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Richmond, a postoffice of 30 people in Walworth county, 13 miles northwest of Elkhorn, the county seat.
Richwood, a post village of 96 people in Dodge county, and a sta- tion on the C., M. & St. P. Ry., 14 miles southwest of Juneau, the county seat.
Ridgeland, a postoffice of 50 people in Dunn county and a station on the M., St. P. & S. Ste. M. Ry., 28 miles north of Menomonie, the county scat.
Ridgeway, a post village of 350 population in Iowa county, on the C. & N. W., 10 miles northeast of Dodgeville, the county seat.
Riley, a postoffice of 40 people on the C. & N. W. Ry. and the Sugar river in Dane county, 17 miles southwest of Madison, the county seat.
Ringle, a country postoffice in Marathon county, and a station on the C. & N. W. Ry., 11 miles southeast of Wausau, the county seat.
Rio, an incorporated village of Columbia county, on the C., M. & St. P. Ry., 14 miles southeast of Portage, the county seat. Its population of 621 supports a bank and two weekly papers, the Badger Blade and the Columbia County Reporter.
Rio Creek, a postoffice of 50 people on the A. & W. Ry. in Ke- waunec county. Kewaunee, the county seat, is 12 miles to the south.
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Riot, Bank .- In 1861, owing to the failure of banks as a result of the loss on southern state bonds made worthless by the war, much ill feeling against the banks of Milwaukee was engendered. A mob formed June 21, 1861, for the purpose of attacking the banks. A German named Anton Thormaehlen, who was mistaken for Alex- ander Mitchell, the banker, was attacked and severely beaten. The Marine (Mitchell's) bank was visited by the mob, but it was driven off. The state bank building opposite was attacked and wrecked. The mob was finally dispersed by troops, and by the throwing of water on them by the fire department.
Riot, Liquor .- In 1819 State Senator J. B. Smith secured the passage of a law whose chief provision was that "the vendor of in- toxicating drinks shall be held primarily responsible for all damage to the community justly chargeable to such sale or traffic." It aroused strong feeling and on March 4, 1850, when the law was a political issue, Senator Smith's house in Milwaukee was partially destroyed in his absence by a mob.
Riots, Draft .- At Port Washington in 1862, when drafts were be- ing made, a crowd made up chiefly of Luxembourgers from the farming sections adjacent marched into town armed with all man- ner of weapons, determined to resist the draft. A regiment sent by boat from Milwaukee soon dispersed the crowd. In Milwaukee shortly after a draft riot was threatened, but prompt action on the part of the military commander there prevented an outbreak.
Riots, The May .- Workmen in Milwaukee, numbering thous- ands, struck on May 1, 1886, to enforce the general adoption of an 8-hour day. The strikers becoming disorderly and riotous, and attempting to compel all workmen to quit work and join them, Gov. Rusk was appealed to and several companies of the state militia were called in. As the strikers disregarded the proclamation of the governor to refrain from assembling on the streets, and be- gan to destroy property, a large number of them were fired upon by the militia at Bay View, and seven persons, several of them innocent by-standers, were killed. This prompt action put an end to the strike, and the men, during the course of the month re- turned to work.
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Ripley, a settlement in Jefferson county. Jefferson, the county seat, is 7 miles distant.
Ripon .- This is an incorporated city of 3,811 people, at the junc- tion of the C. & N. W. and C., M. & St. P. Rys. in Fond du Lac county, 22 miles west of Fond du Lac, the county seat. Here is located Ripon college, established in 1851. The city itself was in- corporated in 1858, and today has two banks and two weekly news- papers, the Commonwealth and the Press.
Ripon College was projected in the winter of 1850-51 and the following spring ground was broken for the first building. The chief promoter of the enterprise was Capt. D. P. Mapes. The citizens of the little village contributed what they could to carry on the work and in taking subscriptions it was understood that the subscriber of the largest sum should have the college named for him. A. Mr. Brockway made the largest subscription and his name was given to the college until 1864, when the legislature changed the name to Ripon college. In 1863, college courses proper were instituted after the transfer of the charter to the district con- ventions of the Presbyterian and Congregational churches. (See Colleges and Seminaries.)
Rising Sun, a discontinued postoffice in Crawford county.
River Falls .- This is an incorporated city on the Kinnikinnic river in Pierce and St Croix counties and an important station on the C., St. P., M. & O. Ry., 14 miles northwest of Ellsworth, the county seat of Pierce county. Settled in 1848, it has at present a population of 2,300 and contains two banks and two weekly news- papers, the Times (Ind.) and the Journal (Rep.).
