River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-28
WISCONSIN NEWS NOTES.

1his Ahu AuAs. hCAllISJeT, All d5SO
couple, were found dead IN their bed
at Avoca, having apparently been SUI
located with coal gas
Fire at Eilladore destroyed the Fond
du Lac Iron company's wood yard, and
damaged the coal kilns. Loss, So 900.
F. Lounstine, who died at Grand
Chute, aged ninety-five years, fought
with NapoleAn at Waterloo.
George FL. Paul has taken his oath of
office as postmaster of Milwaukee, as
did Gen. West as United States mar
shall. Paul will take charge OF the post
office june l..
The Apostle Islands Improvement
company of Ashland filed articles of as
ISOLATION with the secretary of state,
the object being the improvement of
one of the islands named for summer
resort purposes; capital stock $780,
900.
Robert Ware of Oshkosh alias Nc
Cardy, who last fall shot john Lind
pulst three times and left him for dead,
near Eau Claire, in order to rob him of
$40, has been arrested and taken to
Hayward for trial.
Forest fires prev allied west and north
west of Green Bay, and the damage to
fences, farm produce and growing tim
Der has been very great. In many cases
families have been obliged to flee from
their homes, leaving everything, incIud-
ing live stock. The fires have in all
cases arisen from farmers fallows and
got beyond control. The fires are
spreading III all directions, and much
alarm exists.
A formidable epidemic has broken
out among the horses about Dubuque
and in Grant county. The disease is
pronounced diphtheria by the veterinary
surgeons. Several deaths have oc-
cured.
Over 300 men are at work on the con-
struction of the new coal docks at Wash
burn. They cover eleven acres of the
bay.
When Hon. T. B. Scott returned to
Merrill from the South he was escorted
home by 500 citizens and 400 school
children, headed by the Merrill cornet
! band.
Col. Ed. Coleman's residence in Fond
du Lac burned. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
James Wilson and A. Hearwell are in
Jail at Elkhorn for stealing Sunday
school library.
Three hundred Scandinavians arrived
at Washburn on the steamer J. B. Bar
ker recently, and held banquet in the
opera house While the excursion
was returning to Ashland, w. Smirie of
Ashland fell from the hurricane deck
of the Barker. and was drowned. The
body was recovered.
A store at Barneveld, Iowa county,
occupied by Davies & Sons, of Dodge
vile, as a general store, and by James
Dougherty & Co., hardware merchants,
burned recently. Loss On building,
SIS, 500, Jones and Owens loss on stock
| is $15, 000 no insurance; Dougherty &
w. y AOF1of 1OOub G4O, OOO LILO IL ahOCt tcg
900.
The hog packing at Milwaukee since
March is estimated at 62,301, against
AZ, sos last year, 26 ,631 in 1883, 39,991
in 1882, 28,857 in 1881 and $4,000 in
| 1880.
Charles Wickert, clerk and book
keeper in Fred North's store at Hew1tts,
small station four miles from here, I'M
| der pretence of coming to Marshfield
on business, left the country and con-
siderable shortage in his cash account.
| Wickert clerked for North four months
and got away with 5000 of North's mon
ey. Wickert is in jail at Grand Rapids.
The Morrison Improvement and Man
ufacturing company, of Black River
Falls, filed articles of association with
the secretary of state the capital stock
being $50, 600. TIE object is to i'm
prove Morrison creek, in Jackson coun-
ty, aud tributaries, and drive logs upon
them, beside doing general lumber
manufacturing business. The incor- |
porators are James Hewitt of Neills-
vile, w. I'll. Polleys of Melrose, S. p. |
Jones and Rufus G. James, of Black /
River Falls.
The residence of Joseph Hines, in
Claremont, burned. Loss, 81 800.
In the municipal court, at Madison,
Mrs. Rebecca Merrnot of Baraboo and
Mrs. Margaret M. Cooley of Mitchell,
OAK, sisters, pleaded guilty to the
charge of perjury and were sentenced
to two years in the states prison, each.
The women are about thirty and TWEEN
ty-three years old, respectively, ana
when sentence was imposed, each had
a babe in her arms These women are
man, James Kirby, who was sent to
years, for burglary committed here
that Kirby was in Baraboo on the night
of the burglary, but now claim they did
it through fear of being murdered by
Kirby, who had previously threatened
them.
A. J. Yardi, prominent lumber
man OF Winneconne, made an assign
ment recently His liabilities are esti
mated at $22, 600; assets, $4,000. The
principal creditors are Upham 81 Rus
sci of Shawano, So, 900; Henry Sherry
of Neenah, $500; National Bank OF
Oshkosh, $4,000.
J. NJ. Smith of Green Bay, one of the
most intelligent and most prominent OF
horticultunsts 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 weather until
June, and in 1858 there were frosts
every month of the twelve.
A couple more farmers of the town Of
Huntington, twelve miles east of Eau
Claire, have been taken In custody,
charged with cutting timber during the
winter on lands belonging to the Chi
cago, st. Paul, Minneapolis 81 ON aha
Railway company. The total number
arrested on the same charge is ten, who
will have an early examination.
Mrs. Merritt of Baraboo and Mrs.
Crawles of Dakota, sisters, were exam
med in the municipal court at Madison
for perjury, and held for trial
The thirty fourth district convention