River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-13

OF the East Wisconsin FOultry and Pet
Stock Fanciers' association the follow
ing officers were elected: President,
M. J. Wirth, New Holstein; vice-presi-
dent, H. w. Eldredge, Plymouth; re-
cording secretary, Fl. H. Greve. New
Holstein, and fair secretary, F. w.
Matthaeus, New Holstein.
Eau Claire.-As test of the state
law with reference to safeguarding
machinery, James Lystrom, Meriden.
has started suit against Ivar E. Brack
for $4,000 damages for alleged in
juries received in corn shredder.
Portage.-Ernest Lohry, a farmer
near this city, narrowly escaped
drowning when team which he was
driving across a small lake broke
through the ice.
Sheboygan.-Louis Rohrbacker
telephone lineman, fell 30 feet from a
telephone pole and did not sustain a
scratch A tree into which he fell
broke the force of his fall.
Shawano Failing under a heavily
loaded sleigh and having his body
cut in two at the waist was the
fate of Otto Fisher, ten years old. The
boy was riding on a siX-ton water tank
used to sprinkle the iced runways at
the logging camp of the NJ J. Wal
brich Land company. He died in
stantly.
Menasha.-Benjamin Meyer. four
teen years old, son of Charles
Meyer, farmer residing near here,
was probably fatally burned by the en-
plosion of a gas engine. The sight OF
both eyes was destroyed by the force
Of the explosion and he was terribly
burned about the face and body.
Tomah.-W. A. Krause, no claims
Cleveland, O., as his home, has been
sentenced to five years in prison for
burglary.
Wausau. The city authorities
have decided to vaccinate all
tramps brought to the city Jail. This
action has been decided upon because
of the great number of cases of small
nox throughout the state.
Sheboygan A serious accident
was narrowly averted at She
boygan Falls crossing when a car hap
pened to stop instead of running by
''clear block" automatic signal 1t was
found that some one had stuck Iath
into the signal, preventing its work
ing.
Madison. motor boats
agricultural machinery and farm en-
gines are to be among The exhibits to
be shown at the first exposition of in.
ternal combustion engines and their
application, to be held under the aus
piCes of the college of engineering and
the department of agricultural en-
gineering of the University of Wis
consin, February &c, 27 and %, in the
new live stock pavilion.
Madison.-That hemp can be sue
cessfully grown in Wisconsin, not
| only to eradicate weeds, but to yield
on the fiber at least Sis an acre, is
shown in the report of Prof. G. P. Nor
CORD Of the agronomy department of
the college of agriculture During the
past two years 200 acres Of hemp have
been grown by farmers around Wau-
pun and Fox lake, largely on land in
tested by thistles and quack grass.
The 1911 crop yielded from 500 to l.
200 pounds of fiber per acre.
Kenosha.-One of the strangest adj
ventures that ever befell woman in
Kenosha was made public when it be-
came known that the police were
searching for two unknown men who
bound and gagged Mrs. Harvey May
| in the rear Of her home, and left her
semi-conscious. The case is without
precedent in Kenosha, as Mrs. May,
the victim. is unable to furnish the
police with either clue or motive for
the mysterious assault. All Mrs. May
Is able to tell is that two masked men
attacked her. Her husband, Harvey
May, says he knows no motive for the
strange attack.
Aleoma.--G. A. Umberhan, keeper
OF the government light of this port,
was drowned midway between Ke-
waunee and Algoma. He fell over
board from the Algoma fishing launch
and although the crew responded to
his cries for help, they were unable to
find him and it is supposed he got I'M
| der the ice.
BLACK River Fa1Is.-The Farmers
Creamery association has reelected
the following officers: President, Fred
Drecktrah: secretary, A. E. Roberts.
and treasurer, J. E. Dimmiciz.
| Snsrta.-Arrested on suspicion OF
being implicated in the murder of Mr..
and Mrs. August Harmon. who lived
an o farm six miles from this city.
Avoid Rentz. a young man, living on
an adjoining farm, was arrested and is
| now lodged in the Sparta jail.
| To crosse-A ton Of cheese, 700
mounds Of butter and 500 pounds of
| bonov were melted, and 10000 eggs
cooked in a fire which broke out in the
building of the Hawley Commission
company. doing damage to the extent