River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-09-13

The hop crop OF Jefferson county is
only one-fourth the average.
jefferson county is trying young
man for trying to drown his sweetheart.
John C. Snyder, well-known and re-
spected citizen of Granvill, committed
suicide.
The Ketchum Patterson rape case of
Black River Falls is complicated by the
spirting away Of the girl by her broth
err.
Ex-Gov. G. X. Davis of Minnesota was
appointed orator for the reunion of the
Twentv-eighth Wisconsin regiment at
Elkhorn.
A Milwaukee man, who thought
drug shop was a bar-room and drank
ammonia instead of gin, sues the proprl-
etor for $4,000.
Nels Wheeler of Baraboo, witty law
yer of state repute, is soon to issue hui
morous work entitled Old Thunderbolt
in Justice Court.
The Badger Knitting company of Mil
waukee, with a capital of $4,000, filed
articles of association with the Wiscon-
sin secretary of state.
Il mysterious disease has appeared
among the hogs around Madison. MI
merous heavy losses are reported. Some
| maintain it is cholera.
John johnson, a laborer on the Mil
waukee & st. Paul railway at Deleyan
was killed at Easton by falling between
the cars and being run over.
Mr.. F. A Drake, graduate of the
a1o - $50 srin III fha
position of assistant in elocution at the
| university during the next school year.
Frank Green, patient in the Racine
hospital, jumped from the third story
window unhurt. His arm had been
broken and the setting was not dis
turbed.
George c. Gintz, of Chippewa, editor of
the Herald, received a severe fall, dis
| locating his shoulder, in addition to
other injuries. He will be laid up for
some time.
Rev. Henry Koechler, Lutheran
clergyman from Chicago, was sentenced
in the municipal court in Milwaukee to
thirty days in the house of correction
for being drunk and disorderly.
Judge Pulling has allowed the widow
of Simon B. Page, the Oshkosh lumber
man who recently committed suicide,
| 500 per month pending the settlement
of her deceased husbands affairs.
The Wisconsin telephone company his
commenced action in the circuit court
against the city of Oshkosh to recover
the sum of $500, which is paid to the de-
| PENDANT commonwealth uuder protest as
a license tax.
Gen. Simeon Mills /, 900 acre cranber
~ marsh promises Il larger crop this
wear than ever Numerous other
marshes aae looking well. Pickers are
| offered IS cents a bushel. Picking be-
gins this week.
A fire consumed James Adams saw
works at Wausau. Loss, 10000; in
surance $4,000. The fire is believed to
have been incendiary. This is the sec
ond time Adams has been burned out
in Wausau, and he had some expert
ence before gong there.
A. II. Paine, proprietor of sawmill
at Millston, was found in the mill, wound
around the shafting, crushed and dead.
He had started the machinery before
the men arrived, and his clothes were
caught by shaft. He was about seventy
years old, and one of the pioneers of
Monroe county.
A steam dry house belonging to the
Helm & Meyer stave factory, at Neils-
Vile, caugh. fire from some defect in the
heating apparatus, and was entirely de-
stroved. together with the contents,
consisting OF eight or nine hundred dol
lars worth of barrel headings. Loss
ST. 600; fully insured.
The Wisconsin State university opened
with an attendance of nearly $50 over
last year. The recently created depart
me mt of pharmacy opens Oct. ], and this
is expected to attract a number of stu
dents. The institution is in a highly
hourjshing condition, and is growing in
popularity year by year.
The state medical society elected the
following officers: President, DR.. bod |
son, Berlin; first vice president, DIR. +. !
w, Bartlett; second vice president, Dr. |
Jenkins; censors, Drs. Sim and Thorn !
dyke; secretary add treasurer, DIR. |
Reeves. The next annual meeting will |
be held the first Tuesday In May, 1884. |
The scandal in which Algernon Sarto-
ris, Gen. Grants son-in-laW, was recent |
ly involved in Milwaukee, was called to |
mind the other day in the circuit court,
when a judgement against Mrs II. B.
BuaL, alias, was rendered in favor of |
the Cream City Furniture company. |
The amount was $22S.70 and the costs of |
the suit.
In the Jefferson county court John r. /
Bennett, Judge, presiding, Joseph Thorn
as, accused of attempting to drown Miss
Carrie Veith in a mill pond in the town |
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