River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-05-29
STATE
HAPPENINGS

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Marinette.-Arthur Gilmore and
John Johnson, serving 80 day sen
fences for misdemeanors, escaped
from the county jail. Gilmore has
been recaptured and officers are on the
trail Of Johnson.
Couderay.-Gustav anderson, 6
farmer of the town of Sand Lake, was
instantly killed when kicked in the
head by horse.
Oshkosh. - Gertrude Renwinkie
who was struck by street car, died
of her injuries.
Sheboygan.-W Walter jain, sixteen
years old, was given verdict of $3,
600 in circuit court against William
Weinmann, in whose meat market he
lost the fingers of his right hand in
sausage machine.
Marinette.-Mrs Joseph Skarda OF
BraZeau. Oconto county, bride of ten
days, drank carbolic acid in an at
tempt to kill herself. Physicians were
called and her life saved. 1t is BE-
lieved she is mentally deranged.
Madison.-The student court sus
pended three students for hazing
Those punished were Stanley ]. Kirk
X. Juve and Grover Kennedy.
Rubicon.-George F. Hill, deputy
game warden, arrested Richard Bollas
and Arnold Seegert The men were
fined $50 each on charges of dynamit
ing for fish.
Sheboygan. - Herman Schoneboom
of this city has received dispatch
from Texas stating that his son, John
II. Schoneboom, a soldier in Company
l., Seventh United States infantry, was
drowned in the Gulf of Mexico. He
was thirty-six years old.
New Richmond.-John Gustafson.
section boss on the 500 line, working
out of Osceola, committed suicide by
stabbing himself in the mouth with
pocket knife. He had been mentally
unbalanced and the Polk county sher-
if was on his way to take him into
custody when the tragedy took place.
notwithstanding which struck
the machinery shed on the farm
of James Murphy, eight miles
west of here, exploded the gasoline in
his automobile, setting fire to the
building and causing loss of $4,000.
Sheboygan.-The campaign of moth.
ers' clubs here resulted in an ordi-
nance providing that children under
sixteen shall not be on the streets un'
accompanied by an elder or on proper
errand after nine o'clock in winter
and $50 in summer.
Appleton.-The shores Of the lakes
of this vicinity are lined with the bod
les of turtles that have died of some
strange epidemic. The fish are not
dying.
Wausau-The body of Mary Strand
of Ashland, who disappeared from the
county hospital on April 8, has just
been taken from the river.
Madison.-The congregation OF
plymouth Congregational church
has decided to erAct a new churcE
which will cost $4,000.
Racine.-In a collision between two
touring cars in front of the Racine
Country club Mrs. Frank Mitchell wae
slightly injured.
Walter jain, aged
sixteen, has been given a verdict
for $4,000 in circuit court against Viii
liam Wiemann, meat dealer, lie
whose shop he lost the fingers of his
right hand in sausage machine.
La Crosse.-Two boys found the
body of Elmer Slater, a farmer TWEEN,
ty-six years old, hanging to tree, aftef
he had been missing from his home
for "a hours No cause is known fol
the act.
Madison.-A law now in effect
gives Wisconsin fishermen the
right to fish beginning May 80. The
old law fixed June / as the openinf
of the season for game fish,
Kenosha. - Katherine Gleason,
twelve years old, daughter of Will
liam B. Gleason, was killed at the
Gleason farm by the accidental dis
charge of an automatic rife.