Riverside, a country postoffice, formerly called Waukechon, in Shawano county, 9 miles south of Shawano, the county seat.
Riverview, a discontinued postoffice in Chippewa county.
Roaring Creek, a discontinued postoffice in Jackson county.
Robbins, a country postoffice of Oneida county. Rhinelander, the county seat, is 13 miles distant.
Roberts, a post town of 250 people in St. Croix county, and a sta- tion on the C., St. P., M. & O. Ry., 12 miles cast of Hudson, the county seat The town contains a bank.
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Robinson, a discontinued postoffice in Walworth county.
Roche-a-Cri, a country postoffice of Adams county, 7 miles north of Friendship, the county seat.
Rochester, a post town on the Fox river in Racine county. Ra- cine, the county seat, is 23 miles to the east. Its population is 275. Rockbridge, a postoffice of 75 people on the Pine river in Rich- land county, 9 miles north of Richland Center, the county seat.
Rock County is in the extreme southern part of the state, getting its name from the prairie, which in turn received its name from a prominent boulder on it. It was one of the territorial counties, having been organized in 1836. The census of 1905 gave it a popu- lation of 53,641, and it has an area of 720 square miles. Janesville is the county seat.
Rockdale, a post town in Dane county, with a population of 240, 24 miles southeast of Madison, the county seat. It was formerly known as Clinton.
Rock Elm, a post village of 200 people in Pierce county, 15 miles east of Ellsworth, the county seat.
Rock Falls, a post town of 150 people in Dunn county, on Rock creek, 24 miles southwest of Menomonie, the county seat.
Rockfield, a country postoffice of 75 people in Washington county and a station on the C. & N. W. Ry., 12 miles southeast of West Bend, the county seat.
Rock Lake is in Jefferson county. The village of Lake Mills lies on its eastern side.
Rockland, a postoffice of 50 people on the La Crosse river and at the junction of the C. & N. W. and the C., M. & St. P. Rys. in La Crosse county, 20 miles northeast of La Crosse, the county seat.
Rockmont, a post village of 25 people at the junction of the C., St. P., M. & O. and the D. S. S. & A. Rys. in Douglas county, 15 miles southeast of Superior, the county seat.
Rock River rises in the northern part of Dodge county, flows south across Dodge county into Jefferson county, then north again into Dodge, turning south to cross Jefferson into Lake Koshko- nong. From Lake Koshkonong it flows south across Rock county into Winnebago county, Illinois, and on to the Mississippi river.
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It was considered a navigable stream by the early settlers of the state, and was much used for travel by them. Its shores are noted for their picturesqueness as well as for their fertility. (See Mil- waukee and Rock River Canal.)
Rockton, a post village of 100 people on the Kickapoo river in Vernon county, 23 miles northeast of Viroqua, the county seat.
Rockville, a post town of 100 people in Grant county, 9 miles south of Lancaster, the county seat.
Rodney, a country postoffice in Wanshara county, 12 miles south- east of Wautoma, the county seat.
Rogersville, a discontinued postoffice in Fond du Lac county.
Rolling Prairie, a country postoffice in Dodge county and a sta- tion on the C., M. & St. P. Ry., 5 miles northwest of Juneau, the county seat.
Roman Catholic Church, The .- The Roman Catholic church was the first religious organization in Wisconsin, and the record of her missions is the record of developing civilization in the state; for side by side with the explorers and voyageurs of the French régime went the Catholic missionaries. The Catholic population of the state exceeds that of any other religious denomination, the Lutheran being second. The church in Wisconsin is under the supervision of an archbishop with his seat at Milwaukee and the two bishops, of the dioceses of Green Bay and La Crosse, respec- tively. The southern part of the state was made an archepiscopal see in 1875, when the Most Rev. John Martin Henni, D. D., was consecrated archbishop. He died in 1881. His successors have been the Most Rev. Michael Heiss, D. D., consecrated in 1881, died in 1890; the Most Rev. Frederic Xavier Katzer, D. D., consecrated in 1891, died in 1901; the Most Rev. Sebastian Gebhard Messmer, consecrated in 1902. The two episcopal sees are Green Bay,-the Most Rev. J. J. Fox, bishop, and la Crosse,-the Most Rev. James Schwebach, D. D., bishop. The Catholic population of the state given by Hoffmann's Catholic Directory for 1898 is: Archdiocese of Milwaukee, about 250,000, 289 priests, 149 parochial schools with 26,373 pupils ; episcopal see of Green Bay, population about 125,000, 110 priests, 52 parochial schools with 10,906 pupils ;
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Episcopal see of La Crosse, population about 80,000 (including about 2,100 Indians), 124 priests, 67 parochial schools, with 9,744 pupils,-grand total, population about 455,000, 553 priests, 288 parochial schools, with 47,023 pupils. The U. S. census of 1890 gives the Catholic population of the state as about 249,000.
