River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-10-16
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lected $40 in bounties.
Beloit.-Lloyd Mathews, aged seven.
teen, was killed by an interurban car
while driving across the track.
Sheboygan.-The new German Re-
formed church at Plymouth. Rev. F.
w. Beisser, pastor. was dedicated.
Red Granite.-Albert l. Paeth fell
into stone crusher at the Red Gran
lite stone quarry. He was crushed to
death.
Alma.-Mr and Mrs. Ferdinand
ted the fftieth anniversary of their
wedding.
Grand Rapids.-While at play, Glen
Doughty accidentally shot his younger
sister, Elna, In the eye with an arrow
from a bow.
Racine.-The executive committee
awarded the 1914 state convention OF
the Young Mems Christian association
to Racine in February.
Superior-When lightning struck
the isolation hospital barn it started
fire that burned the building and Gre
mated two of the horses.
Beloit.-A coroner's jury brought in
"a verdict holding Joseph Perruccio re-
lsponsible for the death of Andre
'Palauzach, whom he shot.
Racine.-Fire, resulting from a de-
fective blast furnace, burned the roof
of the Harvey Spring company's plant.
The damage Is about $4,000.
Fond du Lac.-One hundred librari-
ans and library trustees are here at the
sixteenth annual convention of the Fox
River Valley Library association.
Madison.-Joseph Ryan, live stock
insurance solicitor, was sentenced to
Is months in the state prison at Wau-
pun for victimizing stallion owners
In Grant county.
nomy department. university, says that
1t will enter the competition at the In
ternational corn exposition at Dallas,
Tex, in February.
Merrill-Frank Tielz of the town
of Corning killed four bears in
one day and brought their scalps to
the county clerk, collecting $40 in
bounty.
Apupleton.-On the same day and
at the same hour that her parents
were married thirty years ago, Miss
Jeanette Halves of this city became
the bride of Carlton w. Smith of Osh-
kosh.
to be of Milwaukee, was killed
when he entered the room of
Miss Milka Conkowitz at the home Of
Michael jamie With Mrs. jamie the
four engaged in fight with knives.
Neenah-Ellis Roblee, Winnecon-
ne, has obtained Judgment of So
900 on an original action for $4,000
damages for injuries received by be-
ing struck by 800" line train when
riding his motorcycle over one of the
companys crossings in this city.
Kenosha-A hundred members of
the Woman's Relief corps from
southern Wisconsin are here for the
annual district convention. Mrs. Ag-
mes Gordon Of Waupaca, department
president, presided. A movement is
planned to extend patriotic education
in the schools.
Observation-Disclosures McGovern
granted the petition Of the state
Of Pennsylvania for the extradi-
ton of Morris PerIstein of Milwaukee,
manager of a knitting works here.
Perlstein is charged with abandonment
by his wife in Philadelphia. When
Perlstein was arrested some time ago
the governor refused to sign extradi-
ton papers.
arinette.-Because 1t is embar-
RAISING for a male officer to
search the clothes OF women suspect
ed of shoplifting, Sheriff G. A. Budlong
has appointed Evelyn Broadwell, a
courthouse clerk, as deputy sheriff to
act In all shoplifting cases. The girl
officer will be equipped with regu-
lation sheriff's star as a badge of au-
thority.
CONFERENCE.-The annual tourna-
ment of the Wisconsin Ffremen's
association will he held in June,
1914, at Oconomowoc. The executive
committee Of the state association
met at Jefferson and decided upon the
matter A committee from Oconomo-
voc, Mayor Solveson, Gustav Meiss-
per, F. w. Moldenhauer, DR.. L. A.
Meyer and Judge A. G. Derse. met
with the committee to request them
to give the convention to Oconomo-
voc.
Kenosha.-Falling fgom beam
on a coal barge, John O'Donnel,
one of the most prominent and
wealthiest men of Kenosha, met death
here. He was working about the
barge which was unloading at tho
O'Donnell coal docks and is supposed
to have been attacked with vertigo.
He fell Is feet to the hold OF the boat
and was pick up unconscious. At the
hospital where he lived an hour after
the accident 1t was found that the
skull had been fractured. MI. O'Don-
nell was seventy-six years OF age, and
he had been prominently identified
with the business interests of South
ern Wisconsin for nearly forty years.
Manifestation Danielson, mo-
torman on the traction line, be-
tween Electric park and Arcadian,
Mich, was held up by a big black
bear. The animal reared up on It's
launches and showed fight, and not
wishing to take chance on derailing
his car, the motorman stopped 1t.
When the passengers crowded into
the vestibule to see the bear it disap-
peared In the woods.