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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-04-22
QUARREL OVER WAR FATAL
German Sympathizer Is Slain With
Monkey Wrench.

Wrangling over respective merits OF
Germans and allies resulted al
Koehler, a manufacturing place, in
the killing of Fred Blanke. William
Meyer, pleading self-defense, is at
liberty, pending an investigation by
the county prosecutor.
Blanke, radical adherent of the
Germans, encountered Meyer in a sa
loon and their quarrel was revived.
Blanke attacked Meyer, it is al
legged. Meyer had monkey wrench
and, it is charged, struck Blanke
fracturing the latter's skull.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-04-22
STATE is HELD NOT LIABLE
Wisconsin Mill Owner Fails in Suit
for DAMAGES.

An opinion sustaining the state in
the suit brought by George APPEL
bacher, Waukesha county mill own
err, to recover $4,000 damages for the
overlooking of his lands by dam OPP
Grated by the state fisheries commits
sion on Bark river, has been given by
the supreme court. This sustains the
findings Of Circuit Judge Lueck.
The opinion holds that the state rs
immune from liability for the torts of
it's officers in performing governmental
functions.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-04-22
STATE INSURANCE is LEGAL
Law Creating Department Upheld by
Attorney General.

NIIOTIICy OOITCT zIE
The attorney general of Wisconsin
advised the state treasurer that the
laws creating the state life insurance
and state fire insurance funds and
the public teachers pension fund are
constitutional and he declined to
bring suits in state supreme court to
test their validity. The first claim
against the state life insurance fund
has been filed by the estate of the
late Dr. George keenan, of Madison.
1t is for $1,000 on a policy carried by
Keenan, in the state life insurance
fund and it will now be paid by the
state treasurer
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-04-22
Green Bay Pastor Dies.

Rev. Father l.. A. Ricklin of ST.
Johns church at Green Bay is dead
after an illness of a year. He was
sixty-eight years old and was ordained
about fifty-one years ago in Alsace
and had been in charge of the Green
Bay church twenty years.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-04-22
PLEADS FOR PENSION LAW
Report Asks Mothers Compensation
Act Be Retained.

That the mothers pension law is a
success and that the statute should
not be repealed is the substance of a
report of the state board of health,
which has completed an Investigation
of the subject ordered by the last leg
islature.
THE law should remain" says the
report, "in order that the 1868 de-
pendent children estimated as living
in 3S5 destitute family homes in this
state may not be deprived of the
benefits of home life
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-04-22
TWO HURT IN ACCIDENTS
Man and Roy Injured in Mishaps Near
Maiden Rock.

Two persons were injured near
Maiden Rock in accidents. Charles
Gates of Produpine was thrown under
a loaded wagon in a runaway. His
hip was broken and he suffered other
injuries.
The four-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl Beatty of Durand suffered
a mangled hand while playing with
feed cutter
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-04-22
Twelve Bombs on Strasshurg.

Amsterdam, April ia hostile air
ship dropped twelve bombs on the
city of ,Strassburg, capital of Alsace-
Lorraine. Searchlights showed it dis
appearing in a northerly direction, I'M
der bombardment of anti-aircraft
guns.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-04-22
BODY FOUND ON DOORSTEP
Officials Investigate Death of Man
Shot Through Heart.

ShOt nToU9n Heart.
Mystery surrounds the finding of
the dead body of Alexander Hanson
on the front doorstep of the farm
home of James Nevin, about eight
miles southeast of Cumberland. He
had been shot through the heart.
The district attorney is investigating.
Hanson is said to have been engag-
ed to Miss Martha Nevin. 1t is said
that after Hanson moved to Slough
ton, Miss Nevin went there to marry
him, but her father followed and
brought his daughter home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-04-22
WOMAN LEAPS INTO CISTERN
Arises From Bed, Blindfolds Herself
and Ends Life.