Rome, a post village of 250 people on the Bark river in Jeffer- son county, 12 miles east of Jefferson, the county seat.
Rooney, a postoffice in Burnett county, but recently established.
Roosevelt, a country postoffice in Shawano county. Shawano, the county seat, is 17 miles to the southeast.
Root Creek, a post village of 200 people in Milwaukee county, 8 miles southwest of Milwaukee, the county seat.
Root River rises in Waukesha county and flows southeast into Milwaukee county ; thence south into Racine county to empty into Lake Michigan at Racine.
Rosecrans, a discontinued postoffice in Manitowoc county.
Rosedale, a post town of 150 people on the C., St. P., M. & O. Ry., in Eau Claire county. Eau Claire, the county seat, is 17 miles distant.
Rose Lawn, a postoffice of 50 people in Shawano county. Sha- wano, the county seat, is 24 miles to the northwest.
Rosendale, a post village with a population of 300 in Fond du Lac county, on the C. & N. W. Ry., 12 miles northwest of Fond du Lac, the county seat. The village contains a weekly newspaper, the Journal.
Rosholt, a post village on the C. & N. W. Ry. in Portage county, 18 miles northeast of Stevens Point, the county seat. The popu- lation of 300 supports a bank.
Rosiere, a post village with a population of 500 in Kewaunce county, 21 miles northwest of Kewaunee, the county seat.
Ross, a discontinued postoffice in Vernon county.
Roster Deal .- In 1893, during the administration of Governor Peck, the legislature authorized the printing of a new roster of Wis- consin soldiers who served in the War of Secession. Because of some dissatisfaction with the company holding the state printing contract, the roster contract was let to an outside firm. The con-
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tract was annulled by Governor Peck when the question was raised as to its legality, and litigation followed, which brought out much political information that was used with effect by the re- publicans in the campaign of 1894. The roster was not printed then, and is still unprinted.
Rostok, a country postoffice of Kewaunee county. Kewaunee, the county seat, is three miles distant.
Round Lake lies in Polk county. Cumberland, in Barron county, is the nearest railroad station.
Round Lake is in Price county. Fifield is the nearest railroad station.
Rowley's Bay, a discontinued postoffice in Door county.
Roy, a country postoffice in Rusk county. Ladysmith, the county seat, is 14 miles distant.
Royalton, a post village of 300 people on the G. B. & W. R. R. and the Little Wolf river, in Waupaca county, 13 miles northwest of Waupaca, the county seat.
Rozellville, à post town of 125 people in Marathon county. Wau- san, the county seat, is 33 miles to the northeast.
Rube, a discontinued postoffice in Manitowoc county.
Rubicon, a post village with a population of 100 on the C., M. & St. P. Ry. in Dodge county, 18 miles southeast of Juneau, the county seat.
Rublee, Horace .- This prominent republican editor and diplomat was born in Berkshire, Vt., Aug. 19, 1829. IJe came to Sheboy- gan, Wis., in 1840 and became connected with the Madison State Journal in 1853. lle retained a half-interest in the State Journal until 1869 when he was appointed minister to Switzerland by President Grant. Prior to that appointment he had been state li- brarian, had been a prominent candidate for the U. S. senate, and was influential in the councils of his party. On his return from abroad in 1877 he became chairman of the republican state commit- tce and re-entered the newspaper business and with others bought the Milwaukee News and gave it the name Republican-News. In 1882 this paper was merged with the Milwaukee Sentinel and Mr. Rublee was editor-in-chief of that paper until his death, October
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19, 1896. To Mr. Rublee is due much of the credit for saving his party from being carried away with the greenback craze in 1876.
Ruby, a post settlement in Chippewa county. Chippewa Falls, the county seat, is 38 miles southwest.
Rudolph, a post town with a population of 250 on the C., M. & St. P. Ry., in Wood county, 7 miles northeast of Grand Rapids, the county seat.
Rugby Junction, a station at the intersection of the C., M. & St. P. and the W. C. Rys., in Washington county. Schleisingerville, its postoffice, is 5 miles distant.
Rural, a discontinued postoffice in Waupaca county.
Rush Lake, a post station of 100 people on the C., M. & St. P. Ry. in Winnebago county, 20 miles southwest of Oshkosh, the county seat.
Rush Lake is in Winnebago county. Rush Lake station is the nearest rail approach.
Rushville, a discontinued postoffice in Racine county.
