River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-05-24
WISCONSIN NEWS.
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Miles City Press: The subjoined commune
cation which was received yesterday morning
enclosed three photographs, one Of which,
probably the most recent was instantly identi-
| fed by Acting Sheriff Wash Kelly as q living
! likeness of the condemned criminal James Ed
/ wards who recently escaped from the guard
at Gslatin City while being conveyed to the
penitentiary. II was taken for Lion Williams, =
/ alias Maxwell. who, With his brother, mur-
4 deTed the Coleman brothers at Durand, Hepin
county. Wis, July 10. 1881 The fact
of Edwards being suspected Of being
| the same person as the notorious Lon
Williams, whom the officers of justice have
been in pursuit OF for nearly two years, had
already beea published in the daily Press and
! through that source came to the attention Of
| the writer OF the letter III question, who kindly
/ forwarded to MS The means Of verifying the
! suspicion This has been done now beyond
| the shadow of q further doubt, and the
| chagrin which our county officials feel at the
escape OF one OF their prisoners is heightened
| by the fact OF his now being recognized as
one of the most notorious aud most desperate
criminals of the Northwest:
| FERGUS FALLS, May 4. 1SS3.--Ediior Press:
| Noticing ia PIONEER PRESS of the lib inst, an
extract from your paper to James Edwards
alias MAXWELL. etc, take hberty 10 inclose the
copied photographs Of LION l was well ae-
auainted with both OF the Williams, also with Cole
man brothers, killed by them, aad at the time OF
| that tragedy was district attorney Of 81. Croix
county, Wis, near by where the shooting occurred,
and for these reasons took active part in eudeaYors
| 10 eapture / had all pictures taken and
| personally saw to the distribution Of
| same. These pictures We're all good
ing, aud it account of these and Others that
| Ed was finally detected and taken in Nebraska II
they viii aid you your officials shall be well re-
Ed told US, after his capture in Nebraska and re-
| turn TO Wisconsin, and before he fell from the
court house steps and broke his neck, that Lon at
lima f he shooting Of the {0lnmnuS
| cheek filed with fine shot, that he had picked out
| fifty. These probably SCARED bis cheek, Yours,
| etc. Ii. f. WOODWARD
Colby, village of 500 inhabitants, on
the Wisconsin Central railway, has two
postoff1ces, the office of east Colby hav-
ing just been established only l 800 feet
distant from the old postofiice.
Martin Kenset of Cambridge, Dane
county, died recently, having blown out
the gas on retiring in Turkish bath es-
| Enlistment.
Central Wisconsin wheat looks we'll
but the greatest increase of acreage IS in
| tobacco.
Official returns from the recent cleo
tons in the Fourth judicial circuit dis
trict of Wisconsin show the total as fol
Nevill 1870; scattering, 81.
Joseph Thomas of Madison sought to
rid himself of his fiance by throwing her
into the lake.
Wisconsin benevolent and charitable
institutions cared for nearly 1000 I'M
fortunates last year.
During a recent severe thunder storm
| the sheds on the farm of r. Smith in
East Bristol, Dane county, we're fired by
lightning and destroyed, with large
amount Of stock.
The Wisconsin Wagon company, with
capitol stock of $40, 900 and location at
| Madison, file articles of association in
the secretary of states office.
From reports received bv the state
board Of supervision it is learned that
the various charitable and penal insti
tutions of the state had inmates as fol-
ows, May 1:
State insane hospital at Madison. .......,...470
| Northern insane hospital at Oskdsh........57
State prison at Waupun. 355
| Industrial school for boys at WaUkesha..282
Deaf and NIB institute at Delevan..."..1S8
Blind institution at Evansville .............. 50
D. J.. Sterling, manager of White Rock
spring, was arrested at Waukesha,
recently by the United States marshal,
| charged with tampering with mail mat
| ter belonging to the Bethesda Spring
company. The complaint was made by
| Manager Dagget of the Bethesda Spring,
of which Sterling is ex-manager.
Cora Voight charges one Joseph
Thomas of the village of Sun Prairie
with attempting to take her life. The
| couple were engaged to be married.
| The girl claims that Thomas tried to in
duce her to take boat ride. She re-
| fused, when he pushed her into the
water, jumped in himself, and two or
| three times held her head under water
Her cries attracted party to the scene,
when Thomas let her 90. He says that
the girl jumped in, threatening to drown
| herself, and he jumped in TO rescue her.
Henry Wollering, one of the oldest
| dry goods merchants in Watertown,
made an assignment to-day for the ben
| eft of his creditors. His assets cover his
liabilities, which are $1,000
Peter McCourt, an old resident of
Oshkosh died recently aged sixty-fve
| He achieved some notorlety last winter
| through the marriage of his daughter to
Senator Tabor OF Colorado
Mrs. Hudah NJ. Sanborn, wife of
County Judge Alden S. Sanborn, died
suddenly at Madison of brain affection,
agen fifty-eight years. At one time she
was an inmate of the state insane hOspi-
tai.
Seneca E. Truesdell, ST.. died at the res
idence of his son in La Crosse aged fifty
seven years. He became resident of
Houston county, MINI, in 1857, keeping
a hotel at the steamboat landing for
many years, and was widely known
throughout the State. His son, at whose
home he died, is a printer and well
known.
Articles of association of the Brooks &
Ross lumber company, whose location
is at Wausa1 has been fled with the sec
rotary of state; the incorrporatorS being
B. w. James w. B. Scofeld and Frank
Cawley. The capital stock is $25 goo, and
is divided into $500 shares.
Mr.. Metcalf, who offered TO build
$50 600 art museum for the city of Mil
waukee has withdrawn his pledge owing
to lack of interest on the part of the
people, anu DcCdISc VI uIACudllbdblG iG-
marks.
At La Crosse, i. G. Colman and Mrs.
Genevra Reed were united in marriage
at the residence of r. H. Spence, broth
er-in-law of the bride. Mr.. Colman is
the son of G. L. Colman, the well known
lumbelman, and the lady is a daughter
of Rev Mr.. Wykoff, formerly Of Lake City
and now of Minneapolis.
United States Marshall Oakley. of
Madison, has lately appointed Mr.. H. A.
Stone, of GAINESVILLE, as deputy marshal
for the western district of this state.
Mrs. Cynthia Francis residing with her
daughter, Mrs. Col. Morton, at Madison,
celebrated her hundredth anniversar
the 18th of May. In 1893, the year in
which Washington died, she was mar
ried, being at the time only sixteen
years of age.
In Friendship, Felix Foucher,
nine-year-old boy, was sitting on board
on top of corn mill, which was in mo-
ton, when he fell through, and both
his legs were caught by the teeth of the
mill. One leg was entirely torn off as
far as the knee, and the other ankle
crushed and manglcd all out of shape, SO
that he will probably have to suffer
amputation.
Chief of Police Donnelly arrested in
Eau Claire man named Ed Williams,
who is alleged 10 be noted burglar and