River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-25
WISCONSIN NEWS NOTES.

Eau Claire found her Dells reservoir
great success in saving logs.
Circuit court for Marathan county
will convene at Wausau, Oct. ID. Judge
Webb will preside.
At Shell Lake, Norwegian named
Annested, returning from dance, fell
from an outside stairway to the ground,
a distance of ten feet, and was instantly
killed. He was intoxicated.
Nellie Allison, aged seven years, was
fatally injured by being struck by a
train near Appleton.
A saloon keeper on Second street, In
Neillsyille, committed suicide by taking
taudanum. The cause of the act was
family trouble About week ago his
wife attempted suicide in the same man
ner, but was discovered in time to save
| her life.
Mrs. Frank Walters of Appelton, was
seriously injured by vicious dog re-
Gently Her clothes were badly torn
and her body badly lacerated. She will
/ recover
| Marshall Chris Bagnell of Hayward,
Sawyer county, recaptured at Eau Claire
Joe Sabell and James Mccoy, who
broke jail at Ashland on the 18th inst.
The former is up for rape and the lat
ter for forgery. One hundred dollars
reward was offered for their capture.
/ DIR NJ. M. Davis of Baraboo was strick-
en- with paralysis while at the Yellow
stone, and is not expected to live.
Louis Christensen, aged eighteen,
awaiting trial for murder; James Null
len aged forty, charged with burglary,
and John Stewart, charged with forg-
cry, escaped from Racine Jail.
| One Selstei, a Norwegian black
smith of New Richmond, is charged
with having subjected the six year. old
daughter of H. G. Constance to indecent
practices. Constance visited Selsted
in his shop and beat him nearly to
death.
The Rev. b. G. Riley, for many years
Wisconsin synodical missionary of the
Presbyterian church died at his resi-
dence in Prairie du Sac, aged seventy
1 four years.
Gen. Sam Draper of Lancaster is the
smallest voter Of the state. He is TWEEN
ty-two years old, forty eight inches
high, and weighs ffty-fve pounds. He
is an exemplary young man, and is
highly respected in that community.
The real estate of p. S. Cooper.
| hardware merchant of Eau Claire,
which was put in the inventory to the
valuation of $1,000, was sold by the
sheriff, and knocked down to Messrs.
Griffin & Walmsley, attorneys for at
taching creditors, for the sum of ST.
900.
The livery barn of Webb Flack, al
/ at Appleton, was burned. Loss. 81,
900; insured in the German-American
for 81, 300. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
The jury in the case of Elizabeth d,
Phillips against Ernest Meincke, Mil
waukee, for breach of promise of mar
rage, returned verdict for the plaintiff
assessing damages at $500.
At Shell Lake, burglars entered the
depot with the help of brace and bit,
pried open the money drawer and took
what cash there was, between 81 and
S5 To Rice's saloon was entared the
same night, in the same way, and 800
worth of cigars stolen.
At Berlin the Carey cranberry marsh
will yield from 1000 to 1900 bushels,
the Fitch marsh about the same, the
Sacket marsh 1900, the Trow &
Rounds marsh 500, and the Rundell
marsh fair crop.
The parsonage of the Lake Street
Methodist Episcopal church, Eau Claire
occupied by Rev. @. Pitcher, was total
Iy burned. Loss $4,000; covered two
thirds by insurance.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette has created 6
sensation by publication of charges that
as $137, 900 issued by the city in aid of
railroads, have never been cancelled, en-
tered on the records, and that the bonds
are still outstanding. The certificate
book bears the attest of the then Mayor
Hudson and the city clerk that the bonds
were cancelled in 1859. This was not
done, as is shown 10y the production Of
some of them in the hands of attorneys
for collection.
A three ear-old child of August
Schendel of Pomah died in consequence
of swallowing a marble it had found on
the floor. The little one lived but {
few hours after telling its mother what
it had done.
James r. Browne, ex-city treasurer
Of Racine is short in his accounts 81 ),
957, and suits are to be commenced
against his bondsmen.
The three scamps who broke jail a
Racine have been arrested and returned
to their former quarters.
Peter Einsch, single man abou
swenty-eight years old, was drowned il
Yellow river, near Cadott He was en-
gagged in bringing bateau down the
river, which capsized in the rapids
throwing him out.
Circuit court for Marathon county
will be convened at Wausau Oct. Is
Judge Webb will preside. The calen
dar will be unusually heavy, and with ;
large number of the celebrated Hewitt
lien cases, about one hundred in mum
Der.
A diminutive cyclone passed over APP
pleton. Corn throughout the county
was badly damaged. Barns and fences
were blown down, and the Catholic
church, new building just inclosed
was badly demolished. Loss about $500