River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-03-11
WISCONSIN, NEWS.

largely attended.
Eau Claire Democrats nominate lhei
City ticket March 30.
The Evansville tack factory con
sumes ton of iron daily.
The license party were successful a
the Black River Falls election by .;
majority.
Judge Gibson, of the ith Judicial
district will be reelected without
opposition.
Daniel Bowling, aged 81, contractor
and builder fell dead on the street al
GAINESVILLE, from apopleXy.
5. a. Keen Il Co, Chicago, tool
$1,000 juneau County five year bonds,
at . per cent interest.
Milwaukee can have the next State
Fair if the business men will donate
$4,000 to the society.
a sun Prairie stock-buver, named
o keefc is in trouble, being charged
with using false weights.
The store of Lorenz Debus, al
Menomonee Falls, was burglarized,
safe blown open, $50 stolen.
Nat Weston, Frank Beaudreau, George
/ Weston and others, of Stevens Point.
have gone TO Arkansas county, Ark.
10 build and operate sawmill.
Nearly S2S, have been paid BY
/ fifteen insurance companies on forty
/ policies to sufferers by the Augusta
fire.
Ii is probable the Colby-Wausau
spur of the Wisconsin Central will be
built and ears running by December
next.
Work on the projected state in
dustrial school at Sparta is to be com
menced as soon as the snow is OFF the
+ ground.
a defective ilue set fine to two
millinery stores and candy factory AT
BarboO, all burned. Loss $500, in
surance partial.
AT Darlington. the cashier of the
Citizens bank was elected mayor over
the cashier of the First National bank,
after sharp contest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Morgan OF
Black Wolf have celebrated their gold
en- wedding. They were pioneers OF
Oshkosh county.
I Three-hundred thousand facing brick
for the new state school for dependent
children ut Sparta have been made At
Driesbach, MINI.
AT the Receivers sale of the uncon-
verted securities of Strong's bank at,
Green Bay, assets of the nominal value
of 800, 600 brought 81, 24O.
The politicians at Green Bay are
talking about j. G. Neville, A. l.. GRAY
and w. +. Persons to succeed Congress
man L. II. Hudd in the state senate.
Mr.. Kane of Harvard Ills, and Mrs.
Smith of Fond du Lac, aged 20 and 65
years, married on the 9TH, aud Mrs.
Kane is enjoying her third bridehood.
Hon. Z. A. Bleckman, of Sparta, will
deliver the leading address at the ami
versary of the Wisconsin Valley As
ISOLATION of Odd Fellows in Portage,
April 26.
Michael and Thomas Mulcairns are
under arrest at GAINESVILLE for assault
ing a woman 30 years old last October.
After the crime they fled and have Just
returned.
John Nagcl, tcamster living III
Sank City. committed suicide by hang
+ ing himself IN his barn. lie had been
/ very respondent on account of ILL
health.
At Racine the chickory factory rof
Sass and Krene, fired by an incendiary,
supposed to be a discharged employo,
burned on the 9Th. Loss Sll, 900. No
insurance.
The annual payment to the Indians
at TOmah has TRANSFERRED At $50 50
per head. about $4,000 was paid out
to them. The head of one family drew
$500 90.
/ Geo. Somcrs of Green Bay has sold
his residence and is closing up his bust
ness preparatory to moving to St.
Paul to engage in wholesale business
with his sons.
John Kasza, of Maple Grove, men,
Der of frolicksome wedding party,
was accidently shot by Martin JOHN
skie. The ball entered the back near
the right kidney.
At the first charter election at
I Chippewa Falls, a Republican mayor
was elected, the clerk. treasurer and
assessor all Democrats. The council
{ SAdAAAAo ~ tlubitGILHs v lttliloCA ats.
An effort is being made at Appleton
to break the will of the late w. G.
Scarboro. who devised $4,000 to the
Methodist extension fund. His mother
claims that he was not of sound mind.
The clergymen of Oshkosh have
started out on new evangelical plan.
They divided the city up into districts.
and are going about in apostolic pairs
visiting every house and every family
in the cause of religion.
The Waukesha County Agricultural
society has made application for
admission to the National Trotting
association, and it has been settled
that the August meeting of the Wis
consin Trotting association will be
held at Waukesha.
The fees and perquisites of the
sheriff of Oshkosh county amount Ito
$4,000 a year, and the county board
propose to make it a salaried office at
$4,000, per year, and also to make the
offices of clerk of the court and register
of deeds salaried offices.
The assingee of Hodges bank of
Lancaster has secured a judgement in
. int tlICulI tUulb VI IIduL equity IpI
+ S67, 991, 43 against n. ii. and H. IL.
Virgin. The money was lost in Chi
cago board of trade speculation and
caused the failure of the bank.
The tobacco sales at Viroqua by
Vernon county growers are at 3, 81,
4 and cents. G. Pulls, of the town of
Sterling, sold 1920 pounds at ) cents.
The buyer at Viroqua says the crop is
poor one the country over, and that
4 he has not found first-class lot of leaf
/ in Vernon county.
At Lancaster, in the case of Nc
/ COrmick vs.. Herndon, the circuit court
/ declared as void a tax certificate of
land sold by the county treasurer in
/ 1880, owing to the fact that the sale of
/ the lands was advertised an insufficient
/ length of time. This decision in
/ validates all the tax sales of that year.
/ In July 1884, Andrew Miscampbell,
+ of Norway suddenly disappeared, and
+ a rumOr arose that he had been killed
/ in family quarrel and his. body thrown
/ in a we'll The missing man suddenly
returned on the 3rd, stating for year
I he worked in Chicago, and since then
upon farm at Sycamore, i'll.
4 new village has just been plated
Just north of the Ashermann mine on
the Gogebic range and within half a
mile of Sunday Lake, on the Mil