River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-03
WISCONSIN NEWS.


GustaFlls Werlich, Appointment citizen
and leading business ran OF NatertoSn
for over thirty years. temmitted suicide
by shooting himself il the head. FL
nancial embarrassmelfs are hinted at as
the cause OF the SUICIDE.
Badger teachers PROMISE 10 turn out
800 strong at the national convention
At Madison next Jily.
Darlington. has new So, 900 opera
house.
Drunken william Do ton stayed in
burning buildingat MarlAette, AMI per.
ished.
John Furlona one of the old pioneers
of Milwaukee. setting there in 1836.died
lately.
The State Of Wisconsin reports Is, 4O6
marriages. 1884 biths and 1851 deaths
during the year.
I. r. Mathew of Merrill, has been ap
pointed recovery the Merrill Manufac
turing company. He was required to
Civ bonds in I'll sum of 100000 with
two sureties. Thse is a strong proba-
bility that the sorks will be leased to
John Phelps.
John NJ. Truesdd, who lied at Berlin,
would have been aade governor once
but for his intempeance. lie quit law
years ago, when he was purposely
made drunk at FoIl du Lac by persons
interested in a case nvol, ing over $780,.
GOO. lie was a close riend Of Stephen a..
Douglass.
A monument seven feet square and
twenty-five feet high has been erected
at Matt CarpenterSgTaye in Milgauke e.
On the north from is the inscription:
70 the memory olMatthew Hale Car
penter. Born in Mo#town, VT, Dec. %,
1884; died in Washington, D. c., Feb.
"a, 1881. A man gratly beloved"
Frank Gross, has ben convicted at La
Crosse for obtaining ihoney under false
pretenses.
Much interest is manifested over the
affairs Of the late S. J. Lyon, who com-
United suicide at Ripon by drowning
himself a few days after his failure,
which WAS announced on the 9Th inst
The fact has been developed that in I %
excitement incident to his trouble, Mr.
Lyon neglected to affix his signature to
| the assignment papers, consequently the
transfer is void.
The National Knitting company, Mil
| waukee, with a capital stock of $50 900
| has filed articles OF association.
| William T. McLaren, the well-knowr
ex-grain commission merchant of Mil
| waukee, has just returned from q tlir
through Canad' an the Eastern States
| Speaking the bus ness outlook in those
| sections, he ys: SIN Canada the feel
| ing in BUSH ess circles is very blue
| There is a so very marked degree o.
| trade dep essi n in New England.
| have not cen. however, any hing whict
| leads me beneye that anything more
| serious than the Weeling out OF veal
| and i0osely-conducted concerns is likely
| to result. Prices are low, and money II
plenty. Trade is healthy at the bottom
| The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences
Arts and Letters elected Prof Il. A
Urge of Madison libririan, and resolved
to publish o pamphlet on prehistoric
| mounds, and listened TO a paper on tht
| Driitless Area, by r. !. Salisbury of Be
| lott. Prof. r. d. Irving gave the sub
stance of a paper on Metamorph'
| Rocks.
| AT Fort Atkinson, ire WAS discovered
in the frame building owned by Dir. L
| G. Bricknell, and occupied by Chris Pei
as harness shop and James Brette as
boot and shoe store. The fire spreal
rapidly, destroying the entire stock o
harness, whips, robes, trunks, etc.
Portage, Wis, Special; For the pas
three years Sam Wab, thoroughbred
Chinaman, has been running laundry
here. When he first came here he wor'
the common bag and blouse costume o
his race. But gradually, as his purse
widened end civilization took hold OF
him, his natural clbthes were thrown
away, and of late San has eclipsed thu
local swells in the cut of his Prince Al
| bert coat, and the Eiaeness of his linen
| He kept his money in large iron.trunB
and has 1t nearly full. But his life wa
too monotonous,a and he met Sarah Lee 1
buxom dame OF 200 pounds, to whom b.
said: sSamee livee alone longee NUT
me wantee wlfee.n Tbe woman though
the san e, and after brief courtshil
they were married On Christmas day
sam made ready for his wifi by buying
a stuffed set of furniture, and otherwise
| filing I'm his was broom