River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-03-18
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

elected surgeon at the hospital of the
Wisconsin Veterans Home at Wau-
paca at meeting of the board of man
ayers to succeed the late Maj Nc
Callen.
Two tractors, one OF them of the
caterpillar type, have been bought by
Langlade county to be used by high.
way patrolmen in maintenance work
on three sections of federal trunk line
and two Of state road.
Class room teachers of Oshkosh to
| the number of 100 have organized a
branch of the American Federation Of
Teachers, affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor. Temporary Off
GERS have been chosen.
Authority to start business has been
granted by Commissioner of Banking
Marshall Cousins to the Dairyman's
State bank of Clintonville. The cap
ital is $4,000. The incorporators are
Charles Bohn, A. L. PEPPER and Max
Steig.
The death toll of the explosion in
the plant Of the Aluminium Goods Man
ufacturing company at Manitowoc was
increased to six. when Miss Emily
Becker died. The young lady was ter
ribly burned and suffered much. Four
girls remain at the hospital, and their
chances for recovery are favorable,
physicians say.
GAINESVILLE will be the terminus for
three auto bus lines. One will operate
between GAINESVILLE and Beloit, anoth-
er between GAINESVILLE and Edgerton,
and the third will be for the convent
ence of employees of the Samson
Tractor company whose plant is on
the outskirts of that city. George
Flakes will operate them.
The largest amount ever paid into
| the treasury OF Racine county as an
| inheritance tax was received when
the Farmers Loan & Trust Co. New
Frederick Robinson, sent a draft for
S95, 100, the tax on the Robinson es-
tate valued at s2,500,000. The estate
is to be divided between the widow,
son and daughter.
Mrs. Stanley Blomski, Sugar Greek.
Wis. was found guilty of murder in
| the second degree in Circuit court at
| Rhinelander. in connection with the
death of her 6-year-old son, and was
| sentenced to serve twenty-year sen
| tence in states prison. She is al
| legged to have beaten her son. causing
l bn ii
On trial, was acquitted.
| Matt Arland is serving sixty day
term in the Iron county Jail after hav-
ing been found guilty of devoting
money collected for the cause of the
In. w. w. to his own use. He was
arrested by Hurley officers while So
iciting funds to help pay for the de-
tense of /. w. w. members charged
with Armistice day murders in Cen
tralia, Wash When arraigned in mu-
nicipal court at Hurley, he pleaded
guilty to spending the money.
| Seventeen passengers were injured.
and eighty lives were endangered,
when an interurban car, carrying men
| rom work at North Fond du Lac,
| crashed through the Scott Street
bridge at Fond du Lac. When the car
lad reached the center of the bridge,
buckled. letting the rear end down
nto ten feet of water. The front end
| hung on the bridge, permitting the
passengers to climb upward and to
| escape through the windows.
Arnt Gudmundsen. prominent resi-
| lent of Washington Island, has re-
| urned from a trip to his boyhood
| nome in Iceland. after an absence of
| 'orty-seven years. He says the coun-
| ry has advanced along about the
| same lines as has the United States.
Washington Island, Door county's
sland township, may rightly be called
Little Iceland, due to the fact that a
arge percentage of its inhabitants are
descendants of people of that far
northern country.
| The little son of John Wooderick
Wautoma who had been having throat
| rouble for months was found to have
button lodged in his throat when ex
mined by Fond du Lac physicians
rhe button had been there for a year..
/ The high cost of dying was added
o by the Racine cemetery coming
| ion when it was decided to increase
be cost of grave digging by 50 for
each excavation. 1t was said the in
'rease was necessary in order to meet
| he demands of the cemetery employees
'or higher wages.
Killed by bullet from a revolver
IF an unknown officer shooting in self
iefense and in the discharge of his
iuty was the verdict of a jury at a
.oroner's inquest to determine the
.ause of death of Barney Sekat, killed
when federal and local officers raided
Sekat's saloon at Racine The federal
,ncers, testified that Sekat shot first,
md though his revolver was not dis
covered, his father, Mike Sekat, who
came to the sons help is credited with