River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-10-09
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

Waukesha--TheW aukesha County
Veterans association will hold its
twenty-second annual reunion here
Thursday, October 8.
Shawano.-Hubert Murphy Of Ores
ham was fatally shot when a revolver
In the hands OF an older brother was
accidentally discharged.
Appleton.-During the year ending
October 1, 35 divorces were granted in
Outagamie county, 80 to women and
five to men. Cruel treatment was the
cause in most cases.
Madison.-Capt T. H. Wild Of Mil
waukee has resigned as chief clerk in
the banking department, owing to Ill
health. He was APPOINTED by A. e.
Kuolt in January. 1912.
Madison. - Governor McGovern
granted a conditional pardon to
Morris Gullikson, Stevens Point, from
an industrial school for boys at Wau-
kesha, in order that he may return to
high school.
Sturgeon Bay.-More than eighteen
miles of crushed stone road have
been completed this year by Highway
Commissioner H. A. Wagner, besides
repairing 80 miles of roads built in
previous years.
notwithstanding guilty to a
charge preferred by Leo Carlson
in behalf of his baby daughter, Eleck
Johnson was sentenced to a three.
year term in the state prison at Wau'
pun by Judge Maxfield.
Racine.-Seeing his playmates try.
ing to steal rides on freight
trains in the Northwestern yards,
George Nelson, five years old, attempt.
ed to board a moving car and fell un'
Dire the wheels. His legs were crushed
and he cannot live.
Beloit.-Harry Chapman, the Ca
madam who has been held by the
sheriff on a charge OF kidnapping his
stepchild, has been released, the au.
thorities at Washington having taken
no action against him. He is in Be
lott with the little girl.
Racine.-An autopsy has been
ordered on the body of John w.
Rogers, wealthy resident oil Evanston
and former owner of gas plants in Ra'
cine and La Crosse, who was asphyxi.
ated in his home two weeks ago. Mr.,
Rogers carried much life insurance,
and one company refused to pay pol
Icy of $4,000, claiming Rogers com
mitted suicide,
Madison.-Dane county veterans
held their reunion and elected
these officers: A. l.. Lund, Cambridge,
president; G. w. Netherwood, Ore
gon, secretary; l.. Post, Madison,
treasurer. In body &ey marched to
the home Of DR.. Jane Wilson, aged
ninety-two, who during the war minis
tered to the sick and needy at the
home where she received them.
Green Bay. NJ Clifford, Escan-
aba, Mich, was appointed super
intendent of the Superior division of
the Milwaukee road, to succeed e. \,
Hastings, resigned. Mr.. Clifford an
nounces the appointment of e. e. Pc,
tiers, Milwaukee, chief train dispatch7
er at Green Bay, to succeed o. A,
Keyes, and M. M. Harrington, Green
Bay, as chief train dispatcher at
Charming, Mich, to succeed w. G.
Zimmerman.
Prairie du Chien-Sheriff Harris
and Marshal Marvin arrested 10
Italian laborers for burglary, charged
with entering a sealed car in the
Burlington railway yards and help
ing themselves to 1900 pounds of
flour, quantity Of tea, soap, potatoes,
canned corn and other provisions. The
foreigners occupied bunk cars near
the scene of the robbery, and when
the officers swooped down on them
some Of them fed to the hills. The
Italian consul at Washington has
been notified and the men will be held
for trial.
New Richmond.-The mystery sur
rounding the finding of the dead
body of a laboring man in a
strawstack on the farm Of John Hnw-
kins, near Hammond, has been cleaTed
and the theory that the man Met
death through injuries received in a
fight in a Hammond saloon effectualfy
disposed of. 1t develops that the body
is that of transient known only as
Shorty, employed with threshing
crew. The district attorney and cor
oner decided that the man died Of al
coho1ic poisoning rather than from in1
juries received in the fight.
Notwithstanding storm light
ming struck corn shock under
which Henry Neidhardt, Jr., fourteen
years old, had crept to seek protec'
ton from the rain. His father was con-
cealed in a shock a few feet away and
saw his son drop. He carried him to
the house, but the boy had died In
stantly following the fash, according
to Doctor Nixon. Coroner John
Schaeffle will hold no inquest. Light
ming struck the boy in the back of the
head and followed the spine to the
right leg, where it was grounded, the
mark being visible from the outside.
Besides his parents, the boy leaves
two brothers and three sisters.
Lake Mills.-Herman Berlin, a
baker, aged forty-five years, who re-
sides in Milwaukee, drowned here
just as he was starting on a fishing
Trip. w ncA dUOuL CWChbJ ASND AAS
shore he was seen to arise in the boat,
which tipped. The lake was dragged
for long time, but the search had to
be abandoned until daylight.
Misunderstanding that man
had been asphyxiated at Mime
apolis, Mrs. Axel Johnson Of Marinette
learned the man was her husband.
The hodv had been given to the Min