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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-07-15
WISCONSIN NEWS
Events Of Interest From Many
Parts Of the State.
PATRICK DONNELLY is DEAD
Veteran Educator, Who Taught in
Milwaukee for Over Half Century,
Succumbs to Peritonitis.

Patrick Donnelly, for over half a
century Milwaukee educator and for
forty-one years principal of the De
troit Street school, is dead.
He had been Ill of acute peritonitis
for about week, but the end came
without warming Mr.. Donnelly would
have been eighty years old in Sep
TENDER. His death is the second in
the old Donnelly family, we'll known
in Milwaukee since Civil war times,
in three months. His brother, Chief
Justice Joseph G. Donnelly of the civil
courts, died on April 10.
Patrick Donnelly was born at Six
Mile Cross, County Tyrone, Ireland,
in September, 1885. He reached New
York with his parents when he was
sixteen years old. After two years he
set out for the Western country as
pack traveller, selling household uten-
sils and other merchandise.
Reaching Milwaukee in the early
sixties by entering st. Calls academy
as a teacher and remained four years,
leaving upon his appointment as prin.
C1pdl Oh Tic GU 3OIu0IOy UIduCu pun
lie school, That was in 1869. In 1873
he was appointed principal of the old
Third Ward school, holding this posi-
ton until Feb. l, 1911, when he re-
tired
Many of his pupils have become
we'll known Among theme were Sir
Thomas Shaughnessy, president of the
Canadian Pacific railroad, called the
empire builder" of Canada.
When Mr. Donnelly retired four
years ago he was given a great testi-
monial by his former pupils, many OF
whom came long distances to tender
congratulations.
His wife, who was Mrs. Rosa Nc
Linden of Milwaukee, and four chill
dren survive. The children are John,
assemblyman from the First district;
Rosabelle, Mary and Elizabeth. Mary
and Elizabeth are school teachers at
Milwaukee. M. ]. Donnelly of st. Paul,
brother, and Mrs. Ellen Sullivan, a
sister, also survive.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-07-15
BOYS REAP RICH HARVEST
Hunting RattIesnakes Becomes a
Source Of Profit.

Hunting cattlesnakes has become a
source of profit for dozens of boys in
cities and villages along the bluffs
which skirt the shores of the Missis-
sippi river between Prairie du Chen
and Alma.
County clerks In Crawford La
Crosse, Trempealeau and Buffalo
counties have paid out hundreds of
dollars in bounties for rattlers, at the
rate of so cents a snake.
Henry Lorenzo, residing in Eagle
valley, Trempealeau county, is the
champion rattlesnake hunter, having
established a new record by killing
seventy-fve of the reptiles in the
bluffs near his home. He uses a long
pole on which is sharp spear and
with it kills the snakes as they crawl
from their rocky dens into the sun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-07-15
MRS. VICTOR BERGER
HEADS SCHOOL BOARD.

+ Milwaukee, July 8.-Mrs
|. Victor Berger, wife of the for
/. mer Socialist congressman, was
I. elected president of the school
!. board. She is the first woman
!. thus to be honored in this city.
!. Mrs. Berger was reelected to
I the school board for the sew
!. enth time last spring, polling
!. $4,000 votes or 5000 more than
/ her nearest opponent
!. The board spends 100000
|. year and employs 1000
!. teachers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-07-15
PARADE FOR WISCONSIN DAY
Badger Made Goods Will Be Shown in
Frisco Aug. 9.

Frisco Aug. 9.
An industrial parade in which Wis
consin made goods will be shown will
start the festivities in connection
with the celebration of Wisconsin day
at the Panama-Pacific exposition at
San Francisco on Aug. 8, the anniver-
Sary of the death of Solomon Juneau.
All Wisconsin manufacturers have
been asked to notify their California
representatives to cooperate with the
officials in celebration of the day.
John t. Murphy of Superior, one of
the commissioners, conferred with
William George Bruce Of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers association
recently regarding the celebration and
was assured the support of Milwau-
kee manufacturers.
There will be little expense in con-
nection with the parade. California
representatives of Wisconsin concerns
will take charge Of floats. Bands will
be furnished by the exposition author
tiles.
1t is also planned to have the prin-
cipal stores in San francisco make
special displays on Aug. 8, showing
Wisconsin made goods in an attrac-
tive manner.
After the parade the visitors will
go to the Wisconsin building, where
the celebration will be continued.
Speeches will be made and an enter
tainment given.
Arrangements are now being made
for a speaker. Governor Philip has
been asked to deliver the principal
address, but a previous engagement
may prevent his attending.
Roy L. Donley, president of the Cal
ifornia Wisconsin society, is taking
an active interest in making the day
a success and will have general
charge of the celebration.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-07-15
GUARDS FOR THE ADRIATIC
Threatened Liner Escorted Through
War Zone by Destroyers.

