River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-03-27
The News Condensed.

The Park hotel in KilbOurn was
burned, causing a loss of $4,000; in
surance, $500.
William X. Rideout, president of
the National Union bank in Oshkosh,
received a telegram announcing q
fire in his lumber yard at Eland.
About 100000 feet of lumber was de-
stroyed, causing a loss estimated at
about $4,000 or $4,000.
C. B. Pride, of Appleton, has pre-
pared plans for a paper mill to be
constructed at once at independence,
Kan, to manufacture paper from sor-
ghum cane.
A meeting of about $50 progressive
farmers and business men in Boomer
organized a farmers cooperative
grain company, and voted to incor-
porate with a capital of $4,000, and
q committee of seven was appointed
to solicit sales of stock.
Gov Yates has honored the requi-
sition for the return to Wisconsin of
Charles Mccoy, alias Edward Rati-
gan, a notorious safe cracker, who
escaped form prison at Waupon, but
who is just ending two-years' SEN
tence at Chester, H., for robbery.
George G. Houghton, vice president
of the Wisconsin national bank of
Milwaukee, and well known in bank
ing circles throughout the country,
died at the age of about 20 years.
The grand total of logs brought
down on the Menominee river this
year will show shrinkage of over
8O,O00OoO feet from last years to-
tai.
Andrew Carnegie has notified Fran
els Williams, secretary of the library
board in Sheboygan, that he will give
$35 900 instead of 900 for library
building.
Mrs. Elizabeth Kork, the oldest
woman in Kenosha county, died at
the age of 90 years. She had been q
resident of Kenosha for more than
so years.
James Forestal was killed while at
tempting to pass switching freight
train in the Wisconsin Central yards
in Marshfield.
Rev. C. G. Rheim, for 80 years pas
tor of the First German Lutheran
church in La Crosse has resigned on
account of i'll health.
The Rock county soldiers and sail
ors' memorial monument was COM
pleted in GAINESVILLE when the figure
of the soldier surmounting the col
umn was placed in position.
A body found in the Mississippi
river at Prairie du Chen proved to
be that of Peter Hawley, who dis
appeared from the Ahrens farm last
November. The body was frozen
when found.
The Milwaukee chamber of COM
merce will permit no women to be-
come members.
Rev. j. d. Brothers, one of the pi-
oneer Methodist ministers of north
ern Wisconsin, died in Menominee,
aged 20 years.
A movement is under way to organ
ize every department of labor in Eau
Claire and combine all unions into a
central organization.
Peter Johnson. young farmer
living south of Roberts, killed him
self by shooting. No reason can be
given for the act.
In the circuit court at Kenosha Mrs.
Edith Roth was granted an absolute
divorce from her husband, Robert
Roth, on grounds of abandonment.
DIR. Albert Fisher died suddenly of
heart failure in Eau Claire. He leaves
widow, two sons and two daugh-
tiers.
At Black River Falls Hiram Hall
was acquitted of the murder of Z. b.
Parker. The jury was a unit from
the start
James H. Curtis. one of the early
steamboat men, died in Oshkosh of
pneumonia at the age of IS years.
Two store buildings on Main street
in Oshkosh, occupied by the Kretlow
Bros cigar mandatory, the f. G..
Nielsen barber shop and the Case res
taurant. were destroyed by fire.