Arising from bed and blindfolding
herself Mrs. Diedrich School, sixty
seven years of age, leaped into Il
cistern at her home four miles from
Beloit and was drowned. The coro-
ner's verdict declared she committed
suicide while temporarily insane.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-10-16
GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY
Mrs. Ed. Mattison is i'll.

Mrs Ed Mattison is Ill.
Miss Grace Snow is i'll at Nelson
Waites.
Robert b. Young was in Troy re-
Gently.
Mrs. Orville left is confined to the
house by illness.
Mrs. Frank Bronson has quantity
of potatoes for sale.
Daisy Rowland has been Ill and un.
able to attend school
David Lockwood and wife were in
Bennington Saturday.
Jonathan Waite was in Benningto
Saturday with plums.
Mrs. Carrie Harrington's house
burned last Friday night
Hugh Harrington has finished work
for Edwin Stratton's estate.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Harrington
visited in Bennington Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Draper were
week end guests in Bennington.
Mrs. Roy Bowen was in Green
Mountain Valley the past week.
Geo. d. Madison and son Gayland
were in Bennington Saturday.
Very sad that Mr.. and Mrs. STRAIT
ton should lose their only child.
Alonzo Harrington was at his broth
er's Schuyler Harringtons Sunday.
Miss Hazel Ross has a position
with Mrs. E. L. Bates in Bennington.
Fred Harrington and son, Wallace,
visited at Schuyler Harrington's Sun
day
Miss Blanche and Eva Elwell at
tended the service at the Red School
House Sunday.
Nelson Mattison and wife of Ben
nington motored Monday to see their
sister, Mrs. Tiff who is i'll.
George Dunn was i'll Monday and
unable to convey the pupils to
school, Ed. Madison acted as his
substitute.
Miss Gertrude Cranston of Benning
ton avs a weekend guest of her
cousin, Hattie Cranston, in Green
Mountain Valley.
There was avery interesting serv-
ice at the Red School House last Sun
day conducted by Rev. Thornton F.
Turner. He was accompanied by his
sister, Mrs. F.. r. Foote of New York.
There will be no service at the school
house next Sunday
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-10-16
NORTH HooslcK

Miss Ruth Harrington spent few
days recently in Buskirks.
James Cathcart, Jr., has accepted
position in Providence, r. l.
Mr. and Mrs. E. X. Burnett and
children of Hartford, Conn.,, spent
Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Kimpton.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Phillips are
moving from the tenement of Mrs.
Delbert Russell to the one owned by
Thomas Allen.
The infant child of James Luke of
Cambridge died at the home of Mrs.
Fred Weir Monday, Oct. IL. The
funeral was held at / o'clock Tuesday
interment being in the Cambridge
cemetery.
The Epworth League of the M. q.
church held a social and business
hour at the parsonage Tuesday eve
ming, Oct. -. Music was rendered
and choice refreshments were served.
Rev. &c. G. Visher proved to be an
excellent entertainer.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-10-16
THE SMALLEST REPUBLIC
President of Andorra Writes to Presi-
ent Wilson

New York, Oct. 14-Lawrence
Grant of London arrived here today
on the French liner Chicago with a
letter from President Pierre Font
of Andorra, the oldest and smallest
republic i'll the world, to President
Wilson, as head of the largest re-
public.
President Font in letter congrat-
ulates President Wilson upon the
stand taken by the United States for
neutrality and also upon the material
aid rendered to Belgians. The Presi-
dent of Andorra also states that his
republic is always ready to lend its
feeble voice toward a peace confer
ence."
Andorra, which is located on the
southern slope of the Pyrenees, ad-
jacent to France and Spain, became
a republic about the year $50. 1t con-
tains 175 square miles and has pop
ulation of approximately 5000.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-10-16
GIVEN A LOVING CUP
Gift BY Masons to William n. Vinton
of Brattleboro

