River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-06-04
WISCONSIN MEMS NOTES.

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Frank J. Renschlein, of GAINESVILLE.
,hot himself in the streets of ST. Paul re-
GENTLY, leaving 50. 40 and letter from
ais sweetheart.
The tobacco crop Of 1884 was the
largest ever grown ~ Wisconsin, and the
inest in quality, tie average price being
learly fourteen cents per pound, bring
ng to producers So 1888, 954.
While jumping on moving freight
rain at Sleboygan Falls, Charles
Gregory was run over and killed.
At Egerton Henry Dickson. aged
thirteen, fell from the railroad bridge
and was drowned.
w. A. Spaulding, who embezzled
81, 500 from the Racine Wagon COM
pany, has been arrested at New Or
leans.
Henry Croft and wife, of Cooksville,
nave been arrested, charged with big
amy, by Mr.. Stevenson, who was the
husband of the present Mrs. Croft i'll
have been divorced
A. Dence, assignee of the Exchange
bank, at Prairie du CHEN, was placed
ander arrest, on warrant sworn out by
George ID. Cottrell. charging him with
receiving money under false pretences.
The Southwestern Wisconsin Veteran
vx-,D hold fhai,. paTnipn AZ
Dodgeville, June II and Is.
The number of homeopathic physi-
claus in the state is placed at 3, 900.
Matilda Roberts of Elroy, Wis, whose
husband, a baggage master on the
Omaha road, was killed on June %,
1888, in consequence of the train on
which he was employed being thrown
from the track by misplaced switch
between ST. Paul and Minneapolis, has
brought suit in the United States circuit
court against both the Omaha and
Manitoba railroad companies for So, 900
damages. The switch is connected
with tracks owned by the latter COM
pany.
The store of F. Rensselaer,, at Burling
ION, was robbed of $500.
The ten farmers of the town of Lud-
mgton, held to answer the charge of
larceny of timber cut from the lands of
the Omaha company, were arraigned
before Justice Bartlett. -Four of them
we're fined $12 each, the same number
Of boys were discharged, aud the cases
Of the remainder were adjourned.
Fire caught in the wooden block at
Bridge and Spring streets, Chippewa
Falls, and destroyed three buildings.
Loss $1,000; partially insured.
A La Crosse special says: The best
information in regard to the condition
IF fruit trees and vines, as a result of
ghe severe winter, makes an exceedingly
lnfavolable showing All standard
apples are coming out with damage to
5he trees, ranging from slight to one
third of the tree, but the fruit buds are
generally killed.
A specimen for some geologist has
been found in the quarry of Mr.. Round
1t Rock Prairie II is species of fish,
measures in extreme length, five feet,
mas long, tapering round bill, some
eighteen inches in length. Many other
specimens of fish and other marine ami
mails are also found there.
1t is expected that arrangements will
soon be made for the opening of work
On a large scale on the Colby mining
property in the Gogebeic range. There
are, however, matters relating to the
adjustment of royalties still pending.
The eighty year-old mother of Ern-
est Dalgo, noted Chicago and Mil
waukee craftsman, now doing time at
Waupun, crazed by the disgrace, took
to drink in Milwaukee and threw her
self i'll front of Chicago train. She
was severed into three pieces.
J. M. Smith, of Green Bay, one of
the most intelligent and most promin-
emit of horticulturists in the west, recalls
the fact that the spring of 1867 was
worse than this has proven so far.
There was in that year no growing
were frosts every month of the twelve.
S. Smead, Fond du Laos new most
master, is forty-seven years old, and
has lived there since 1857, having pre-
viously been postmaster at Rosendale.
He edited the Fond du Lac Union for
some years
John Van Pelt, at one time promi-
nent business man of Racine, has been
adjudged insane, and will be taken to
the insane asylum at Oshkosh.
The Milwaukee Telegraph says the
state census soon to be taken will show
a population of million and half, to
which Milwaukee will contribute $780,
900.
Gov. Rusk has received official infor-
nation that wages strike is in progress
among dockmen at Washburn, Sawyer
county, and that the trouble may be-
come so grave as to require the presence
of state troops. No call upon him has
yet been made, however.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Wisconsin Central held
at the company's offices in Milwaukee,
C. L. Colby, Z. H. Abbott and E. J.
Barney, whose terms of Office expired,
were re elected directors. The full
beard consists of G. l.. Colby, z. II.
Abbott, f. n Finney, HI. L. Palmer
and B. *. Miller, all from Milwaukee;
f. J Barney, DAYTON, Ohio; r. Hazard,
Providence, r. l.; Il. b. Philips, Bos-
ton, Mass, and NJ. Wadleigh, Stevens
Point.
President Cleveland has appointed
Owan A. Wells collector of internal
revenue Third district.
Articles of association has been filed
with the secretary of state as follows:
Stevens Point Lighting company; OBJ
iect, artificial light; capital stock, $780,
900. Milwaukee Dust Collector and
Mill Furnishing company; capital stock,
800, 900. The company is organized
to manufacture and deal in dust col
lectors, cookie machines and other mill
ing machinery and apparatus. The
New Richmond Oil company, the OBJ
ject being TO deal in mineral oil and
mineral oil lands; capital stock, 81 900.
Mrs. Anna Ledger was arrested in
Sheboygan county on warrant charg-
ing her with being accessory to the
murder of her husband at Curtis, Clark
county, on The 18th of last September.
Mr.. Leidiger was murdered in the