River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-22

He is bowed down with grief, and will
return broken-hearted to his native land.
The daughter was - years of age and an
only child.
The Black Hills Oil company boring west
of the Hills, Dakota, all summer, after
numerous mishaps struck oil at a depth of
$40 feet. No casing was ON hand, and the
work was stopped till a supply can be OBJ
tanned. Ten barrels a day are now OBJ
tanned, and there is every indication that
valuable wells viii be established. The oil
is of the very best quality
McGee a. Gilmore, extensive Chippewa
loggers, have taken contract to put in
60,oo0, 900 feet of logs from pine tract To-
Gated above Glidden, in Ashland county.
This is one of the largest contracts of the
kind ever made on the Chippewa, and as
the contractors viii not cut to exceed TO-
100000 feet annually, it will require from
| eight to ten years TO complete the job.
/ AT st. Charles Mimi, on the 18th, Ed
ward Watts was arrested for attempted
outrage ON the seven year old daugter of
Jacob Hendee. At midnight a mob under
/ took to lynch Watts. The sheriff escaped
with him and walked through the woods to
I Lewiston, 0 miles, there took train for
/ Wiuona where he jailed his prisoner.
! Eau Claire, Wis, has a conflict of author
/ tiles on hand The West side schools have
been closed owing to diphtheria, but the
/ board of education orders them opened.
The Mayor objected and stationed police
to prevent the opening. The police pre-
vailed and the board win prosecute the
Mayor.
Upon returning to his home at Bismarck,
L. S. Marshal Maratta was serenaded.
Speeches were made by John c. Holenback,
Col. Lounsberry, Mayor Bragg Capt.
Baller and others, all of congratulatory
character, and treating of Marattas long
and prominent connection with Dakota
affairs
Maj Cramsie, the Indian agent at
DEVILS Lake has been reappointed upon
the recommendation of Bishop Ireland,
A commission had been made out for
another man as Maj Cramses
term was about expiring but
Bishop Ireland secured his retention.
/ Ed Steegar general salesman and collect
ing agent for the d. NJ Osborne Harvester
company, left Hudson, Wis, nearly a week
4 ago on a business trip to Minneapolis, and
has not been heard from since. His family
and friends are solicitous about him.
Rev. James Owens, was found dead on
Sunday near Luce Station, town on the
Northern Pacific near Perham, Mimi. He
had been preaching at Lake Syhil and was
walking home when stricken meet with
heart disease.
Dlinto d. T., which is 81 miles north of
Grand Forks, had a severe fire on the 18th,
destroying two roller Kinks, a store and a
saloon. The loss was nearly $4,000 and
insurance light. The fire was incendiary.
There are at least twenty cases of small
pox in Marinette, Wis, the disease having
been brought there by a Montreal citizen.
Four deaths have already occurred, and
many persons have been exposed.
In the district court at st. Paul, in the
suit of Erie Won Roselind VS. L. N. Griffin,
deputy sheriff at Bismarck, for assault and
impris onment the jury returned a verdict
of $1,000 for the plaintiff
The First National Bank of DEVILS Lake,
D. T., has begun business. j. J. Hill, st.
Paul, H. B. Strait, Shakopee, and Geo. VI.
Phillips, Mortified, ars among the stock
holders.
I The custom officers al Duluth say that if
the opinion of Attorney General Garland
regarding Canadian bottoms is enforced it
will Danish Canadian vessels from the port.
/ Five cars of wheat on the Northern Pa
/ cifc road were ditched near Aitkin, Mimi,
/ on the 18th, and two tramps who were
stealing a ride were smothered to death.
4 For the second week in October the gross
earnings Of the Chicago, st. Paul and Mil
waukee r. r. were S624, 600, an increase of
81 900, over the same week last year.
Sitting Bull and the six or seven thou
sand Indians attached to Standing Rock
1 Agency are gratified at the reappoint-
ment of Agent Mclaughlin
At Minneapolis on Sunday was dedicated
a memorial monument to the eighteen men
who lost their lives in the terrible mill ex
plosion OF April ?, 1875.
Ex-Deputy County Clerk Chas. F. Tracy,
of Deadwood, d. T., is under arrest charged
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the amount of S3,40O
/ Mrs. Harrietta Remley, has been CON
victed at Dodgville Wis, of having muir
dered her husband and sentenced to the
penitentiary for life.
Herman Greve, one of the prominent cit
liens of st. Paul, and a large property
owner, died on the evening ofthe Goth after
lingering illness.
Merrill Bros, merchants at Livingston,
Montana, have failed with 100000 liabil-
tiles and assets $4,000 Their creditors are
mostly in St. Paul.
At Fort Buford Geo Fleury, the post in
terpreter was killed by Wood, a soldier.
Wood was jealous of the man he murdered
and drank deeply.
The large Touring mill of Geo. F. Strait
& CO., at Shakopee, burned Sunday night
The insurance was $4,000 and the loss is
total
The store Of Bangs & Co, at Glyndon was
burglarized. Three Arrests have been
made, and some of the goods recovered.
Miss Longfellow, youngest daughter of
the late poet, has just been married to
James G. Thorpe of Eau Claire, Wis.
Ranhold Reimer was convicted of wife
murder at Fort Dodge, Iowa, on the 14th,
and sentenced to hard labor for life.
At Estelline, d. T., $50 sheep were burned
by prairie fire on the farm of II. B. Green
by, the fire took from railroad train.
The public schools on the west side at
Eau Claire, Wis, have been closed owing
to the prevalence of diptberia.
Dr. A. D. Cole, President of the theologi-
cal seminary at Nashotah, Wis, died sud
denly of paralysis of the heart.
The First National Bank at Devils Lake
D. T. has been organized. Chas. s. Hubert
of Minneapolis is president.
The American Women's Suffrage Associ-
alton has been holding its annual meeting
at Minneapolis.
1t is reported from London that Riels
sentence will be committed to imprison-
ment for life
Judge Edgerton OF Dakota, denies that
he is a candidate for the Senate or any
other office,
The Buffalo mill. owned by Mrs. E.
Jacobson was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
James Irwin has been arrested and con-
fesses to the murder of Hewes at Moorhead.