River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-11-22

Smallpox has become so prevalent
among the lumber camps in northern
Wisconsin that the state board of
health has recommended that logging
crews everywhere should be vaccina-
ted.
At the annual meeting of the Rock
county board of supervisors it was de-
cided to appropriate $4,000 to be used
for the construction of a hospital at
The county insane asylum.
The Paine Lumber company's dry
kiln at Oshkosh was burned, with d
large stock of lumber. Loss, $75, 000j
insurance, $4,000.
The home of Thomas c. Smythe, ia
ther of Rev Sydney Smythe, of St.
Johns academy at Delafield. was de-
stroyed by fire.
The Marinette county board of SUI
pervisors appropriated $4,000 for the
Improvement of county roads.
Rural free delivery has been ordered
established at Taylor. Jackson coun-
ty, covering an area of 80 square
miles, with a population of 572.
Mrs. Louise Matheson. of the town
of Wyoming. committed suicide by
taking trough on rats" leaving a
family of IL children. Dependency
was the cause.
State Superintendent L. d. Harvey
has appointed j. Harvey Hamlin. of
Merritt, superintendent of schools of
Lincoln county to succeed j. j. Hoff-
man, resigned.
The Oneida county board of super
visors has divided the town of Three
Lakes and created the new town of
Monico.
The twenty miles of highway known
as the Sheboygan and Calumet plank
road for 40 years has been thrown
open to the public as a free road.
At the tenth annual convention in
Sheboygan of the Wisconsin Sunday
Rest association Dr. p. Miller, of Mil
waukee, was elected president.
In overhauling the organ in Bethle-
hem church in Sheboygan live owl
was found in one of the pipes.
An additional rural free delivery
service has been established at Prairie
du Sac, Sank county. 1t will cover an
area of 40 square miles, with a popu-
lation of SOB.
Mrs. Mary Riley, aged rs years, was
killed by the cars in Beloit while she
was picking up bits of coal that lay
about the yards.
Peter Schauble. a farmer near Stur-
geon Bay, was robbed in Chicago of
$500.
Ernest Scheppler foreman of the
grinder mill of the Kimberly & Clark
company's mill at Niagara, had his
clothing caught by a shaft and was
instantly killed. He leaves a wife and
five children.
Herman PAIL, the oldest musician in
Racine, died at the age of rs years.
1t is now assured that the Chicago
& Northwestern road viii extend its
double track from Milwaukee to Green
Bay as soon as work can be COM
menced in the spring.
The Wisconsin State Spiritualist as
soeiation will hold its first mass meet
ing in Fond du Lac on November 27,
IS and %.
A nine-year-old son of Thomas Jen-
kins was accidentally shot in Sparta
by his four-year-old brother. The
bullet entered just below the heart.
Herman Heuer. farmer residing
with his mother. brother and sister in
the town Of Neguon. vas found dead
IN his buggy about a mile west Of
Brown Deer station.
John Wilson. Of Iowa, has bought
A. .00o acres of land near Bruce which
he will sell to settlers.
Joseph Fantl. saloon keeper in
Milwaukee. committed suicide by
throwing himself under the wheels
of Northwestern passenger train.
He was married and prosperous.
Andrew Weber, while working in a
sewer treueh in Racine. had both
legs broken above the knees and was
otherwise injured By the earth caving
in on him.
The proposition that the count =
board az SUPERVISORS appropriate sIet-
OOo to beiia j monument or memorial
for deceas soldiers. 10 be placed ~
she Cona rark ii JanesrilAe
~ Sc last election