River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26
WISCONSIN MI ES NOTES.

Mrs. John Collendar died at Union
Grove, aged ninety nire years.
The Wisconsin editorial convention
will be held at Appleton in July.
| Stone & Warren's slaughter house,
above the Dells, burned. Loss, $4,000;
/ insured.
/ Physicians report seventy-fve cases
of scarlet fever, and sixty of diphtheria.
in Racine.
Rivermen resident in Oshkosh pre-
4 dict that log-driying will be more than
ordinarily successful this spring.
/ At Green Bay, John M. Shoemak er
/ dry goods, has failed. Liabilities between
$4,000 and ST, 900; assets, "a, 500.
The authorities OF st. Croix county,
have pulled one Of the houses of i'll fame
opposite Saltwater. Others will sooD
be pulled.
The Griffith sawmill at Fond du Lac
has been bought by Mr.. Hamilton of the
bennett harvester works, Milwaukee,
for $12, 900.
Morris Baker, assistant bookkeeper
of A. w. Rich & Co., of Milwaukee, was
arrested for small stealings from the
money drawer.
The store of Charles Reynolds OF
Sturgeon Bay with its contents was
burned. Reynolds is large dealer in
cedar and hard lumber. The loss Is very
heavy.
A company has formed with a capital
If $3.50, 900 which is ready to build a
800 900 furnace, capable of smelling
fifty tons of ore per day, provided the
city of Black River Falls raises $780,
600.
The legislature has passed bill pro-
viding that any one who will put up
watering troughs on a public highway
shall be credited So on his road tax /;
provided, however, that such watering
places are not to be nearer to each 9th
er than two miles.
John Miller and Peter Holtz, of Nil.
Ter g. Holtz, proprietors of the high est
toned and most extensive saloon in Mil
waukee, were arrested by the agents of
the Citizens league for selling liquor to
minors. They gave bail, and will fight
the case determinedly.
Bushrod D. Washington, printer and
painter in GAINESVILLE, is a relative OF
the father of his country" beng a son
of Spottswood A. Washington, son of
Bushrod Washington, Jr., son of Col.
William Augustine Washington, neph-
ew of Gen. George Washington.
Articles of association OF the Milwau-
kee photographic and Engraving com.
pany were filed with the Wisconsin Sec
rotary of state, the incorporators being
Henry Zeifert, George X. Schoefel and
| William Roethlisberger. The object IS
to do engraving, lithographing and
printing. The capital stock is 800, 200.
The new city directory of Eau Claire,
for 1885 is being delivered. 1t contains
1914 names of business firms and pri-
waite citizens, against 6, 524 in the diree-
tory for 1884 According to the usu-
al method of ascertaining the number
of inhabitants, the city shows popula-
ton of %, 542 an increase of $3.50 over
last year.
Blanche Roosevelt Tucker, distin-
guished in musical and literary circles,
was one of the beauties of La Crosse,
years ago. She is now writing life OF
Dore, in London.
The window in ST. PauPs church,
Milwaukee, in memory of the late
Bishop Kemper, will probably be finished
byssEaster. 1t contains a reproduction,
in painting and mosaic, of Dore's
Christ Leaving the Pr@torium," and
is the work of Mr.. Louis @. Tiffany.
The amount of logs scaled in Beef
slough for the Mississippi logging COM
pany, during the season of 1884,
amounted TO about 337 500, 100 feet, in
8, 161. 1876 pieces. These logs were
manufactured at Dubuque, Muscatine,
Burlington, Hannibal, Lyons and other
points on the Mississippi.
1t is stated that James Blackburn,
once paymaster of the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore & Western railway, defrauded
the Lake Shore Traffic company, an
offshoot of the railroad corporation, to
the extent of 5000 or more by the
crooked management of q saw mill at
Norris. Blackb burn was arrested,
confessed and turned over property
valued at $4,000.
Eau Claire, Wis, Special: The
freeze-up has saved logging roads,
which had been much impaired by the
recent thaw, and were at most points
about played out for hauling, The
logging season in the northern pineries,
however, is about over. The camp
scalers have not yet sent in their
| reports. but careful observers IN the
Chippewa camps place the cut for the
winter there at from 500, 600, 600 to
GOO, 900, 900, which is reduction of 20
to % per cent of the amount put IN last
winter. But with the amount of sur
plus logs from last fall there will be
sufficient and even more than the mills
care to handle during the saving sea-
son. Prices are down.
Major A. X. Arnold, of the Sixth
Cavalry, located at Fort Bayard, New
Mexico, informs the War Department
that he has succeeded in training horses
of the company toIie still while cavalry
men are firing over them. Out of foul
troops, averaging 30 horses each, loo
horses have been thus trained. The
time required has been one hour each
day for three months, barring Saturdays
Sundays, and inclement weather. The
horses thus far trained will lie down up
on the rider taking hold of the left leg.
Major Arnold says the animals become
exceedingly gentle under the training
and remain quiet while their riders, In
any position, are shooting over them.