OF DTdtttGDOTO
Brattleboro, Oct. 13-Over $50 mem
bers of the Masonic fraternity many
of them from other places in the
state, gathered at Masonic temple
here tonight to recognize the recent
comforting of the 33d degree Of Mas
onry upon William II. Vinton of Brat
tleboro, a man who has been at the
head of every branch of the Masonic
order in Brattleboro, including both
of the lodges
EX-Congressman Kittredge Haskins
also SD degree Mason and a past
grand master of Vermont, presided.
There were addresses by Henry II.
Ross of Burlington, secretary of the
grand lodge, and Rev. Henry l.. Bal
lou of Chester, past grand master of
Vermont Ferris X. Vaughan, prom
inent in state Masonic circles as we'll
as those of Brattleboro, presented to
Mr.. Vinton magnificent loving cup,
the gift OF the Free Masons of Brat
tleboro. In doing so he spoke of his
helpful work in the interests of Mas
onry extending over period of 80
years. Mr.. Vinton made brief re-
Spouse. A luncheon was served after
the formal exercises.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-10-16
THE NEW AMERICAN
CAME IN WHICH
EVERYBODY WINS
Set the Dollar Rolling
in Its Prosperity
Making Course

Americans are getting into
the Game again.
1T isn't q new game, exactly,
but it's one that has been out Of
vogue in this country for some
time and everybody has to learn
it all over again.
The game might be called
Give Your Dollar a Push for
that is where the action comes
from.
The chief requirements Of a
successful player is Confidence
and this develops rapidly as the
I. game goes on.
"A mighty thing is the Ameri-
| can dollar but it languishes and
| loses its power when kept too
| long in the possession of one
| owner.
Put the American dollar into
the new game 'Give-Your-D Dollar
a-Push and it will roll on its
Prosperity making way through
! the Farms and the Homes, into
the Stores and through the Fac
| tories and Mills, down into the
/ Mines and up again into the
Homes of the workmen and then
back to the Golfers of the Farmer,
The Merchant, the Manufacturer
| and the Workers.
q" Give Your Dollar a. Push
not only returns your dollar but
with it come others, for new
wealth is being added all the time
when the nations people are I'M
| afraid and spending freely and
with Confidence.
Get out your idle dollars and
| start them in the Game Get ev-
| eryone playing it and the United
| States will swing forward to the
best times Americans ever have
known.
Everybody get them started !
Give. Your Dollar Push and
see how many more will come
| back with it
Give Your D ollar-a-Push! ="
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-23
AN ACT.

No. 521.) (S. 644. Lusk. To further define the power and author
 ity of the chief justice of the supreme
 court and to confer authority upon
 him to order and direct the holding
 of circuit courts by the judges and
 solicitors thereof in their own and
 other circuits and the supernumerary
 judge, and to provide clerical assis-
 ance for the chief justice and to pre-
 scribe the manner of exercising the
 power and authority hereby con-
 ferred
 Be 1t enacted by the legislature of Ala
 bama:
 l. That the chief justice shall have a clerk or secretary who shall perform such duties as may be required of him by the chief justice and be paid an annual salary of $1200, payable monthly out of the state treasury on warrants of the state auditor as other officers or employees are paid on the certificate of the chief justice.
 3. That it shall be the duty of the chief justice to have the reports and information supplied to his office as provided by law, tabulated and com piled 90 as to furnish information as to the administration of justice, the workings and operation of the courts. the amount of buslness pending. per- formed or dispatched in the several courts of the state and which shall be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-23

