River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-04
WISCONSIN NEWS NOTES.

Cyrus Bishop of Lodi Mills is going
to Oregon on railway bicycle.
A two-year- old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
| n Patterson of Appleton, was drowned
IN the vault Of an clubhouse.
Recent rains have raised the Wiscon-
sin about SIX inches, not enough to bring
down logs that are hung up along the
upper river.
Joshua Cook of Brookfold, went
down with threshing machine through
a broken bridge, and will die.
Rev. ]. A. Towle, classical professor
at Ripon college, has been arrested
charged with violating the custom laws.
W. G. Silverthorn declines to be the
Democratic candidate for congress in
the Ninth Wisconsin district.
Augustus Starkweather of Madison
captured a sheephead weighing 116
| pounds in Lake Monona.
George Nenromburg, who murdered
his wife at Lancaster, was found by
neighbors Friday morning, hanging
from limb of tree dead.
At Appleton, Lima Petzhol1, aged
eighteen, took poison because of low
ers quarrel. A dose of emetic proved
of great benefit.
ID. j. Hines, who is under arrest at
Omaha charged with setting fire to the
Bee office, was once mayor of Kenosha,
Wis, and during the war was colonel of
/ the Seventeenth Illinois cavalry.
Gov. Rusk issued proclamation re-
Gently calling upon the people of the
state to give their earnest financial and
other aid to the Wisconsin commits
sioners to the New Orleans exposition,
in order to insure the states having
creditable display of her industries and
resources.
DIR. J. I. Reeve, secretary of the
state board of health, says that the
small pox ravages in the towns of Black
Greek and Center are under control.
Those who have had the disease are re-
| covering, while those who have been
exposed are quarantined.
A barn belonging to Register of
Deeds A. w. Schmidt, in the town of
Berlin, Wausau county, was burned by
an incendiary fire, with large quantity
of grain, farming tools and thirty sheep.
Loss, s., 200.
The Wisconsin tobacco crop is much
larger than was anticipated, and the
growers find their shed to small to &C
commodate the yield.
A fire at Waupacca destroyed the
large frame building owned by George
Hanson, and used for saloon by Pc
terson g. Johnson. The frame build
ing adjoinining, owned by Peter Keff-
ner, and used by Curran Bros. as
hotel sample room, was also burned.
The loss is partially covered by insur-
ance
A gospel tent large enough to accom-
modate about two hundred persons, is
being made at Eau Claire for the Young
Mems Christian association work among
the men in the pineries.
While eating dinner at the Central
house in Oshkosh, Nathan Palmeter
became unconscious, and so renamed
until evening, when he died of heart
disease.
John Scott, brakeman on the Wis
,onsin Central railway, living at Osh-
kosh wasrun yer and killed at Neenah.
Mrs G Gorge White, who was serious
ly burned by the explosion of an oil
stove at Fond du Lac, died from the
injuries.
John Erickson was Instantly killed
at Romeo, by an manageable log.
Beloit had gala day in recognition
Of the bountiful harvest. The city was
thronged with visitors. All the facto-
ries shut down, and but little business
was done. There were large process
,ions in the morning and afternoon
Crowds were entertained by a process
sion of firemen, bicyclists and Shetland
ponies, which took place on the streets,
and horse racing and base ball ON the
fair grounds. The festivities closed
with a magnificent torchlight process
sion and pyrotechnical display at night.
At the late meeting of the Wisconsin
Press association the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, E. d. Coe, of the Whitewater
Register; vice presidents, S. S. Rock |
wood, GAINESVILLE Recorder; E. Hurl-
but, Oconomowoc Free Press; G.. Ray
nor, Madison Democrat; Herman
Bleyer, Milwaukee Wisconsin; A F. /
Warden, Plymouth Reporter; j. r.. |
Decker, Columbus Republican; j. G.. |
Ford, Ford's Democrat, Barbaboo; j !
F. Reyes, Eau Claire Free Press; G. T. |
Osborn, Florence News secretary, J. i.
Heg; treasurer, David Atwood; execu-
tive committee, Samuel Ryan, Apple
ton Crescent; r. j. Flint, Menomonee
News; f. w. Coon, Edgerton Reporter;
I. X Dunn. Wonewoc Reporter;
George G.. Ginty, Chippewa Hearald.
H. H. Giles, of the state board of
charities and reform, has just returned
to Madison from an official visit to the
poor houses in St Croix and Pierce |
counties and reports them in very
bad shape, that in ST. Croix county,
especially, being in delapidated and
filthy condition, He regards the con-
tract system in vogue in those counties
as pernicious in the extreme, and
premium on neglect of the unfortunate
paupers. In the Pierce county poor
houses the sexes are not separated,
which Mr.. Giles regards as scandalous
and disgraeeful. He trusts that the
two counties will hereafter employ
overseers of poor houses, and eschew
the contract system entirely, and thus
take an advance step in civilization.
A lad aged twelve years, of Eau
Claire. Charles Warner, was accident
ally killed while at work ON the north
fork of the Eau Claire by the prema-
ture discharge Of revolver in the
hands of comrade named Frank La
Belle The bullet penetratrd his in
testines. The coroner's jury rendered
verdict of death by accident.
Rev. James A. Towle, one of the fac
ulty of Ripon college, has been arrest
ed for violating the customs laws. He
was taken before Commissioner Blood
good this afternoon and bound over to
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