River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-09-03


company which went into the hands Of
a receiver.
After taking residence in Madison
for three months to establish his
Clayton cashed $500 in worthless
checks, traded an old automobile for
new one and disappeared.
After having been awarded the prize
ance at the Kiwanis annual district
convention at Janesyille, the Monroe
Kiwanis delegates put over their can
didate, George w. Wilkinson, Monroe,
as governor, without opposition.
William Wollencrep, town Of Wau,
keSha farmer, was fined $1,000 in
Municipal court at Waukesha when he
pleaded guilty to two charges of vio-
lating the Volstead act State prohi-
bition officers found a thirty gallon
still and 300 gallons Of mash in a raid
ON his farm.
An appeal to circuit court from the
findings of the police and fire commits
/ sion which dismissed William Hogan
from the Madison police force was
filed by Hogan's attorney. The board,
after hearing a week ago, dismissed
Hogan for drunkenness while on duty,
although a month before a jury In
superior court had acquitted him.
For The first time since early last
winter the Chippewa river IS near its
normal level. The large dam of the
Flambeau and Chippewa River I'm
provement Co, eight miles above Ojib-
wa has retained most of the river wa
ter, making the river just shallow
stream.
ST. Agnes hospital, Fond du Lac, will
soon have the distinction of being one
of the first hospitals in Wisconsin to
have a complete Photographic depart
ment similar to those of large univer-
sity medical schools, according to Sis
ter jeanette, hospital pathologist, who
has returned from the summer ses-
sion at Marquette university.
More than 100000 feet of lumber and
several hundred cords of wood In the
Kugel mill yard near Argonne were de-
stroyed by fire believed to have been
Of incendiary origin. The Crandon fire
department was called and succeeded
in saving the mill and adjoining build
ings Several fires were observed in
various parts of the yard at the same
time.
Two men were killed and two In
jured, one possibly fatally, when a
high powered roadster failed to make
a turn on the Speedway road near
Madison and tore through fence and
struck a tree Herbert Brueckner, %,
manager of the Blackhawk Riding
academy, and Hubert w. LeBre, SO,
Madison attorney, died few minutes
after the crash.
A mint selling machine In which the
customer places a nickel and receives
a package of minis and, by moving
character on the machine, has his for
tune told, is not a gambling device and
is lawful, ]. L. Messerschmidt, assis-
tant attorney general, Informed George
G. Geffs, district attorney of Rock
county.
Arnold e. Jorgensen, %, Mountain,
Oconto county, died as the result of
wounds received from an accidental
discharge of his shot gun while wolf
hunting near Mountain. The youth
had stopped and rested his gun on the
ground, placing his hand over the muz-
zle leaning on it. A dog which he
held in the other hand on a chain,
became entangled with the gun and
caused it's discharge.
Following receipt of threatening
letter demanding $4,000 or his life,
Alex Castagles, Beloit, Greek grocer,
under police direction, placed decoy
package at the place directed, and Joe
Mantera, "a, was arrested when he
went to get 1t. He confessed and i'm
plicated Joe Marine, who also was ar
rested. The letter, embellished with
a skull and cross bones, was signed !:
"Killer From Chicago Gang"
Max Mason, 48, professor of mathe-
NAUTICAL physics at the University Of
Wisconsin, was selected as the new
president of the University of Chicago.
The announcement of Prof. Mason's
unanimous election by the board Of
trustees to be the successor Of the
late President Ernest De Witt Burton,
and of the Wisconsin professors ac-
ceptance, was made at a University Of
Chicago faculty meeting. The presi-
dent-elect will come to Chicago next
month to take up his duties on the
Midway on Oct. 1.
Fire starting In the beadroom from
, an explosion, due, it is belleed, to
spontaneous combustion, caused loss
of 100000 at the plant of the Gillette
Rubber Co., Eau Claire, throwing a
majority of the 900 employees out Of
work for two to four weeks. The