River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-01-14
WISCONSIN NEWS.

lished by Beebe and Vial
Twenty-four Wisconsin postmasters
were appointed January sth.
The Beekeeper's State association
will meet at Madison, February 4th.
The Chippewa and Black River log
ging districts swarm with men and
teams.
Four DEGREES of divorce were granted
last week by the Eau Claire County Cir
cult Court.
The Chippewa Falls Homo Furniture
company, capital $4,000, has been in
corporated.
Ex-postmassr Town of Ripon has re.
moved to the Indian territory, and will
engage in farming.
+. S. Root has been appointed
sheriff of Vernon county, succeeding
X. II. Rice resigned.
Cheese of the value OF 81, 257. so.
nearly ninteen tons, was manufactured
last season, near Colby.
Tracklayers on the new line of the
Wisconsin Central have reached and
passed through Waukesha.
During 1885 the American Express
Co, received as freight at Green Bay
$4,000 pounds of fresh fish.
Thos. Green told about his twenty
DAYS fast at the Palmyra Free Meth
odist Charch last Sunday.
An electric street railway system is to
be established at Appleton BY q COM
pany organized with $4,000 capital.
Joseph Bettes prominent hardware
merchant at Fond du Lac from 1850 to
1870, died at Dennison, Texas, aged "a
years.
The fifth annual convention of the
officers of the Wisconsin National
Guard takes place at Madison January
q and %.
Saber Gesley of the agricultural
machinery manufacturing company of
Gesley Bros, Beloit, died on the 9TH,
aged Al years.
Prisoners in the Jail at La Crosse
were discovered in attempting to dig
1 ont stone in the prison wall with their
iron eating spoons.
Diphtheria is raging at De Sofa,
/ Vernon Co., to such an extent that the
schools are closed and all public as
sem5leges prohibited.
The State military (W. n. Gu are
/ to have new uniform almost exactly
the same as worn by enlisted men in
I the United States army.
At Tomah. the heavy weight of snow
upon a livery stable roof crushed it
\ down, killing two horses, and smashing
several sleighs and carriages.
At Elba, Andy White has suffered the
amputation If frozen foot. He was
a member of the famous Irish Wiscon-
sin regiment during the war.
Social and Political Life at the Ma
tons Capital, is the subject OF the
lecture IL be delivered January 2jrd at
I Appleton, by Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood.
Mrs. Sarah May who claimed $1,000
for an infringement by Winnebago
County on pateut cell lock for jails
has accepted 800, as settlement in full.
An intoxicated man named Henry
Wendeln was robbed at WOnewoc by
toughs named Santos and futile. They
were arrested and acknowledged their
crime.
The Northern Fair Association has
designated officers and superntendents
for the ensuing year, and will offer the
same premium list as last year, includ-
ing II, 800 for races.
Owing to treacherous ice in winter
and long ferriage in summer. the bust
ness men and farmers living on both
sides of the Mississippi at La Crosse, are
moving for pOntoon bridge.
The Southwestern Wisconsin Poultry
association held its sixth annual eXhib-
tion at Dodgeville, last week, the en-
tries numbering 2l5, and was regarded
one of the most successful of the series.
The State Historical Society has been
presented with an oil portrait of the
mother Of Col. ID. G.. Fenton, an early
settler of Prairie du Chen. 1t is paint
ed on a thii board. and was produced
seventy years ago.
The Meuomonee reservation Indians
held their annual dog-feast az keshena
on the 9th, a large number of pale
faces joining in the festivities. The
dog was artistically served with an
abundance of other viands.
An effort Is beng made to secure the
pardon of young Mccullough of Mill
waukee, sentenced in 1884 to three
years in the peuitentiary for street ear
robbery. The petition is based on the
plea that Mccullough is in poor health.
The funeral of Cornelius EnTight
took place on Saturday at Emmett,
where he had lived for 40 years. He
was born in county Limerick, Ireland,
76 years ago and came to this country
in 1882, and settled in Dodge county in
1915.
At the annual meeting of the Mil
waukee Exposition association 7,472
shares were represented, and six di-
rectors chosen. The expenditures ex-
ceeded the receipts of the year 1870
"A. The association has Sc, $50. 4S
drawing interest.
An order has been issued from the
Adiutant Generals office reducing the
maximum of fhe Wisconsin National
Guard from 3,757 men to 2, 430, the max
imum of 10l for companies being cut
down to 65 men, with the view of hay-
ing at command more compact and
available force.
In the sand in the cellar of a house
at Whitewater, occupied during the
past year by parties hailing from Chi
cago and ST. Louis, have been found
perfect mOulds of silver dollars of the
date of 1884. As no bogus money hasbeen
issued at Whitewater, the theory pre-
walls that the manufacturing was done
there, ard the counterfeitS disposed OF
elsewhere.
John Kerwin is ON trial at Oshkosh,
charged with criminal assault upon
Christina La Grange, while returning
from dance at Brooks Corners, one
night last September At lonely place
in the road the girl was forcibly taken
from the carriage and the crime per-
petrated. The victim was so over
whelmed by what neither her prayers
or strength could prevent, that upon
reaching home she took portion of
Rough on Rats and died the same
night in the greatest agony, leaving
letter TO her brother detailing the
affair.
The Brown County Agricultural and
Horticultural society has cash bal
anee of S35300.
Interest Is being developed in annual
Bookeepers Convention to be held at
Madison February 4th.
AZ Ripon, b. T. keenan, IL Co., lum-
Der and coal dealers, assigned to 4. p.
Cody; liabilities $4,000, assets $4,000.
It is expected that the lumber camps
in the vicinity of Butternut win secure
an o,1tr,,t If II nOn 600 feet during the