River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-24
WISCONSIN NEWS,


Eau Claire of heart disease.
Lyman Bills of Kilbourn City, fell into
well and was drowned.
Capt Armstrong, of BaraDoo, was choked
to death wit, piece of meat, while lunch-
ing with Il il ads in Chicago.
Henry Roman, thirty-five years old, who
killed McGill at Oshkosh in 1875 and was
sentenced to the State prison at Waupun,
escaped last week.
Charles Beadlsston, aged eighty years,
resident of Lind, Waupaca county, for the
past thirty years, suieided by hanging him
self in his barn. No reason can be assigned
for the deed except longing for death.
At one of the Jogging C amps near Hay
ward, while engaged in ie ling 3 tree, in
falling limb struck Augustus Bucklsnd of
Eau Claire, inffic,ing injuries on his head
and body which proved fatal.
E. L. Phillips, resident OF Fon du Lac
siuce 1852, cied at his home there in the
eighty-fourth year of his age. Mr. Phillips
was a member of the assembly from Onon-
daga county, New York, in 1S47, and state
senator in the Wisconsin legislature in 1860.
The post-ofiice building and store at On
wa, burned. The records, books, mailbags
and everything connected with the post
Office is a total loss There was small in
surance. The store aud pos;-otfioe build
ipg was owned by Mr.. Warner, and the
stock OF goods by A. J. Hunter.
Samuel Mex emma, of Rio, brakeman on
the Wisconsin Central railroad, has been
arrested at Mansfield, on a charge ofrob.
berry the charge being preferred by Ger
man named Louis Unima. Alta prelimln-
airy examination McKenna wss discharged,
proving his entire innocence OF the charge.
The German was at once arrested for PERU
ry and lodged in the calaboose.
Another sensation has come to the sur
face at Wakesha. This time young,
German working girl has procsred war
rant for Joseph Had6eld, the prominent
stone quarry proprietor and member of the
Methodist church. The girl was employed
as domestic in Mr.. Hadfield's family I'M
til about two months ago, when he dis
charged her from service, on the alleged
grourd that she WAS bringing scandal upon
herself BIZ inviting the attentions of young
men about town. Since that time, having
discovered that she was on the road TO ma
turity, she endeayored to bring an action
against Mr.. Hadfeld,
La an examination before Uhited States
Court Commissioner Stewart, for alleged
perjury in taking out letters patent on
slide valve to engines, James E. Baker, q
prominent citizen of Madison, was dis
charged. la the closing argument United
States District Attorney Lewis became 50
thoroughly out of patience with the judge
on account of what he supposed was obdu-
racy in failing to understand point which
he was making, that he hurled the model
of the patent with terrible force against the
wall, the missile grazing the bald head of
Col +. w. Keyes, OF opposing council, who
thereup9n was only prevented from assam t.
ing Lewis by the interference of mutual
friends. The Occurrences occasioaed in
tense excitement in court on account of the
eminent responsibility of the parties inter-
ested.
John Geigen, q section hand Of the Mil
wsikee & Northern railway, was killed by
one of the company's engines at Appleton.
The engine was backing up to the round
house and he was walking on the track
with his back turned to the locomotive, and
having his ears nluitied did not hear the
whistle,
Twelve hundred barrels of beer and
young man burned in Fond du Lac
brewery.
Samuel Gibson, a brakeman, was
killed at Fox Lake, while coupling
cars.
William Mcfarland. druggist al
Stoughton, failed, with liabilities of S.
| 000
The Wisconsin State Cane Growers
| association viii hold its fourth annual
meeting Tuesday, Feb. 5.
The sheriff took possession of the store
of S. i. Jurgen, wholesale liquors, La
Crosse, on an attachment in favor of j
Kissinger q Co., of Milwaukee.
The Wisconsin board of university re.
gents, in semi-annual session at Madison,
instructed the executive committee to
provide a sufficient number of ladder
| fire-escapes for the ladies' hall, to insure
mates. in case of emergency.
David Powers, aged twenty. five years,
was kill almost instantly at Cameron's
| logging Gimp on the south fork of the
| Eau Claire river by log rolling on him
| while assisting in loading. The remains
were taken to Eau Claire and will be
| forwarded to his former home at Ottawa,
Ont, where his parents live.
Several bodies are missing from the
Oakhill cemetery, Janesville, but by
whom taken no one knows. The ceme-
| terry authorities admit that a number of
| be dies have been stolen. but they do not
deem it best to state which ones, as to
give the names would only harrow up
| the feelings of those directly interested,
and could not lead to the recovery
of the bodies.
At Waupaca, Owen Smith, aged fifty.
pleaded guilty to the charge of repeate d
| incest with his daughter, Emma. aged
seventeen. His sons, Lewis and John,
young men, pleaded guilty to the same
terrible charge.
At Fond du Lac, a large brewery be-
longing to Bechaut Bros, was consumed
| by fire. Loss 5000; insured for about
$4,000.
One Boden, recently arrested at Mil
waukee wearing a false beard, and re :
| leased for want of evidence of bad in
tentions, is wanted in Lake county, ILL.,,
| whence he eloped some time ago with
his sister-in-law, leaving his wife and
| four children penniless.
JohnC. Graves, a well-known stock
dealer, of Burlington, was waylaid and
robbed q quarter of mile from Water
ford, and will probably die from ms IN
| iuries.
A memorial service for the Roman
Catholics who persisted in the Newhall
house fire, was held at st. Johns cathe-
dral Milwaukee.
The annual meeting of the Wool Grow
ers' & Sheep Breeders association at
White water, elected the following Off
| GERS: A. ]. Parker, Beaver Dam, presl.
| dent: S. S. Celane, GAINESVILLE, vice
president; s. III. Wilkinson, Whitewater,
secretary; W. II. Hardy, Genesee, treas
urer.
Fire at Waupaeca destroyed two frame
buildings on Main street. One building
was owned BIZ Lars Peterson. and was
| used by him as a grocery and dwelling.
! The other was owne! Dv Nels Jensen,
and occupied by Jens Peterson as sa'
| loon.