River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-12-05

Several buildings in Fairfield were
| burned the other night, including Cal.
Vert's Hotel and Gulrim's store.
Fred Fenton, of Beloit, killed three
! large and beautiful swans in the Rock
river near that city recently,
The twenty-hrst semi-annual meeting
OF the Rock County Sunday-School As
sociation was held recently at Beloit.
James Toole. for many years resi-
dent Of Waukesha, died in Southern
| California recently.
The Badger Paper Company of Kau-
kauna has bought the WAGER power at
Quinnesec Falls, Menominee river,
Mich, and will build paper and pulp
mills
Mrs. Mildred NJ. Franks Patterson
wife Of ex-United States senator J. j.
Patterson. died the other evening at
Waterville after an illness of four
months.
In saloon fight in Eau Claire recent
~ John CaSsell bit the finger of Mrs.
John Seliner. wife of the saloon-keeper.
SO badly that it was amputated. Cassell
cas- arrested for mayhem.
A summer hotel will he erected at
Lily Lake. brown County.
The sum of s25O.0OO was invested in
Beloit the past year in new factories, etc
The Lincoln County board has ordered
their sheriff to close all the houses OF
ill-fame in the county.
An artesian we'll just completed at
Kaukauna is So feet deep. with flow
of go OGO gallons daily.
James Golden. for many years sheriff
of Outagamie County, died at Appleton
the other morning,
Burglars entered the store OF ID. \.
Allen at Eau Claire the other night and
secured $3.50 worth of jewelry. knives
and revolvers.
viii Brown, of GAINESVILLE. who tried
unsuccessfully to pass $500 forged note
on the Citizens Bank of Clinton june
ton. recently pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to two years at Waupun.
\ post-oftice has been established at
La,vrenceville, Outagamie County. with
Charles Shepherd as postmaster. A
rail wav post-office has been established
on the line of the Chicago & North
western railway between Fond du Lac
and Harvard, Ill.
Mrs. Neumeister. Of La Crosse. we'll
TODD widow. attempted to kill herself
recently by cutting her throat. The act
was due to an apoplectic turn, and the
loss of blood saved her life.
The Necedah Lumber Company will
cut l5.O000OO fec of logs during the
coming winter. During the past seven
years this company has cut 123,0O0,00o
feet of pine.
Ex-Alderman Jacob Stumm. of Eau
Claire who reduced his weight by fast
ing II days A. pounds. now weighs zoe
pounds. and. as he desires to get down
to ls5 pounds, will. after the holidays,
go 10 days longer without food
+. Boaler. the Green Bay fish-dealer,
saws scarcely any whitefish are caught
at that place or Sturgeon bay, but trout
and herring are very plentiful.
The Wildwood Mining Company of
St. Croix County has just completed
ten miles OF railroad track, and is
shipping from five to eight ears Of ore
daily.
John Metcalf was recently arraigned
before Judge Bennett, of GAINESVILLE. for
sentence for the murder of Isabelle
EversOn at Edgerton, three months ago.
After making the usual remarks about
the gravity Of the crime the judge SEN
fenced Metcalf to twenty years in the
penitentiary-
Superintendent Burk, Of the York
Iron Company of Black River Falls, has
contracted for twenty thousand tons Of
ore from the Gogebie range.
Notices were recently posted all over
Hurley, headed by a grinning skull and
crOssbones. warning all tOughs and thugs
10 leave town at once. The notices were
signed Hurley White Caps There was
considerable excitement.
General Knox, governor Of the Sol
diers' Home at Milwaukee, gives notice
that the home is full tooverfiowing, and
advises soldiers who are planning 70 en-
ter the institution 70 abandon that in
tention for the present The number
OF inmates is nov aboat two thousand