Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-07-19
BADGER NOTES.

THREE men who were working on a
waukee, by Geo. Phinney, met with a
serious accident on the 10Th. They
were at work on the frame of a Queen
Anne tower about forty-tive feet in
height, when the frame gave way, pre-
cipitating them to the ground. Albert
Hanke, the contractor, fell headfore-
most and struck on brick, receiving a
cut which extended from the forehead
almost to the base of the skull. He re-
NAMED insensible and was taken to his
home. One of the other men, a Ger
man, had his leg broken. The third
man escaped without serious injury.
THE Board of Management of the
Milwaukee Arion Musical Club has en-
gagged Prof. Arthur Weld, of Boston, as
musical director of the club for next
season.
Mrs. HERMAN RosENTHAL, Of Chicago,
a patient at DIR. McBride's sanitarium in
Wauwatosa, early on the morning of
the 18th jumped out of a window in the
third story of the main building and
sustained internal injuries which caused
her death the same evening.
THOMAS II. FERRIS, member of the
Uniformed Rank, K. p, from Geneva,
Neb., was found drowned in the river at
Milwaukee. His identity was fully es-
tablished.
EDWARD L. TRACY, Milwaukee brake
man accused of murder in Chicago, was
acquitted.
The German union printers of Mil
waukee are at war with the Germanla.
FIFTY-Two novices received the white
veil at NOtre Dame Convent, MilWau-
kee, on the 18th.
The Rev. Mr.. Updike has definitely
decided to accept the call to Madison
Congregational church.
The Jury which tried Salvationists for
parading the streets at Eau Claire dis
agreed.
Mrs. GEO. N. WoRDEN has been grant
ed divorce at Madison.
JOHN BucKRE1s, aged 80, committed
suicide at Milwaukee because a girl of
20 would not marry him.
THE move for shorter hours by the
Ashland Mill employees, inaugurated
early in the spring, has eliminated IN
North Wisconsin Mill Mems Union.
Officers have been chosen and constitu-
ton adopted In it they declare that
"employes and members shall on and
after July Is, 1890, refuse to work in the
mills for a longer period than ten hours
day, and to receive the wages for such
days work as are now received, and no
less"
E. J. TURNER, of Pittsburg, has OBJ
tanned a requisition from Gov. Hoard
for Michael Callahan, alias Dougherty,
who is wanted by the Pennsylvania au-
thorities for burglarizing freight cars at
Newcastle, Pa. Detective Turner fol-
lowed his man from Newcastle to Ash
land. Wis, where he arrested him, but
Callahan refused to return without the
necessary requisition papers. Turner
says the prisoner was one OF the prln-
eipal members of a gang of car robbers
which has been operating on the Penn
sylvania lines for some months.
IT is thought that John N. True will
be elected secretary of the State Agrl-
cultural Society. Mr.. Newton, the pres
ent incumbent, has said: II am out of
the deal entirely. do not want the of
flee longer, and am now only ambl-
tious to step out leaving all its duties
we'll done and the society in flourish
ing condition" He said Mr.. True and
the Rev. G.. E. Gordon were candidates
for the place.
AN exciting yacht race occurred at
Ashland on the 9th Four boats were
entered, Of which the Packer and Idle
wild were distanced. The Dreadnaught
won the race and the Ashland Press
championship medal. The course was
a triangular one of six miles and return.
The judges were Geo. F. Merrill, Harry
Lichtenstein and G. E. Hopkins. The
bay front presented a gay appearance
during the contest.