River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-01
The News Condensed.

Jeremiah Quin, member of the Mil
waukee board of education, scholar
and philosopher, has taken up the
cudgeI against the game of football
and believes he may be able to con-
vince the board that the sport should
be forbidden in the public schools.
The first ice yacht race of the sea-
son was sailed over the four-mile
triangle on Lac La Belle, in OcOno-
mowoc and it was won by the La
Belle, Charles Fulmer's boat, which
covered the course in 24:21. The
Snow Bird of Louis Larsen was Sec
ond and the Mamie, owned by W. II.
Stephens, was third.
In the case of Charles Boice
against the Wilbur Lumber company,
of Milwaukee, in circuit court at
Oshkosh the jury gave verdict in
favor of the plaintiff for the sum
of $1,000 The plaintiff was injured at
Menasha September 81, while riding
on the side of a freight train which
collided with the gondola car on the
locks of the Wilbur Lumber COM
pany.
r. M. Marzluff & Co., one of the
largest manufacturers of women's
shoes in the west, closed down their
factory in GAINESVILLE on account of a
strike. One hundred members of the
Boot and Shoe Workers union
walked out because the proprietors
mad refused to reinstate William
LEONE, foreman who had been dis
charged for incompetency.
Rumors are afloat concerning the
opening of copper mines upon the
Dennis Flynn farm, five miles east
of Boscobel j. C. Alden, mining
expert and agent for n company of
Chicago capitalists, is experimenting
the prospecting, and 1000 pounds of
the ore has been shipped to an as
sayer for examination.
James A. Wall has been appointed
postmaster at Oxford, Marquette coun-
ty. vice Jefferson j. Wright, removed,
and Francis Biles at Porcupine. Pep
sin county, vice James Shaw, resigned.
Debaters to represent Lawrence uni
versity, of Appleton, in the debates
with Upper Iowa and Albion college,
have been chosen. For the debate
with Upper Iowa college, of Fayette,
Ia. Herbert Peck, George Atkinson
and Allan Boyden will represent Law
renee. In the debate with Albion col
lege, of Albion, Mich, William Dan
ieIs, Arthur Hansen and George w.
Fry will be the Badger orators.
Edward Augustus Foster, aged
about 70 years, retired lumberman,
dropped dead at his home at Wausau
from a stroke of apoplexy. Mr.. Fos-
ter was known as the Lumber King"
and well-known in this state and Mich
igan and on the Pacific coast.
Morris Pratt, of Whitewater, one of
the early converts to spiritualism and
founder of the only school in the world
devoted to instruction in spiritualism,
is dead from the effects of a stroke of
apoplexy.
The body of Mrs. Amelia Meyer was
found floating in q cistern in the
ward at the rear of her home at Fond
du Lac by her daughter-in-law, Mrs
Louis J. Meyer. 1t is believed to be
a case of suicide.
Prof. T. E. Doty. principal of the
high school. at Sparta, has resigned
to accept position in the state SUI
perintendent's department.
Hotel Ferguson, at Hayward, was
completely destroyed by fire. The loss
is $4,000.
Miss Lizzie Jung. Of Plymouth, was
to have been married, but on the day
set for the wedding went insane. and
has been committed to the Northern
asylum at Oshkosh. No reason is
given for her sudden mental aberra-
ton.
Mayor Harding. of Waukesha. has
appointed j. X. Lowry and c. E. Ar
min to fill the vacancies on the pub
lie library board occasione.l by the
resignation of Prof. c. o. Merica and
D. j. Hemlock.