River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-08-12
STATE NEWS NOTES.


The Pabst mine Is shipping about
500 tons of ore a day
At the Superior mine the fires are
lighted, and a fine new plant of ma
chinery is in motion.
The Republican convention for the
9TH congressional district is 10 be held
at Richland Center, Sept. 10.
An ore vein was struck on the Little
Colby during the past week. The
property is said to be looking well.
The survivors of the 9TH Wisconsin
battery are 10 resolve themselves into
veteran association at Monroe on
Sept. 9.
The Hurley Tribune says the Colby
mine is the largest ore-producer in the
world The daily shipments now aver
age 1000 tons.
IL sreported that the Norrie is ship
ping about tifty-tiye ears of ore per
day, being little over 1000 tons a
day. The East Norrie is shipping
about 200 tons of ore day.
John Rolf a grain buyer of New
Holstein disappeared a few days ago.
having at the time several hundred
dollars and valuable papers. Suicide is
suspected and insanity suggested.
The Milwaukee * Lake Shore rail-
road now have about 500 men and a
lerge number of teams busily at work
grading and building the side-tTackS
for the Trimble, Montreal and Pence
lines west of Hurley.
OF the Pence mine it is said that a
stOck-piie Of soft hematite ore is being
taken out of the shaft Two shafts are
down to the ore. In shaft No. | the
miners have drifted 1876 feet east on the
vein and 100 feet west.
John Dignon. walking on the Wis
cOnsin Central track between Thorp
and Sterling was run over by a freight
engine and frightfully mangled. He
leaves wife and seven children des-
titude ut Eau Claire.
A reunion of southern Wisconsin
/ and northern Illinois soldiers is to
take place at Lake Geneva, Sept. / and
,. Goyernor Rusk and Generals
Logan, Fairchild and Bragg are to be
among the guests.
General David Atwood Of the Madi-
| State Journal, and Mrs Atwood are
are upon a months trip for recreation.
/ They Will visit relatives and friends in
Ohio aud New Hampshire, and revive
their memories of New York city and
Boston.
From the year 1886 to 1885, inclusive
the average rainfall for July, as care.
fully observed at the State university, al
/ Madison, was 4.jj inches. During
July Just ended it was bat - of an
| inch. The present drouth is unparall
eled in that section. There has not
been a rain 10 80 vegetation any good
since May 9th, nearly three months
ago.
The friends of General Lucius Fair
I child Will be pleased to learn that the
| sleeping-car thief who distracted the
contents of the Generals pockets, on
his way TO san Francisco, was not
| greatly enriched by the robbery. The
$500 was nearly all in drafts. there be.
ing only enough cash in the pocket
book to defray current travelling eX-
\ penSes. The bankers were promptly
I informed of the theft and the purloined
drafts are now only worth their weight
as paper rags. The general is too old
traveller TO 20 on a journey by raj
with $500 in cash on his person.
DIR. Israel Greene. who died al
Green Ba on the 9th, at the age of "a
years, was one OF the oldest resident:
of that city and quite a remarkable
man. He lived under the administra
ton of all the Presidents, from Wash,
ington to Cleveland. He remembered
/ the maiden trip of Fulton's first steam
er, the c. 5Tmont, in 1907; also the first
railrOaa ever OPP rated in this country
from New York 20 Albany, about 1881.
/ He was over 80 years old MOrses tele-
/ graph sent its first message. He could
remember quite distinctly the death oil
/ General Washington in l719, although
the doctor was little more than year,
old, ana heard the firing OF the cannon
on the day of his funeral The war OF
\ 1872 he remembered distinctly. He
I was acqU nted with many noted men.
4 In 1924 he shook hands with General
+ Lafayette, and knew Aaron Burr His
was q long lived race. His father
/ died ut %: one of his aunts at 100: an
other at 80, DR.. Greene was the young
est of nine children, but none of them
I are now living.
/ Wisconsin people are well satisfied
( with what was accomplished in the 10Th
/ Congress by the Representatives of their
/ Stale. They are particularly pleased
/ at the defeat Of the attempt to disturb
/ the title Of certain settlers who had
/ purchased lands OF the Milwaukee and
/ s.. Paul Il. r., in which matter Sena-
/ tors Sawyer and Spooner were largely
influential; aside from the river and
/ harbOr bill, there were secured for Wis
! consin four distinct appropriations, in
All Of which the LEGAL delegation direct
ed the course of proceedings. The
most important, all things considered,
was the bill introduced by Gen. Aegley
Z and put through bV zen. BTsgg. APP
propriating SO 600 for the erection of
barracks which will increase the ac-
Communications ut the Milwaukee Sol
diers' home to 800 more than the pres
cnt limit-an improvement Sorciy need
ed. Senator Sawyer's 800. 900 for the
Oshkosh government building and Sen
ator SpOOncr's Slj0,000 for the La
Crosse public building are important
matters, as well as the two apprOpria-
tiDit0 VI fNsg pDb 70 ply titt 'ittllst-t
caused by the overflow of the WiscOn-
sin river. and $4,000 for a nav light
house at Milwaukee. The dclega-
ton were vigorously interested
il the following; bridge to
to be built across the Menominec river,
connecting the cities Of Marinette and
Menominee: various bridges across
rivers in western and northwestern
Wisconsin, and across the Mississippi,
as well rs 2 bridge across the Missouri
river 1t Chamberlain, OAK, for the
Milwaukee * St. Paul railway; terms
Of the United States courts hereafter to
be held at Eau Claire, all of which
were secured.
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