where the cere
nony was performed by Judge G. E.
| Randall.
Grand Rapids.-Five Wood coun
/ ty men, Louis Bohman, Fred
Krall. Louis Bender, Martin Briten
and WenZel Bender, were arrested
for illegal fishing with nets in the
Yellow river. Each was found guilty
and paid fines aggregating $50. The
arrests were made by Deputy State
Game Warden John w. Foster OF
| Wausau.
Waukesha- Following a raid OF
resort at New Butler, Wauke-
sha county, five colored girls were
arraigned here and fined Annie Oar
den, the proprietress, was fined $25
and costs, while the others were fined
$40. All claim to BIZ aesidents of
Milwaukee. Two men paid fines of
SO for being frequenters of the
house.
Waupun.-The first escape Of a
prisoner from the penitentiary in
more than a year occurred while
board of control were in session IN
side the prison. The escape took
place from quarry, a mile and
half from the prison.
Madison.-George Waddington, Oar
lington, an employee on the capitol, fell
II feet from the scaffolding inside the
new dome and broke his legs near the
hips.
Ashland.-Jacob Johnson, mer-
chant, was found lying on log on Che
quamegon bay almost exhausted. He
attempted suicide, but was rescued by
friends.
! Ashland.-Charles Knutson OF Ash
land hanged himself in a pig pen at
| Hedman's farm, near here, because of
continued illness.
Neenah-A $500" line work engine
and several loaded dirt cars turned
turtle when temporary track on
film gave way.
Juda.-Rev. and Mrs. Conrad Lair
celebrated their golden wedding an
niversary at their home here Spe-
cial services were held in the
Zion Evangelical church by Rev.
and Mrs. Carl Schneider of Ap-
pleton and Rev. G. F. Kiekhoefer,
presiding elder Of the Madison
district. The Rev and Mrs. Lair were
married at Racine, Wis, on July II,
1862. The Rev. Mr. Lair served the
following charges during his active
connection with the Evangelical
church: Lansing, Iowa; Greenfield,
near Milwaukee, Sharon, Beloit, Me-
nomonee Falls, Hartford, Appleton,
Black Wolf, Green Lake, Monroe and
Juda. He was missionary in Min
nesota and Iowa in the SOS, when the
fYsA1 fO1. 4,,G-
He was an elder in the Evangelical
church for eighteen years, retiring
from the ministry seven years ago.
Observation-Disclosures Attorney Sam
uel j. Williams of Sawyer coun-
ty has received summons asking
pardon for John F. Dietz, now con-
fined in the state penitentiary at
Waupun. The move is brought about
by Mrs. John F. Dietz through her
attorneys, Naber of Mayville, Malone
of Beaver Dam and McKenna of Fond
du Lac. The hearing will be brought
up before Governor McGovern on
August Is.
chippewa Il alIS.-f1To IN the ciOtn-
Ing store of st. Clair Kubat &
Co. damaged the stock $4,000,
partly covered by insurance The
cause of the fire was crossed electric
light wires. The grain elevator and
warehouse at Cadott burned this
morning, causing a loss of $4,000,
partly insured.
Washburn, July 18.-The big box
and Grating factory of the Kenfield
Lamoreaux company had close call
from being destroyed by fire when
one of its dry kiln plants caught fire.
The company operates two dry kilns
in connection and the older one was
destroyed
MadisOn.-State Treasurer Dahl is
at his home in Westby. From
there he will make tour of the Sew
enth congressional district in the in
terest of his candidacy for the Re
publican nomination for congress.
Fort Atkinson.-Mrs. Fred Hau.
sen, who has been blind for eight
years, in the absence of the maid, was
trying to get dinner, when her clothes
took fire from the kitchen stove and