River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-04-01
WISCONSIN NEWS.


! WISCONSIN NEWS.
Joseph Cook, of Boston, will lecture
at Baraboo in May.
I The projected Neenah and Menasha
street railway will be laid early in MAJ
1t cost Sl7.7G3 a to maintain tae
city schools OF Oshkosh the past year.
The Jefferson Wooden mills recently
shipped $4,000 yards OF goods to the
South.
The Sheboygan Co, cheese factories
will open between the 18th and 10Th of
MAY.
The maple sugar crop of ManitowOc
county promises TO be far larger than
any of past seasons.
Tho Southwestern railroad strike
very perCcptibly affected the potato
market at Waupaca.
A company is being organized at
Ashland for the erection Of $4,000
roller Touring mill.
\ number of car, of freight are held
It Portage owing TO the strike on the
southwestern r. r. system.
The Rev. c. :. Thomas, of Delavan,
pioneer Methodist minister, has just
celebrated his 10Th birthday.
Reliable estimates place the log-cut
of the season in the Chippewa and
tributary waters at 27j, 100000 feet.
Although there are are nire polo
cluUs at Racine, interest in that pas
time is reported to be on the wane.
\ new German Democratic paper is
I 10 be issued at Kaukauna, Nav lst, by
Henry Eumcrs, late of Green Bay.
/ Beloit has a new daily paper-The
Evening Argus. W. F. Palmer is edi-
+ tor and publisher. and ". &. Ford city
editor.
4 Laird, Norton X Co., Winona lum-
Der manufacturers, are negotiating for
/ the mill Of the Pioneers Lumber com
\ pany, nj Eau Claire
The voters If Oconomowoc are soon
to decide whc her they will bond the
city to the amount of $4,000 for the
erection Of public buildings.
The Knights of Labor in Neenah
have grown SO in membership that they
are c0nsi icring the erection of hail
that Will accommodate them.
One hundred and forty sheep. yarded
Mt Portage FIR shipment were raidod
4 By dogs and thirty killed, and the re-
maiUder scattered aboat the town.
A Massachusetts, firm of cotton
thread manufacturers has written to
Meuasha for suitable site for fac
tory to supply their Western trade.
The secretary Of war has notified the
authorities Of Portage City that the
general government is not Obliged to
maintain a bridge over the Portage
canal
It is reported from Prairie du Chen
that the Mi-si-oippi river is clear Of ice
as far as Lake Pepin, and that steam
boats are on their way up from St.
Louis.
I. II. Criger, of Whitewater who is
attending school in Chicago. has writ
ten on a postal card 1885 words,
which, it is said, beats any record yet
made.
Mr. and Mrs S j. Davis, of the
town Of Hull, Marathon county. are
under bonds to appear at Madison for
washing and reusing cancelled postage
stamps.
The influx of pleasure seekers to
Ashland and vicinity is likely to be
larger the coming summer than ever
before, if reports can be depended
upon.
The erection of a soldiers monu-
ment at cost of $4,000 is among the
points to be decided by the people OF
Shcboygan county at the coming spring
election.
st Alma Center while a schoolhouse
was being moved il broke loose on q
/ down grade and ran over a team of
horses, killing one and seriously injur-
ing the othef.
The Rev. n. ID. Stanley was ordained
/ the Protestant Episcopal priesthood by
Bishop Brown. of Fond du Lac. assisted
I By the Revs. +. 5. Richie, j. II. Smith
and George Bartlett.
In appointing Capt. Ferguson, late
I pen'inn agent, auditor of its company,
4 The Wisconsin Central railroad has Sc
4 cured faithful and efficient officer
says the Sentinel, Of Milwaukee.
4 1t is claimed that lady in Oshkosh
/ has a coffin for q bedstead, aud every
night, Instead Of occupying a sleeping
place similar TO that used By other
people. makes her bed in a coffin and
lies down TO rest with as much serenity
as these who retire in the conventional
manner.
The Y. NJ G. A. banquet NJ Oshkosh
was hardly success. Though the
tables were spread or l25 guests. only
forty. including the orchestra, partoOk
of the feast.
Commissioners have been appointed
to appraisc right-of-way lands for a
new short line of railway from Sussex.
where it will connect with the Central,
VIA Menomouee Falls to Granville.
+ The Nauston Star says LYMAN Dyer
+ picked mp two live graSshoppers near
his home in Lindina March 9Th. The
lt.ie fellows, though lively, were
evidently out too early in the season.
I At Watertown. lady member Of st.
PaJls parish has pledged the necessary
amount for the erection OF a memorial
+ chapel TO be connected with the church
building and TO cost shout $1,000
The work will be begun at once.
Fond du Lac is considering PROPOSE
tjons for the location there of two es-
+ tablished Industries one a chair factoy
now in operation AT Sheboygan. and the
other the Horey and Marsh agricultural
implement factory al Rosendale.
The bids 10 build new county Jail
Il West Bend and an addition to the
I poor-house being somewhat in excess
Of tie $4,000 appropriated for that
purpose. the county board has author
/ ICED its committee to build without
/ refe ence 70 cost. II IS expected that