River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-07-24

DelaVan.-Mr. ana MIS-. Il. .. wilson
of this city have celebrated the fiftieth
anniversary of their wedding.
Madison-The industrial commits
sion ordered the Watertown Gas
and Electric company to pay EN-
ma Tesch, widow of Henry Tesch, cleo
trocuted on June 80, 1913, the sum of
$4,000, and the Montreal Mining COM
pany of Hurley to pay Tofola Barto-
siewicz, widow of Stanley Bartosie-
wicz, killed on June Is, 1913, the sum
of $4,000. The payments are to be
made in monthly installments Of
s62.5O.
Jefferson.-More than $4,000 wall
eyed pike and black bass fry have been
planted in Rock river during the last
80 days.
Madison.-In falling from tree he
had been pruning, Charles Warren
struck his head On the sidewalk. He
was taken to the hospital where he
died.
Glenwood City-The West Wis
consin Ben Franklin club, COM
posed of the employing printers and
publishers of the Tenth congressional
district, held it's regular quarterly
meeting at Chippewa Falls. Hudson
was decided upon as the next place Of
meeting in October.
Racine.-John O'Laughlin, fifty
seven years old, father of the
lime and crushed stone industry in
Racine, Waukesha and Waterloo, Wis.
| died of complication of diseases. He
was president of O'Laughlin Crushed
Stone company, Racine; the Wauke-
sha Crushed Stone and Lime company
and owner of extensive quarries at
Waterloo. A wife and eight children
survive.
Beloit-H L. Phillips, Beloit's
Oldest vetrean Of the Civil war,
celebrated the ninety-frst anniversary
of his birth by giving reception to
Grand Army comrades and members
of the Women's Relief corps
Notwithstanding congestion on
Main street, near the Hotel Waukesha,
an automobile driven by William Muir
doch of West Allis crashed into dou-
ble-seated rig driven by Mrs. Mary
Galemgeski of the town of Pewaukee,
throwing her to the ground with con-
Ct Il cnd
about the arms and body, DR.. w. T.
Murphy stated that she was not seri-
ously injured. The accident happened
when two automobiles and two rigs
met
La Crosse.-Michael Fox was slug
ged by two unknown men, robbed of
$23 and thrown into the river He was
rescued by two railroad switchmen.
La Crosse.-Mrs. Joseph Spear and
children, picnicking near where Myrtle
Ellers and two companions were
drowned July 4, saw a girls arm in the
waves when passing steamer
churned the waters of the vicinity. The
body it is believed, is caught in the
brush of the wing dam and search was
resumed.
Eau Claire.-Michael Galanopeelas,
who stole an automobile at Chippewa
Falls, and while joy riding smashed it
to kindling by humping into street
car, was arrested here while trying to
escape with $105 he took from his
uncle, proprietor of the Arcadia Candy
company of Chippewa Falls. The uncle
had handed him the money to put in
! the bank.
Baraboo.-Mrs. Oscar Janke, seven
ty-one years old, noticed two large
rattlesnakes among her daughters
chickens and killed them with a
Ratchet One had eleven rattles and
the other eight. Another of the rep
tiles having fourteen rattles was killed
by Martin Hoover.
Oshkosh.-Louis J. Monahan is at
work on a formula which he expects
will promote the manufacture of an
emulsion equivalent to cows milk.
Marinette-As a result of a gunshot
in his right hand John Burns, Home.
stead. is dying at a local hospital
Blood poisoning set in while the wound
was being treated
Kenosha.-Samuel Clement, aged
fifty, wealthy Italian baker, was
called from his house by two men, and
as he walked out on the street was
shot down Clement was seriously
wounded At the hospital he declared
he had been threatened with extermi
nation Of his entire family if he soughs
to betray the men who shot him.
Racine.-Word has come from
Greece that Nick Cabs and An
ton Toni, two Racine Greeks, have
been killed in the war with Bulgaria.
The men left their families here a
year ago to fight in the Turko-Balkan
war.
Madison.-Carroll G. Pearse, super
intedent of Milwaukee's public
schools, was unanimously elected pres.