River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-05-08
BADGER NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

lected by the federal government as
the location for an experimental sta
ton for the study of the diseases and
cultivation of the ginseng plant. Prof.
Bradt of Washington will take charge
of the station. There are more than
fifty acres of cultivated ginseng within
three miles of the city and there are
more than twice that many acres in
Langlade county, making this the cen
ter of ginseng culture in the United
States.
Madison.-Louis P. Lochner, Sec
rotary of the University Alumni as
ISOLATION, is working on a plan to
start an employment bureau for uni
versity graduates next year.
Madison.-President Paul Reinsch
and Secretary of the Alumni
L. P. Lochner will be the Wisconsin
delegates to the peace congress at st.
Louis.
Marinette.-The body of an uni
Identified man was found in the
woods near this city. The cause of
death has not been learned
Ladysmith. = Peter Fluri, a we'll
TODD farmer, in a fit of despond-
ency committed suicide by holding a
lighted stick of dynamite against his
body.
La Crosse-Believing that it was
impossible for Charles Boucher of
this city to have committed suicide
while in box car with a large sum of
money the Minneapolis police have
been asked to investigate the death.
Grantsburg.-A searching four
days for a pair of valuable bird
dogs. Dr. ]. E. .Burgan found them
caught in wolf trap three miles from
his home.
Marshfield.-Alma Mas, twenty,
two, killed herself by drinking car
bolic acid. Her fiance, living in Sc
attic, Wash, had married another girl
Neenah.-Miss Freda Kline, nurse
at the Clark hospital, saved Harvey
Casperson, aged six, when she plunged
into the river and pulled him out.
| Oconomowoc John Williams,
| farmer of the town of Delafield, diet
as the result of burns received while
putting out a fire in the straw in his
wagon box.
Madison.-At the annual session Of
the grand council of the Royal Area
mum here the following officers we're
elected: Representative to the supreme
council at Quebec on May 81, III. w
Johnson, Monroe, Sol Eckstein, Mil
waukee; alternates, Judge Paul T
Krez, Sheboygan, and DR.. o. w. Carl
son. Milwaukee; grand regent, A E
Braun, Milwaukee; grand vice-regent
Robert Dow, Plymouth; grand orator
H. A. Ransom, Green Bay; grand sec
rotary, C. d. Simon, Milwaukee; grand
treasurer, D. e. Cameron, Milwaukee;
grand guide, c. A. Gillo, Milwaukee;
grand chaplain, J. A. Eager, Racine;
grand warden, F. M Krehl, Milwan.
kee; grand sentry, Frank Yockey.
Fond du Lac; grand trustees, w. D
Coffeen, Green Bay; w. G. Glover.
Oconto, and Joseph Shafer, Milwaukee
The next session of the grand council
will be held in Green Bay.
IN ToI1.
who was being held for an examina.
ton for insanity, was transferred from
the county jail to a local hospital, he
insisted on kissing each of the Is in,
mates before he would leave. AS the
prisoners include two not unattractive
girls the authorities think Blovotsky
is not as insane as other acts indicate.
Madison. S. Stein was sentenced
to one weeks suspension from the Uni.
versity of Wisconsin after being con.
victed of introducing dances of an in.
decent character into university af.
fair by the student court. Stein and
Frank Bellows were accused by the
prosecuting attorney of the court OF
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able character at mixer given by
the freshmen class about month ago
The case against Bellows was dropped
some time ago on account of lack OF
evidence.
Ripon.-In the first of series OF
triangular debates between Ripon
Carleton and Dakota Wesleyan col
leges, Ripon won the negative unani
mously, while they lost the affirma-
tive. Carleton is at the head of the
triangular. The question was, RE
solved, that all corporations engaged
in interstate commerce should be re-
quired to take out a federal charter on
such terms as congress may by law
prescribe, constitutionally granted"
Sheboygan.-The Northwestern Rail
way company settled for the death OF
twenty-year-old Irwin ZschetZsche
who was killed on a crossing here, for
$1,000 cash.
Ripon.-The Ripon College Glee
club elected the following officers
President, Carl Cragoe, Oakfeld;
president, Bernard Thompson
Kilbourn; secretary and treasurer