River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-12-31
WISCONSIN NEWS.

in county. lie was popular member
Of the 10th Wisconsin.
Mrs. Eliza Waterhouse, who settled
in Clyman, Dodge Co, in 1914, has
died at that place, aged 30 years.
The new passenger depot of the c.
NJ. and St. r. r. Il. at Eau Claire is
completed and opened to the public.
Capt. JAS Rogan, the second white
settler of WATERFOWL, he having settled
there in 1886, died on the 18th. aged
81 years.
At Fond du Lac, Frederick Hempcl
has been convicted of embezzling $780,
600 entrusted to him by Beaver Dam
parties.
Several ferry boats on the Chippewa
river which had gone into winter quar-
tiers, have stretched the ropes and are
busy again.
BY the register kept at the State
University OF Madison it appears there
are 30 high schools and academies in
the state.
The employees of the Eau Claire and
Minneapolis Paper mills are to have
an elegantly appointed dancing party
New Years eve.
The three Poles engaged in the kill
ing of their countryman, Dakke, at
Milwaukee, have been sentenced to Ia
years each in the penitentiary.
At Hudson, brakeman on the Chi
cago, Omaha d st. Paul K. r. was
caught between the bumpers of freight
cars on Christmas day, and instantly
killed.
The Milwaukee Merchants Associa-
ton at a special meeting, passed reso-
lutions opposing the coinage of silver
dollars, and petitioning congress to re-
peal or suspend the coinage law.
Near Hayward, Sawyer county,
team, wagon and camp supplies, of the
value Of 5000, belonging to Miles Baur
of Eau Claire, were lost by breaking
through the ice in one Of the forks of
the Chippewa.
At Fort Atkinson, eX-County Treas
urcr Darius Jones, while paying visit
al the house of his son, accidentally
fell down stairs, receiving internal in
juries which caused his death on
Christmas day.
A Greenville farmer engaged in clean
ing a pistol was approached by his
seven year old daughter, when the
loaded weapon was suddenly dis
charged, the ball entering the child's
brain with fatal result.
George Chase of Fond du Lac, died
on the 9th at the Oshkosh asylum for
the insane, of paralysis. Last May he
wandered off into some swamps where
nc remained five days without food,
undergoing almost fatal exposure.
! AT Oshkosh, Henry Lisson has been
convicted Of assault with intent to do
bodily harm. He had threatened to
shoot his wife, and on a deputy sheriff
trying to arrest him, he shot at the Off
Ger, but hit his own sister in the arm.
Ncls Peterson fell between cars or
the Northwestern railroad between
Lodi and Dane, death resulting. He is
the fourth man killed in two years
within few rods where his body was
found. Peterson was % years of age
ard in good circumstances.
A company which secured from the
Milwaukee city council the privilege
of laying the Dorset conduit system
through the streets of the city, having
proposed to use another system have
been enioined from proceeding with
the work, unless they use the Dorset
system.
The following articles of iucorpora-
ton were fled this week: Pewaukee
Flour Milling Co., capital $4,000;
Master Plumers Sewer Pipe Association
of Milwaukee, capital $500; Wilbur
Lumber Co., Milwaukee. capital $780,
900; Winters Metallic Paint Co., Mil
waukee, capital $4,000.
The annual executive session of the
Wisconsin Teachers association began
at Madison, Monday, the 2Sth, Prof.
A. j. Hatton, of Platteville, presiding.
Prof. Long, of Black River Falls, and
President Salisbury, of the Whitewater
Normal school, read important papers.
A resolution was introduced calling up
on the Wisconsin members of Congress
to support the Blair educational bill.
Mrs. L. A Bradley died on the 25th
at Milwaukee, from blood poisoning,
caused by a wound on her right thumb.
produced by the fin of fish she was
cleaning. Her husband in cutting a
piece of loose flesh from the wounded +.
thumb cut his own hand with the razor
and suffered also from blood poisoning,
but not fatally,
1t Is reported from the Chippewa.
Eau Claire, Black and st. CroiX dis /
tricts that the logging crews are labor
ing under disadvantages never before
experienced in that section at so late a /
date. 1t is claimed that unless heavy /!
snowfalls and steady weather soon pre- |
vail the expected log-cut from that !
part of the state will show a shortage
of from 25 to 80 per cent.
The contractors for the grading of
the Burlington and Northern new line /
from ST. Paul to Prairie du Chen. are
making rapid progress, running at the
present time 5000 men and 500 teams.
The grading will be practically com /
pleted by May LIST. While the weather
is so favorable five night gangs are en-
ployed, and the line between Winona !
and La Crosse viii be finished January |
LIST,
Last June Gov Rusk granted con- /
ditional pardon to Geo. Wilson, SEN
fenced in 1865 to the state prison for
life, for the killing of John Rely, .
Milwaukee bar keeper. Wilson had /
been in prison for 20 years for murder
probably committed by another man
during the row in which the crime oc-
cured, As Wilson had threatened to /
kill Prosecutor Cotterell, if he ever got /
a chance,it was the condition of his par
don that he should not reside in Wis /
consin. Cotterell being now dead, /
Governor Rusk has granted full par :
don
Hon. VIM. Pitt Lynde died at Mil /,
waukee on the 18th inst of fatty de-
generation of the heart, being two /
days more than 68 years of age. He |
was born in Chenango Co., n. Y, j
graduated from Yale college in 1898, /
and from the Harvard law school in
1871, settling the same year in Mil :
waukce. In 1914 he was appointed i
Attorney General of the territory; in /
1916 United States District Attorney I
for Wisconsin; in 184S, upon the ad- /
Of Wisconsin as a State he was
elected its first Representative in Con- !,
gress. and again served two terms in I
Congress commencing March 1, 1875;
he served as Mayor of Milwaukee and /
in the state legislature. He is sur
vived by his wife and six children. He
leaves a large estate, the result of an
opulent law practice and wise in
vcstments,
.
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