River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-08-13


bayfield, has been purchased by Mr.. Z.
c. Eccles.
Mrs. Minnie c. Barrows. OF Aber-
deem. 5. d., has become matrcn of the
Indian school at Kewaunee. ~
William Ring, one of the oldest set
tiers of the st. Croix valley, died at
Clear Lake. Mr.. Ring was born in 1900.
The eleventh annual industrial expo
sition will open in Milwaukee on Sep
TENDER 2, lasting until October II.
Lon Merickle, sheriff of Oneida coun-
ty, arrested Harry and Curtis Lashway,
charged with violating the game law.
John NJ. Ewing. of Milwaukee, has
been appointed chief of staff and spe-
cial agent of the department of the in
terror for the worlds fair.
Miss Mary Donnelly, of Merrill, has
resigned the place which she occupied
in the census Office ut Washington.
The reunion of the Thirty-ninth,
Fortieth, Forty first, Forty ninth and
Fiftieth Wisconsin regiments was held
in Madison with about $50 old veter
ans present.
Stane q Dannenbergers sawmill at
Prairie du Chen has shut down, throw
ing 200 hands out of employment
Cor firmed by majority of the Epis-
copal diocese to the Office of bishop of
Milwaukee, Rev. Isaac Leo Nicholson
delphia October y.
The board of education of Chippewa
Falls has let a contract for the cree
ton of Sl2, 900 school building. To be
completed about September. This will
make the seventh school building in
that city.
Miss Lizzie Maislin, of Appleton, paid
SIS. 50 for horsewhipping Herman Mar
skel
Charles Frank. of Medford, split his
foot from the toes to the center with
an AK. His brother Fred was suffering
from poisoned finger and was threat
ened with blood poisoning, and another
brother was accidentally shot in the
leg.
At a conference of Northern Wis
consin Congregationalists held at Pratt,
il was decided to erect an academy
in northern Wisconsin. Ashland has
offered site an building worth
$50, 600, and an endowment for the same
amount.
Miss Lulie, only dauQh er of Mr.. and
Mrs +. c. Simmons of st. Louis. who
have "A summer residence at Oconomo-
woe. died there of consumption, aged
Is years.
The Wisconsin moss industry is said
to be one of growing proportions. 10000
bales having been sent from Mather
alone this season for use in greenhouses
and nurseries.
"Alf' Merrill has spring upon his
land ON Lake Mendoza, the water of
which. he says. is finer than the cele-
brated Waukesha springs, according to
analysis. The well is 10 feet square
and IL feet through the rock.
There is a larger number of acres of
tobacco growing in Iowa county this
season than ever before in its history
and the crop was all in an excellent
and promising condition
IL. J. Dickson, of Appleton, met and
recognized on the streets of that city d
friend by the name of Howard Gravest-
deem. Neither had seen the other in
forty-siX years.
The new chinch bug remedy by in
oculation. discovered in Kansas, has
been tried with apparent success in
Wisconsin. some 81 the imported in
fected insects causing the death of mil
lions of the bugs in wheat field.
y. Bartin. the bayfield, lumberman,
sold five million feet of lumber to Il. Il.
Barker of Chicago. 1t involves the
sum of $50. 900.
Maj Upham, commander of the G
A. r. of Wisconsin. has appointed h.
Himmelsbach and r. Z. Bradford, of
Chippewa Falls, assistant adjutant gen.
eral and department inspector respec-
lively.
Changes made by the ST. e board OF
control included the appointment of
w. ID. Parker to the SUPPLEMENTARY
of the blind asylum at GAINESVILLE and
of U. II. Doxtrud, of Sparta, and W. c.
Brawley, of Mansion, to hs state agent
AZ the school al Sparta