River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-09-11
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

500 line ditched five cars. No one was
injured.
Tomahawk. - According to the
school census there are 420 boys
and the same number of girls in this
city, total decrease of 80 over last
year.
Fond du Lac.-Peter Buell., seventy.
Eve years old, who fell from the roof
OF his home. died OF his injuries. He
had purchased a cemetery lot a weeR
before.
Eau Claire.-While digging on his
farm in the town of Brunswick,
Forest Pierce found an Indian Ratchet
five feet under ground. The implement
is made of pure copper and weighs IL
ounces.
Bayfield.-At a get together meet
ing of we'll known business men
of Bayfield, and Washburn it was de-
cided to forget the past. bury the
Ratchet and pull together for the good
of both towns.
Superior.-Rev. E. H. Gelvin, pas
tor of the First Presbyterian
church at Warrensburg. Mo-, has been
rendered call by the members of the
church Of this city.
Mason.-William A. Neddy of
Duluth, a travelling salesman, was
arrested here on the charge of secur,
ing money under false pretenses. He
represented himself as the solicitor
for the Curtis Publishing company
Racine.-Louis Silverman, president
Of the Sons of Juda society,
caused the arrest of Rev. M. Aronius
and three other members on the
charge of alleged assault when he op
posed the practice, he told the court,
of bringing liquor into the synagogue.
Neenah.-The fresh air camp es-
tablished early this summer by
the city in conjunction with Mrs.
Florence Lee, school nurse, has been
closed for the season. An average of
ten children under the age of thirteen
years was kept there during the sum-
mer
Menomonie.-Prof Kary G. Davis,
first director of the Dunn coun-
ty agricultural school, has been
chosen head of the Seman A. Knapp
school of country life, in connection
with the Peabody institute, at Nash
vile, Tenn, which will also be the
first school of it's kind in this country.
Sheboygan.-At the annual meeting
of the Sheboygan County Rural
CARRIERS association the follow
ing officers were elected: President,
w. A. Bradley, Cascade; vice-presi-
dent, M E. Schwalbach, Random
Lake; secretary, Fred Gilman, Glen
bulah, and treasurer, Frank Merling,
Greenbush
Menomonie-Joseph Steimitz,
farmer residing near Colfax, this
county, was fatally injured when his
team ran away. Steimitz was stacking
grain when the team became fright
ened at some cattle in an adjoining
field and, whirling around, threw him
from the load, breaking his shoulder
and injuring him internally He died
in IL hours.
Hillsboro.-A band of yeggs blew
the post Office safe here and es-
capped on a handcar with a small
number Of stamps. About a mile from
Union Center their handcar was over
taken by northbound Northwestern
train and hurled from the track. 1t is
believed one or two of them were in
jured, but authorities have been able
to find any trace of the yeggs.
Oshkosh.-Eighty veterans of the
Twenty-first Wisconsin regiment at
tended the annual reunion here,
and the following officers were
elected: President, A. w. Ballard,
Omro; vice-president, Murray Mccall
len, Neenah, and e. A. Eldridge, Me-
nasha; secretary-treasurer James No
BILE, Milwaukee, and chaplain, Rev. w.
R. Brown, Wisconsin Veterans home,
Waupaca.
Madison. McGovern par
doned William G. Kessner of Mil
waukee, who vas convicted some
time ago of demanding usury and
fined $50 and sentenced to 80 days in
the house of correction. Kessner paid
his fine and served eight days of his
prison sentence and was released
pending an appeal to the supreme
court. He spent over $1,000 in fight
ing his case. His family has moved to
California and he desires to go there.
Madison.-G Governor McGovern has
increased the salaries Of his staff,
that of Thomas J. Mahon, fed
eral claim agent, recently appointed,
to $4,000 a year and So day for ex-
penses while in Madison; also actual
railroad fare travelling tc and from
Washington. The salary of his prede-
cessor was $4,000 per year and 81 a
day for expenses. Under the same
law which permits the governor to in
crease the salary of the federal claim |
agent, the salary of 1arry G. WILDER,
clerk in the executive office, has been
increased from $1,000 to $4,000. The
salary of Col Duncan McGregor, pri-
vate secretary, remains at $4,000 a +
year. Miss Sims salary as stenog-
rapher has been increased from $1,000
to 81 800 per year.
Racine.-Louis Manson, mail car
rier. is exhibiting a tomato that
weighs Is ounces and measures 1914
inches in circumference.
Sparta. - Rev. A. e. Fredericks,
from Kendall this
county, known as the fighting
parson." and Miss Nina V. Hubbell, for
til