River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-12-17
NoRTHwEsTERN NEWS.

North Dakota is bound to keep pace with
South Dakota in the matter of having
something on hand for agitation. In
Barnes county it is said that citizens gem
orally are refusing to pay any more taxes
until the status of the Northern Pacific
road is settled. In Fargo one firm refused
city tax certificates for S2S,000 in conse-
quence OF the recent opinion of the SUI
preine court. 1t is now requested on all
sides thata convention be held to consider
the opening of Lake Traverse into Big
Stone lake, Commissioner Sparks action
in land matters, tine Trail county tax de-
cision and the question of admission and
division.
Judge Church, the new Dakota justice
seems to be determined to secure verdicts
in criminal cases. At the recent term of
court at WATERFOWL, ID. T., Clayton Dodge
was charged with murder and when the
case was given to the jury, the judge di-
rected that they be kept without food, wa
ter or fuel until they rendered a verdict.
After thirty-one hours they brought in a
verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the
second degree.
Daniel Foley, an old resident of Sibley
county living near Belle PLANE, was muir
dered on the 18th while returning on horse
back to his home from Norwood. No clue
has been found to the murder. The
crime was discovered by the horse re-
turning without rider, and the sons of the
murdered man going in search of their ia
Their, found his rude body in shanty by
the road side where it had been dragged.
Lieut. Lemia, regular army officer, has
been placed in charge of the military de-
partment of the Wisconsin State Univer-
sity at Madison. He has been introducing
West Point drills, and when he required
the students to submit to long out door
drill in the cold, they rebelled. Twenty
sophomores refused TO attend the dlill, and
President Bascom has suspended them.
The building statistics of ST. Paul. for
1885 show 1861 buildings erected at a cost
of nine million one hundred and three
thousand and seven hundred dollars.
There were 2,574 residences erected and
993 business buildings.
Fire at Bismarck, d. T., on the 18th, de-
stroyed Edick Bros cigar mandatory
and Shoenberg's boots and shoes. The
First National Bank building was also
badly damaged. Loss $4,000. Insurance
$4,000.
H. A. Coppernail, lumber dealer at Du-
luth, committed suicide on the 18th by
shooting himself He was in poor health
and his mind had become unsettled. He
leaves a wife and daughter.
Lieut.. Chance of the 18th infantry, died
suddenly Of appoplexy at Fremont Ohio,
on the 18th. He was stationed at Fort
Lincoln near Bismarck, d. T., and was on a
visit to his old home.
a st. Paul paper gives the building sta
tistics of Minneapolis for 1885 as reaching
Ss,4S4, 1876 There were 355S buildings
erected, the residences numbering 1924 and
stores 331.
The wood work department of the
Crocker chair company at Sheboygan,
Wis has burned. Loss 100000. Insurance
$4,000. The fire throws 200 men out of en-
pioyment.
Madison, Wis, has imposed license of
$500 on roller skating rlnks with view of
wlplng them out on the ground that they
are immoral
Judge Smith of Dakota is out in circu-
lar replying to the charge made against
him OIL the strength of which he was re-
moved
E. J. Teipner of Minneapolis, has been
sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary
for criminal assault on Julia Christine
Peterson.
The fourteenth annual session of the Pat
rons of Husbandry for Wisconsin has just
closed it's session at Madison.
The burning of E. W. Howelrs wholesale
millinery house at Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
caused loss of $4,000.
At Yankton, d. T., on the Sth, Chief
Justice Trip took the oath of office.