The most extensive log obstruction
that ever formed in the Chippewa region
can now be seen near Big Falls on the
Flambeau river where possibly sixty mill
ion feet of logs are jammed in a space
of six miles.
After services in Zion church, at New
York Tuesday', the remains of Mrs. Alice
Pendleton, who was killed by an accident
last Thursday, were temporarily interred
in Woodlawn Cemetery.
A new oil refinery is to be started at
Washington. Pa., with a capital of $400,-
000. The Hon. James G. Blaine and S.
B. Elkins are, it is said, members of the
company.
CRIME.
S. C. French, dealer in musical instru
ments at Clinton 1 111., and a member of
the Christian Church, has skipped out,
leaving many creditors, principally in
Chicago.
Aaron Scott, a murderer, who was.
Tuesday, placed in the Kansas penitenti
ary, is a brother of “Frank Handle," the
bandit of the Wabash, who hanged him
self in his cell at Joliet three years ago.
V joky at New Orleans convicted Gen.
H. T. Frisbe and Baron Hermann von
Wertheni of conspiracy to defraud the
government of $3,000 pension money, but
recommended them to the mercy of the
court.
The jury in the case of John Green, on
trial in Boston for the killing of his wife
in Roxbury, April 4. this year, returned a
verdict of guilty. An appeal will be
taken.
The sensational testimony in the Max
well murder case at St, Louis Monday was
given by Detective S. F. McCullough, who
swore that Brooks, alias Maxwell confess
ed the murder of Preller to him in the
St. Louis prison.
John C. Henning, who murdered the
Widow Vollmer at Rockville, was hanged
Thursday afternoon at Crawfordsville,
Ind.