lures. with such other information as) to the condition of the institution anal results obtained, that may be interest ing and useful to the public.
 Sec. 6. That any person who shall persuade, coerce, employ, induce or as-' sist In any manner any girl who has been committed to the care of said in- stitution, to leave the same without the consent of the superintendent, or some officer in charge, or to make her escape from said institution, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con vfction. shall be fined sum not less than $50. nor more than $500, and in addition thereto, at the discretion of the judge of the court trying the case may be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the coun- ty for a period of not more than 12 months.
 Sec. 7. That there Is hereby appro- priated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of &50.000) dollars, to be expended by the board of managers of said in- stitution, subject to the approval of the governor and attorney general in pro- viding suitable grounds or lands, and for the erection thereon of an admins tration building and dornitories on the cottage plan, and other school andI farm buildings, or any of them. and for furnishing and equipping the same Tor the needs of said training school, which shall be located on the grounds or lands to be selected by the said board of managers with the assistance and advice of and subject to the ap- prova1 of the governor and attorney general. When said training school shall have been relocated, 1t shall at. the place of such location have and possess all powers and perform all du- ties prescribed in the act of April 13 1911, as modified or supplemented byI this act.
 Sec. 8. That the board of managers with the advice and approval of the governor and attorney general may sell or exchange the present property of said training school located at East Lake, part of Birmingham heretofore conveyed to the state, and may make such sale or exchange at such price and on such terms as said state officers may approve for the benefit of said school, and thus make the property or proceeds thereto available for the benefit of said school in making a relocation thereof, and in securing more adequate build ings and proper facilities. Upon mak- ing such sale or exchange, the neces- sary conveyance may be made by 8 patent Issued under the seal of the state signed by the governor and at tested by the secretary of state. That this act shall take effect from and after its final passage and enactment into law.
 Sec. 9. Provided, however that the appropriations provided for in this bill shall not be paid until such time as in the opinion of the governor. the condi- ton of the treasury will permit, to be in evidence by the certificate of the governor filed with the auditor to that effect.
 Approved September 25, 1915. Official:
 JOHN PURIFOY,
 Secretary of State.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-23

quiring such dog to be killed, which order may be executed by any peace officer who shall be allowed s1 therefor to be taxed at cost. It shall be the duty of the sheriff and his deputies and each constable In hts district to kill or cause to be killed any dog, the owner of which has failed or refused to pay the license or privilege tax thereon when due and for each dog so killed without the order of the court such officer shall be allowed by the court of county commissioners or board Of revenue 50 cents to be paid out of the dog tax fund.
 Sec. T. This act shall take effect inn mediately upon its approval by the gov ernor.
 Approved September IS. 1915. Official:
 JOHN PURIFOY,
 Secretary of State.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-23

'cupying the lands of the state. or connect ed herewith, at all times hereafter, be subject to regulation and revision by the legislature or other authority now ex- istng or hereafter created by it for such purpose, together with the right and au- thority of the legislature to fix and define or to delegate to an authority constituted by it, the right and power to fix and de- fine and prescribe reasonable tolls, i'm posts, charges and duties for the usa of said wharves and other structures and to prevent unjust determinations with re- spect thereto.
 Approved September 10, 1915. Official:
 JOHN PURIFOY,
 Secretary of State
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-23
AN ACT.

AN ACT.
 No. 7S0) (H. 1056. Copeland In relation to the Alabama Home of Refuge, a state training school for white girls, and to further regulate and provide for It's powers, govern ment, enlargement and relocation; providing for change of name and authorizing judges of municipal courts or recorders of towns and cities to commit girls thereto regu- lating the formation of the board of managers. and the filling of vacancies in the board; making appropriation for suitable grounds or land, and for the erection thereon, and equipping suitable and adequate buildings for said training school; authorizing the sale or exchange of present property of the institution, and the use of the proceeds; making it unlawful to in- duce, assist or otherwise cause any girl to leave the school, without the consent of the superintendent or of- ficer in charge. or to escape there from, and providing penalties.
 Be it enacted by the legislature of Ala bama:
 Section 1. That, the name of the Ala bama Home of Refuge, a state institu- tion for the training of delinquent white girls, established April 13, 1911, be changed to that of the State Train ing School for Girls.
 Sec 2. That any municipal court, or judge thereof, or city recorder in any town or city of the state. shall have au- thority to commit white girls to the care of said institution in addition to the judges who already possess tbat power, and in accordance with the ku- thority contained in the act approved April 13. 1911.
 Sec. 3. That, upon the resignation of any lady member of the board oi managers of said institution, or at the expiration of the term of any such mem- Der thereof. the board of managers may refrain from electing successors thereto in such manner and to such extent. however. as not to reduce the board of managers, exclusive of the governor and attorney general, below seven in number, and in the filling of any vacancy occurring on the board that may De filled by the board of man. agers. men may be eligible thereto.
 Sec. 1. That the minimum age of girls who may be taken or committed to said institution be. and 10 hereby fixed at nine years.
 Sec s. That the board of managers shall mako annual reports to the gov ernor shewing rsoeiDts and sxpsndi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-23
AN AGT

