River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-07-25

1917, to file deeds to normal school
lands to be donated by the city. Sec
rotary William Kittle Of the normal
school board said that up to June %,
1918, no deed had been submitted.
Senator w. T. Stevens claims to have
submitted the deeds to the attorney
general Jan. 20, just twenty days late.
The attorney general has held that the
resolution to accept the lands from
Rhinelander is not binding. If the re-
gents concur with the attorney gener-
ais ruling, Rhinelander will lose its
proposed normal school.
Eau Claire-Joseph Deachman, Port
Edwards, Wis, was found guilty here
by jury in federal court on two
counts on charges of violating the es-
pionage act by utterances favorable
to Germany, unfavorable to America,
and by the statement that Wilson
would be forced to kiss the kaiser's
| feet. Deachman, taking the stand in
his behalf, strongly protested his
love for the United States and his
hatred of Germany and Austria, telling
how, while in the Austrian army, he
shot his superior officer when the lat
! ter struck him with a sword for salut-
ing improperly and then escaped into
Switzerland, later coming to the Unit
ed States.
| Eau Claire - More than 800 cases
are scheduled for trial at the double
session of United States circuit court
here. A number of war cases
are to be tried, most of them growing
out of espionage law violation charges.
Among them are those of Judge Beck
er, Monroe; Louis B. Nagler, Madison,
| former assistant secretary of state;
Joseph Deachman, Grand Rapids, and
J. j. Auer, published and editor of Der
/ Herold, a German newspaper here.
The latter has been indicted on seven
| ty-Seven counts.
| Waupaca-The charges of sedition
made against Charles Horn, county
superintendent of the poor farm, were
dismissed on motion of the district at
torney. IT. was shown that the de.
PENDANT had bought more Liberty
bonds and Savings stamps than had
been required and that statements In
saloon June q were not in opposi-
ton to the government. 1t had been
charged that he said eff we lose the
war the Liberty bonds will not be
worth the paper they are written on"
Although he has wife
and six children Dennis Edward Rice
of Pelican Lake enlisted in the navy
because he found that his dependents
would be taken care of by the govern
ment if he satisfied his desire to "get
into the fight" Rice has the largest
family of any man who has enlisted at
the Milwaukee Office. Under the max
imum government allowance for de-
pendents, Rice's family will receive
| $3.50 every month.
Ashland-Eph Gay and and George
Buchanan, accused of tar and feather
ing Anton Anton, a bartender, for al
legged pro-Germanism, last April, were
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in municipal court. Anton, who was
tarred and feathered, now lives in
Gary, Ind. A court room full of spec
tators cheered Judge Garvin's deci-
cion. The attorney general of Wiscon-
sin was represented by special coun-
sci.
Mukwonago-John A. Sheridan, So,
was shot and killed in his black
smith shop here by Tom Burton, 81,
who Immediately turned the revolver
upon himself with fatal effect. The
men had been friends, but Burton had
suffered mental disorders since having
been injured in street car accident
a few months ago. It is believed that
he suddenly became violently insane
Kenosha = In the circuit court here
Judge Fritz handed down a decision
granting a decree of divorce to Mrs.
Nina Elman Bernstein from her hus-
band, Dr. Maurice A. Bernstein of Ke-
nosha Mrs. Bernstein, who is sis
ter of Micha Elman, the violinist, al
legged failure to support. She was mar
ried to DR.. Bernstein in Buffalo Dec.
81, 1916.
Kenosha-The 13-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Hahn Of Keno
sha, who disappeared from her home,
was found in Racine four days later
by the Rev. Theodore Volkert of the
First Evangelical church of that city,
who brought the girl to her parents
Madison-Lieut Gov. Dithmar will
seek denomination and reelection as
republican. While he has made no an
nouncement of his candidacy, his pa
pers now are in circulation.
Oconomowoc-The 2-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. D. M. White, was
burned to death when their farmhouse
near here was destroyed by fire.