River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-03-27
air-breathing and fiesh-feeding batra-
chian.--Penn Monthly
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Hudson is To have a Scandinavian col
The making of maple sugar is now in
order.
The English sparrow has appeared in APP
pleton.
A Lutheran college is to be established at
Hudson.
John Flood, cripple, of Fond du Lac, is
to get 81 900 back pension.
Hersey is one of the growing towns on the
line of tha West Wisconsin.
Trout are dying off by the thousands at
the fish hatcheres south of Madison.
Gen. Fitzpatrick has been lecturing at sew
eral points in the State very acceptably.
DIR. G. Aufin, of Chicago, was knocked
down and robbed of $50 the other day, at
River Falls.
A warrant was sworn out the other day at
Oshkosh against Romon Grom for brutally
assaulting his wife.
There were nine marriages aad two deaths
recorded in the Office of the register of deeds
in Oshkosh last week.
A freshet has washed some of the bridges
away over the creeks on the road leading
from Eau Claire to Mondovi.
But one passenger was killed, and not an
other injured on any of the lines operated
| by the Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad COM
| pany.
| Father O'Malley, Catholic priest, deliy-
| cred temperance address at Oshkosh the
| other night, in tho pulpit of the Presbyterian
| church.
There have been five mills erected in Bar
| ron county, and frames are up for eleven
more on the line of the North Wisconsin
railway.
One of the passenger locomotives OF tie
| Wisconsin Central railway makes the re-
markable mileage of 800 miles every week,
or 81 ,4s0 miles year.
Monroe Sentinel: Reports from our bee
keepers are favorable. The workers come
out of their long sleep saucy enough, and
generally report pleasant winter.
Immense focks of wild geese, number
| ing many thousands, have been passing over
points in Fond du Lac county of late. They
are flying southwark, which is very singu
lar fact at this season of the year.
The new town of Cumberland, on Beaver
Dam lake, ON the North Wisconsin railroad
gives every indication of being rapidly bull
up. Last week fifteen lots were bought TO
business purposes, with prospect that man,
more will be speedily taken up.
An infant son, aged 16 months, of Mr.. ant
Mrs. Spurbeck, of Palmyra, choked while
eating his supper Friday night, by swallow
ing some hard substance that could not b.
dislodged, though medical aid w"s i'm
mediately summoned, and died after grea
suffering.
The Green Bay Gazette says it is reporte,
that 5000 were found secreted in lounge
in the residence of the priest wh'
died so suddenly in Preble. 1t was one b.
constantly used to rest on, and before hi
death he had given his housekeeper instruc
tons. that in any case of accident by mr.
during his absence, to save the lounge. as h
was particularly attached to it.
James Ryan, who lived one mile and
half from Hanover, got off the train at tn
latter place on his return from GAINESVILLE
the other night, and started through the
darkness to go TO his farm. He did no
reach his home, and after day or two hi
unaccountsble absence led to a search, ant
his body was found at the edge af pont
not far from the Hanover station. He hac
lost his way and had probably died from COLI
and exposure.
Last September the schooner Arcturus ar
rived in Racine with load of wood. Th'
captain could not hire men to unload tn
vessel at a reasonable price, and acoordingl.
he sent to Milwaukee for a force to do tn
job. They arrived, but when they attempte'
to unload the craft the docNwallopers her
pitched into them and compelled them t.
abandon the work. Now Capt. Cheyne and
Newell, of Milwaukee, have served paper
upon the city to recover damages amountin.
to $500.
Waupun Leader: Fred. Wellhouse, Esol
of Martin Wellhouse, of Alto accidental,
shot himself while hunting near the ston
church, on Wednesday afternoon. His com
panions, Mike Brezer and Adolph Barkelaar
we're few rods away at the time, and hear
ing the report went to him and found hin
dead, the charge from his shotgun havint
entered under the right ear. The deceased
was about "a years of age, a promising yount
man, and highly respected by all who knew
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