River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-07
WISCONSIN
B X EVITIES

tendants they had at their marriage 25
yearg ago, Mr.. and Mrs. M. ]. Kraus
took their wedding VOWS at st. Mary's
church for the second time.
Racine.-James Vakos, proprietor of
a shoe shining stand, was fned $50 for
keeping gambling house, and two Of
! his patrons were let off with five dol
lars. The arrest was made on COM
plant of the street car company,
which claimed conductors and motor
men were shaking dice at ST flop"
La Crosse.-Twenty members of the
Young Women's Christian association,
in camp along the river north of here,
protested against their matron's order
that they don skirts, and announced
that they would continue to explore
the woods clad in boomers
Merrillan.-Alice Williams eight
years old, was drowned in one of the
lagoons in the STANCE public park.
She, with two boys and their parents,
were enjoying an afternoon at the
park when the two boys, being close
to the water, slipped and fell in. The
girl In trying to rescue her playmates
was pulled in over her depth. The two
boys, Arthur Krom and Thomas David
son, were revived, but the girl was
dead when rescued
Green Bay.-Mrs. John Deuster, wild
ow, thirty years old, and her sister,
Rose Wellems, ten years old, both of
Green Bay, were drowned in Fox river,
near Wrightstown. Both are daugh-
tiers of Joseph Wellems, broom man
ufacturer. A report which reached
this city Is to the effect that they were
thrown into the water off the yacht
Empress, when the boat struck a rock
Efforts to rescue them were made by
men in the party aboard the boat, but
without success. The boat carried
party of 80 from this city. The young
people had been on pleasure trip and
the double drowning occurred when
they were returning home. The bodies
of both victims were later recovered
from the river.
| Racine. A. B. Welty, head OF
the Racine industrial school, has re.
signed. He goes with the Case Thresh.
| ing Machine company.
Superior.-Otto Hokkala, farmer
at Maple, was killed by team of
horses which became unruly.
Madson.-The state trial orchard
committee began an eight days tour
of inspection of Wisconsin orchards.
The members are: N. A. Rasmussen,
Oshkosh; A. w. Lawrence, Sturgeon
Bay; Frederick Cranefield, Madison,
and J. Hayes, Gale The committee
will visit the following places: Madi-
son, Lake Geneva, Milwaukee, ManitO-
voc, Fausau, Medford, Marshfield,
| Ashland, Poplar, Maple, Sparta, White
hall and Winona, MINI. From each of
| these places they will ride out to sur
ROB nding counties, inspecting apple,
plur, and cherry orchards and grape
I vineyards.
| Oconomowoc.-Chri Ray, a
farmer of Toland, aged seventy, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself 1t
Is thought he was temporarily insane.
Marinette.-While walking through
a cemetery, Charles Webster aged f1f-
| ty-six, placed a stick of dynamite in
his mouth and blew his body to atoms.
Manitowoc.-Because she was not
! provided for in the will of her employ.
er as promised, she alleges, Miss En-.
ma Weinert has filed a claim of $500
against the estate of the late Mrs. So
bel for overtime worked in the store
owned by the deceased
| La Crosse-Harry Fischer of st
Paul, Mimi, changed his clothes three
times in three hours in an attempt to
elude the police, but he was arrested
in his last change of costume as he
was attempting to board train.
Fischer is charged with taking a roll
of bills from an aged man in hotel
| mere
acknowledgements McGovern has
signed the departmental bill carrying
appropriations of over $5,000,000 for
the biennial period
Racine-The First Methodist church
has entered protest with the board of
review because church property is al.
legged to be too heavily assessed.
Superior-After divers had worked
for a day without success, the
body of Alice Scheidecker, who disap
| peaied while canoeing on White Bear
lake, was found by bathers near where
the canoe was picked up.
Superior.-Otto Hokkala, a farm
er, st Maple, was killed after be-
ing dragged for rs yards over broken
ground by a team of horses which be-
came unruly when he attempted to
harness them to wagon.
Misunderstanding her death would
occur in a short time, Mrs. Sophia
Kasica, fifty-six years old. urged her
Son, Adam, the last of three sons un-