Rusk, a post town of 75 people on the C., St. P., M. & O. Ry. in Dunn county, 6 miles northeast of Menomonie, the county seat.
Rusk County .- Up to 1901 this county constituted the northern part of Chippewa county. That year it was separated and organ- ized as Gates county. The legislature of 1905 changed the name to Rusk county, in honor of General Rusk, once a member of the president's cabinet and formerly governor of this state. Its area is about 980 square miles and in 1905 it had a population of 9,248. Ladysmith is the county seat.
Rusk, Jeremiah M., governor of the state and member of the president's cabinet, was born in Morgan county, Ohio, June 17, 1830, and came to Wisconsin in 1853. He was elected member of the assenibly a few years later. He entered the War of Secession as major of the 25th Wisconsin infantry and was soon promoted to a colonelcy ; served with General Sherman after the siege of Vicks- burg and was breveted a brigadier general. After the war he was state bank comptroller 1866-70; was appointed state railroad com- missioner but not confirmed; was a member of the 42nd, 43rd and 14th congresses; was governor of the state from 1882 to 1859 and
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was appointed a member of President Harrison's cabinet in 1899. He died at his home in Viroqua in December, 1893.
Russell, a country postoffice of Trempealcau county, 15 miles northwest of Whitehall, the county seat.
Ryan Address, The .- In 1863 a democratic state convention adopted as its platform an address prepared by E. G. Ryan (q. v.) which denounced the war as unnecessary and severely criticised the Federal government. Soon after this a convention of war democrats was called in Janesville to protest against the "Ryan Address" as it was called, and to pledge to the Federal govern- ment the loyal support of the democrats of Wisconsin in the prosecution of the war.
Ryan, Edward G., was born Nov. 13, 1810 at New Castle House, county of Meath, Ireland, and educated at Clongone's Wood Cot- tage, graduating in 1827. Ile came to the United States in 1830, and completed his law course in New York and was admitted to the bar in 1836; ; the same year he removed to Chicago and became editor of the Tribune. In 1812 he moved to Racine and in 1848 to Milwaukee, from which district he was a delegate to the con- stitutional convention. In June, 1874, he was appointed chief jus- tice of the state supreme court by Governor Taylor, which position he held until his death in October, 1880. He was married in 1842 to a Miss Graham of Chicago.
Sabin, a country postoffice of Richland county, 15 miles north- west of Richland Center, the judicial scat of the county.
Sagole, a discontinued postoffice in Outagamie county.
Saint Anna, a postoffice of 57 people in Sheboygan county. She- boygan, the county seat, is 24 miles to the southwest.
St. Cloud, a post village with a population of 300 on the Sheboy- gan river in Fond du Lac county, and a station on the C. & N. W .; Ry., 17 miles northwest of Fond du Lac, the county seat.
St. Croix County, lying along the western boundary of the state, received its name from the French name of the river, signifying "holy cross." It was one of the territorial counties of the state, being organized in 1838. The soil in the extreme west and in the
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east is a clayey loam ; in the central portion of the county it is a prairie loam. There are 230 square miles in the county and in 1905 it had a population of 26,716. Hudson is the county seat.
St. Croix Falls, an incorporated village of 612 people, in Polk county. It is on the Mf., St. P. & S. Ste. M. Ry. and the St. Croix river, 12 miles west of Balsam lake, the county seat. The village contains a bank and two weekly newspapers, the Polk County Press and the St. Croix Valley Standard.
St. Croix River has its rise in Douglas county ; flows southwest into Burnett county, where it becomes the state line between Minnesota and Wisconsin until its confluence with the Mississippi river at Point Douglas, Pierce county. It forms also the western boundaries of Burnett, Polk and St. Croix counties.
St. Francis, a post village on the C. & N. W. Ry. in Milwaukee county, with a population of 400, 3 miles south of Milwaukee, the county scat. Here are located Pio Nono college and St. Francis seminary.
St. John, a discontinued postoffice in Calumet county.
St. Joseph, a country postoffice in La Crosse county, 13 miles east of La Crosse, the county seat.
St. Kilian, a discontinued postoffice in Fond du Lac county.
St. Lawrence, a post town of 250 people in Washington county. West Bend, the county seat, is 12 miles to the northwest.
St. Martins, a discontinued postoffice in Milwaukee county.
St. Michaels, a postoffice of 75 people in Washington county. West Bend, the county seat, is 8 miles to the southwest.
St. Nazianz, a post village with a population of 450 in Manitowoc county, 18 miles southwest of Manitowoc, the county seat.
St. Peter, a discontinued postoffice in Fond du Lac county.
St. Wendel, a discontinued postoffice in Manitowoc county.
