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Graceville.. Mimi, does not propose ito
be outdone in the line Of Fourth Of July
4 celebration this year. Five hundred dol
lars for horse racing alone has been Sc
! cured Senator Young, of Appleton, viii
1 be the orator OF the day.
Lake city, Mimi. The city council
last Saturday night let the contract tol
$50 Hight incandescent dynamo and 9
/ 60light arc dynamo, together with the l
necessary wires, poles, ETC., to Burtls q
Howard b Of Minneapolis. The contract
4 for a l00-horse power engine was let to
! The Ball e. Wood Company OF New York,
represented by Geo. M. Kenyon. of st.
Paul. The electric plant must be com
3pleted within 60 days. The contract
price for the entire plant is $8,374
GAINESVILLE, Wis.--The cotton factory
strike has assumed a new phase. Here
tofore all the staten ents have been made
from the side OF the employers. Now
4 the workmen have asserted themselves.
"a meeting Of the mill hands last sat
nrday night 200 agreed to join the union.
The Workmen still seem to be deterna-
ined to continue the strike until they
can 60 back to work at the same wages
received before the cut of 10 per cent
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mill started but run only one day. The
4 lower mill has been running with about
80 hands out of $50. ...s
Stevens Point, Wis.-Fire broke out
i Sunday night about II o'clock In the
basement of the Wisconsin River Paper
end Pulp Company's mill, located at
Whiting, few miles from here, and to-
tally destroyed the same. The pulp mill
alone was saved The fire is supposed
to have originated from a hot box among
the machinery. This was one OF the
largest and best equipped plants in the
state and manufactured pulp, book and
printing paper and was running night
and day. Several thousand dollars
worth Of new machinery had just been
put in. The mills were owned by Geo.
Whiting, Of Menasha, and William
Whiting, Of this place. The loss will
reach $150,0O0, with insurance about one
half. Five loaded cars standing on the
side track were destroyed. Four were
loaded with paper and one with sulphite.
1t liz estimated that there was about
S1B0, 900 worth Of paper on hand. About
100 persons We're employed in the mills.
st. Peter, Minn.-Miss Eta Casey,
youngest daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lam Casey, Of Cleveland township, LIE
Sueur county, died IF Inflammation OF
the spine on Friday last, May 10th, aged
about 26 years, says the ST. Peter Trib-
une. Deceased was young lady highly
esteemed by those who knew her, being
possessed of noble qualities of head and
heart It seems hard to part with one
who was the life and light Of the house
hold, but death spares not, no matter
how deep the sorrow wrought In separa-
ton. Bowling to the Masters will, the
parents and surviving brothers and sis
ters havesthe sympathy of their many
friends in their sad bereavement The
funeral took place from the English
speaking Catholic Church in Cleveland
yesterday, May 14th, attended by rela-
,tiyes and large number Of sympathiz-
ing friends Rev. Father Carey, OF this
City officiated. The interment was In
Marysburg cemetery. III
) Faribault, Minn.-Rev. Father Keller,
pnesS Of the pioneer priests of this do
ss.ess, arrived in Faribault Tuesday even
ing and spent yesterday the guest Of Rev.
l \. fConroy, says the Pilot of the 18th
Inst. From 1858 until the close of the
rebellion his mission covered a large
portion of Southern Minnesota, and ex-
'siended from st. Paul to the Iowa line.
In attending ITO his duties in so large a
/ territory, with poor roads, he was COM
PEELED to ride horse, and in his jour
neying often camped with the Indians.
The many incidents and "reminiscences
he relates Of those early days are very
interesting. He erected a part of what
. is; now the Church of the Immaculate
1 Conception, and purchased grounds for
v7xyC lit
from Faribau1t he has lived at various
towns in Wisconsin and at the celebrated
shrine OF LourdeB, in France He was
tiers here and bears a kindly remem-
brance of them and Faribault. "A:
Huron, 8. Gov. Altgeld, of Illinois,
has taken q hand in the Benedict affair,
chat so much interests South Dakota.
Gov, Sheldon received from Altgeld a
telegram saying he had heard that Bene-
Z dict, for whose extradition he had grant
led q requisition on the charge of lar
csny, had been acquitted on chat ground
and was about to be tried on charge of
3EonKpiracy to 1defraud the state, and CALI
ing The attention OF the governor to the
TACT that he, Altgeld, believed this would
he violation Of the laws governing ex-
trad ition. Gov. Sheldon has replied at
length, setting forth all the facts Of Ben
sediet's connection with the defaulting
4 treasurer, Taylor, his presence with the
latter In the bank in Chicago, when the
money was drawn, ETC., the conveyance
sby Taylor TO Benedict Of large amount
TOT yprDperty for the consideration of 81,
nm so1s other points brought out In
i a,s ss,ylse OF the Investigation. Also
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