London, July 17-Because of re-
ports that submarines were waiting
for her the White Star liner Adriatic
was conveyed by British destroyers
from the moment she entered the war
zone off the Irish coast until she
reached Liverpool.
Some Of her officers complained that
the admiralty did not give the liner
advance information that she was to
receive an escort. Had this been
done the liner would have carried her
full complement of passengers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-07-15
LEGAL NOTICES
First Publication June 10, 1879
SUMMONS

SUMMONS
STATE OF WISCONSIN, In Circuit Court for
Pierce County.
James Manion, Plaintiff
VS..
Allen Hickerson Defendant
THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, to the said
defendant.
You are hereby summoned TO appear within
twenty days after service of OF the Summons,
exclusive of the day of service, and defend
the above entitled action in the Court afoTe-
said and in case OF your failure SO TO do Judg-
ment will be rendered against you according
to the demand of the Complaint of which
copy is here with served upon you.
WARREN P. KNOWLES,
PLAINTIFFS Attorney.
p. o. Address, River Falls, Pierce County, Wis
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-07-15
MANY ON SHIPS TO EUROPE
Eighteen Hundred Passengers Leave
New York in One Day.

AS a result of the explosion on board
the Minnehaha precautions were TAX
en- at the American line pier and only
those who could establish their right
to go on board the steamer were al
lowed to do so. Detectives guarded
the pier and steamship until the hour
of sailing anG all baggage and freight
was closely examined. The French
line steamship Espagne carried $50
passengers for Bordeaux, while Ital-
= liners carried 700 for Naples.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-07-15
NAMES GREEN BAY BISHOP
Pope EIevates Right Rev. Paul P.
Rhode to Wisconsin District.

Pope Benedict, on the recommends
ton of the consistorial congregation,
has made the following appointments
in the United States:
Right Rev. Thomas F. Curack, aux
Hilary bishop Of New York, to be
bishop of Albany, N. Y.
Right Rev. Paul P. Rhode, auxiliary
bishop of Chicago, to be bishop of
Green Bay, Wis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-07-15
La Crosse Man War Victim.

Charles Bleakley, aged twenty-four
years, son of W. H. Bleakley, was the
first La Crosse man to lose his life in
the European war; Enlisting with a
Canadian regiment while visiting rel
atives in that country last November
he was killed in action on June II, ac-
cording to a message received by his
parents.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-07-15
WOMEN DIE IN AUTO WRECK

Sisters, Summer Resort Visitors at
Cedar Lake, Wis, Killed.
Mrs. Winnie King of Milwaukee and
her sister, Julia Tschloch, were
killed when the auto in which they
were riding with Ed Kringle of Mi
kama and Alfred Everson of Rice
Lake went over an embankment on
Virgins hill, near Campia.
The party was returning from a
show at Campia. The men escaped
injury
The women were visiting at a sum-
mer resort near Cedar Lake. Mrs
Killing is survived by husband and a
son.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-07-15
SCHEDULE DRY CONFERENCE
Prohibitionists Will Meet on Bad River
Reservation.

Reservation.
In an effort to have the laws en-
forced in regard to the sale of intoX-
icating liquors on lands ceded by the
Indians to the United States a con-
vention Of dry forces of that region
is to be called soon, according to the
Odanah Star, a paper published at
Odanah on the Bad River reserva-
ton. The Star says:
I'm recent letter from the depart
ment we learn that the outlook for an
early enforcement of all treaty laws
in regard to the liquor clause is very
bright and will be pushed with vigor."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-07-15
MANY SHUN EUGENIC TIE
Twenty Per Cent Decrease in Wiscon.
sin MARRIAGES.

Under the eugenic marriage law
the number of weddings declined
from 21,052 IN 1913 to 1925 in 1914,
a drop of 3,S07, nearly 20 per cent.
DR.. c. A. Harper, secretary of the
state board of health and vital sta
tistics, contends that general comme'
cial depression has also curtailed ma
riages.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-07-15
Foot Cut Off by Train.

