River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-10-23
WISCONSIN
B X EVITIES

gainesville - GAINESVILLE merchants
nre planning booster automobile trip
through this county.
Monroe.-Rev. Earl NJ. Todd, pas
tor Of the Union church, has accepted
call to a church at Canton. Mo.
Fond du Lac-Fred Meyer, an engi-
neer on the 500 line, fell from the
cab of his engine and broke leg
Burlington-Sixty-f persons at
tended the annual reunion of the No
BILE family at the residence of Albert
Noble.
Madison-The Oldest hunter to be
given hunters license in this coun-
ty is B. F. Williams, seventy-nine
years old.
Oshkosh.-It is believed that Jo-
seph Hardt of Menasha, who es-
capped from the county Jail, has COM
mitted suicide.
Oconto-Miss Anna Stromberg and
Charles F. Jensen came to this city
to see the Oconto fair. They met and
are now married.
Chippewa Falls.-Hunters have
been given permission to shoot
five foxes which escaped from the
deer enclosure at Irving park.
RACINE. G. Barr, the now famous
captain of the Carmania, who rescued
passengers from the burning Volturno,
has son, Harry Barr in Racine.
Racine.--The Racine County Wom-
an Suffrage association held it's annual
convention at Union Grove. Rev.
Olympia Brown Willis is president
Racine.-The Racine County Wom-
ans Suffrage association held it's
annual convention at Union Grove.
Rev. Olympia Brown Willis is presi.
dent.
Ladysmith-Th city has let a con
tract for the erection of tanks and
waterworks system to the Des Moines
Bridge and Iron works of Des Moines.
Ia. for $5,902.
Jefferson.-Ernest Goetsch, a farm
er, lost II COWS during an cleo
trical storm. A bolt of electricity trav.
cling along a wire fence did the dam
age. The loss amounts to $1,000.
Appleton-Assistant Postmaster w.
Fl. Zuehlke dropped a $3.50 boat lamp
In the Fox river. He bent to pick 1t
out of the water and his watch fell in.
He did not find the $35 timepiece.
Cumberland-Mrs Johanna Zim,
norman, fifty-seven years old,
mother of E. M. Zimmerman, a promi
nent jeweler here, committed suicide
by jumping in Beaver Dam lake. Her
body was found by her son.
Eau Claire.-Mrs. William Bis
hop, fifty-five years old, was fatally
burned when she dropped a kerosene
lamp which she was carrying. The
house caught fire and her husband was
saved after being seriously burned
Green Bay.-William Burke, Mil
Waukee sailor on the steamer
Sailor Boy, attempted to take his life
on board the boat by cutting his
throat with razor. He was rushed to
Sturgeon Bay for treatment, but it is
expected he will die.
Madison.-Governo McGovern has
has been sent notice from the
treasury department at Washington
that $3.50 is due the state of Wiscon
sin from the United States, being five
per cent. of the net proceeds Of sales
Of public lands in Wisconsin during
the fiscal year ending June 30 last, and
that warrant will be forwarded for
the same within a few days.
Racine.-Fifty delegates from Wis.
consin, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa,
Missouri, Ohio, Washington, Massa-
chusetts and Pennsylvania were
present at the opening of the eigh.
teenth annual convention of the
ladies' auxiliary of the Royal Area
mum. A revision Of the bylaws and
the election Of officers will be the
most important business taken up by
the delegates.
Waupaca-Frank Cunningham of
Green Bay was burned to death
in a fire which destroyed the Green
Bay house at Waupaca. One other
man, whose name is not known, lost
his life. Fire broke out and burned
the structure to the ground, causing
loss of $1,000 The guests in the no
tel escaped in their night garments.
Mrs. McKlange, a former Green Bay
woman, owned the place.
Observation-Disclosures V. Tutas,
blacksmith of Pound this coun.
ty, believes he has discovered the
long lost art of tempering copper
That tempering copper was known by
some tribe Of American Indians has
been proved by occasional finds of In
dian implements which have been
tempered Tutas has tempered a piece
of copper so hard that file makes nc
impression on it. He is having the
process patented.
Eau Claire.-"God help my little
ones, and may they never know
the sorrow their mother has had"
were the last words of Mrs. William
Crowley, aged thirty, as she lapsed
into Inconsistencies after taking a
fatal dose of strychnine at hotel.
She died while being taken to the hos
pital. She took the poison while seat
ed with her husband at table eating
dinner. Before dying she told those
standing near that she wanted to die
because of trouble with her husband.
Fond du Lac.-The Fond du Lac
police station was placed under
quarantine as the result of a case Of
diphtheria and police headquarters
have been transferred to the county
jail until the patient can be removed
to a nlapue hOSnita1 and the station