River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-02-22
ital ofsl5a n00 has been organized.

ital of$150, 900, has been organized.
The Bayfield, county court house at
bayfield, was found to be on fire, and be-
fore help could be obtained the building
was entirely consumed with many valu-
able papers and the library of the Bay
| field County Bar association. Most OF the
| books and records were in the safes and
vaults, and are believed to be safe. The
insurance is $1,000, and the loss about
SIS 900.
The house of Daniel Kennedy, in Por-
ter, Rock county, burned Tuesday, and
his daughter aged fourteen, and a boy
Younger, persisted in the flames. Ken
nedy had left home on drunk, and the
mother was alone with the children at
the time.
There is chance for summary SEES
sion OF Judge Lynchs court in Rock
county, Wisconsin. John Kennedy,
drunken vigabond. who had quarreied
with his family and left his house, is sus-
| pected of having returned at night and
set lire to the building, in which two
children were burned to death.
Mrs. NJ. l.. Park wife of assistant sec
rotary of state is dead.
A fifteen-year-old youth named Pow
ell was frozen to death near his home
| in the town of Genoa on the 4th inst.
| He had been to dance, and on his way
home after midnight partook too freely
of bottle of alcohol.
James Leonard, of Stockton, suddenly
! found a pack of hungry wolves at his
heels while crossing the bluffs near his
home few days ago, and he was obliged
IL n
eral hours, when the wolves became dis
couragsi and left.
Hon. John B. Howe who died of apo
plexy at his home in Lima, Ind, on the
Goth ult., bequeathed $4,000 cash to
Nashotah House, Nashotah, Wis, for
school of divinity for the education of
men for the ministry of the Protestant
Episcopal church.
Palmer Bros. of La Crosse have sold
the mare Marion II. to Ed Silverman, of
Milwaukee.
La Crosse will soon be lighted by the
Brush electric system.
Joel Mason has been nominated for
receiver and Michael Field for register
of the land office at st. Croix Falls, Wis.
James Brown, in letter to Milwau
kee paper, claims to have murdered
John Hessler at Westfield, WIS. Fred
Fenner was arrested for the crime, and
Brown asks to have him released, al
though he is himself beyond reach.
A young man named James Carter, a
resident of Jefferson township, while
| fooling with revolver accidentally shot
himself in the abdomen, the wound
causing his death.
The Wisconsin Wood Pulp company,
OF Centralia, Wood county, has been or
ganized, with capital of $25, 600, 0 o, for
the purpose of manufacturing wood pulp
and paper.
Rev. Cyrus Nichols of Racine died last
week aged eighty-three years. During
| the forty years he was actively engaged
| in missionary work in Wisconsin, and
| through him many churches in the state
| have been organized.
Thomas NJ. Nichol, the hard money
advocate has bought one-third interest
in the Bethesda mineral springs at Wa
| kesha. and is regarded as having made
considerable wealth during the past few
years.
Pelton, Pomeroy & Co.. music dealers
! OF Chicago, who recently 1alled owed
| Capt Taintor Of Menomonie S5l 900.
Geo. C. Hough, of New Richmond, ST..
| Croix county, has been confirmed as
postmaster at that place.
The following is the band of Regents
of the state university: AT large-G. Ell.
Paul, of Milwaukee, and E. w. Reyes of
Madison.
First congressional district-John G.
McMyni. Racine.
/ Second-Henry ID. Hit, Fond du Lac.
| Third-Wm. f. Villas, Madison.
Eourth-George Reopen, Milwaukee.
Fifth-Hiram Smith, Sheboygan.
Sixth-A. G. Parkinson, Columbus.
Seventh-C II. Williams, Baraboo.
| Eighth-John c, Spooner, Hudson.
Ninth-James M. Bingham, Chippewa
Falls.