Robert Bauer of Amigo lost his left
foot above the ankle at Thorpe when
he attempted to board a moving
freight train.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-01-13

BY Capt. GEORGE L. KlLr1ER. Late U. S. v.
THE celebrity with which the ma
tons sprang into the fray at
the call to the worlds war
of 1914 has no parallel in
modern history. 1t required nearly
twenty years Of Napoleon's aggressions
to summon an alliance of hostile pow
ers to the Battle of the Nation in 1873;
in 1914 just spark in finder box.
The finder box was the European
situation" with its half century record
Of war Clouds" "grave crises" "diplo-
matte incidents" tournaments" "mobi-
lizations" and local wars of the first
class. The vital spark which set a
continent on fire was mere Balkan
incident, like hundreds that have gone
before without arousing a shot gener-
ally and at the worst stirring up CON-
paratively petty wars.
World politics lay underneath all.
and the assassination in June of an
Austrian heir apparent and little Ser
Was spirited denial Of responsibility
merely started the usual Balkan blaze
The fact that fuel was at hand to
make condagration in August had
nothing to do with the Balkan middle
Austria, Germany, England and
France each promptly announced that
the fight was for individual existence
Judgment Of their arguments and rea-
soning, should be left for minds trained
in the thought and language of diplo-
macy. The object Of this review is to
sketch the turning points in the war.
Belgium to Paris Campaign.
Across the route from Germany into
France, via Belgium. lay the river
Meuse and its tributary, the Sambre
At Liege. Belgium. the Belgian engi-
neers had erected forts to dispute the
crossing Of Germans into Belgium and
of French out of Belgium into Ger
many. Liege is less than twenty miles
from the German border. and about
twenty miles farther into Belgium. also
on the Meuse, is Namur. Namur is
about twenty miles from French soil.
and here the Belgians had duplicated
the Liege forts in order to bar the
French from crossing Belgian soil and
to bar Germans from proceeding into
France, should they venture as far as
Namur.
The forts facing the German border
at Liege stubbornly resisted the Ger
man onslaught. but the works west of
the river. having bearing to the west,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-01-13

Photo by American Press Association.
GERMAN ANT1-A1R CRAFT GUN.
But Liege, Namur and Antwerp were
needed to convince doubters that it
was practical weapon for the field.
Improved methods of transportation
make it possible to get to the movable
firing line engines that would formerly
have been restricted to Notifications.
rest Of War Aviation.
The aerial warship has yet to prove
Its efficiency. Bombs have been drop
ped, but without inf1icting damage that
would put battleship or fort out Of
commission. The fact Is that bombs
have been in use for over century,
and the results Of getting them into
the air and down on a ship or fort
have not been serious. What might
have been had the anti-air craft gun
not been brought to perfection will
probably never be demonstrated. The
torpedo which the submarine uses with
such effect shows what happens when
bomb is put In the right place. Air.
ships Thousands Of feet In the air have
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-01-13
Of weapons that Increased destructive:

Of weapons that Increased destructive
ness follows increased efficiency. Rela-
tive increase or decrease can be proved
only by percentages Of the number hit
In the number engaged. The percent
age in recent wars has run as high as
80 per cent for small units and 40 to 60
for divisions of 5000 to 1000 men in
single engagements.
In the European war there have been
slaughters in spots. The civil war had
them at Antfetam, Gettysburg, Chicka-
manga and Petersburg. A general
should get adequate returns for his in
vestment of lives; failure to do that
makes war slaughter and not
science.
Progress In contriving new ways to
kill in recent years has led to new
ways Of protecting soldiers. It has even
been argued that advance in protection
has sped beyond advance in danger;
that wars will now be decided by long
range guns demolishing inanimate mat
ter, with minimum exposure Of human
lives: a crash Of metal rather than of
flesh and bone.
Riled cannon, shrapnel and grape
and canister were the nineteenth cen
fury answer to the bayonet, which had
doubled or trebled the death dealing
power of the man behind the musket
The repeating rifle gave the individual
man long range canister to answer the
short range artillery canister. Later
repeating rifle answered repeating rife:
then came the machine gun to drown
both repeater and canister fire.
Modern Tactics Safer.
Increased deadliness of firing does
not imply that the "windrows of
dead' known in the days of spear and
battleax must return to the modern
battlefield. In field artillery alone the
bullet proof shield for gunners indi-
Gates the protective side in modern
equipment In the civil war when the
infantryman's bayonet was outfought
by canister from field battery he
took to cover and shot down the en-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-01-13

