River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-01-14
two ealves for slO. and fatted awe hogs.

two calves for $40, and fatted two hogs.
$1,000, with the milk.
In the case of the state VS. John ker-
win for criminal assault on Miss La
Grange, in consequence of which she
committed suicide, owing to legal en-
vironments, one of which was the nom
admission as evidence of the latter
written by the deceased, jury at
Oshkosh found Kerwin guilty of simple
assault.
just before the recent snow fall j.
+. Glover, of Hudson member of one
of the heaviest lumber firms in the
New Richmond section, was sent East
to purchase railroad iron, twenty cars
and locomotive to bring the logs out
of the woods. The snow came Just in
time to countermand the order, saving
a heavy expense.
Hugh Bowie has been committed for
the murder of Theo. Ender at Freedom
in December. The father of the de-
ceased states that he and his son were
at work in the woods, when Boyle
came upon them, and in the endeavor
10 prevent an assault upon the father
the son was killed by blow upon the
head. Boyle is % years of age and has
wealthy father. His trial will occur
at Appleton at the April Court.
The State Insurance Commissioner
is vigorously engaged in wedding out
the underground insurance business.
On the Sth he began suits against the
Fargo Insurance company, of Dakota:
Anglo-American, of W Washington; Mon
arch, of Iowa. Mechanics and Traders
of New Orleans: National Mutual, of
Kansas; Germania, of New Orleans for
penalties for violating the state insur
ance law. Suits will be entered against
forty other companies.
The analysis of Prof. Haynes, of
Chcs 70, of the viscera of Miss Ann
Freedom, who suddenly died at Fox
Lake, in October, developed the
presence of p grains of arsenic in the
various organs. The examination was
made at the instance of relatives of
Miss Freeborn, who were cut off by
her will, which decreed a large
estate to Mrs. Fannie Killops,
protege of the deceased, whom she
took from a founding home at
Morisana, n. Y, many years ago.
In the appointment of the standing
Committees of the House of Represent
atives, Wisconsin was given one chair
manship, Gen. Bragg, of the committee
on Military officers. The other Wis
consin members were assigned to COM
mittees as follows: Caswell, judiciary:
Van Schaick, railway and canals and
manufactures: LaFollette, Indian affairs
GuentkeI, post Office and post roads,
Rankin, levees and improvement of
the Mississippi river. and American
ship-building; Thomas, private land
claims, and expenditures in the Navy
department.; Price, agriculture, and
alcoholic liquor traffic, and Stephen
son, public lands.
An interview with Mrs. Giskie. who
shot Peter Armstrong at Appleton,
shows that she is in the latter stages of
consumption, and on the day of the
shooting had been in bed III. until
Obliged TO arise to prepare supper. As
she was about TO retire to bed again,
men approached the house and COM
menced mounting the stairs Mrs.
Giskie being alone with a young ehild)
and in her nervous state she fell into
an agony of terror and warned the in
truders away, announcing her purpose
TO shoot, but the heavy tread on the
stairs continued, and believing some
evil purpose was intended, she fired in
the dark at random, and with fatal re-
suit as the sequel shows.
In the suit on trial at Racine, II. w.
Clark, heir of Mrs. Mcmillan. rs H. S.
Duraud, the defendant testified that
he had settled the estate and expended
the whole of it in the maintenance Of
the heir, and that the record Of the
settlement burned in the Court House.
In behalf of the plaintiff, the records
, testified as having been burned, were
produced, scorched by fire, but still
legible. and showed that the time of
the settlement Durand had $1,000 be-
/ longing to Mrs. McMillan's heir.
Durand, however, swears that the
record produced was not the final set
Element. and that that document was
absolutely bnrnod. Should the plain
! tiff recover, his claim, with compound
interest it will amount 10 $1,000