River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-06-10
ABOUT THE STATE,

AT Green bay, the Z On II Yer house
the oldest hotel in the ctt was de-
stroyed by fire.
The vacant store of Jam Graves,
at Gravesville, was destroyed by fire.
Loss $1,000, insured for SlJyp.
Chief Justice Cole of the State
Supreme Court has sailed for Europe
Tor a tour of several weeks duration
The Evening Wisconsin announces
the failure of l.. A. Ptefer X Co, tan
ners. at Appleton. with liabilities TO
SSO,OO0 and assets of SO, 600.
John Kuklinski. Wilson Nelson and
j. ". Holmes. of Stevens Point. were
each fined 500 and costs for killing
brook trout with dynamite in the Little
Plover river.
Constable John Ryan OF GAINESVILLE.
is under arrest. charged with attempt-
ing 10 bride juror in thu ease of the
state against Martin Core 0ran. Ryan,
viii be tried at the June ,erm.
The family of Mr.. Paul, a farmer
of Milton, Rock county. are sorely af-
tiicted With malignant diphtheria, four
children dying in as many days. and
both parents and hired man fatally
stricken, as is believed.
Henry T. Wright, ex-assistant post
master. at Racine. who was recently
released from the Chester. H., prison.
was married on Monday, at Chicago to
Mrs. Nellie Wright. who received di-
vOrce from him while he was impris-
Oned
Two children of NJ. V. Forrest, a
prominent citizen of Boydtown. Craw-
ford county, aged respectively and 8
years. were fatally poisoned from eat
ing wild parsnips which they supposed
TO be something else, dying inside of
two hours in terrible agony.
The store of Kuicks a Hannigan at
Fond du Lac, was visited bv burglars
who blew the safe open. and secured
/ $500. in money and $3.50 in checks.
The operators forgot their tools and
lot of blasting material in their haste
to leave the premises.
During row in a saloon near Pike.
Thomas Cunningham. a railroader en-
ployed on the Milwaukee II Northern
extension. was seriously if not fatally
stabbed by Swede name John Dahl.
The bloody assailant was jailed at
/ MaTinette.
Mrs. Senator Sawyer and her attend
ants, and Mrs White. and her daugh-
/ ter, arrived home ut OSHKOSH. IN n
special car Wednesday evening from
/ Washington. The party was accom-
/ panied by DR.. Kempster, who is retain
ed by Senator Sawyer as his exclusive
family physician.
In the suit of the Chicago Milwau-
1 kee X St. Paul Railway company
against Ezra Goodrich, of Milton. the
jury found for the plaintiff. as directed
| by Judge Bennett. and assessed DANA
/ ges at so. This settles the question of
title to certain lands in Milton which
has long been in dispute.
At Steyens's Point. Wednesday eve
ming. Percy Orme. aged 9, and Dan
Collins, aged I, were drowned in owen
Clark's mill pond. Their hats and
shoes were discovered on the bank
Search was made, and Orme's body
was found Collins body has not yet
been found.
In the Chippewa County Circuit
Court, the jury in the suit Of Mrs. Gle
mentine +. Quackenbush, Of Eau Claire,
against the old Wisconsin * Minnesota
Railroad company, for ia Hages for the
death of her husband, a conductor on a
freight train. four years ago, returned
a verdict of 5000 in her favor.
The town treasurer of Rapids. who
was some time ago reported 10 have
been robbed. was found to be abou
$4,000 short in his accounts. This de
felt has been settled BIZ the town voting
to allow $500, the town bondsmen and
the county bondsmen paying respect
ively 81, 100 and S1.70o. and Kugler,
the treasurer, 500.
An alternative writ of mandamus
has been issued, directed to the district
board of school district No. s city of
Edgerton, requiring the board to dis
continue the reading of the Bible and
other religious devotional exercises in
their schools. or that they show cause
to the contrary instanter. The applica-
ton is based on the state constitution,
which saws no sectarian instruction
shall be allowed in free public schools.
The Merrill Il Abbotsford Railway
company filed amended articles Of as
I ISOLATION increasing its capital stock to
! SI,3O0,O0O, and also providing that
! while AbbOtsford shall be the western
]
/ be made east to Wausau and Merrill
/ The whole road VIII be siNty-iive miles
/ long and lie in the counties of Clark,
Lincoln and MarathoR.
Between fifty and seventy-iive new
dwellings are in progress of erection at
( Black River Falls. also a two-stOry
| brick, 30xlO0 feet. bv the Black River
/ Falls ] lumber and Mercantile as,ocia-
/ ton (this association is a stock company
the stockholders all being Norwegians),
a large two-story brick addition to the
Commercial hotel, nv Mrs. 5. Freeman;
a briek-veneered hotel by Fred Geb-
hardt, and two-stOry brick addition
to the Masonic block bv John Marsh.
There are five or six other brick blocks
talked of with At least two Of them
quite certain.