River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-10-02
WISCONSIN NEWS NOTES.

OF. 1auI.
Tobias Traverse, who shot the hus-
band of hls paramour in Hudson is to
have new trial.
Mabel Eager horsewhipped Lizzie J
Jones ON one of the streets of Randolph
for alleged defamation. Mabel was
fined for assault and battery.
Newberg & Co., dealers in wall paper
at Plattville, have made an assignment
and will pay about 80 cents IN the dol
lar.
Hon. David B. Clements died al
Stevens Point.
Wisconsin's Tobacco crop this year
will aggregate 22,5O0,00O pounds, and
will bring the growers about 81, 600, 900.
Two of the prisoners who escaped
from the Ashland Jail have been recap
tured at Superior.
While Isaiah Mulklns was binding
buckweat in his fathers field in the
town of Buena Vista, Portage county,
he was shot in the back with charge
of fine shot and seriously injured. The
guilty parties could not be discovesed.
Peter NJ. Oleson, in the employ Of
the Knapp, Stout & Co. at Menomonie.
was last seen on the 18th at a saloon on
Broadway, in Menomonie, and has mys-
teriously disappeared. 1t is supposed
that he became drunk and fell into the
river.
A Fort Atkinson jury, found John
Stage and wife guilty of murder in Che
first degree for poisoning their child.
Investigation shows that this is not the
first of their children that has suffered
the same fate.
+. E. Olive, aged twenty OF
Green Bay, walked off the steamer An
ME Barnes, near Hastings, in his sleep,
and was drowned. He was ON his way
to visit his parents at Prescott.
Andrew Odell, convicted before Judge
Winslow at Elkhorn, of an aggravated
assault and attempt to commit rape up
on girl sixteen years of age, was SEN
fenced to eighteen years Imprisonment
and taken to Waupun.
The thirty eighth session, Wisconsin
annual conference, will be held at Osh-
kosh, in the First NJ E. church, begin
ming Wednesday, Oct. 1, and continu-
ing until the following Monday even
ing. Bishop w. F. Mallalieu will pre-
side
News has been received of another
rich find of iron ore ON section 26, town
46, range east, Ashland, ON the Ash
land and Montreal iron range proper.
The work of developing the discovery is
under the management of Capt. j. A.
Wood. The ore is first class soft hem
attic.
Mrs. Philip Fritz of the village of
Belleville, highly respected lady, and
an old resident of Dane county, cut her
throat with case knife while the family
were at breakfast recently, and was
dead when discovered. Prolonged i'll
ness was the cause of the deed. The de-
ceased leaves large family, with whom
her relations were of the pleasantest
character.
At Percy, Frank Fisk shot j.. A.
Bailey under the left shoulder bone
with revolver. Fisk came into a saw
mill where Bailey was at work, and
stepped onto the carriage where Bailey
was sitting, and Bailey turned round
and knocked Fisk off the carriage
Fisk then got up and drew q revolver.
Bailey seized club, whereupon Fisk
shot him. Bailey is very low, but viii
probably recover.
Fort Atkinson, Wis, Special: Mrs.
Stagge, implicated in the Stagge murder
case in this city, confessed in open
court that she purchased the arsenic at
B. S. Whites drug store three years
ago, which she and her husband both
were charged with administering to
their child Judge Bennett then sem
fenced them to states prison for life.
They were taken to photograph gal
lery and had their pictures taken, to-
gether with the coffin manufactured
by him out of fence boards in which
the child was found buried.
At a Polish celebration In Appleton a
fight took place, resulting in the stab
bing of H. Kruntz and Ferdinand Col
itzky. The former was seriously in
jured, being badly cut in several places.
August Dominisly was fellled to
the floor by blow from plank in the
hands of participant, and it was
thought for some time that he was
killed.
John Marshall, living near Marin
cite, was dangerously shot in his own
house by an unknown assassin, who
fred through the window.
The new Catholic Indian school
building at Keshena is now occupied.
There are now 105 pupils in regular at
tendance, the majority Of whom are
girls. The education of 100 is paid by
the government.
Merritt Cottrill and Mary Wandron,
the couple who. it is alleged, eloped
from Redwood, Mimi, about year ago,
and located at Hortonville, were ar
raigned in court at Appleton, having
been arrested at the instance of Sebas-
tine Wandron, husband of the woman,
but owing to the absence of the com
plainant, the case was dismissed. The
charge was adultery. The parties re
turned to Hortonville, where they
will continue to reside.