River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-05-31
Miscellaneous State News

Miscellaneous State News.
1t is reported in Milwaukee that d.
NJ. Belden OF the insurance firm of Bel
den & McIoren, is short in his accounts
and has skipped out.
Jerry Narcotic and Hector Craig hay
been arrested at Oakland, for passing
counterfeit money. 1t is thought gan
Of counterfeiters exists in that vicinity.
Congressman Dick Guenther has sold
his interest in the Bethesda spring a
Waukesha to Thomas Nj. Nichol.
Daubner, the perennial pension THE
of Waukesha, Wis, is refused anothe
trial, and goes to prison.
The proposed Milwaukee Grand hote
on the site of the Newhall viii not be
built. Alexander Mitchell goes back on
it.
The proceedings against D. Sterling
Waukesha, for tampering with the ma
of the Bethesda company, has been dis
missed.
Articles of incorporation OF the Spaul-
ding Elevator Construction company,
Z u Claire, with a capital of Sll2,OO0,
Office at Madison.
The committee appointed by the state
agricultural society to locate the next
state fair, has finally decided upon Madi-
son.
Hon. J. Ii. Foster, the assistant rail-
road commissioner, will soon make an
extensive tour of inspection over the
various railway lines in this state.
Rev. Henry Green, rector of the Epis-
copal church in Evansville, died at the
home of his daughter, near Waunakee,
recently.
Rev. Daniel E. Pierce, for several
wears pastor at Racine and Portage, was
installed as pastor of the First Presby-
terrain church of Beaver Dam.
While a brakeman of the Chicago &
Northwestern railway, named 6. Math,
was attempting to make coupling at
Oconto, recently, his foot slipped and
he was cut in two across the hips, kill
ing him instantly. His remains were
| taken to Escanaba.
Emma Laura Peterson, aged fourteen
years, accompanied by her brother,
about seven years old, left home to at
tend a school in Green Bay conducted
by the Sisters of Charity, since when
| her parents have not seen her.
Tabor did the square thing by old man
McCourt of Oshkosh. He paid $500 fol
his coffin, bought an embroidered
shroud worth $50 and hired four priests
The coffin top was French glass, an incl
thick, extending from head to foot.
Col. VIM. f. Villas has been retained
by Mrs. w. D. Bacon, Of Waukesha, in
the sensational divorce suit which she
recently instituted against her husband
on the ground of neglect and lll-usage.
jill. Duncan was killed at Chippewa
Falls by the cay ng in Of a well which he
was digging for w. B. Morford. The
| we'll was sixty-fve feet deep, and com
menced caving at the bottom. Duncan
was brought within twenty-five feet o
/ the top, when the sides caved in, GOV
ering him. The remains have not yet
been dug out.
| The wife of Tip Hillon was shot quite
mysteriously at her residence north 0
| Neilsville. While arranging her hair al
| the mirror a rifle ball came whistlins
| through the window and entered hC
right hand, passing out through thC
wrist 1t came very near entering Il
| skull.
| At the Wavsan Lumber company
mill, Wausau, while Engineer Tidmar
and another man were prying at fly
wheel with scantling to get it off the
center, the engine started up suddenly
and the scantling struck the engineer
on the head, killing him. The body
was thrown on the main belt and car
ried around the fly wheel, being com
| pletely disemboweled and many bones
| broken.
An emigrant woman, evidently Nor
wegian. gave birth to bouncing boy on
a train approaching Oconomowoc from
the east recently. The passengers i'm
mediately christened the infant Ocono-
mowac rn-on-the-train-son.
In Friendship, Felix Foucher, nine
year old boy, was sitting on board on
| top of corn mill, which was in motion
| when he fell through, and both his leg;
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 mangled all out of shape, so that he
will probably have to suffer amputation.
At Rhinelander. Lincoln county, a
| few days ago, the citizens got on the
rampage and burned q house of ill
fame owned by one Stevens. They were
aided in the good work by three or four
of the girls who had escaped from the
house, and who took this method of re-
vengihg themselves upon Stevens for his
inhuman cruelty to them while they
were inmates of the den. All the furni-
ture was burned with the house, Stew
ems was driven out of town and the girls
left the country.
Mr.. Cyrus Woodman, of Cambridge,
Mass, in early times business partner
of Ex-Governor C. C. Washburn, now
deceased, has made an endowment OF
S., 600 to the state university, for the es-
adjustment and maintenance of the
Woodman astronomical library in con-
nection with the Washburn observatory.
Mr.. Woodman appointed Chief Justice
Cole, Col. VIM. F. Villas and Prof. f. S.
Holden as trustees of the fund, which is
now in the hands of Col. Villas for invest.
ment.
Fire broke out in what is known as
the West Branch FIGURING mill located
in the weatern part of Fond du Lac, and
owned by Boynton q Severn, the for
mer of Waupun. The entire structure
was burned to the ground, causing a loss
of SIS, 900; insured for $1,000, $1,000 of
which is located in the Millers associa-
ton.
Secretary Clinton Rabbit, of the State
Agricultural society, last Thursday is
sued the following bulletin addressed to
farmers of Wisconsin:
The destructive frosts in other sec
tons of our country will create great
demand for our fruit. The canker worm
and insects now threaten your fruit sure
and the safe way to rid your trees of
these pests is to mix a teaspoon full of
paris green, genuine article, with two
gallons of water and with band pump
sprinkle the new foliage and blossom.
At Waukesha, somewhat of a sensa-
ton was created, by report which was
circulated that the family of William p.
Calkins was starving, and was totally de-
void of any of the necessaries OF life.
Investigation proved the rumor to be
well founded. He is the proprietor of
the Calkins' spring resort.
At Cumberland, several river drivers
got off the down train and, being full
enough to be ugly, tackled the village
marshal, P. H. Marley. He knocked
five of them down and they then re-
treated and got back to the train. One
was so badly hurt by the defensive pol
icy of the marshal that he had to be car