River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-17

Anderson, the La Crosse straw-stack
cripple, had his right foot amputated.
A Wisconsin man is on the hooks for
distilling whisky from hog feed.
Charles Hudson, general store, Madi-
son, achieves his third failure.
The Chippewa river is virtually closed
from the head waters to the Mississippi,
save IN a few openings where the cur
rent is unusually swift.
The residence of George Jesse, Wau-
pun, Wis. burned. Loss, $4,000.
Francis Rotch has purchased half
interest in the saw mill, lumber, and
lands belonging to J. w. Smith, IN the
village of Bloomington, for the consid-
Grafton of 900.
milwaukee -four mills turned out 8l0,-
600 barrels last year against ,346 800 IN
1882.
The residence of Charles E. Hazen,
proprietor of the Otter Creek Touring
mills, near Eau Claire, burned recently,
with most of the contents. Loss about
81, 300; partially insured.
Arthur G. Middleton, the postoffice
clerk who was recently caught stealing
valuable letters, was sentenced in the
United States court in Milwaukee re-
Gently to one years Imprisonment in
the house of correction. He is well eon-
nected, has an interesting family, and is
twenty eight years old.
Thomas Welkie, an employee at the
Big Heart silver mine near Eau Claire.
was killed recently. He was working in a
shaft sixty feet in depth, and as he was
being drawn up by wind-lass to get a
lunch, he lost his hold on the rope when
near the surface, fell backward, and was
instantly killed, his neck being broken.
He was a third degree member of Ban
ner lodge, No. II, A. o. U. W.
Charles Hudson, proprietor of lead
ing general store in the village of Wau-
nakee, near Madison failed with assets
Of $4,000 and liabilities of $4,000. At
tachments to the amount of $4,000 were
levied on behalfof numerous small cred
itors, located principally ia Milwaukee
and Madison, when an assignment was
made to /. p. Bacon of Milwaukee.
The safe of the Wisconsin Central
Railway company at Dorchester, ten
miles south of Medford, was blown open
with powder and about $500 extracted
therefrom, on the Sd inst. Three
young men, who have been suspected of
several like transactions on the line of
the railroad north of Medford, were ar
rested at Curtis.
The dwelling of Frank Catura of Al
kansaw, burned recently. Loss
ST. 200; contents mostly saved. The fire
caI1Oht from the stove nine
The roundhouse of the Chichago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railroad at Menom-
inee, was burned. The only loss, $500,
is on the building, as they succeeded in
getting out the engine.
@The dwelling of Samuel Livesley, eight
miles from Reedsburg, in Sank county,
burned to the ground, with all its
contents. The house was three miles
from the nearest neighbors, and the fam
lily suffered greatly from the intense
cold, their feet and hands being badly
frozen. Loss, 81, 1000.
The Bay View Iron Works Of Milwau-
kee are fully employed executing or
ders.
The present set of state officers began
the 7th on the third year of their terms,
a fact which is due to the recently adopt
ed amendment to the constitution pro-
viding for biennial elections. The Off
GERS were elected in the fall of 1881, and
their terms were to expire the first
Monday in January, 1884, but the
amendment being adopted. the term was
extended another year. Acting in accor-
dance with an opinion rendered by the
attorney general, the oaths ofoffice were
not renewed, though several officers
who are obliged to give bonds for the
faithful discharge of their duties execu-
ted new ones.