River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-04
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


wife of August F. Lempke, broom
maker, attempted to commit suicide by
cutting her wrists.
The body of William L. Jackson of
Centralia, who has been missing, was
found recently eight miles up the river
by large searching party.
Near Hayward, John Linquist was
shot by Pat Mccarthy, vagrant crook,
who is being hunted by citizens and
Indians.
Patrick Riley Of Eau Claire, aged fifty
Eve years, one of the pioneers of the
Chippewa valley, disappeared from his
home few days ago and has not been
since heard from.
Mike Navin, miner, and Solomon
Felcha saloonkeeper, both of Florence,
have been lost in the woods for five
days. One hundred men have bgen
searching for Navin, and expert
woodsmen have been on the trail of
Felch.
George Colegrove, the murderer OF
Farmer Atkins, near Waukesha, con
fesses burglary committed prior to
the murder.
Block, an accomplice of the burglar
shot while robbing Burch K Clarks
store in Menomonie, pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to five years in the peni
Tertiary. Kelber, the bootblack, also
of the party, was sent to the reform
school,
Miss J. Delaney, teacher in the
Oconomowoc public school, has been
fined so by a justice of the peace for
severely whipping pupil.
Wisconsin lumbermen assert as fact
that wages will be from ten to fifteen
per cent. lower than last winter--that
the number of men anxious to work in
the woods is far in excess of the real
demand.
La Crosse Republican and Leader
Interviews with number of prominent
Black river loggers go to show that the
amount to be cut this season will not be
as large as that of last year by at least
30 per cent. The cut last year was be-
tween 225 900 900 and $50, 900, 900 feet
This year it is doubtful if the cut sums
up 100000, 600
The Cumberland Land company,
with capital stock of $3.50, 600, filed ar
ticles of association with the Wisconsin
secretary of state, the object being to
transact general land business in the
northwestern counties of the state. The
incoporators are j. r. Isman. A. g..
Goss and III. G. Reid. and the location
is at Hudson.
Two large saw mills, ore of them an
establishment with cutting capacity
of not less than $4,000 per day, will be
built i'll Washburn the coming summer.
Mayor Richards of GAINESVILLE has
been made defendant in suit for SLAM
der instituted by Col. +. r. Williams,
who wants damages in the sum of S10,-
900.
Samuel Hartley, formerly postmaster
at Baraboo and manager of the Cliff
house at Devils lake, is dead at ODER
lin, Kan, aged 66 years.
Trappers are profitably engaged on
Horizon marsh. In two weeks A. Saw
yer caught 800 muskrats, forty minks
and two offers.
The two-year-old son of Mrs. John
| Forsythe drowned in a puddle near his
home in Oakfield, Fond du Lac county.
Richard Smith, a prominent farmer
in Linden, Iowa county, died of injuries
caused by runaway team.
Mr.. Louis r. Head of Albion, who
/ graduated from the state university with
4 the class of 1882, has been chosen vale
dictorian by his class in Rush Medical
college, Chicago. He received a like
honor from his university class.
The state board of supervision of
] charitable and penal institutions has
/ prepared its biennial report for the two
years ending June 30, 1884, and will
! eco,, n,,I,,,;t ~ 70 tI,o oro1,arnOr From
/ this it is learned that the total popula-
ton in the state hospital, Northern hos
pital, deaf and dumb institute, blind in
! dustrial school and state prison in 1888
was /, 942 and in 1884 2,0S9, while the
total cost for three years was 1856, 6SS
and 1861, 074 respectively. The aver
age yearly cost per capita of inmates of
the various institutions was 1888 in 1888
and $173 in 1884, while the weekly per
capita cost was So 80 in 1883 and 50. 80 in
| 1884.
/ At Oshkosh, Mrs. Kempster began
/ proceedings for divorce from DIR. Wal
ter Kempster, late superintendent of the
Oshkosh lunatic asylum, on the ground
of cruelty and failure to support
| They were married in BaltimoreJan /,
1863
The Grant county board of supervis.
ors several months ago received a
/ petition from the Winona, Alma &
! Northern to vacate the road along the
river leading from East Dubuque to
| Patosi. It was urged that the road was
in an impossible condition, and that the
railway would be a great public benefit.
The property holders along the line
wanted more for the right of way than
the company was willing to give. The
board, however, granted the petition
and a jury condemned the right of way
and assessed damages. Now it tran
/ spires that the board had no authority
/ to vacate the road for the reason that
the roadway in front of the property OF
Mrs. Cummings belong to her, and for
other reasons the board has accordingly
rescinded It's action.
! John Linquist, a respectable appear
ing young man, whose home is at Clam