River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-09-18
WISCONSIN NEWS NOTES.

crop OF hops.
Ernest W. Haas has been commits
stoned postmaster of Richfield.
The fall term of the university at
Madison legan with 100 students, of
whom sol lie twenty five take the phar-
maceuticai course.
DR.. N. P. Valerius is taking car
load of horses from Fort Atkinson to
/ Scotland.
! Fifteen night blooming cereuses bios
somed at the same time at the residence
of Robert Mcmillan in Oshkosh.
At Union Center, near Wonewoc, the
large warehouse belonging to G. G.
Eagle was burned Loss, $4,000.
Cooper Bosohard of Bangor, was
killed by train.
| Stanley Bowron estimates the wheat
yield of st. Croix county at 1,450, 900
bushels for the crop of 1884.
The Congregational church at Ocon
omowoc was damaged $500 by the ex-
| plosion of gasometer to be used in
giving an exhibition of lantern views.
At La Crosse George X. Chase was
discharged as guardian of Gov. Wash
burns widow. He was allowed $15,
/ 900.
| Judge Pulling, who has resigned
the circuit judgeship at Oshkosh, has
entered a law firm at Wausau.
| At Beloit, Miss Emma Stone was
married to Mr.. M. T. Hoadley, of Wi
mona, MINI.
| In Mount Pleasant, Andrew Nelson,
aged about forty-fve, was fonnd hang
ing by rope which was attached to
fence near the house of Mr.. r. How
land, west of the city.
| The tobacco harvest is about COM
pleted, and the best crop ever raised ID
the state is the result.
| The North Wisconsin News says, the
| Bayfield, silver mine, four miles from
Pratt, is panning out big. A specimen
was taken few days since that assayed
40 per cent. of copper and $500 in sill
yer to the ton.
Thomas Cliff was killed at Boscobel,
while putting belt on pulley in Sill
vester Bros. grist mill. His arm was
drawn into the cog gearing, mangling
it in shocking manner, death follow
ing shortly after.
During row between two Winneba-
| go Indians at Morrison's Greek, Jackson
county, an old squaw was killed while
she was endeavoring to make peace.
The murderer, known among the tribe
as William Kingsley, managed to escape
arrest.
The Northern Wisconsin Iron Works
company, Marinette, filed articles of as
| ISOLATION with the Wisconsin secretary
of state, the object being to manufac-
| ture steam engine boilers, boiler works
and woodworking machinery. The cap
ital stock is 100000
Necedah Lumberman: The cranberry
crop throughout the country is not
more than 25 per cent of what is
called a good crop. The Necedah mar
| shes do not even make this showing,
while in the vicinity of Mather Station
Brooks marsh will yield but 1000 bar
rels, where last season nearly 5000 bar
rels were gathered; Kennedy's so,
/ Shipley's 200, Burbank's 100, Hamil-
ton & Baker 100, Hamilton so, which
represents but 90 or 25 per cent of the
usual good crops.
A terrible storm, accompanied by
a wind which partook much of the
nature of cyclone, struck Chippewa
Falls on the 8th unroofng houses, up
roofing trees, blowing down chimneys
and creating general havoc. The rain
was the most terrific of the season,
over four inches falling in two hours.
John Maggie, charged with rape, and
one Joe Seible, sent up from Glidden
for burglary, and confined in the county
| Jail at Ashland, made their escape.
They were both heavily ironed. They
sawed off one of the iron bars forming
The door to their cell, removed their
| irons with the aid of piece of wire,
gained the corridor and made their es-
cape through back window. One
hundred dollars reward has been of.
| fered for their capture.
Frederick G.. Lintz, an old and
wealthy resident of Sheboygan, was
found dead in his bed, having died of
heart disease. He was seventy years
old.
The marriage of Miss Frances Clark,
one of the leading and most popular So
ciety ladies of Madison, to Paul FL.
Wood of Duluth, took place at Grace
| (EpiscopaD church on the 10th.
/
At Delevan Albert r. Topping, aged
| nineteen, son of Q. FL. Topping, lead
ing dry goods merchant, and Miss Wini-
freq G.. Dewey, aged eighteen, daugh-
ter of Prof. E. Dewey, the principal of
the high school, while out riding late
last evening were struck by apassenger
train and instantly killed.
Mrs. r. S. Angel of Chicago, widow
of the late r. S. Angel, of the Angel
Construction company, has entered
suit in the United States court here for
$500, 000 This action grows out of the
so-called Air Line grant question in the
northwestern part of the state. The
grant was given the Chicago, Portage
/ & s 1erior railway company. The
company contracted to build portion
| of the line Later the railway company
| without settlement with the Angel
company, sold or transferred its right
to the grant to the Chicago, st. Paul,
| Minneapolis & Omaha railway compa-
nv, and the grant was secured to the
| Omaha road by an act of the legislature.
! The suit was brought for an alleged