River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-01-01
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NEWS BREVITIES

Schmidt is employed in Neenah.
Antigo.-Abraham Thompson of the
town of Neva was thrown from heav.
lily loaded wagon and the wheels
passed over his chest, killing him.
! Fort Atkinson.-Tke seventh annual
/ poultry show OF the Jefferson County
Poultry association will be held here
| December 80 to January f.
De rere.-The body of Louis Devroy,
the. thirteen-year-old son of John DeV,
roy, vino broke through the ice and
+! drowned, was recovered by fishermen.
! Sheboygan.--A passenger train on
| the Northwestern railway killed a gray
eagle south of Sheboygan. The bird
! measured three feet from tip to tip.
Green Bay-During 1913 Rt. Rev.
Joseph ]. Fox. Green Bay, admins.
tered confirmation to $3.50 persons,
blessed eight churches and parochiai
schools and ordained five priests.
Eau Clare-August Glynn, aged
ffry-two, living four miles south
OF Cornell. while working on his farm
stubbed his toe and fell, breaking his
| y.
q widow and three children.
Madison-The state insurance
! business is growing, and BY Jams
uary the commissionsaxpects to have
about 800 policies on its books. These
do not run over 81 900 each, and there
are few under that figure
Appleton Harry Trettin, aged
| fourteen, town of Ellington, killed
n lynx in the swamp near his home
and collected four dollars bounty, the
first money paid by the county for
| the killing OF an animal of that specie.
Rice Lake.-George Clark acct
| dentally shot himself in the leg in
a cabin near Tuscobia. Before help
could be summoned he had blad so
! prOfusely that he died shortly after
| reaching a hospital
| Eau Claire.-William Luebkeman,
forty-five years old, well known c2m-
mercial traveller died here ffom
blood poisoning, caused by Prick
ing blister with a needle He was
prominent in athletic circles and or
ganized the first bicycle club III his
city. He leaves a wife and two chill
dren.
Reedsburg -Judge Giles Stevens,
dean of the Sank county bar, died
at his home in Reedsburg. Judge
Stevens had been in practice in Reeds,
burg since the late SOS, had served as
county judge and was one OF the law
yers OF the old school, whose industry
| had done much to shape the cOu1 Sc Of
the law in the state. During the Civil
war lie served as captain OF Company
b of the Twelfth Wisconsin Volunteer
infantry, which he organized. He Was
prominent also in Masonic circles.
Milwaukee. - Herbert Schr elder.
twenty-five years old, we'll dressed
and dapper youth, said by the
police to be kingpin OF youthful
crooks, made a confession in munich
| pal court to entering two east side
residences at night and armed. he
was sentenced to ten years at hard la
Dor in the state penitentiary at Wau-
pun on a burglary charge. When given
chance to plead for himself Schuei-
der made a clean breast CT the rob
berries. Beginning with his imprison'
ment in the Mansfield (O.) reforEna-
tory for theft of $40 while a boy,
Schneider told a remarkable story OF
his career. He charged society and
the Chicago police as being RESPONSE
bic for his downfall
Madison.-That murder WAS not
proper charge to bring against
! John f. Dietz was the contention oil
his counsel in a plea before Governor
McGovern for pardon. Dietz is serv-
| ing life term for the murder of Dep
uty Sheriff Oscar Harp near the Cam
eron dam in October, 1870. 1t was
contended further that the crime
lacked the element of generalization
and that Dietz' general disposition
was such that it was clearly case
ri manslaughter if he killed Harp.
| Counsel also said that the fatal bullet
could not have come from Dietz' gun;
that DietZ had no ammunition OF the
kind that killed the officer and that
from his position he could not have
struck Harp. With hundreds Of vol
! leys fired it was not certain that Harp
was killed by Dfetz.
Waukesha.-M Ellen Sage, alias
Mrs. Ellen Rogers, was granted q
divorce from Alonzo Sage. 1t de-
vcloped III the examination in
county court that the plaintiff had
married while a first husband still
lived. but showed to the satisfaction
of Judge Agnew that she was unaware
| Of the circumstance. The plaintiff and
| defendant were married in 1882 in Hi
nois and the woman alleged that Mr..
Sage deserted her two years later and
| failed to contribute to her support. Be
! lieving that her husband was dead, she
testified, she married J. Rogers at On-
TO more than twenty years ago. Last
summer Mrs. Sage said that her first
husband. who had been living in Can
! ada, visited their daughter at Vernon.
where Mrs. Rogers and her second
husband also reside. Mr.. Sage allowed
| the divorce to be granted in default.
Depere Depere has two high
! schools, one on the east side, I'M
der the city system. and the other on
the west side. under the district sys-
tenn This double system is expensive
to the city and movement has been
started by the civic association to
unite the systems and build one high
/ school, to be located in some central
location, near the approach 70 the
hriGgc which unites the two sides.
Sheboygan.-L. J. Balbish, plumb
ing contractor. has returned from
Chicago. where he was knocked
down on the street in broad daylight