River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-10-30
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS:


At Alma, William Kurth, who was
held in Jail for the murder of JOSEPH
Keller of Milton, committed suicide.
Patrick Moran, deputy sheriff at
Green Bay, has been arrested for as.
saulting Polish girl who was confined
in the Jail
Hurbert Juchemah Of Appleton, after
attempting to kill his family, was ex
amined by physicians and pronounced
insane
Thirty four boarders and guests We're
aiken sick at the Dunlap house, Marin
stte, after breakfast. 1t Is supposed
there was poison in the coffee.
William Char1lley, shoemaker at
Sorthport, was drowned in the Wolf
river while ducking hunting.
Portage county is shipping potatoes
ut the rate of 1900 bushels per day.
Henry w. Vest, man about sixty
years of age, residing in Eau Claire,
died apparently from an overdose of
laudanum.
John Hoscha, a German of sixty
years, recently released from an insane
asylum, shot and killed his wife at
Viroqua, and took to the woods, car
ewing gun with him.
Charles Worth, who shot the city
marshal in Beloit, was sentenced
to two years in the penitentiary.
A boy named James Chatterton was
drawn into thresbug machine at
Gibson, Manitowoc county, and so bad
" crushed that ne died soon after he
was extricated
Henry B'if's boy, thirteen years
Of age, was shoyeling wheat back in
bin in AN cid house at New Richmond
and was slnothered by the grain.
Az New Richmond, a Norwegian
Iaborer on the Central railway, named
Andrew Ostland, in some way got his
head on the rail as train was passing.
He was completely decapitated.
A man named Braun, resident of
Maple Grove, died in a barbershop at
Reedsyille while in chair to be shaved.
He had long been subject to consump-
ton.
DR.. r. W. Eastman has begun paying
claims against Northrop & Co.'S bank.
at Platteville, which closed in August.
and of which he is the responsible part
ner.
Frank Hill killed handsome black
eagle on the shore of Second lax e, near
Madison. Itmeasured six and one-half
feet from tip to tip of its wings.
George K. Little, boy evangelist,
Is conducting revival at Mount Hope,
Grant county.
Stephen Taylor died at Gilman
town, Buffalo county, at the age of 100
years, months and 10 days.
Mr.. Wheeler of Oakfield, Fond du
Lac coul ty, has raj sed crop of pea
nuts.
The Glenn spring at Waukesha has
been sold for 5000
d. J. Clark, the well-connected
young man, who was arrested in Mil
waukee for passing counterfeit money,
has had his examination. All the eff
forts of the police authorities to discov-
er Clark's accomplices have proved OF
no avail, although the detectives say
/ that they are confident that Clark has
| been engaged with several others in the
manufacture Of counterfeit money
There was received in the register of
| deeds office. at Appleton, sheriff's
| deed to William Van Norwich, of Ba
tavia, ILL.,, conveying lot of the water
power of Kaukauna, with the Storekin
paper mills, for $25, 600 The property
| has been in litigation from time i'm
memorial, and many deeds have passed
| back and forth, but this one settles all
litigation. Van Norwich owns part of
| it, which accounts for the small price
| Sixteen million feet of pine on the
Thorn Apple and Jump rivers has been
sold by Heath & MCGEE of Pennsylvania
| to +. Weyerhouse. Another tract of
| is. 600, 600 feet, located on the North
fork of the Little Chief, which was
owned by Jackson Bros, of Oshkosh
was purchased by Mr.. A. B. Mcdonald
| and Thomas Irvine.
The Wisconsin Central, in anticipa-
| ton of its new line from Chippewa
Falls to St Paul, has asked the Milwau-
kee & st. Paul to make arrangements
for through business between ST. Paul
and Chicago. There is in existence now
an arrangement between these two roads
| for through business between all the
northern and northwestern points on the
central and Chicago.
At Wausau, the jury were unable to
agree in the case of George w. Thoyer,
charged with the murder of Edwin
Beals. The case will go over till the
next term of court.
1t now transpires that Nathaniel
Mitchell, alias "Scotty," the desperate
who murdered Frank A Burton of Ii
Crosse, Wis, a few days ago, and who
was lynched, formerly lived at Portland
Oregon. He was regarded desperate
of the worst kind. About eight years age
Mitchell lived at Walla Walla, Wash.
Ter, where he carried on horse steal
! ing in a notorious manner, assisted by
two COW boy confederates. They were
finally compelled to flee to California to
escape the clutches of the vigilance com
mittee. "Scotty" was soon forced tc
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