River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-04-05
Gleanings from Our Exchanges


will never reach trial. He is the guilty
man, without any doubt.
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GIeanings from Our Exchanges.
Wisconsin, in the last two years, has
been called to mourn four of its most
distinguished citizens: Hon. Matt. II.
Carpenter, Hon. c. G. Washburn, Hon.
VIM. Z. Smith, and Hon. Timothy O.
Howe.
Chief Justice erasmus Cole and Hon.
u. S. Pinney will soon start for Europe,
where they will spend the summer.
Mr.. G. e. Parish has sold the Slough
who took possession of the paper April
LIST, while Mr.. Parish goes westward.
A.. B. Barney, editor Of the Water
own Democrat, has commenced legal
proceedings against j. K. Chappell ID
Amos Baum in the sum of So 800 for al.
legged damages.
Ex-senator McGrew of Richmond
county, is in an insane asylum in
Ohio and may recover. About a year
ago he fell from a wagon, striking his
head against frozen ground.
Messrs. Van Brunt, Davis, Hart and
Hays have leased for period of twenty
five years all the shooting grounds on
Horizon Marsh, comprising several
thousand acres, except the extreme
north end, accessible from Fon du
Lac and Waupun, which will be leased
in a short time by parties already ne
gotlating for 1t.
The mystery of John Hesler's disap-
pearance from Rudolph, Wood county,
Wis, is cleared up by the discovery of
his body in the woods, with two bullet
holes in his head. Morain Fenner is
the suspected murderer.
Samuel A. Warner of Windsor, Dane
county, Wis, father of Col. C. E. Warner,
member of assembly from the Second
distric of Dane county, died of apoplexy
very suddenly. He was very old resi-
dent of the county, aged seventy-three,
and highly respected. A daughter is
the wife OIL. A Lewis, lawyer of Mad
ison.
Frank Palmer, farmer living near
Elkhorn, was killed yesterday by the
bursting of a balance wheel of wood
saving machine. A piece of the wheel
went through his head, and other por-
tons were blown through his body.
A five-old- daughter of John MAY of
Mount Pleasant, Wis, was killed by the
accidental discharge of rife in the
hands of her eleven-year-old brother.
Rev. Judson Fitzworth of Chelsea,
Mass, has been called by the Plymouth
Congregational Church of Milwaukee, at
salary of S. 900.
George Reed of Clear Lake jumped
from a North Wisconsin passenger train
at Doran's crossing, receiving injuries
from which he died the following day.
A large brick barn owned by G. L.
Allen, Of Fond du Lac, was burned re-
Gently together with its contents, inclu-
ding three valuable horses. Loss, So, 900
insured for 81 ,450 in the North British
company and $1,000 in the Commercial
Union. Cause unknown.
Bennett, who was sentenced to state pris
for life for the murder of DR.. Hogle, at
Warsaw, but was granted a new trial by
the supreme court, was taken to La
Crosse by the sheriff and is in the coun-
ty Jail awaiting the new trial at the May
term. He is in good health and hope
full of the result of the trial.
Henry Sherry, of Oshkosh, sold Z ,0O0,-
600 feet of Upper Wolf logs to syndi-
cate of three or four mill firms there for
SIT per 1000, without sorting. The
same class of logs sold last year at $50,
yet SIT is considered high at this time.
Congressman Guenther is now going
to Europe, and will return disguised as
an emigrant, and In an emigrant vessel,
in order to see with his own eyes. what
treatment and fare the emigrant re-
ceives on his passage.
Judge Howe was Unitarian.
The business of Paige & Co. of Osh-
kosh, one of the several firms in which
Paige, the suicide, was a partner, has
been put in the hands of assignees. The
liabilaties of Paige & Co., are $50, 600, held
principally by banks in Oshkosh and
Fond du Lac.
Prof j. ID. Butler of Madison. Wis,
one of the most encyclopedia scholars in
the northwest, is in New Orleans.
Goodbye, mother" were the part
ing words of the burglars who took poor
old Mrs Rahling's 500 at Wacousta,
Wis, recently.
Wisconsin wheat is in fair condition.
Flowing for spring sowing will not COM
mence for fortnight.
Green Bay thinks OF it rather in sor
row than in anger that Judge Howe
funeral did not take place there.
Farmers from various sections of the
country say that winter wheat is in fair
condition, and that in some sections it
had been slightly injured by dry, frosty
weather. Slight SHOWS which have oc-
Cured in the last few days have proved
beneficial, having supplied moisture,
which was badly needed. The acreage
is about the same as last year, and the
prospect is that the crop will be about
equal.
A Cumberland, WIS., dispatch says:
The legislature has made two new coun-
ties, one from parts of Bayfield, and Ash
land counties, named Sawyer, in honor
Of Senator SAWYER. This county viii
have its seat at Hayward, about forty
eight miles north of Cumberland. A
newspaper has alre ldy been started at
Harvard to receive the county printing.
The other new county is made out of the
eastern part of Burnett county, with
Shell Lake for county seat. This county
is called Washburn, in honor of Gov. G.
g. Washburn. What the result of these
rev counties will be, is very hard to say,
but that there viii be good many
chances for misunderstanding is GER
tain.
A committee of the Woman's Christi
an Temperance Union have recently
wrecked a saloon in Oregon, which was
proving too strong temptation for the
xor1ng men of the place.