River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-12-04
BADGER
NEWS BREVITIES

Mondovi.-Fire starting in the en-
CINE room of the Farmers Co
operative creamery damaged the build
Ing to the extent of $4,000.
Wausau-William Schmidt. TWEEN
ty-five years old, shot himself
through the heart with a shotgun. He
leaves wife and several children.
Hurley-Mrs. Pauline Loysen of
Merrill has organized a local col
ony of the Beavers Reserve Fund
fraternity, with a charter membership
of "a.
Green Bay.-Members Of the state
board of control have arrived to
make an investigation into charges
of brutality at the Wisconsin state re-
formatory.
Wausau.-William Schmidt, TWEEN
ty-five years old, of Edgar, shot
himself through the heart with a shot
gun. Domestic trouble is said to have
been the cause.
Beloit.-Frances Demora, a young
Italian girl, was attacked by an
unidentified man and her face
slashed with a razor. She will be
marked for life.
Viroqua. - Edward Peterson, a
blacksmith, who was kicked in the
knee by a horse, has had his leg ampu-
tated because blood poison set in. It
is feared that the poison will spread
Manitowoc.-Pulled under NOV
n OH xryhn GsI,
which he was carrying became en-
tangled, John Robbeck had one foot
cut off and the other badly crushed.
His advanced age, seventy-fve, may
handicap his recovery.
Janesville.-Under the direction of
Prof. John Arbuthno of the high
school faculty, students are in
stalling a wireless receiving station
over which they will receive the Beloit
college time reports about three
o'clock each afternoon. The work will
be done entirely by high school boys.
Marinette.-Jennie Johnson, nine
teen years old, and decidedly pref
ty, for whom Madison authorities have
been searching for six months, was ar
rested here. Her parents live on
farm near here. To officers who made
the arrest the girl professed innocence
of the forgery charged in the warrant.
Oconomowoc. The Waukesha
County Rural Mail Carriers asso-
citation has been reorganized. N. c.
Potter, A. A. Billings, W. e. Griffith,
S. S. Billings and Robert Billings form
the original society. The admission
of 19 new members made a reorgani-
zatiOn necessary.
Janesville.-Drs. M. A. Cunningham
and r. W. Edden of this city
have been appointed by the war de-
partment as United States pension ex-
aminers for this city, succeeding DR..
S. B. Buckmaster, veteran of the
Civil war, and DR.. James Mills.
Waukesha.-Rev Frederick D. But
Ter, for the last six years rector
Of st. Matthias Episcopal church, has
been elected to he rectorship of st.
Mary's church at Braddock, Pa. AL
though Rev Mr.. Butler has not accept
ed the call he has taken the matter
under consideration and will announce
his decisions later.
La Crosse Lothardt Engaas,
twenty years old, was shot and
instantly killed while hunting with his
brother August near Holmes. August
had chased a rabbit into brush heap
and, with his gun under his arm,
hurled a stick into the heap to scare
out the animal. The weapon was dis
charged and the shot struck his broth
err standing 20 feet away, full in the
chest.
Racine. Unconscious from the
smoke that filled his room, Mat
thew Christianson, a sailor, forty-five
years old, was slowly burning to death
while firemen were trying to eXtin-
guish the blaze from the outside. The
flames, which had started in his room,
spread to the other parts of the house
and the firemen were called. While
they fought the fire, not knowing he
was within, Christianson lay on his
bed. Soon his head and the upper
parts of his body were charred beyond
recognition. When the blaze had been
put out the firemen found the partly
cremated body. Christensen died
while on the way to the hospital.
Milwaukee, No-seat-no-fare advo-
Gates obtained an order from the
state railroad commission which prob
ably will serve as a model for street
railway regulation all over thek coun-
try. The commission issued an order
to the Milwaukee Trolley corporation,
a subsidiary Of the North American
which controls street car
lines in ST. Louis, Detroit and several
cities. The standard OF |
service is established at 67 seats for
each 100 passengers during the rush |
hours and 1873 seats for each 100 pas |
sengers at other times. Traffic police |
men shall be stationed at important |
transfer points to limit the loads on /
cars to the maximum comfortable car
rying capacity.
anesville.-Contendin that the |
present location of the deten-
ton hospital or pesthouse is a menace |
to the health and a damage to the /
property of Shickly populated district
Of the city, so property owners have
filed a petition with the city council
asking that it be removed to a more
isolated site.
Green Bay.-Aocording to a mes
sage received from the Lake Car
riers' association, Max Asmussen of
this city was killed in the storm which
swept the great lakes. AS