River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-03-04

Albert Knoll, Green Bay, who was
adjudged insane six years ago by a
Jury, when tried on a charge of slay-
ing his wife, has now been declared
sane and been given his freedom.
The daylight saving plan in effect
the past two seasons, will again be
adopted by Stevens Points retail
hardware dealers and also by one OF
the city's biggest manufacturing con-
| Germs.
Teachers in the Fond du Lac public
school are wearing broad smiles, fol-
lowing the. receipt of their January
pay checks which included bonuses
for the last half year, ranging from
SIS to 500.
Plans are being formulated at this
early date for the entertainment of 400
hotel men, members of the Northwest,
ern Hotel Mems association, who plan
to stop at Sturgeon Bay while on a
trip next summer
When the Monarch Tractor COM
pany of WATERFOWL, failed to reinstate
William Kressine, former expert. 80
employees, members of Machinists'
Union 1867, left the plant and refused
to go back to work.
A decrease in capitalization of the
flour millers, has been made, accord
ing to papers filed with the register of
deeds. The former capitalization of
$275,000 is now stated at 100000.
Appleton continues on the route OF
the Yellowstone trail despite the fact
that officials of the trail association
had practically completed arrange
ments for shortening the route four
teen miles by eliminating that city.
United States Senator Robert M.
La Toilette will speak at La Crosse,
but not until after the operation he is
to undergo at the Mayo hospital in
Rochester in the srring, according to
a letter to the Citizens Cooperative
league.
Contracts have been let for the
erection of rubberizing plant 60x200
feet one story high, for the Burlock
Rubber Clothing company, and man.
ufacturing and shipping building
three stories high. Work is to com.
mence at once.
Marinette was the first county in the
state to make payment of taxes COL
lected for the soldier bonus to State
Treasurer Johnson. AS a result the
service men of Marinette county will
be the first to receive the bonus.
Stephen Bolles, TO rthe last years
manager of the Oconto, Wis, Enter
prise, began work as editor of the
GAINESVILLE Gazette, which position has
been vacant since the resignation OF
Harry V. Ross, month ago. Mr. Boil
les has been editor of the Buffalo Cud-
rier, News and Enquirer.
A demonstration in bank vault blow
ing was given to employees of The Su-
perior Telegram. as guests of officials
of the First National bank, Superior.
The vaults are being dismantled in
preparation for improvements to the
building. Three charges were placed
after the arrival of the party and vari-
GUS features of the work were ex-'
planned before the charges were set
off.
Police and health authorities of sew.
eral western Wisconsin counties are
searching for William Wilson, EN-.
ploye at Camp Robinson near Sparta.
who disappeared while suffering with
smallpox. Wilson rode on a train
from Sparta to Tomah and slept one
night in hotel there and disappeared.
1t is believed he wandered out into the
country and died of exposure.
The names of seven women are on
the bonus roll of students attending
the state university. Nearly 1,400 ed
ucational bonus students are enrolled.
There are 1905 students from last
semester and 120 enrolled for the first
time this semester. Perhaps 40 stu
dents are enrolled in the Milwaukee
branch of the university. Forty are
enrolled in the agricultural short
course here.
<aIICl tICS 10 luCuSS
at the butt had pinioned Ernest Zeils-
dorf to the ground apparently dead,
workers carried the body to the lum-
Der camp in a blanket. The sorrow
ing lumberjacks were within a few
steps of the shack when Zeilsdorf
leaped from the blanket shouting,
What the matter The mans face is
badly out of shape, but no bones were
broken, save those of the nose.
Judge Byron B. Park in circuit court
for Portage county has handed down
decision approving in its entirety the
verdict of the jury in the Kruger
case, tried before him last December
in change of venue from Clark coun-
ty. judgment has been ordered by the
court for the plaintiff, Emil Lainio,
against all three defendants, Mrs.
Caroline Kruger and her two sons,
Frank and Leslie Kruger. This judg.
ment, to which the jury found the