River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-02
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

Wisconsin State Musical association,
the following officers were elected: G.
| X. Lampard, president; r. E. Daniels,
vice president; w. III Baker, secretary
ID. W. Campbell, treasurer, all of Osh-
kosh.
Postmaster General Villas and Con-
gresham Joe Rankin are said to be in
row over the appointment OF a Wis
consin postotiice inspector,
At Wittenberg, Fred Sbultz, saloon
keeper is arrested for killing John Cor
| eoran.
The Catholic total abstinence society
! in convention at Kenosha, elected the
following officers: President, Rev j
/ NJ Cleary, Kenosha; first vice presi
dent, f. p. Larigan, Chiffon; second
vice president, J O'Malley, Oshkosh;
third vice president. H. ! Desmond
! Milwaukee; fourth vice president
! James Donlevy, Oconto; fifth vice
president, j. Casserley. Whitewater
sixth vice president, J. Schubert Gin
/ tonville; seventh vice president, James
Farrell, Pine Bluff; secretary, f. w
! Mathews, kenosha; treasurer, +. p
| Boland, Fort Howard.
| William c. Morley, young student
OF Carroll college, from Lewiston, Ill.,,
was arrested in Waukesha on a war
rant issued at the instance of Peter
Mckenzie, charging him with the pa
/ ternity of his daughter Ella 5 child born
few days since The two children at.
tended college together before the
burning OF the old building, and are
each about seventeen years of age
! Morley characterizes the charge as
blackmail.
Sheep shearing is finished about
WATERFOWL, and the wool clip is fair
as regards quality and weight. The
| last winter was favorable to { he growth
of wool, being long and cold; but, ow-
| ing to the low price, sheep owners did
not give that care to their hocks nor
feed them to that degree that would
have produced heavier clip
The election OF officers of Lawrence
university at Appleton resulted as fol
lows: President, J H. Whorton. APP
pleton; vice president, Ro' OFT McMiller,
| Oshkosh second vice president, n. G.
! Griffin, Fond du Lac; treasurer, ;. X.
| Wambaw; trustees to fill vacancies,
Edward West, Appleton; L. r. Payne,
| Milwaukee, and ID. G. Ormsby Pewau
kee, in place OF Mr.. Bradford, resigned.
The Grand Temple of Honor ofWis.
,onsin, at their meeting at Appleton.
elected the following officers: G. w
c. T., A. j. Smith, Amherst; G. w. V.
r., w. b. Hazetin, Madison: G. w. X.
S. c. Burnham GAINESVILLE; G. w. r., NJ.
S. Pritchard, GAINESVILLE; G. w. w, NJ.
| F.. Griffin, Oconomowoc; &. W. G., ID.
B. Bailey, Appleton; G. w. c., r. S.
Anderson Racine.
The thirt y-second annual commence
ment exercises of the state university
were held at Madison in the presence
of over fifteen hundred people, includ-
ing representatives of the alumni from
all sections of the country.
The Lewis prize for oratory waswon
by Miss Lizzie A. Waters OF Fond du
Lac, the title of her Grafton being
"Selfshness Of Intolerance" The
prize amounts to $50 in gold and is
the fruit OF an endowment by ex-Gov.
Lewis several years ago. Seventy
eight diplomas We're conferred, nine
teen being to graduates in law. Mrs.
r. NJ Lafolette, wife of Congressman
Iafollette of Madison, received the de-
gree of bachelor of laws, and the hon
Orary degree of doctor oflaws was con-
ferred upon Postmaster General Villas,
who graduated from the university in
1858. The alumni met in annual SEES
sion and elected the following officers
for the ensuing year: President, d..
Frankenburger, Madison; vice pres
ident, Mrs. George III. Noyes, Milwau-
kee; secretary, C. r. Lamb, Madison;
treasurer, Mrs. Grace Clark, Madison.
A. s. Emo and Mrs. John Byl, of Ap-
pleton, eloped few days ago, Emo
leavinga wife, and Mrs. Byl husband.
Emo boarded in the Byl family, and
the attachment between the wife and
him resulted in an elopement. Their
arrest is probable.
i ank T. Lynch, who has just been
| appointed postmaster at Leaven-
worth, Kan, is a native of GAINESVILLE.
The active president of the Wiscon.
sin Press associasion, Mr.. f. ID. Coe,
has secured Mrs. Elizabeth Baker 30.
han to read poem, and Bill Nye 70
! deliver an address at heannual meet
| ing at Whitewater next month.
The Thirty-sixth Wisconsin regi.
ment viii hold a reunion in Madison
July II.
Young Beardsley, the scion of an
Eastern banker who is in jail at Mil
waukee for a small burglary, is now be
lieved to have been the man who bur
| garized the residence of Charles Ray,
month ago. Beardsley's mother
has telegraphed from Hoboken, n. j.,
that her son is slightly demented, and
! that she will come on and take care of
him. Beardsley has captivated the
! hearts of more than a dozen suscepti-
! BILE young ladies since coming to Mil
waukee, and the discovery Of tender
notes in his pockets compromises the
names OF several OF high standing.
At La Crosse, a boat containing
four young men, all Germans, was
overturned in the Mississippi and
William Hottie, aged twenty-five, was
! drowned.
Gov Rusk has appointed George w.
Raymer, senior editor of the Madison
Democrat a member OF the board OF
university regents to fill the unexpired
/ term ending in 1877 OF Postmaster
! General Villas, resigned.
The dead body of Ed Turner of
Beaver Dam, was recently found in
South Minneapolis, MINI.
At Waupacca, the case OF John
| Edwards ct al. against the Wausau
Boom Company was concluded III the
/ circuit court The jury brought in a
verdict for the plaintiff for $15,575
! damages.
The board of university regents met
/ in annual session and reelected officers
for the ensuing year, asfollows: Pres
ident, George H. Paul, Milwaukee;
vice president, G. G. McMynn, Racine;
secretary, John S Dean, Madison.
/ Charges of dishonesty, preferred by
| President Bascom against Regent
/ Keyes were investigated by special
committee, and the adverse report was
unanimously adopted by the board.
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