River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-08

Rhodes sawmill at MlShicOtte was
burned, the loss being $4,000 and no in
surance.
The supreme court made happy about
$50 suuatters of Jones island, near Mil
waukee, by deciding that their title
to their homes on the island was good
and that the Illinois Steel company
could not evict them.
The prohibitionists of the Sixth dis
trict have nominated Wesley Mott, of
Neenah, for congress.
The e. II. Pease Manufacturing com
pany. one of the largest tanning mill
and elevator factories in the state,
made an assignment at Racine.
Michael Sepkie played cards in a bar
room at Weyerhauser and won 5000.
On his way home he was held up and
robbed of the money and terribly
beaten.
The supreme court has decided that
the Milwaukee mayor and council are
not in contempt in granting a railway
franchise after they had been enjoined
from doing so by the superior court.
Mrs. Nancy Newberry, aged So years,
died at Wheatland. She was one of the
first settlers of Wisconsin and lived in
the same house for the past 60 years.
John f. Wright, superintendent of
the mineral department in the land of
flee under Cleveland, died in Washing
ton, and the remains were brought to
Baraboo for burial.
Z Richard II. Chapman, aged rs, died
in Pardeeville, and his wife, aged 65.
who was i'll with pneumonia, passed
away four hours later. They leave
three sons and two daughters.
A declamatory league, consisting of
the high schools of Racine, Kenosha,
! South Milwaukee and Union Grove, has
been formed. The first contest will be
held in Racine, probably March %.
A fee of S 1000 for fling articles of
association was paid into the state
treasury by the American Wireless
Telegraph company, of Milwaukee.
Twenty tramps, who were given per-
mission to sleep in a large empty store
in Racine, were found almost dead
from the fumes of coal gas, which had
accumulated during the night.
Menominee is having an epidemic of
cerebral spinal meningitis and the dis
ease has invaded Marinette.
Seven business firms were wiped
out by fire at Wonewoc. The loss
amounts to $50, 900. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
Henry A. Heath died in Milwaukee,
aged So years. He belonged to the
firm of Bodden & Heath, wholesalers,
and was a civil war veteran.
The first dividend the creditors of
the Plankinton bank in Milwaukee
have had in three years has been {
| clared. The five per. cent. declared
amounts to over $4,000.
The Viroqua common council passed
an ordinance unanimously looking to
the erection of a $4,000 city hall and
public library.
The right V of DIR. Robert Kitto,
injured in a street railway accident in
Racine. has been removed. as it was
feared it was affecting the good eye.
An experimental camp for open
air treatment" for co~nsumptives will
be opened at Long Lake rext summer
Maximilian Lucloux n farmer re-
siding near Aigona, died while assist
ing to load a WACO at the brick yard
He was 40 years old. A wife and six
sons survive him.
The congressional convention of the
Third district, represented in congress
by Joseph w. Babcock. will be held at
Baraboo on April "a.
Burr Simmons, one of the best
known residents of Kenosha. died in
the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago.
The opera mouse in Reedsburg was
filled by a large and enthusiastic
meeting to express sympathy for the
Beers.