River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-04-11

is $l2,615.27. Under the savings sys-
tenn stamps are purchased by the pu-
pills from their teachers, and when SO
are secured deposit is made in the La
Crosse banks at three per cent. inter
est.
Fond du Lac.-Announcement was
made that the Sisters of st.
Agnes have completed plans for an adj
dition to the hospital, which will cost
100000. Work will be commenced
IN May. The capacity of the present
hospitals patients-has long been
overtaxed, and the new building will
be one of the best in the middle west.
The sisters last year completed
100000 addition to their convent
been voted for the erection of an ad-
ditional building at Luther college.
Milwaukee Having discovered, IL
years after her marriage, that
her actor husband had another
wife living, Pearl M. Morrow was vic
torious in the action brought before
Judge Lawrence w. Halsey to annul
the marriage and secure the custody
of her ten-year-old daughter Ruth.
James Marrow, it is alleged, married
the PLAINTIFF in Eureka Springs, Ark,
August 29, 1895 Mrs. Morrow now is
living in Saginaw, Mich, under some
name not known here.
New Richmond.-Mons Christopher
son, a farmer residing near Clear
Lake, committed suicide. Christie
pherson stood before a mirror and
shot his brains out with a revolver. A
large family survives.
Fond du Lac.-Brothertown, vii
lage located on the east shore Of
Lake Winnebago, has mad dog
scare. Ten dogs have been slaugh-
tered. Miss Sadie Whitby is in the
Pasteur institute at Madison receiv-
ing treatment for bites inflicted by
pet dog suffering from rabies. A hog
went mad after ten shots had been
poured into the animal without killing
it. Residents of the village, go about
armed with revolvers.
Footville for nearly
five months beneath the ruins of
a barn destroyed by the windstorm
of last November, a lone chicken,
e,fo cd TO clxo Eorrf 7ic-
takably alive, was discovered by w.
o. Douglas. It was while clearing the
ruins of the demolished structure,
preparatory to building new barn,
that the chicken was rescued from her
enforced Information. The fowl was
carefully fed and will undoubtedly
live, none the worse for her long i'm
priSOnment.
Lone Rock.-Mr and Mrs. A. S.
Lee celebrated their sixty-fffth we'd
ding anniversary at their home re-
Gently They were married at Cats
kill, N. Y, in 1847, and resided there
several years. In 1855 they came to
Richland county and took up their
home near Sextonville, where they re-
sided until 1870, when they moved to
Lone Rock, where they have since
made their home. Mr.. Lee is eighty
six years of age and his wife is eighty
four.
Sturgeon Bay.-The state fish hatch
cry commission, including former
Gov. j. o. Davidson. Superintend
ent James Nevins, r. Scheibel
and Leo Claude of Madison, are in
vestigating Sturgeon Bay and She
boygan locations, where new hatch
cries will be established. Plans and
specifications will be selected on the
present tour of the commission.
Sheboygan.-T Milwaukee Asso-
citation of Baptist churches, com
posed of churches in Sheboygan,
Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Mantle
voc and Waukesha will meet this year
in Sheboygan Falls on May Z.
La Crosse.-The body of an old man
was found near Brownsville, ten miles
below here, frozen in floating ice.
Madison-Group No. 2 of the Wis
consin Bankers association will meet
in Madison april IS for the discussion
of banking problems.
Cameron-Emil Rude, youth
of nineteen, was instantly killed
here. He attempted to board a
swiftly moving freight train at a cross
ing and was plunged under the wheels
of the cars. Life was extinguished at
once. and the body horribly mangled.
The boy comes of one of the better
known of the villages families, and
was in high school. He was on his
way down town and at crossing saw
the train approach. In an effort to
save time he swung for the iron steps
of the car and missed. Few people
witnessed the tragedy.
Madison.-Kim Tong Ho, Chinese
student of the University of Wis
consin, was refused the right to
vote when he attempted to register,
claiming to be voter because he YVES