River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-11-29
News of the State.

News of the State.
Willie Howlie, seven years of age, was
drowned at the canal at Menasha. He
was playing on the ice and broke
through.
G. G. Dewitt of Eau Claire, grocer,
assigned. Liabilities, 81 200; nomina
assets, about 81 900
Minneapolis men have been makinga
big purchase of realty at Baldwin.
John Trainor and Robert Quinn
Madison, and Robert Lubby, of Prairie
du Chen, have been arrested and held
for examination in bonds of $3.50 each,
for holding up +. L. Babcock, of Palmy-
ra, and robbing him of 500 in cash and
gold watch. The footpads are en-
ployes Of the st. Paul railway, and are
regarded as hard cases.
At Merriam, Comstocks livery stable
was entirely destroyed, together with
j. Cannon's salooo, Dot Is harness shop,
Miller's blacksmith, wagon and paint
shops, Dennis Cannon's marble shop
and Davison's stable. The loss is es-
timated at S. COO: the insurance is about
50 600 Comstock's stable was not in
sured In the marble shop were notes
and mortgages amounting to 500, which
were destroyed, together with many
valuable belongings Of Mr.. Cannon.
The general store of Shove & Bailey
of Amigo was attached by Chicago par
ties. Immediately after the attachment
Shove & Bailey made an assignment.
Liabilities over $4,000; assets not
known.
Articles of association have been filed
with the secretary of state as follows
Chippewa Falls Opera House company,
whose capital stock is $4,000; the Chip
pewa Falls Iron and Steel company,
whose object is founding and casting
iron and steel, the capital stock being
$25, 600; and theIowa q Wisconsin Coal
company, whose stock is $50, 900, the
incorporators being residents of Neills-
Vile
One of the largest transfers of real es-
tate ever made in st. Croix county has
Just been made at Baldwin few miles
from Hudson, it being the sale of Bart
lett q Robbinson's extensive property,
to Channel & Hayward, leading real es-
tate men of Minneapolis. The transfer
includes mills, pine land, warehouses
and all other property except Mr.. Bart
let's residence and farm. The consider
alton is Sl20,000
Kraft & Severson, dealers in agricul-
tural implements, at Menominee, who
made al assignment about two weeks
ago for the benefit of their creditors,
are making arrangements to settle the
matter and resume business. Their liza
bilities are about $4,000, and assets $23. :
| 600
Major w. f. Halleck of the Interior
Department has just paid the Wisconsin
Winnebago Indians. There are enrolled
! 1858 Indians.
The supreme court in the case Of
Hartley Clifford, the Milwaukee gam
bier who shot and killed Capt. William
r. Pugh at Racine, April II, 1882, and
who was convi ted in the Rock county
circuit court, and sentenced to the pen
itentiary for life, affirmed the Judgment
of the lower court, holding that the muir
der was premeditated and of the first
degree.
At Madison there is disease which
the doctors term winter cholera. Already
over twenty persons, adults and children
alike, have been Frustrated, and one in
fantile death has occurred. The disease
possesses the symptoms of poisoning,
the victim vomiting, purging and being
affected with cramps. Nothing like it
has ever before been experienced, and
great alarm is felt
Hiram Blais of Augusta, commit ed
suicide by taking an enormous dose OF
morphine. He had been absent from
home all summer, on farm he owned
in Lac qui Parle county, Mimi, and had
but Just returned home on the midnight
train, some sixteen or seventeen hours
before. Everything seemed to indicate
that the act was Intentional, as he had
spent most of the day in spttlingup bust
ness matters, etc, with different parties.
He had been hard drinker for years !;
and in the afternoon of the fatal day
drank quite heavily, though still sober
enough to know what he was doing.
William Jones, who had been missing
from his LONE in Ixonia since the 18th
inst, was found on the 10Th not far from
his house hanging by rope from small
tree.
DR.. w. II. Comfy, gentleman made
famous by his connection with the Mil
yankee College Of Physicians and Sur
geons, having been driven out of Mil
waukee, has located in Wausau.
Waupun, prison inmates complain Of
pad meat and not enough.
Nellie c. Bailey, tie syren who en-
tangled 8 couple of Waukesha's suscept-
ibles in her matrimonial net and who
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denly becoming the delendent in a trial
for murder at Wichita, Kans., has been
admitted to bail in the sum of $4,000.
In Wisconsin legislatures, farmers al
ways largely predominant, but in the
present Ohio Legislature there are TWEEN
ty-eight farmers and forty lawyers, and
this is the average proportion in the
Buckeye state.