River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-09
Na,us nfthe State.

At the end of July there were $685.
1914 in the state treasury, and S4OS,Sl IN
the general fund.
DIR. H. S. Armsby, formerly chemistto
the Connecticut experimental station,
has accepted the position of agricultural
chemist in the state university at Madi-
son, recently rendered him by the
board of regents.
For moment on Aug. the LIST, the
wind blew at Madison at the terrific
rate of sixty miles per hour, as Prof. e..
S. Holden, director of the Washburn
observatory, reports. Very little dam
age was done, however.
Gov. Rusk denies that he has openly
offered the telegraph strikers financial
aid. His official position compels him
to refrain from taking sides in the mat
ter.
A new cotton factory-the seconds
nearly completes in GAINESVILLE. Stock
in the rst cotton factory in GAINESVILLE
cannot be purchased for twice par
value
Ed F. Carpenter of GAINESVILLE, half
brother of the late Senator Carpenter,
) ~
S., coo.
The Charley Brown block on Spring
street, Chippewa Falls, has been sold to
A. TarranU, of that city, for $4,000.
Edgerton Special; Tobacco plants IN
all save low-land places are thriving
well. Wet but muggy weather, except
except on the soggy land, makes good
tobacco. At Edgerton easements are
being placed under all the warehouses,
some ten or eight in numbe', and all
ware structures, and the ground for two
new ones, about l20x40 feet in size, is
being staked off. 1t is expected that
they will be ready to receive the new
crop.
D. NJ. Osborne & Co., of Auburn, n.
Y. have filed complaint in a suit
against George Esterly q Son of White
water, for $3.50, 600 damages, alleged to
have been suffered by Osborne Co.
on account of a certain circular issued
to agents and farmers by Esterly d Son,
which contained statements said in the
complaint to be false, malicious and
libelious. Osborne claims that his bus
mess in Wisconsin has been greatly in
jured by the circulation.
Henry Heller of Fountain City is sup
posed to have committed suicide by
drowning. While under the influence
of liquor he went home and quarreled
with his wife; afterwards lying down up
on q lounge to sleep. At about 3 o'clock
on the morning of the 2nd he was mis-
sing, and on search being instituted, his
hat and coat were found on the bank OF
the Mississippi, but no trace Of the mis-
sing man can be found. AS he had
threatened several times to drown him
self, it is believed he finally ended his
life in that way.
A fire was discovered in the store of
Peter Trudell at Hixten. Upon enter
ing the building it was found that our
glars had blown the safe during,the night
and taken $500 in money. The fire orig
mated, il is supposed, from the fuse
used in blowing the safe All the books
and papers of Mr.. Trudell were burned.
A correspondent at Hudson of the Pr
oneer Press of st. Paul investigated the
umor set on foot by some Of the Mil
waukee physicians relative to the pre-
valence of leprosv in Northwestern Wis
consin and Minnesota and says: SO far
as st. Croix county is concerned there Is
not now q case known to the medical
fraternity, and never has been more
than two or three cases, and those a
number of years ago. A few cases ~
other parts. however, have been quietly
discussed among the physicians on both
sides of the.line. No alarm is appre-
hended on the part of the experts, as
the cases are extremely rare. and medI-
cal men say it is apparently dying out,
rather than increasing. Indeed it has al
ways been so seclusive that not per cent.
of the community ever heard of its exis-
tence, and not per cent. OF the regular
practicing physicians ever saw a case.
1t can not be in any sense as contagious
as Asiatlc leprosy, as we are told bv two
prominent physicians who had case
number of years ago-the first they had
ever seen, Before they were aware Of
its nature they handled the subject
freely and permitted him to go with his
associates, without the desease being
He was afterward sent to
a New York hospital. Of it, as a whole,
we can only say the people in North
,uacfarn Wisconsin kupw NOT hing of its