 No. 9S7) IS. POS. Holmes. To provide for the removal of prisoners affected with tuberculosis, confined in the several jails of this state, from said
 Jails to the tuberculosis hospital of the
 Alabama State penitentiary.
 Section l. Be it enacted by the legisla- ture of Alabama that whenever, in the opinion of the state prison inspector it shall be necessary for the proper care and preservation of the health of any prisoner, or prisoners, confined in any of the 1a11s of this state who are affected with tuberculosis that such prisoner, or prisoners, should be removed from such jail; or if there is danger of the spread of tuberculosis to the other inmates of the jail by reason of the confinement in the jail of the person, or persons, affected herewith. it shall be the duty of the state prison inspector to order the sheriff of the county to remove such prisoner, or prisoners, to the state tuberculosis hos pital. It shall be the duty of the warden in charge of the state tuberculosis hos pital to receive such prisoner or pris- oners, and to safely keep and care for them as other prisoners confined in said state tuberculosis hospital are confined and cared for.
 Sec. 2. All expenses incident to the re- moval of such prisoner, or prisoners, from the county in which they are confined to said state tuberculosis hospital and their return to said county for trial shall be borne by the county.
 Sec. 3. The provisions of this act shall also apply to persons confined in any of the jails of this state who have been con yicted of crime, but confined in said jail under suspended sentence awaiting de- termination of an appeal to the supreme court or the court of appeals.
 Sec. 4. Wherever the words "state tuber- eulosis hospital are used in this act they shall be held to mean and refer to the tu- berculosis hospital of the Alabama State penitertiary, now located near Wetump- ka. Ala.
 Sec. 5. Before making any order for the removal of any person from any jail to said tuberculosis hospital, the statN prison inspector shall inquire of and as- certain from the president of the board of inspectors of convicts whether it will be practicable to receive such prisoner, or prisoners, into said tuberculosis hos pital, and the state prison inspector shall prisoner or prisoners, unless notified by of convicts that such prisoner, or prison- CTS. can be received into said tuberculosis hospital.
 Sec. 6. All laws and parts of laws, gen eral local or special, in conflict with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed.
 Approved September [, 1915 Official:
 JOHN PURIFOY,
 Secretary of State.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-23

tons held on proposed amendments to the constitution the substance, or sub Jeet matter of each proposed amend ment snail be so printed that the na- ture thereof shall be clearly indicated. Following each proposed amendment on the ballot shall be printed the word
 Yes and immediately under that shall De printed the word "No." The choice or the elector shall be indicated by a cross mark tx) made by him, or under his direction, opposite the word ex- pressing his desire.
 6. In all elections upon such pro- posed amendments the votes cast there at shall be canvassed, tabulated and the returns thereof be made to the sec retary of state and counted in the manner as in elections for representa- tives to the legislature.
 T. Every officer who fails to perform in good faith every duty required of him by this act, must, on conviction, be fined not less than $50 nor more than $500
 S. Any person who mutilates. de- faces, removes or destroys, any notice posted uneer the provisions of this act must, on conviction. be fined not less than $50 nor more than $100.
 9. The secretary of state shall have printed on the margin of the poster, Section of this act
 Approved September IS, 1915. Official:
 JOHN PURIFOY.
 Secretary Of State.