River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-04-08
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Whitewater is afflicted with a multi
tude of tramps.
Maple sugar parties are the social
humOr OF Appleton.
The arrest and trial of Hempel cost
Dodge county Sl,649.25.
The Royal Arcanum will have festi-
val at Waukeska, April u.
The Barneveld Register should be
added to the list of new papers in this
state.
The Omaha railroad dock warehouse
at Washburn is being extended 100
feet
Toba Geo sales were frequent at James
vile the past week, the price varying
from to 4 cents.
The Menomonie News is now printed
by water-motor-power supplied by the
city's Holly works.
Over thirty newspapers are now
published in the cities and towns along
the Fox river.
An invoice of 10000 brook trout fry
have been deposited in the streams in
the vicinity of Waupaca.
Contracts for the erection of 80 new
buildings the present season, have been
let at Hurley.
DIR. V. l.. Moore, for many years the
most popular physician at Waukesha,
died April }, after long illness.
At Dorchester station six stores, two
saloons and a hotel were DESTROYED by
fire April LIST Loss 49,, 300, insurance
300.
The trial of the Rosenheimer Bros,
at West Bend, on the charge of bleach
ing barley resulted in their being ac-
quilted by the jury.
The Chicago, Burlington & Northern
Railway company's proposed bridge
across the Mississippi will reach the
Wisconsin side at Eagle Point, Grant
county.
The Wisconsin Central Il. Il. is ex-
tending its dock nj Ashland 800 feet
further ont into the bay, thus securing
one of the largest docks on Lake SUI
perhor.
An itineTant crayon artist. about 80
years of age, smooth, light COM
plexion. 5 feet 6 inches in height, going
by the name of L. +. G. Fish has left
Sheboygan with 5000 not his own.
At Menomonie, on the 3rd, and east
bound freight on the Chippewa, st
Paul, Minneapolis IL Omaha road ran
into an open switch badly wrccking
fourteen cars. The engineer jumped,
and was severely injured.
At Racine preparations for the oper-
e
and nearly every vessel in the harbor
is undergoing some sort of improve
ment. and every captain is awaiting a
chance TO get out.
AT Oshkosh, during the night OF
April 3rd the store of the Merchants
| Tea company was robbed of watches
and iewelry which were to be given to
patrons as prizes, the goods being val
ued AT several hundred dollars. Local
/ operators are suspected.
b. n. Crouch, of the town of Center,
Rock county, owns the only revolu-
! tionary war claim or land grant in the
county. 1t was taken up by himself
forty-one years ago last fall. He is so
years old and and has eight children,
1 thirty-tiye grandchildren and ten great
/ grandchildren.
David Hodges, a laboring man of
Black River Falls, committed suicide
by taking morphine. He was a quiet,
respectable man of good habits. Fam
lily trouble is assigned rs the cause of
his suicide. i,e leaves a wife and sew
eral children in reduced circumstances.
At Menomonie Falls, while a son of
John Cusick was examining rock
cartridge that had failed in point of
time. it suddenly exploded, driving
fragments of the stone into his eyes,
destroying one of them and so iniuring
the other that the sight is greatly inn
paired.
The Wisconsin Central Railway com
pany has offered to locate stock-yards
at Stevens Point on condition that
citizens provide a suitable site about
ten acres in extent. The structure of the
necessary buildings and sheds will
nccessitate an outlay by the company
of about $4,000
A State camp meeting is to he held
at MOnona Lake next summer under
the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal
church. 1t will continue in progress
ten days, and the attendance is eX-
pected to be very large, embracing re-
representatives. from all parts of the
state. Harrison, the famous "boy
preacher" will be present throughout,
and deliver discOurscs daily. Chap
lain McCabe, of New York city, and
other prominent ministers are ex-
pected.
The people of Watertown are great
ly indignant at DIR. c. II, Gerard,
dentist, for his brutal assaults upoh
his wife. Crazed with liquor and
morphine. he threw her with great
force across the back of chair,
doubling up her back and causing an
injury to her spine, which it is feared
will be permanent This is not Gerard 5
first ofiense of the kind, having beaten
his wife numerically before, when
under the influence of strong drink
The poor woman being unable to APP
pear in court, the brute was locked
up for safe keeping.
The following were the balances re-
naming in the various funds in the
state treasury at the close of the month
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