River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-15
WISCONSIN NEWS NOTES.

At Racine Theodore Bauman was
granted divorce from Frank Bauman
The settlement Of the case was quietly
made, Mr.. Bauman giving her $1,000
The couple had been married but few
months.
Tho loss of the Colman Lumber com
panv bv the destruction of their mil
at Colman, was $4,000, or $4,000 above
insurance.
Gov. Rusk reappointed DIR. J. I.
Reeve of Appleton state inspector OF
oils, for the term ending two years from
April l 1854.
Forty men were thrown out of work
by the burning of the Minneapolis Co
Operative Company's stave mill at Ca
dott.
S. W. Smith, late president of the
Rock County National bank, died
at GAINESVILLE
Mrs Wallershan was attacked by
tramp at Hewitt, and whipped him OIL
with cane.
In attempting to stop his runaway
team at Ripon, recently Louis Luck
fell from his wagon and two wheels ran
over his head, crushing it fearfully. His
recovery is hopeless.
Edward J. Owens, a young man who
was in Fan Claire on visit with his
brother, William Owens of the firm OF
joyce & Ovens, was found lifeless in
bed at his stopping place. Cause, heart
disease The home of the deceased was
at Juneau county. The remains were
sent to Watertown for interment.
Under Sheriff Phelps returned to
Wausau, recently with Whitaker, the
rayishor, who was captured at Wauto-
ma, Waushara county. His victim has
been deaf mute from birth Whit
taker has been hiding for week past,
being aided by l1s family and friends.
The case against him is said TO be over
whelming
Louis Money who came to Madison
in care of the London American Coloni-
zation society. put pistol in his mouth
and shot himself The ball lodged in
the roof of his mouth and the wound
was slight.
Thomas Traw, an aged farmer living
near North Prairie, committed suicide
to relieve himself of the terrible suffer
ing of a cancer. He was in good cir
| cumstances.
Grace Episcopal church of Ahnapee,
was completely destroyed by fire. The
fire originated from some unknown
cause. The structure was the finest
church building in the city. The loss
is about 81, 900 The church was in
sured for only $3.50.
Citizens of Racine are petitionin
congress for the relief Of w. H. Whiting
a hero of the late war, the appropria-
ton to be his share of the Geneva
award, Mr.. Whiting with fourteen 9th
ers, were prisoners on the confederate
privateer Alabama, and was for Il time
chained in the hold of the cruiser,
where the bilge water washed over him.
In consequence of that exposure he be-
came hopelessly crippled.
The Douglas County street rail.
way company has filed articles of as
sociation at Madison recently, with
capital stock of $4,000. The object
is to construct and operate street rail
ways in that county. Among the incor-
porators are J. H. Harmon, w. =.
Clough, Z. w. Winter and A. G.. Fos-
ter of st. Paul.
AtHewitt, three miles south of Marsh
field, Mrs Nick v Helms was brutally
outraged by an unknown tramp. The
villain Immediately after accomplishing
his designs took to the woods, and has
alluded arrest thus far He is des-
cribed as a powerful built man, with
heavy gray beard, and shabbily DIRE ssed.
Billy Whitaker, the Wausau barber
who brutally outraged little girl
twelve years old in that city few days
ago, was captured 10y Sheriff o. II.
| Rowe at Manitowoc.
The Bayfield, Silver and Copper
Mining company, Ashland, have filed
articles of association at Madison.
| The incorporators being C. w. Hopkins,
| ID. B. Palmer, G.. II. Graham, S. Thorn
1 us. AlldIi6S GOItls = ~ ltlu anu w. w q.
Haddock: capital, 81 600, 900. Articles
were also filed of the Esterly Harvest
ing Machine company. Whitewater,
capital $500, 900; and of the Milwaukee
Sanitarian association, for the care and
treatment of the insane capital, $50, 600.
James Dowell, aged sixty years, died
at Madison, from injuries received in
the capitol calamity. For nearly six
months he fingered along between life
and death with both legs crushed, one
| hip nearly torn away and latterly ter
| ribly afflicted with bed sores. He was
a mason, and fell from the third floor
to the first when the wing collapsed.
At Milwaukee, on Monday during an
| interval between showers the sky sud.
ly became so deeply overcast as to en-.
shroud the entire city in darkness. AZ
the hotels dining tables the guests were
unable to see the food that had been set
before them until the lamps and gas
Jets were lighted. Gas had also TO be
used at the chamber of commerce and
in all the banks, stores and other
| places of business. Many citizens
gained the impression that a cyclone was
threatening the town.
The Madison court house is TO be re-
placed by one that will cost $l34, 600.
Commissioner Ellis, of the United
States fish commission safely deposited,
5000, 900 young whitefsh in Chequa-
megon bay. They were brought here
via the Wisconsin Central, and came
from the Alpena, Mich, hatchery.
Six Milwaukee roughs have been
jailed for beating a bar tender Anton
Lang, to death
Thomas NJ Baker, married man
aged twenty-seven years. and young
man named Richard Mallon have been
missing from their homes in Milwaukee.
A thirteen year old daughter of John
Duffy of Lester township, was burned
to death trying to save her family from
a burning house.