River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-30
WISCONSIN NEWS NOTES.

and bias since lost the sight of one eye.
Mrs. Mary E. Merrill. David G.
Green, Benjamin G. Lennox, and David
S. Wegg qualified as executors Of the
will of the late S. S. Merrill, In Mil
waukee.
The johnson Electric Service COM
pany of Milwaukee fled articles of as
ISOLATION with the secretary of state,
the incorporators being William Plank
inton, William Bean and William John
son. Capital stock is $4,000.
Burglars broke into the houses OF
Messrs. Barnard, French, Seeley and
Barwise at Menomonee, taking about
S400 from Seeley's with some silver.
ware. The burglars escaped.
Mr.. John Wight, and Miss Alice r.
Stanton, both of Eau Claire, were mar
ried at the residence of the brides
mother.
Carl MARI, a Milwaukee artist only
twenty-seven years of age, has been
awarded the great silver medal at the
university at Munich, Germany, for o
large historical painting over 100 fig.
ures representing 4 scene in the war OF
Napoleon. The painting occupied two
years of young Marr's time, and his re-
ward is the highest price ever given Of
Munich.
From La Crosse the deaths of James
Pilkin, of w. T. Galen and w. H.
Brockliss, all old settlers, are announc-
ed.
John WEIGH. employed by r. p. an6
E. G. Barlow of Darlington, while Ell
route to Chicago with live stock,
Rockville, ILL.,, fell between two carr
and was badly crushed.
A man named John Fargerly, employ
ed at the Northwestern Lumber com
pany's Porterville mill, had his hauo
torn completely off, and arm badly
mangled by being caught in a belt
The victim had just commenced work il
the mill.
V. L. Atkinson Of Milwaukee, pres
ident of the Wisconsin State Veterinary
association, has been appointed by Gov
Rusk as state veterinarian, under the
law recently passed by the legislature
The salary is 800 per annum and acc
essary expenses. lie is expected t.
prevent the introduction and spread o,
contagious diseases among domestic an
imals in Wisconsin.
A Green Bay special says David G
Bailey has secured a verdict against TIL,
Milwaukee & st. Paul for 81 900, foi
personal damages sustained in 1881
through defendants train running of
the track.
Two prisoners escaped from the jai
at Wausau, one named Meyer from Lin
coin county, charged with selling liquo
without q license, and half breed from
Langlade county named Joseph Jerer
miah, charged with horse stealing.
A deaf and dumb man named AR
mold, residing in Hudson, step-son Of
the late Jesse Wood, was run into by
the River Falls train crushing his right
arm and shoulder, and he also sustained
internal injuries which may prove fatal
Hon. w. p. Swift was reelected
county Judge of Barron county. at the
recent election, beating Mr.. +. Nj. An
gel by nearly 500 votes.
Henry Goetsch, dry goods and gro
ceries, Watertown, has failed for small
amount.
Ben Price is in jail at Albany, for al
legged attempt to murder his father-in
law, George Meredith, of Greene coun'
ty by giving him poison.
John Sears and Clip Stoodley have
been arrested at Lake Geneva, for rob
bling Rogers iewelry store. The prop
erty was recovered.
Neil Macarthur and Thomas Near
thur, his son, were arraigned before the
United States court commissioner al
Appleton, charged with selling hquol
in Summit Lake, Lincoln county
without paying special tax.
August Sterme, a German serving OF
Fond du Lac jury, was so much dis
turbed over his ignorance of English
that he became insane.
John w Perry, for some years county
superintendent of the poor of Dodge
county, is dead, aged sixty-three.
Jefferson county farmers are mucl
discouraged over the backwardness
the season.
The expense for Legislative employs
alone during therecent session was 49,
009, of which $4,000 was spent for
clerical service alone Experts around
the state house say $1,000 would have
secured the state better service thar
was secured by the $40, 900 spent. The
trouble is that members had their
own friends and relatives on the pay
roll, and forced chief clerks to employ
them. The clerical expenditure of
legislature is one of the greatest abuset
now extant in this state. and members
themselves are alone to blame for it.
The military ball given in the exposi
ton building, Milwaukee, under th'
auspices of the Light Horse squadron
was a great success. Over four thous
and people were in attendance, and the
receipts aggregated about $40, 600
Gen Schoheld and staff of ChicagG
were the honered guests of the evening
Rindskopf Brothers company. o.
Milwaukee, filed articles of association
with the secretary of state of Wisconsin
the object being to conduct n whole
sale tobacco business. Capital stock is
$40, 900.
Two new railway corporations have
filed articles of association with the sec
rotary of state at Madison. The Supe
rior Hayward & Southern was incorpor-
ated with a capital stock of S2.000,000
The company intend constructing a MAR
line from the village of Lake Superior il
a southeasterly direction, through the
county of Douglass and the northeast
ern part of Washburn county into the
village of Hayward, in and near the
western boundary of Sawyer county
thence southerly through Sawyer coun
ty into Chippewa county to connec
with the st. Paul railway system
Chippewa Falls. The length of tbs
line is al miles. A branch
line forty miles long is t.
extend from Hayward through the
counties of Washburne and Burnett, u
O point on the western boundary line o.
the state, in town Al, range 16 west
Another branch 100 miles long is to ex
tend eastward from Hayward through