River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-07-23
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: NEWS OF THE
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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and attorney for A years In James
| vile, is dead
The new Wausau hotel, built dur
ing the last year at cost of more
than $1,500,000, has been formally
| opened.
BY unanimous vote the poor commits
sioners of Wisconsin at their conven-
1 ton in Superior voted TO oppose adop-
ton of an old-age pension law by their
/ respective counties.
/ William Halberstadt, s former resi-
dent of Racine and owner of Pickerel
Point resort in Villas county, received
serious burns about the face and body
as a result of an explosion of gaso-
line lamp. Skin grating will probably
be necessary.
The political atmosphere In Wiscon-
sin was somewhat cleared when Secre-
tary of State Fred Zimmerman an
nounced that he will not be candi-
date for United States senator to fill
the unexpired term of Robert NJ. La
Toilette.
A new university degree In metal
lurgical engineering has just been au-
thorized by the board of regents of
the University of Wisconsin. Hereto
fore the student interested in metal
lurgy was classified with the mining
engineers, but took the majority of his
work in metallurgical subjects. Now
he Is entitled to degree in metal
lurgy as separate field.
The office and warehouse of the
Standard Oil Co. in Fond du Lac ap-
! pear to be "easy pickings" for gang
Of sledgehammer burglars. For the
second time within three weeks, and
the third time in less than a year,
cracksmen entered the office a few
nights ago, wrecked the combination
on new safe, which had replaced
one damaged in a preceding raid, and
escaped. with $500. Three weeks be-
fore, approximately $500 was stolen.
| A premature explosion of dynamite
cost the life of Emmett Meske at North
Freedom, Sank county, and injured
his father, and S. j. Hackett, another
workman employed at stone quarry.
/ The three men were bantering over
their experience with the explosive.
! The younger Meske was loading deep
hole with a heavy charge. He is be-
/ lieyed to have struck the dynamite a
little too forcefully, breaking the cap,
Meske's head was crushed by a fall
ing boulder.
1t is a violation of the state dry
law to manufacture home brew OF
homemade beer if the same is in
toxicating, but the mere possession OF
such home brew in the home Is not
a violation of the state law, according
to an opinion given by ]. E. Messer
schmidt, assistant attorney general, tC
Dist. Atty. Otto L. Glen of Waupaca
county. Under the federal law, the
opinion states, possession of any in.
toxicating liquor, except such specially
authorized, is unlawful
Two thousand pounds of nitroglycer-
Inc and large quantity of dynamite
were exploded at the Dupont Powder
Co plant at Barksdale, when a mix
ing house and storahouse were struck
by lightning. Fifteen employees of the
company were injured by flying splint-
| nd frfa hn In y,g4
Inc storehouse and dynamite mixing
house were destroyed, windows shat
tered for a radius of one mile and the
city of Ashland, about four miles
across the bay, shaken as by an earth
quake.
I George Shields, convicted of assault
with intent to do bodily harm and sen
fenced to the Grant county Jail for
three months at hard labor, has been
granted a reprieve by Gov. Blaine
pending hearing and final determine
ton for his application for a pardon.
The Shields case is an aftermath Of a
Khan controversy in BoscobeI over q
year ago. Shields, as night watch
man, attempted to halt the progress
of Khan parade being held late at
night in the street of Boscobel and was
knocked down. 1t is claimed he at
tempted to fire at one of the masked
marcherS.
Victor II. Baker, %, former Berlin
chiropractor, was bound over to the
September term Of the circuit court
at Oshkosh to face a charge Of muir.
dering his 21-year-old wife, Gertrude
June q near Fremont, while the two
We're on camping trip Bakers
mother-in-law, Mrs. Julia Hess, Der.
lin, the mother Of the girl who was
killed by shotgun blast through her
head, took the stand and valiantly
fought for the freedom of the man
accused The prosecution charged
that Baker killed his wife after DELHI.
crate plotting in order to collect In.
surance policies on her life amounting
to almost $4,000. The Bakers were
married last Thanksgiving.