River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-02-20
WISCONSIN NEWS.

There are sixteen prisoners in the Jail at
Oshkosh
Summer visitors are already engaging
rooms at Wisconsin watering places.
Lancaster boasts of the finest churches and
school houses of any place of its size in the
State.
A resolution before the Milwaukee council
requiring saloons to be closed at midnight
has been defeated.
Ann Eliza Young, the sixteenth wife of
the late Brigham Young, lectured at Bosco-
bel the other night.
The treasurer of Buffalo county has CON
veyed to the State treasury $5,5ol.72 as State
tax, school loans, etc
There were thirty-four deaths in Mil
waukee last week, and five marriages. Nine
were from diphtheria.
The personal property OF ID. C. Tiffany.vof
Ripon, who recently became insane, Is being
sold off under chattei mortgage.
OF total of SOP meals served at the
Friendly Inn in Milwaukee last week, forty
three were paid for at five cents each.
Buffalo county has seven insane persons
in the Mendoza insane asylum-the full
number allowed from any one county by
law.
The Wisconsin chronological institute has
a membership of 1874 and the ladies' auxil-
larry of the institute numbers more than POO
| members.
Lyman Rumsey and family, of Oshkosh
mourn the loss of bright and interesting
boy of four years. The little fellow died of
dphtheria.
The venerable Vicar General Kundig, of
Milwaukee, was stricken with paralysis Feb
/ Isetf
| is entertained.
Muscova is determined to have new
bridge across the Wisconsin river at that
point. 1t is backed by the Chicago, Mllwau
kee Il st. Paul railroad.
During the masquerade at the Academy of
Music in Milwaukee, a few nights since,
Herman Ilhardt had the arteries of one of
his wrists severed by the accidental explosion
of champaign bottle.
The location of the postoffice is the all
absorbing topic of conversation in Ripon.
People up town want it III the old Ford
building, while those doing business on the
square would prefer to have it remain In
Greenway's block.
Joseph Otter, of Green Bay, aged about
80, el0ped with Louisa Supler, aged Is. Dit
ter has wife and five children: he took two
VI VIC ChhdtGI WIN dilu hll tLb dNdA-
able money he had, leaving nothing to sup
port the family. The deserted wife has
sworn out the necessary papers, and the
sheriff has started in pursuit of the guilty
pair.
Honorable Sam Ryan, president of the
State Editorial association, announces that
the next Editorial State convention will be
held at Oshkosh, June II. There is album
dant hotel room in that city, and the au-
thorities and citizens generally will exert
themselves to make the occasion pleasant.
An excursion on Lake Winnebago and Fox
river will be added.
In officiating at the funeral of the late
Hon. John Potter, member of the Assembly,
at Menasha, the Rev. Orson p. Clinton took
occasion to deliver a temperance lecture at
the expense of the character of the deceased.
The leading citizens of Menasha aud num-
Der of his Legislative associates are out in
card condemnjng the course of the reverend
gentlemen and generating the deceased
from the imputation cast on his memory.
The body of John ellis, of Racine, the
young man who died from the effects of d
tumor on the thigh, was exhumed at the re-
quest of the family, and the leg to which
the tumor was attached taken Off This was
done 10 prevent the body from being stolen.
DR.. John G.. Meachem has the tumor in his
possession. As this is the only tumor known
of such immense magnitude, it is exciting
great interest in medical circles. The medi
cal name of the tumor is an osteo-cephalonia.
1t first made its appearance about two and a
half years ago, and what was remarkable the
whole thigh bone was involved at once. Its
growth had been steadily increasing ever
since. At the death of the patient the
tumor exceeded the weight of the body.