River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-07
WISCONSIN NEWS NOTES.
A son of Chauncey Wilmot of Chelsea
was killed while driving logs.

oOOYUOO bushels OF wheat III SIX InOnbus.
August Neuving of Stetsonville com
mitted suicide by cutting an artery in
his leg.
The Wisconsin state fair will be held
at Madison, on the week commencing
Sept. Z.
The acreage of tobacco in the state
will be increased one-third over that OF
last year.
H. J. Prescott of Marcellon owns
$50 bill of the old Continental scrip is
sued III 1778.
The president has appointed j. F.
Gregory of Ashland, Wis, as INDIAN
agent at Lapointe.
Mrs. Aurilla Berstag, one of the pic
neers of Columbus, was found dead in
her bed recently.
0. r. Foote, aged eighty years, com
mitted suicide at Ripon, by drowning
himself in a cistern.
The United States court at Madison
appointed receiver for the st. Croix
Land and Lumber company.
Three million pounds of cheese, mostly
swe1tzer and limberger, will be manu-
featured in Greene county this season.
James Keegan of Reldsburg was
fatally injured by striking q bridge
while brakIng on a freight train near
Beloit.
City Attorney Liscom be of Milwau-
kee decides that brewers selling beer at
retail will not have to take out soloon
licenses.
Herman Dietz, young man OF
Neenah, who dlappeared, was found
dead in the woods, with pistol wound
in his head.
Ollie Grant, aged five years, arrived
in Eau Claire from Wichita, Kans., be-
ing duly labelled and left TO the care OF
conductors.
1t turns out that the new Wisconsin
railroad from Chicago to Waukasha is
to be built in the interest of the Wis
consin Central.
At Stanley, Chippewa county, a house
belonging to farmer named Johannes
was burned, and his sixyear- old
daughter lost her life in the flames.
The farm dwelling of Jerry Smith, in
the town of Wheaton, with the greater
portion of its contents, was burned.
Loss from 81, 200 to 81, 500; insurance
$500.
The family of e. d. Bushnell of Bel
mont, Lafayette county. have received
from the government back pensions
amounting to So, $40, and a regular
monthly pension of $72.
Jerry Dammon and his consin, Mar
tin Dammon of Eau Claire, had quar-
rel, when the latter was so badly beaten
with club that his life is despaired Of
The assailant was arrested
William Sacia, one of the earliest set
tiers of Wisconsin, died on the "A ult.
at his home near Watertown, aged
about seventy-fve. He was native OF
New York, and emigrated to the then
territory of Wisconsin in 1887.
Mrs Mary Hawley was recently di-
vorced from her husband at Chiffon, and
went to Milwaukee, where she assumed
her maiden name, Mary Keisner She
accepted position as domestic IN
family on Clinton street, became vio-
lently insane, and has been returned to
her home.
Thirteen men caught fishing with
nets in the Wolf river, near Winnie
comee, among them Postmaster King
and ex-member of the assembly Trum-
bull, have been arrested. Some were
fined $50 and costs and others had their
cases continued, and three were dis
charged.
Acting under the provision of the
law enacted by the last legislature, the
supreme court at Madison appointed
the following board of examiners to ex-
anime applicants for admission to the
bar of the state: Moses NJ. Strong.
Mineral Point; Joshua Stark, Mllwau-
kee; NJ. A. Hurley, Wausau; Lycurgus
J. Rusk, Chippewa Falls; George q.
Green, Jefferson.
w. H. Clark. an employee of the
American Express company in Apple
ton, mysteriously disappeared with a
considerable amount of money belong
ing to the company. The agent has
been absent for several days, and Young
Clark had not made any returns for
collection during that period. He is a
brother to the agent, and the company
will not suffer.
The Wisconsin supreme court has rem
dered decisions in favor of the Cream
City Railway Company, in its suit VS.. The
Milwaukee & st. Paul, for damages sus-
tanned in having one of its cars damag-
ed while in transit on the latter's line,
and in favor of John Hoeger of Milwau-
kee, in suit against the same company,
for the loss of three trunks, which were
destroyed by fire while lying in the
station at hastings.
The new county of Oneida, created
by the legislature, is cut off from Lin
coin county, and the county seat IS
Rbinelander. It is orga nized with two
townships only, Pelican and Eagle Riv-
err. 1t is in the Ninth congressional
district, the Eleventh senatorial district
and with Lincoln, Price, Ashland, Tay-
lor and Sawyer counties forms an as
sembly district. This act does not &c
into effect until Jan. l, 1887.
Judge Bundy, at a special term OF
the circuit court it session at Eau Claire,
denied the motion for new trial in the
cases of Herman Erase and HI Stabeno,
who were convicted of pounding Pat
rick Omeara to death with billiard cue,
/ in the town of Lincoln, this county, on
the 7th of July last. Erase was sentenc-
ed to twenty and Stabeno to six years
/ in state prison. The prisoners are both
young men, owners of farms, and COM
mitted the deed while drunk.
w. d. Washburn, president of the
Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Allan
tic railroad companies, writes to the
Florence Mining News that twenty five
or thirty miles of the road will be built
| this year. The company is still making
/ surveys and explorations east OF the
/ Wisconsin river Present indications
rather favor the crossing of the Menom'
| inee river at some distance below Flor
ence, but that matter has not been full.
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