River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-28
WEST STPERIOR.

The recent strike here ended with
| Indifferent success to the strikers and
their cause. Mayor PattisOn distinct
Fly Informed the mob that while labor
| ing men would be permitted to parade
| the streets in an orderly manner,
| others who desired to continue work
at whatever wages agreed upon would
| be protected in their right to do so at
whatever cost. He also warned them
that should they enter upon any priv
ate grounds or premises for the puT-
pose of driving off workmen they
would do so at their peril. This had
the effect to demoralize the strikers and
they gave up the contest.
Another steel steamer was launched
at the shipyard here last Saturday,
her engines and boilers having been
| put into place before the launching
| She will be the first of the steamers
| built here to steam her way TO the
Pacific coast.
A consignment of 1,5O0,O 900 bushels
of wheat belonging to A. d. Thomp-
son is now being received at the Great
| Northern elevator here.
Decoration Day will as usual be OBJ
served by the people of Superior IN
| appropriate ceremonies cOmmemOra-
| tive of the sacrifices of the dead her
oes of the late war.
Grand Master Ii. E. Huxley of the
| /. o. O. f. was here last Saturday and
| instituted a Rebekah Degree Lodge TO
be known as Gate City Lodge No. lO5.
The steel plant division of West Su-
| periOr is growing rapidly and Will soon
assume the proportions of quite city.
The large number of workmen en-
ployed there will place that division
among the most prosperous ones.
East Superior is a prosperous suburb
of the city of Superior and already has
a sure thing on two iron plants.
The Northern Pacific has diverted
| its short line service from the East
| End and now runs short line trains to
South Superior aid st. Louis, another
| prosperous suburb of this city. The
| Omaha people will doubtless thus be
| prompted to put ON short line trains
| between here and the East End and
possibly to East Superior.
A single real estate deal was consum-
mated here last week involving a con-
/
| sideratiOn of 165O,OOO.
G.. G. Williams is now on the editor
ial staff of the Evening Telegram.
Tie large wholesale grocery house
of the Twoby Mercantile Company
have no cai tage charges to pay.
Goods are unloaded from boats into
their warehouse and ears are run into
the building to receive merchandise
to be shipped out thus avoiding al
outlay of III 5usands OF dollars annual
ly for dra, age.
The Great Northern will soon com
meuce the erection of a fine depot
building at South Superior.
Hotels and boarding-bouses, not
withstanding the large number here,
are full, and the demand for dwellings
seems to be as great as ever.
The Pabst Brewing Company, OF
| Milwaukee, determined to get in on
the ground door, las decided to put
in a palace beer garden on Tower
Avenue between Broad way and Elev-
enth. 1t will be very elaborate and
heightened affair where it Will be
fashionable for the bon ton OF the city
to sip beer on Sunday, either before
or after Divine worship. Oh, you can
safely pct that We are TO have ali the
modern metropolitan n stitu t s
known to the most advanced state OF
civilization.
G.. l.. Bowman is unostentatiously
making his marx in educational circles
here aud will probably be invited TO
90 a step higher than his present po-
sition, in September.
Hon. j. a. Murphy is proving a
popular District Attorney and is a ter
Tor TO eyil-doers who offend the
peace and dignity of the State OF
Wisconsin"
| Another new hotel, one of the finest
in the city just completed by the Key
stone Investment Company corner of
Ogden avenue and Sixth street, will
soon be opened to the public.