Salem, a post village with a population of 300 on the C. & N. W. Ry. in Kenosha county, 16 miles west of Kenosha, the county seat.
Salomon, Edward, was governor of Wisconsin for the greater portion of the term of 1862-63. He was born in Germany and came to this country when quite young. He studied law and was ad- mitted to the bar in Milwaukee. In 1861 he was elected lieutenant
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governor on the republican ticket headed by Louis P. Harvey. When in 1862 (April 17), Governor Harvey met his tragic death at Pittsburg Landing, Salomon became governor. At the end of his term he returned to his law practice in Milwaukee and later re- moved to New York, where he died.
Salona, a discontinued postoffice in Door county.
Salter, a country postoffice of Washington county. 10 miles southeast of West Bend, the county seat.
Sampson, a country postoffice of Oconto county. Oconto, the county seat, is 22 miles to the northeast.
Sams, a country postoffice of Taylor county. Medford, the county seat, is 15 miles to the southwest.
Sanborn, a post town of 200 people on the D. S. S. & A. Ry. in Ashland county. Ashland, the county seat, is 11 miles distant.
Sanborn, Arthur Loomis, born in 1848 in St. Lawrence county, N. Y .; came to Lake Geneva, Walworth county, Wisconsin, in 1858; removed to Elkhorn in 1869 and later to Madison. He was at one time a law partner of the late Associate Justice S. U. Pin- ney of the state supreme court, and of U. S. Sen. John C. Spooner. In February, 1905, he was appointed U. S. district judge. Ile has become widely-known through his work in revising the statutes of Wisconsin.
Sand Creek, a post village of 100 people in Dunn county, on the Red Cedar river, 35 miles northeast of Menomonie, the county seat.
Sand Island is the most westerly of the Apostle group in Lake Superior, and the only large island of the group under the jurisdic- tion of Bayfield county.
Sandlake, a discontinued postoffice in Polk county.
Sand Lake is in Forest county. Crandon, the county seat, is on its shores. Monico is the nearest railroad station.
Sand Rock, a postoffice in Iron county, on the C. & N. W. Ry., 12 miles south of Ilurley, the county seat.
Sandusky, a country postoffice in Sauk county, 30 miles south- west of Baraboo, the county seat.
Sandy Creek is a stream rising in St. Croix county, flowing east into Dunn, where it joins Tinany creek. .
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Sanitarium, Tuberculosis .- The legislature of 1905 provided for the establishment of a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients, and authorized the appointment of a commission of five members to act without pay to select a site and supervise the work. The commis- sion have accordingly purchased a tract of 200 acres of high ground in Waukesha county, where the sanitarium will be located. The institution is to be under the management of the state board of control. All persons admitted shall pay the cost of maintenance, which is to be fixed by the superintendent and the board of con- trol. But when a patient files an affidavit in the county court of the county he comes from that he is unable to pay for his main- tenance the county shall pay the sum of $5 per week to the institu- tion for him.
Saratoga, a country postoffice of Wood county, 12 miles south of Grand Rapids, the county seat.
Sarona, a postoffice of 35 people in Washburn county, and a sta- tion on the C., St. P., M. & O. Ry., 7 miles from Shell Lake, the county seat.
Sauerhering, Edward, was born at Mayville, Wis., June 24, 1864, where he engaged in the mercantile business, after receiving an education at the parochial and public schools. He served as a republican representative from his district in the 54th and 55th congresses. Ilis home is in Mayville.
Sauk City, an incorporated village with a population of 748 on the Wisconsin river in Sauk county, and a station on the C., M. & St. P. Ry., 16 miles south of Baraboo, the county seat. A weekly German newspaper, the Sauk City Pioneer Press, is published.
Sauk County is in the south-central part of the state, getting its name from a tribe of Indians the Sacs or Saukees. It is one of the territorial counties, the date of organization being 1838. The soil in places is sandy but most of it is a strong clayey loam. Sauk county has an area of 837 square miles and a population (1905 census) of 32,825. Baraboo is the county seat.
- Saukville, a post village on the Milwaukee river in Ozaukee county and a station on the C., M. & St. P. Ry. Port Washington, the county seat, is 4 miles distant. It has a population of 300.
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Sawyer, a post station on the A. & W. Ry., just south of Stur- geon Bay, of which city it is the fourth ward.
Sawyer County, in the northern part of the state, was named in honor of the Ilon. Philetus Sawyer, having been organized in 1883, while he was U. S. senator from this state. The soil is mostly a clayey loam with a rather large tract of sandy soil around Lake Court Oreilles. Its area is 1,368 square miles and its population (1905) 5,044. Hayward is the county seat.
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