River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-09-23

nelr latest stroke was an attempt TO Sc
cure one of the ward school buildings in
Roches ter to hold service in, but the school
board refused them permission. IL IA hall
in the city can be found by them it is like
ly they will hold meetings in Rochester UNI
less they are assisted out of town by the
anti hofaon clsh,
A proposition hes been made to the Min
nesota militia by the Manitoba road which
in effect is this: They will expend 81, 800 in
preparing first-class camping ground at
Spring Park with an excellent rifle range,
and will transport the companies between
Minneapolis and st. Paul and the camp
grounds, going and coming, free, with in
diYidual tickets at half rate, provided the
state will designGte 1t as u state camp
ground ard use IL for that purpose.
The State convention of the Wisconsin
Labor party was held at Neenah on the
Is h, thirty counties being represented.
The following TICKET was nominated; Gov
ernor John Gochrane, nodgei lieutenant
governor, George A Lloyd, Neilsgillel sec
rotary of state, j. L. Japers on, heenah;
state treasurer, Fred Hoeing Chippewa;
attorney general, John Il. Thomas, ShebOy-
gan; railroad commissioner, Ritner Stew
els, Grint; superintendent public instruc-
tiOn, J. r. McGregor, Eau Claire.
The remains of six of the miners en-
tonD in the Marvine slopeinear Reading,
4 Pa, nave been recovered. They evidently
died within few hours after the accident.
/ lt is supposed that after the men had
reached the extreme end of the heading
/ they became drOwsy from the effects of
\ the gas and lay down, thus meeting their
1 fate. The other two men became sepaT-
/ ated from the rest, and it is not known
/ where they are.
At Eau Claire, Wis, on the 18th, officer
/ IIafay cite Elliott, of the police corps,
while reprimanding Frenchman, Peter
/ Robier, for being drunk ON the streets,
was confronted with a revolver in the
/ hands of Robier, who fired the weapon,
/ the ball taking effect in Elliott's breast,
! above the heart. The wound Is serious
/ and the result is in doubs. Robier was
arrested and jailed.
In the United States Court at Madison,
/ Wis. j, d. Leonard of Nova Scotia and
/ Watson Benz amin of Boston were SEN
4 fenced to state prison for seven and one
4 half years each for passing bank notes
/ raised from fives to twenties. They were
/ arrested at Beloit several months ago, and
/ had on their persons nearly $1,000 in good
money and about $50 in raised notes. They
/ purchased bogus bills in Minneapolis.
The district court at Ipswich, ID. T., ad-
/ journed on the 18th. One man named
/ Coleman was sentenced to the penitentiary
1 at Sioux Falls for ten months for ate mpt-
/ ed burglary, and John Kearns was SEN
fenced to the county Jail for thirty days
1 for assault and battery The grand jury
1 returned about eighty indie. ments, mostly
4 against the saloon men for selling liquor
! during the first half of the year. when no
4 license was issued.
/ State Treasurer G. McFetridge, who wa
nominated for congress by the Republi-
/ cans of the Second Wisconsin district d.
1 clines to accept. The district is Democratic
i by about , 600 majority, and no Republican
can be elected in it. Delaney, the Demo
cratic nominee, lives in the same county
/ as McFetridge. The latter does not desire
to be slaughtered.
! At Ashland, Wis, during thunder storm
last Wednesday morning, about 3 O'Clock,
a man by the name of Anderson was killed
by lightning. With eight or ten others he
| was living on the floor of the boarding house
| when the shock came. The lightning pass
ed under the door and across his neck kill
ling him instantly. Several others were
pretty badly stunned, but not seriously in
/ jured.
Rev. o. p. Miller, prominent divine of
the Disciple denomination, and large
farmer of Steele county, died on his farm
near Hope, OAK, Monday afternoon, aged
80. Mr.. Miller was a native OF Baltimore
| equity, Maryland, a graduate of Hiram
college, Ohio, and classmate and friend
| of President Garfield. He leaves a wife
and one son.
On the 18th, the town OF Brooklyn, Powe.
shick county, Iowa, on the Rock Islanu r.
r, had the principal part of it's business
portion destroyed by fire, which took from
| locomotive sparks that fgnited an old ele-
yator. The loss reaches 500, 900, insurance
about half, Some thirty places of business
were burned out.
The saw mill Of the Chippewa Lumber Il
Boom Company, at Chippewa Falls, WIS.,
was struck by lightning on the morning OF
the 10th and burned. 1t was the largest
water power mill in the world employing
/ 800 men. Loss S200,00O; insurance $40, 800.
The mill will be rebuilt.
On the 18th a horrible murder was com
mitted five miles from Chetek, Wis, the
victim being the wife of a farmer named
John Upsalt. who cut her throat and then
retired to his room and hanged himself
with bed cord. The cause was unhappy
domestic relations.
Since the beginning of the issue CT the
combined letter sheet and envelope, one
month ago, 100000 Of the sheets have
been sent out to the postofflces. st. Paul
| Milwaukee and Madison, Wis. have had
orders filed to the amount s45,OOO each.
At La Crosse, Wis, on the 17th the four.
year old daughter of Bryan Doolan was
burned to death Her clothes caught fire at
stove while she was alone in the room,
| and before the fire was extiuguished her
face and body were dreadfully burned.
TIE Welsh Presbyterian assembly, com
prising the synods of Wisconsin, Ohio, Penn
sylvania, New York, Iowa and Minnesota,
has been in session at Milwaukee, Wis.
| Among the delegates were three cergymen
Z from Wales and England.
CHI Wilson Of Minnesota; p. Cudmore
of Faribault; B. l.. Westford Fine Of West
ford. Ninr., Charles Colman of Reedsburg,
and A j. W bite of Wonowoc, Wis, were
admitted to practice before the depart
meBt of the interior.
At Milwaukee, on the 18th, Toshio Aoki
a japanese, was married by Justice of the
/ Peace to Eva La France, an American girl,
/ being the first time that a japanese has
legally espoused an American lady in Wis
I consin.
Early Tuesday morning at Necedah
! Juneau county. Wis, a fire broke out in
4 W. A. Reeds drug store and spread rapid
\ ly, destroying seven large buildings in the
/ business part of the town. The fire was
/ incendiary.
/ Damascus Commandery Of st. Paul, left
( on the 18th for st. Louis, by the river route,
/ to attend the triennial conclave OF the
Knights remplar in that city. They were
I accompanied by a number of ladies.
Captain N. 2. Butterfield, Of Anoka,
/ MINI. died OF an overdose of morphine TAX
en- to relieve pain. He had lived at Anoka
26 years, was twice mayor Of the city, and
I county attorney several terms.
/ Threshers from the settlement lying six
miles east of Granite Falls, Mum, report
the yield to run from twenty-five TO thirty
six bushels TO the acre of wheat, and from
I fOrty-five TO sixty Of oats.
| The residences of Chas. Prescott at Anoka
and p. J. Manley at Coon Greek, Mimi,