River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-09-16

following ticket Governor A. A. Ames
of Hennepin; Lieutenant Governor, John
Frank of Mower; Secretary of State, Luke
Jaeger of Ramsey; State Auditor, G. A.
Lundberg of st. Louis; State Treasurer,
Henry PRhler of Sibey; Attorney General,
J. N. Ives of Polk; Clerk of Court, Gee. I.
Gardner of Freehorn; Three Judges Su-
preme Court, No Nominations.
e. Hooper Phillips, ex-mayor of Nash
vile, Tenn, vas accidently shot by James
Rains at NineMile lake, north of Britton,
Oak. The party were friends of Cliff z.
kennedy, Southern passenger agent of
the Milwaukee road, and were spending a
few weeks hunting in Dakota. Arriving at
the lake and concealing themselves in the
high grass, they prepared to shoot ducks.
Mr. Hooper was about one rod from Mr..
Rains, and as the latter was firing the sec
Ond shot rose up, receiving the whole
charge in the forehead, nearly blowing the
top of his head off.
George n. Brown, arespected young man
of Madison, Wis, whose coat and hat were
found floating on Lake Mendoza six weeks
ago, and who was supposed to have been
drowned, has turned up at Springfield and
says he was crazed by insomonia, which
caused him to flee and pretend To be dead.
The Ransom ID. T. Gazette relates that
the Lebo Bros, bought some eleven hun
bred acres OF Maj. Wisner, payable out OF
the crop grown on IL at 81 "a bushel, and
the weld was nearly twenty-f.ur bushels
an acre, which pays for the land, seed and
all expenses, and leaves margin of about
$500.
At DEBORAH, Iowa, on theS th the soldiers
shiek county was dedicated. Posts or dele
cations from every town within a radius
of one hundred miles were present. Con
gresham Hepburn of the Eighth district,
made Il line Grafton.
The Brule county ID. T.. commissioners
are receiving petitions circulated by Kim
ball arties TO call an election for moving
the location of the county scat. There are
1874 voters in the county and the petition
contains l,lG3 names, An election will
probably be called.
Seth Reitman of Midland, Oak, died at
the home of his father near zumbrota,
Mimi, Saturday, He was graduate of
Wesleyan university, and had been a mer-
chant IN OrtOnville and Milbank for five
years. He was twenty-nine years old and
unmarried.
Eight bands. have thus far promised to
attend the band tournament at Red Wing
w Wednesday, Sept 20, namely: Cannon
Falls, Aazepps, Nasa. The Gate City, and
Falker of Winone. the Harmonic of Lake
City, and the Ellsworth and Rochester
bands.
The long contest for the congressional
nomination in the second congressional dis
trict of Wisconsin, terminated on the 18th
{ hx Hp no ina ion IF laIa Eha
convention lasted over two weeks and the
nomination occurred on the 5l6th ballot
Delaney reclining 10 votes to II for o. Meara.
The Park Region fair held at Fergus
Falls, closed on the 10Th, a success, finau-
cial and otherwise. 1t is claimed to have
been the biggest exhibit, outside the state
fair, in Minnesota. Otter Tail. Grant, Viii
kin and Traverse counties were represent
ed.
At Creston, Iowa, o. V. Haltzschuerr, a
prominent druggist, was found guilty on
thirty separate counts of selling intoxica-
ting liquors 10 violation Of the pharmacy
law, in tue superior court, and fined 81 ,j0J
and costs
Tnreshers from the settlement lying six
miles east of Granite Falls, Mimi, report
the yield to run from twenty-five to thirty
SIX buSn6is To tne acre OF wheat, ana from
fOrty-tive to sixty of oats.
Farnsworth, wko was shot recently at
the Merchants ia st. Paul, was former
resident Of Owatouna, and brother OF
Mr.. II. Farnsworth. baggageman at the
Northwestern depot at that place.
At Ashland, Wis, the auction store do
ing business in the Barber block was bur
glarizsd Saturday night to the amount OF
81, 600 or over No clue has yet been OBJ
tanned to the thieves.
The twenty-third annual fair OF the
Goodhue County Agricultural society viii
be held on the fair grounds in ZImDrota,
Sept. 81, - and %. The prospects are good
for large display.
The seventh annual fair of the Southern
Minnesota associations begins Sept. 10,
closing on the 18Th, at Rochester, Olmsted
Co. Over $4,000 are offered in premiums
and purses.
At Utica, Mimi, Daniel Brown shot
E. Woodward in the wrist, making an ugly
wound. Brown told Woodward to hold up
his he and he would shoot it with a tar
get gun.
G.. A. Chapman & Co, engaged in general
merchandise at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, have
failed. They wero the largest merchants
there having assests of $4,000 and liabili-
ties of 100000.
A building and lot that originally cost
the owner $500 six years ago, the lot repre-
senting 500, and the building $500 in value,
was sold last week in Sioux Falls ID. L. for
SLIGO.
T ack on the Manitoba extension has been
laid 107 miles west of DEVILS Lake, Dakota,
and within sixteen miles of the Second
Crossing, where work will close for the
season.
The fair at Shakspee closed on tire 10th.
1t was successful in every way. The gate
receipts and other revenues are sutiiciep !
to pay all expenses and premiums.
Health Officer Staples has pepared The
statement OF mortality in Winona for Au-
gust, as follows: Deaths, males, 10; females,
III total, n.