River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-15
Wisconsin State News Condensed.

feet, OF ABOUT 10 per cent. OF last year
cut.
A. Nj. Grant, clerk of Dodge county,
is missing. His accounts already show
a deficit of $500.
Rev. Mr.. Newman of Ripon will prob
ably be called to the pulpit Of the Con.
gregational church in Washington.
improvements in Superior last year
amounted to over half million dollars.
The failure Of G. @. Olin, dealer in
dry goods at Florence is announced.
Assets, 81, 600; liabilities, $4,000.
Dull trade and speculation in values
were the cause.
John Burns, schoolteacher at Vero-
ma, is under arrest on the charge of at
tempting to outrage pupil, a young
lady about fourteen years of age.
Charles Woessner, clothing dealer al
Wausau, has assigned.
The unknown murderer of Charles
Fendesack, in the town of Lake, near
Milwaukee, farm hand, IS still at
large, and Will probably never be cap
tured.
Charles Converse of Fort Atkinson
has just been paid $500 damages by
the Northwestern railroad for injuries
incurred in collision at Milton juno
ton.
A. w. Carver, lessee of the Revere
house, the leading hotel of Oshkosh,
has made an assignment to George
Athern. Liabilities, $$7 900; assets
nominal.
The Times Publishing company o!
Menomonie, capital So 900, filed articles
of association with the secretary Oh
state, as did also the Sherwood Fores
company of Brooklyn, Green Lake
county, with capital of $4,000, whose
object is to conduct summer resort.
At Court d OreiIes village, in Sawyer
county, the Indians celebrated Christ
mas in their church, which was finely
decorated for the occasion, the proml'
nent feature being representation OF
the stable where Christ was born. II
was constructed of birch bark, two OF
three feet each way in dimensions, and
the people and animals were represent
ed by images.
Judge David J. Pulling, who was last
spring reelected judge of the Oshkosh
circuit, and who was bitterly fought by
almost the entire bar of this city and
country, has caused vacancy to occur
in the office by voluntarily failing tc
qualify.
The suicide of Francis B. Blair, al
Strong's Prairie, is attributed to his re
lations with girl thirteen yaars of age
He was an eccentric man, nearly seven
ty years of age, and had long resided
near Roch- Girls. A drachm phial two
thirds full of crystalized strychnine
was found in his vest pocket.
At Milwaukee the residence of Rev.
Father Gulski, of the Stanislaus church,
was stormed and broken open by three
hundred infuriated men of his congre-
CATION, who thought they had been
wronged by him. 1t appear that he de-
clared two men not to be elected trus-
tees of the church who, in fact, had
been electedby large majority. lntim-
idated by the mob, he finally acquies'
ced to their wishes.
The assignee of John Hoberg of Led
ward makes the following statement
Liabilities, 15,O27.03; assets-stock,
S13, 36I.24; furniture, 1903. 10; ac-
counts and notes, 81, 366.66.
During the holidays the business
men of Manitowoc distributed among
the poor 1000 pounds of beef, rs sacks
of flour, 100 pairs of shoes, 200 yards OF
flannel and many other things.
Rumors are current that the Racine
opera house fire was the work OF
an incendiary, and detectives are inyes-
tigating.
The P. B. Champaign Lumber COM
panv, Merrill, also filed articles, the
capital stock being 100000. The in
corporators are P. B. Champaign, John
Woodcock and James Coon.
Judge Meyers at Appleton granted 8
stay of the sale of the goods of l.. Loe-
wenthal for twenty days so as to give
the assignee time to commence an action
to set aside alleged fraudulent ludg-
ments, if any, obtained against the
property by Bacbrach of Chicago, broth
er-in-law of Loewenthal, and to enable
creditors to take such proceedings as
they may deem necessary to that end.
BY the will of the late Daniel L.
Wells of Milwaukee, his property is di-
vided among a score or more of relatives,
the main portion going to the widow,
aud is estimated to be worth a great deal
more than 81 ,000,O 600. It's exact value,
however, will not be known until the in
yentory is filed.
Mr.. Cyrus Dawes, of the town OF
GAINESVILLE, planted, last summer, TWEEN
ty acres of tobacco, and took s., 304 as
the proceeds of the crop. A gross in
come of $105 per acre for farming land
is very good return in these times OF
low prices for farm products.
Pursuant to an order of the court at
Beloit the Merrill g. Houston iron
works we're sold at auction for the ben
eft of the creditors. That portion OF
the plant known as the Parker & Stone
plant was bid in by G. FL. Bessley OF
Chicago for $40, 800, which amount
covers a mortgage held on the said
property by the purchaser. The high
est bid for the remainder of the plant
including all real and personal proper
ty, was $40, 600, and was made by J. d.
Rexford Of GAINESVILLE in behalf of all
creditors.
Hon. james M. Bingham died al
Chippewa Falls after an illness of some
,,ool,s He vas ono of the leading and