River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-06-17
AROUND THE STATE.

The residence Of James Langly. near
the village of San d CreeK, was entered
a couple nights 90 and about $3.50
worth of property sto'en.
The North Cum oerland saw mill is
turning out a daily manu- acture of Co.,
600 TO 10000 feet of lumber. aud pro-
portionate amount Of hath and shingles.
On the 18th the Ocont1 company's
Hour mill, shinge MILL and number
OF cars OF cedar posts were burned.
Loss $4,000. Several residences were
also burned
AT Eau Claire, the building boom Is
opening lively. and the estimated num-
Der OF new buildings that viii be erect
ed in the city the present season is
placed at 250.
The people of Durand and residents
living east toward the division line of
Eau Claire county are aritatino a
movement to have the county seat of
Pepin removed from Arkansaw to
Durand.
The Chippewa log market is opening
lively, several sales having been made
recently to mill owners along the Mis-
sisslppi at the rate of - to 1915 ac-
cording to quality.
Patrick Brennan. q much respected
pioneer farmer living sin miles from
Eeau Claire. fell from wagon Satur-
day rendering him Unconscious and
producing injuries from which he
died Monday.
Capt. Henry, who has general super
vision of the Chippewa log drives,
gives very discouraging report of the
situation of affairs on the upper waters.
No logs can be moved to advantage
until there comes b or 4-foot natural
rise.
In the prize fight which took place
Sunday on Madeline island between
Warren Peck of WaShburn and Con
Davis of Michigan, the latter was de-
feated by foul in the eighteenth
round. The stakes were 800 side
and excursion money.
Gov. Rusk has appointed William
Pitt Bartlett of Eau Claire member of
the board of Tc@crts of the Wisconsin
State university. vice Senator SpOoner.
resigned. The term ends the first Mon
day in January, 1887.
At Beloit. the preliminary examina-
ton of those said TO be implicated in
the recent assault upon the Salvation
Army has begun The examination
will continue for several days as nearly
60 witnesses have been summoned
Albert Bensemeyer and Albert
Brandt are in Jail at Sheboygan, hav-
ing heen arrested at Random Lake ON
a charge of murder. The prisoners
and one John Smith had fight over a
game of cards. Smith received three
knife wounds. He will die.
The artificial flood in the Chippewa
caused couple of lumber RATS to
break from their moorings near
Durand and collide with a pier of the
bridge, resulting in a general smash
up. A number of the cribs were torn
CLOSE and badly wrecked
The total amount of logs RATED at the
Beef Slough works up TO last Saturday
was 300, 600, 600 feet, and the present
weekly output is 100000 600 feet The
Chicago, Burlington x Northern COM
panv are getting out material for bull
ding a cOmmodiOJs depot at that point.
At the prize drill of Company H
Third regiment, Wisconsin National
guards, at MenOmOnie, the prize was
carried off by Private Andrew Drod-
son of North Menomonie. This is the
second time during the series of drills
that Mr.. DrOdsOn has come off victor.
+. Rufus Green. the bigamist, has
pleaded guilty before the Judge at
ElkhoTn, and has received a sentence
of two and onc-half years in the peni-
Tertiary. 1t is rumored that when he
gets out he will be apprehended by
Rock county authorities for Jail break
ing,
Frank +. Crazy and Miss Cornelia G.
Dippo were married at Hudson. at the
residence of the brides parents. in the
presence of a few immediate friends.
Rev. w II. Reynolds performed the
marriage ceremony. They started at
once for Minneapolis. where Mr. Crarv
is in the insurance business.
Eau Claire legion No. ,. Select
Knights, A. O. U. W, elected officers
for the ensuing term as follows: s. G.
Isadore Cook; V c., DIR. A. V. II.
Wintcn; l.. c. lie Babh; chaplain. Rev.
p. Is Morrison; 5. b., ). J. Smith; re-
corder, b. Morrison; treasurer. H.
Schwahn;S. NJ, a. y. Dickie; j. w,
ID. j. Chandler.
At Beloit, Seth Leonard and ~ BEN
jamin, two young strangers from Bos-
ton, We're arrested for passing $50 bills
cleyerly raised from s. bills, in Mad
isOn, ElrOy and other places i'm this
section of the state. They ac-
knOwledged passing the money, but
say they thought it good. They had
$1,000 in bona iide cash on their per
sons.
At Bozeman. Mont. on the sth Mrs.
Maggie Smith committed suicide by
taking morphine Her hus )and had
been released from jail and she feared
he would beat her, as be had been
in the habit of doing; so she took
poison. Mrs. Smith was formerly
from Oshkosh, Wis, She was "A bright
and attractive young woman. Mr.
Smith was subsequently arrested on
suspicion of poisoning his wife 1t is
ais o stated that he was never married
t. tie lady. Ho was placed in Jail to
To save him from threatened lynching.
ALSO a. M. few DAYS since the
Northwestern telegraph operator in
the depot al Dane Station heard
voice, aud tGrAing. found himself
tOfGitO Will ANO fENOtNETS IN inc
hands of a masked man. The latter
demanded that the safe be opened, but
the operator declared he did not
know the combination. The
rOhber then took what change
the money drawer contained,
some tickets, and decPmped. William
Ross, an English farmer, aged twenty
three years, living two miles from the
station, was arrested and is now in
Jail, awaiting trial, The operator
recognized his voice and clothing as
belonging to the man who robbed the
depot Ross has a taste for cowboy
literature and is an enthusiastic adj
mirer of the Younger brothers, whose
history he has just finished reading
Cute Little Miss.