Photo by American Press Association.
BELG1ANs FIGHTING BEHIND BRUSH.
were soon subdued. So the Germans
captured the city proper (Aug. g. before
the forts on the east succumbed.
Marching westward from Namur, al
ways in the direction of the French
border, which bears northwest and
southeast. the invaders shouldered the
valiant Belgian army, left alone to put
up battle for it's neighbors without
aid from these neighbors, off to the
north. occupied Brussels. in the center
of the kingdom, menaced Antwerp.
where the Belgian government and
army took shelter, and raided west as
far as the channel coast.
This westward sweep Of the Germans
cleared their right flank Of enemies and
was quick enough to cut off the belated
aid of British and French from the
south and southeast. Brussels fell on
Aug. 81. Namur on the 23d. and not
until the latter date were the British
and French across the Belgian border
to succor the remnant of Belgians. who
stood with their backs to the French
wall and their faces to Frances on
rushing foe. Time had been given to
the Germans to clean up central and
southern Belgium.
Forward by tho Right Flank.
A campaign analogous in some re-
spects to what followed may be traced
in Sherman's advance from Dalton to-
ward Atlanta in 1864. All the way
down from Dalton Sherman kept
swinging his right flank around west
ward of Johnston's left flank and
pressing on till Johnston had to re-
treat. Just so the German Won Kluck
swung his right flank with a westward
sweep ever in the direction of Paris.
keeping touch with rail communion
tons from I.iege and Namur and south
along the eastern section of France
where his supporting armies lay.
On Aug. % the allies made their last
stand in Belgium at Mons and east
ward. Namur fell, and, although Gen
eral French,s Britons fought heroically
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-01-13

Early In November Russians ad-
vanced on Cracow, expelled the foe
from Kielce, Poland. forced the Aus,
TRANS south of the San river, recap
tured Jaroslaw and returned to the
siege Of Przemysl In the north they
again advanced on Koenigsberg. and
raiding COssacks even penetrated Ger
man territory in Silesia and P0sen
within twenty miles of the fortress of
Thorn. Johannesburg. in East Prussia.
was occupied by Russians on Nov. II.
This move the Germans c0untered by q
column sent from Thorn, which on the
18th drove the Russians back through
Soldau upon Flock.
Cracow. 200 miles southwest, and
Koenigsberg, 200 miles north Of War
saw. are fortresses guarding the Ger
man rear when operating In Poland.
With either Of them in Russia's hands
German possession Of the Warsaw re-
gion would be perilOus. At this writing
Austria holds Cracow firmly, and her
ally Is intrenched before Warsaw, in
positions around LODI and Lowicz,
which were won in December by ven
lures which the Russians officially de
clared unbelievable" Germans also
hold Koenigsberg
The Naval End Of the War Game.
Sea battles have been many. but
nothing has been decided excepting
the efficiency Of some new armament
The world has waited twenty years
for a test Of the big battleship in line
Of battle fighting. Even battle cruis-
ers have not been put to supreme test
In submarine work honOrs seem to
rest with the Germans, whose 10 at
tackled single handed three British
cruisers and sunk them all. This
proved that q submarine can be more
than a match for armament far and
away its superior in surface action
Commenting on this and other tri-
umphs of his submarines, the German
admiral, Won Tirpitz. says, "Our sue
cess so far. however, hardly justifies
the conclusion that big ships have be.
come obsolete"
The purpose Of a navy is to help ar
mics win land battles. To this end
warships may convoy troops and pro-
visions or destroy the troop and supply
ships Of the enemy. A British feet
might turn the tide for the allies on
the Belgian coast and German feet
do the same for the Germans. In Ell
Their case sweeping victory on the
scale of those in the North sea or in
South American waters might decide q
campaign.
The roaming German cruisers EN-
den, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipzig,
Nurnberg and Dresden drew from Eu-
ropean waters British vessels superior
In individual and aggregate strength.
Had these been needed at home Ger
man strategy would have scored. But
England could well afford to spare
battleships and battle cruisers when
their absence meant the recovery Of
her South American trade, the net re-
suit of the victory off the Falkland is
lands on Dec. 8, victory which hum.
bled the German flag on the high seas
Phenomenal Battle Losses.
Trustworthy data as to the relative
destructiveness of modern weapons
will not be available until revised off,
cial reports are at hand. 1t is not
shown by the history of the evolution
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-01-13

