River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-09-23
Badger News
Briefly Told

| Chippewa FaIls.-Dogs entered the
| Enclosure Of the four English deer at
Irvine park zoo and killed the entire
family.
Green Bay.-Mrs j. Capelle, aged
forty-four, died Of fright caused by
| lightning. which did $4,000 damage to
Deaconess hospital adjoining her
| home.
Marshtield.-Wenzel Hasenohrl, Jr.,
OF Hewitt, four miles from here,
was kicked In the stomach by a
horse. After several days of in
tense pain he died at the hospital.
He was seventeen years of age.
Beloit.-Alone and uncared for,
Mrs William Sherman, widow, lay
for five days suffering with ap-
pendicitis before neighbors found her,
near the point of death. Alarmed at
her nonappearance friends broke into
her house.
neutrality-suspicious. for a COM
mutation of the sentence of Christ
johnson, committed TO Waupun from
this city August IA, 1912, for fifteen
years for a serious crime. has been
made to Governor Philip and will be
heard October 13.
Madison.-The Womans Christian
| Temperance Union Of Wisconsin.
which has headquarters in Madison,
filed incorporation papers with the
secretary of state Election of Off
GERS will be held at the first meeting
on September 20 at Eau Claire
MadisOn.-Willis Inman was con-
victed in the circuit court Of
| Jefferson county of arson for burning
! barn on the farm of the Chapman
| estate, near Palmyra, several months
| ago. Inman is alleged to have burned
the barn i'll revenge for being dis
! charged from the employment OF the
| estate
BelOit-WitA next to the largest
/ freshman class in it's history en-
rolled, Beloit opened its sixty-ninth
| year There are 10 new studen 8,
| 1856 being freshmen. Seventeen states
are represented Passage of the three
and one-half year athletic rule did not
| keep athletes away from Beloit. There
! is an abundance Of material in the
entering class which promises well
! for a strong freshmen football team.
| Milwaukee.-Collector of Internal
| Revenue Paul A. Hemmy has APP
| pointed Arthur l.. Barry of Montel-
| 10 deputy to work on federal income
| tax matters in the Montello district.
| Collector of Customs August NJ. Cav
| in has named e. d. LortOn deputy
| <Dfo Of III
lector Gavin will go to New York next
month to attend a conference of the
| collectors of customs from all parts
of the United States. The conference
will be III. session from October 4,
to 8.
| La Crosses o. Sorenson is
| in a hospital suffering from ter
rible burns on the face, body and
| limbs. received when he swan TWEEN
| ty-fiye feet through a film of blazing
| gasoline between his burning boat
! house and the river bank. He was
| pumping the bilge of his new speed
| boat and had drawn several gallons
| of waste oil and gasoline from the
/ craft, when he STOPPED to light
cigar. He tossed the burning match
in the oil-covered water, and in a
second the boathOuse AID a blazing
| pool surrounded the craft through
| which Sorenson had to swim to safe
| ty. The boat and it's house were de-
| stroyed
| Madison Timothy Burke,
| former Assemblyman Thomas Nc
| Grath and other residents of Green
| Bay induced the state board Of con-
| troll to agree to place fifty inmates of
the state reformatory near Green Bay
at work on rebuilding highway along
! the state land on the road from Green
| Bay to Depere The work is to be
! completed this year. The board de-
| cided to confer with Governor Philip
next Monday regarding construction
! work on the new 100000 state home
for feeble-minded at Union Grove, Ra.
! cine county, and the new $250,00e
state reformatory at Taycheedah, Fond
du Lac county. Contracts for the
work at both places need only the
approval of the governor to become
effective.
Chippewa Falls.-A well-dressed
masked man held up Kenneth Beals.
night ticket agent of the 500 line,
at the depot at the point of a
revolver, forced him to open the safe
and took sos in cash and $4,000 il
employees pay checks. Thanking
Beals, the robber disappeared He
was arrested in lunch car at Eaa
Claire, having escaped from freight
train. All the money and checks were
found on his person. The prisoner.
| who is thirty-one years old, refused
to give his name. He says he former.
~ was travelling man OF Fort Dodge.
Ia. He was broke, he said, and want
ed money. Just prior to robbing the
depot he tried to hold UP Walter Vic
let, night bartender at the Riverside
hotel. Violet grabbed him and threw