River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-02-26
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The city of Manitowoc, Wis, has
purchased the Victoria hotel site here
and will transform it into city hall
after July l. The city will occupy
part of the building for city offices at
once.
Maj. Charles L. Sheridan, Federal
employment agent for Montana, has
announced that officers will be estab-
lished at Butte, Missoula, Great Falls
and Billings. Veterans will be given
preference.
Milton Kelley, 10 year old son of
former Congressman and Mrs. j. E..
Kelley of Flandreau, S. D., was seri-
ously injured while playing with a
loaded rifle. A bullet passed through
the boys abdomen.
A report from the Montana state
board of health to the county health
officer of Flathead county confirmed
the theory that the poisoning Of five
persons at Java, Mont, was occasion.
ed by eating ripe olives.
A week ago, Jacob Windhauser of
Ashland, Wis, died from an attack OF
pneumonia. A week later his son
Jacob died from the same disease, and
one day later another son, Bernard,
II, also died from pneumonia.
Walter Hill has purchased the inter
ests Of r. P. McClelland in the Hill
Land and Cattle corporation in Mon
tana. The st. Paul man will finance
81 r. o a,rl> ND
Power river cattle property alone.
The question of whether the petit.
tions under which it is sought to hold
up the Montana closed primary act are
valid and sufficient is to be settled in
court. w. L. Gleason, a Helena mer.
chant, has petitioned the supreme
court for an alternative writ of man.
date.
South Dakota, the state conference
Of all protestant evangelical churches
OF the state, in connection with the In
ter-church World movement, was held
at Mitchell, Wednesday. 1t is expect
ed this will be the largest gathering
of South Dakota ministers ever con
Quoted
Sitting in front of a coal stove play.
ing with celluloid comb nearly cost
the life of the 8 year old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. P. J. Bylow, of Neenah,
Wis. i'he comb ignited and the
flames spread to the child's clothing.
The father smothered the flames. The
child sustained sever burns.
Olaf Berg, woodsman and railroad
man, native of Ishpeming. Mich, made
three attempts on his life as the eli.
max to spree on denatured alcohol.
He cut himself twice with knife,
then threw himself under moving cars
in the South Shore yards and had one
leg taken off. He is at hospital and
may die.
r. E. L. Newbern, who was sent
from Washington to take charge of
things on the Bad River reservation
in connection with the recent smallpox
epidemic, reports that the disease has
nearly exhausted itself on the reserva-
ton and that there were no deaths.
Hundreds of Indians were successfully
yaccinated.
A warrant charging manslaughter in
the first degree has been issued for
Frank Bouchard, a railroad baggage
man of Chicago, who is alleged to have
transported wine and whisky made
with wood alcohol to party in Elroy,
Wis, which caused the death of Mrs.
Nellie Ward, church organist, and
Raymond Hart, son of an Elroy bank
president.
A total of 11S,4O9 French certificates
were bestowed upon the next of kin of
the Americans who died in the World
war last Sunday. it was announced to-
day at the national headquarters of
the American Legion, which had SUI
pervision of the ceremonies to be held
in all parts of the country. The ma
tons honor roll is comprised of 1877
952 soldiers, $500 sailors and 1851
marines.
Theft of an automobile at Lewis
town, Mont, its sale just around the
corner from where it was stolen, and
later holding up of the men who
bought the machine and relieving
them of their remaining money, are
among achievements Harry Wallace,
alias C. L. Mcconnell, boasts of, ac-
cording to the police. The car was
afterward recovered by its original
owner. Wallace is held on larceny
charge.
Lewis Times. who lives on farm
10 miles from Condo, S. D., has been
arrested and charged with unlawfully
holding two Liberty Bonds valued at
$3.50. 1t was alleged he had arranged
for the purchase of ~onds and through
some error in the mail service, bonds
belonging to another person were sent
him, his own not reaching him. When
the error was discovered, it is alleged,
he refused to surrender the bonds.
One child was killed, three severely
h,,rnad aud Ika Rupplaa a miner may