River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-12-19

The Chippewa County Agricultural
Society is in distress.
A fire broke out in the Humbird
Lumber Company's yards at Clayton the
other evening and destroyed six million
feet of lumber. Loss, $4,000.
1t was reported that Frank Valley,
who was supposed to have persisted in a
burning barn last winter at Bruce, is
alive and living in Duluth, Mimi.
The sale of the South Buffalo mine to
the Schlesinger syndicate was consum-
mated the other day, the consideration
being $780, 900.
A party of hunters recently found the
body of man in the woods near Apple
ton. He had evidently committed sui
eide by hanging.
Collector Watrous has appointed X.
Lunberg, Marinette merchant, to sue
coed j. F. Hancock as deputy collector
of customs at Marinette.
1t is said that fully $50 deer have been
shot in the Washburn district this sea-
son. The total number slaughtered in
Florence County since the 18th of Oc-
tober is estimated at 500.
The twenty-first annual fair OF the
Southwestern Wisconsin Industrial As
ISOLATION will be held in Mineral Point
on September 2, 8, 4 and 5, 1890.
Indian Agent Leahy, of Ashland, has
received the appropriation of $4,000 re-
Gently made for the relief of Grand
Portage Indians, nearly all of whom
were utterly destitute.
Joseph Kokta of WATERFOWL, sixteen
years of age, was drowned while skating
on Rock river recently.
Judge S. p. Wetherby, one of the fore
most lawyers of the Hudson judicial dis
trict, died in that city the other morn
ing. He was circuit judge twelve years.
The City Council of Merrill has voted
franchise for an electric street railway.
The board of directors of the Wiscon-
sin w. C. T. u. Home for Women pur-
pose investing S25, 900 in building and
grounds at Eau Claire.
A man named Gard was shot through
the skull at Ashland the other day and
was not expected to live. He arrived
from Chicago the day before and was
said to have had trouble with his wife.
1t was claimed that in following his
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and that the weapon was accidentally
discharged, the bullet entering his own
brain.
James Davidson was murderously as
saulted near Phipps recently and robbed
of 500 and his rifle. Charles Wilson was
jailed at Hayward as one of the guilty
parties.
Edward Baker, the Ironwood saloon
keeper, will have to stand trial for rob
bling the Iron Exchange Bank at Hurley.
He was held in $4,000 bail by Judge
Calkins recently.
The late Judge jackson, of Madison,
left $50, 600 to endow a chair Of law in
the Wisconsin Unive rsity, and named
Judge ]. II. Carpenter. now a professor
in the law department, as the first in
cumbent.
United States officers recently arrested
G. w. Vorheis at Madison upon charge
Of defrauding farmers under the pre-
tense that he was special pension ex-
aminer.
A freight train on the Northwestern
road divided on down grade near Be-
lott the other morning, and the loose
wreck. Two tramps were injured.
The Milwaukee Press Club recently
instructed its president TO notify Will
lam Henry Smith to draw on the club
for fifty dollars to be used for the ben
eft of the families of the two Associated
Press operators who lost their lives in
the Minneapolis fire.
An incendiary fire in the store of
Keiser g. Helwig at Prairie du CHEN
the other morning destroyed the whole
stock of goods, the loss being about
Sc, 600.
Leroy Whitehead, brought to Hay
ward last summer from Canada, charged
with forging notes on the Chippewa
Logging Company, was recently ac-
quilted after closely-contested trial.
Frederick Weyerhauser, the lumber
prince of Wisconsin, was in Ashland a
few days ago looking up a site for the
erection of q mammoth saw-mill, a du-
plicate of the one at Chippewa Falls,
having a capacity Of S25r $50 feet and
employing over 500 men.