into Russian Poland at Kalisch on Aug.
3, and week later an Austrian column
crossed from Galicia into Poland. On
the Goth the Austrians won battle at
Krasnik and marched on to Lublin. To
offset this menace in Poland, Russia
marched on Lemberg. in eastern Ca
'licia. and also sent strong columns
from Wilma and Warsaw into East
Prussia. capturing Gumbinnen. Inster-
berg and Allenstein and threatening
the strong post at Koenigsberg.
By the end Of August the Russians
had been expelled from the Koenigs-
berg region, but in the south they had
forced the Austrians to abandon the
Radon campaign by closing in on Lem
berg. Early In September Lemberg fell
and Galicia was annexed by Russia.
By the middle of the month the Rus
SLAMS had been expelled from East
Prussia with enormous losses. but the
Austrians in the south were besieged
at Przemysl. having to give up .Jaro-
slaw. neighboring railway center and
feeder for the fortress.
Following the defeated Russians
from Tannenberg. in East Prussia, the
German General Won Hindenberg ven
turcd to the shores of the Niemen. in
Russia. and on Sept. Is was repulsed
and hurled back into the Suwalki
swamps and defeated on Oct. 3 at Au-
gustowo. The first week in October the
Germans and Austrians advanced from
Cracow on the south. Kalicz in the cen
ter and Thorn in the north toward
Warsaw, on the Vistula. The Vistula
extends from Cracow through central
Poland across East Prussia to the Bal
tic sea. 1t is everywhere unfordable.
with no bridge north of the line of
Warsaw and PlOck
The middle Of October fighting ragged
AL along the Vistula in Poland. and
the German allies were at the gates of
Warsaw. On the 18th they were
checked and ut the end Of the month
defeated on the I'ilzia river and hurled
back toward the Warthe and their owl,
border.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-01-13

little chance Of dropping bomb In
just the right place. The aeropiane IS
precisely what limited class of think
ers believed 1t would prove to De-a
good scOut-s0metimes.
The aer0plane is credited with hav-
ing revealed to the Germans the obsta-
cles that lay In the way Of General von
Kluck's dash to Paris on the Sd of
September. 1t may also have revealed
to the French that Won Kluck was
headed for their capital and enabled
them to put the obstacles in his path.
The motor truck or auto machine in
any form has proved a success and
revolutionized transportation in the
fighting zone. Armies have often
moved suddenly upon paths which the
enemy little suspected they would
take, and the motorcar enabled them to
make speed unheard of in former
wars. Russia's motor artillery checked
the Germans on the Bzura river, Pc.
land. in the December campaign.
The Situation In December.
Attempts by the allies in September
to turn the German intrenched line on
the Meuse and Aisne in France led to
a second campaign In Belgium. The
Germans swung their right westward
from Antwerp. which they captured
Oct. Z, to the channel coast. From o.
tend southwark to Arras the fat coun.
try was fought over until it came to a
deadlock.
In December the Germans drew of
troops to send to Poland. and the battle
waned in Belgium until the end of the
month Germans were also sent from
eastern France. and in their absence
the French again invaded Alsace, re-
covering in mid December German ter.
ritory taken and then lost in August.
'Hostilities began in July between
Austria and Servia. Austrian invasion
was repulsed, and Belgrade held out
until Dec. 2. On the 18th Austria evac-
uated Belgrade, and the end of the
month found the plucky Servians on
Austrian soil opposite their capital.
Early in the war Montenegrfns in
vaded Dalmatia, and French warships
supported their attacks upon Cattaro,
but the port remained in Austria's con-
troll at the end of the year.
Japan's activity ceased with the cap
ture in November of Kiauchau. China,
which the German population had de-
Tended for over two months with valor
equal to that Of the Belgians at the
other edge of the continent Turkey
entered the conflict in November and
at the close of December claimed vic
tories along the Caucasian border. as
we'll as naval successes in the Black
sea. As in the northern and western
fighting zones. conflicting claims of OPP
posing sides on the Turkish frontier
cannot always be reconciled. ELSE
where in this review is given an outline
Of operations between Austro- Germans
and Russians to the end of 1914.>