Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-12-06
BADGER NOTES

Church, and was very largely attended
After the ceremony a reception NV,
held at the Sterling homestead, on sta%as
Street.
ONLY two murder cases are on fl.
Ashland County calendar for the nra"
ent Joseph Venora and Ricba,S
Tracey.
THE report that DR.. Graft, of F.,
Claire, who is visiting in NORWAY, baS
been killed, is denied by a cableors"
from the Doctor himself.
THE recount in La Crosse and yerno.
counties is completed, and proves CON-
nor Dem elected to the state Senate
FIRE in a charcoal pile at the Ashland
blast furnace destroyed $16,0 900 worth a,
fuel.
J. f. LEcKLER, formerly yardmas+o,
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. pou'
Railway in Eau Claire, and Hugh Cam'
eron. also formerly of that city, were n
q freight wreck at Haystack, Ore. Ieel'
Ter being killed and Cameron seriousIv
hurt.
Gov. ELECT GEORGE W. PECK has trans.
ferred his entire interest in Peck's Su,
to his son, Geo. Peck, jr., who becomes
sole proprietor and editor. The paner
was established as '"The Sun" at IA
Crosse in 1874, removing to Milwaukee
in 1878.
An effort is to be made to establish
beet sugar factory at Menomonee Falls
AN increase in tie appropriation for
the Milwaukee federal building is ex
pected.
P. J. SoMERs was elected mayor Of
Milwaukee by plurality of 6,849. The
+oto1 vote 20 st was 81 762
Gov. HOARD has gone to New York to
attend the Pan-Republic Congress
Lieut.. Gov. Ryland will occupy the ex.
ecut..e char during the Governors alb.
sence.
A MILWAUKEE man named Schmit was
robbed by lone highwayman on
Texas railroad train.
THE keystone Lumber Company asks
| Judgment against A. Weed and Paul
Weed of $273, sol, said to be due to the
plaintiffs for hauling logs from Fish
| Creek to Ashland.
! LEWIS OLSEN wants the sum of $4,000
| from Drs. Harrison and Ellis, of Ash
| land, for alleged serious and lasting dis
ability which he claims to have sus-
tanned as result of carelessness by
the doctors in setting his broken limb.
! IT is estimated that the shingle cut of
the Eau Claire Badger mills and Por-
teryille mills will reach 90,000,0O0-
about 30,000,000 more than the usual
cut.
The syndicate of Maine capitalists,
which recently consolidated the street
railway, the Dells Water Power Com
pany and the Brush Electric Company
in one corporation, known as the Street
Railway, Light q Power Company, has
had hard blow at the start. On the
| 18th inst, hot box set fire to the COM
! pany's power house at the Dells dam
and all the machinery was destroyed.
The damage is about $2o, 900, insured.
The Pulp and Paper Company S big mill
was only saved by its system of perfo-
rated pipes.
! CHARLES THOMPSON snatched roll OF
bills amounting to about S75 from
| farmer named Weber at Madison on
the LIST, and made off with it. He was
afterwards captured. Thompson is the
a checkered career. At one time he
was an engineer on the Milwaukee
| St. Paul road
A FEARFUL calamity happened at Mil
| Ter, Signorr d Co.'S logging camp, ON
[
Lake, on the 29th. The men who were
on the opposite side of the lake from
! the camp were returning to supper,
The first load came over safely In the
boat, but the second load was caught III
a heavy gust Of wind between the ice,
which upset them, and six men were
| drowned
JOHN UNDERWOOD, an old resident Oh
| Racine died at ST Tuke's Hospital on
the 9th, aged 50.
A TELEGRAM was received in Racine
on the 2Sth announcing that James
! White, an old Racine boy, now at Bull
talo, n. Y, had been killed.
The mystery surrounding the sudden
disappearance OF Robert Armstrong,
veteran Milwaukee painter, was cleared
up on the 9th by the finding Of his dead
body in vault in the rear Of his es-
adjustment on Michigan Street.
The Wisconsin Central's new bridge
across the Eau Claire River at thai
town is finished.
DISPATCHES from La Crosse state tna'
the lumber trade is good, with an III
creasing demand. The John Paul Lum-
Der Company has purchased the Dew
herst pine on the Black River, sup
posed to be about 49, 900, 900 feet.
IHE state is likely to be sued fora sec
ton of Indian land sold by mistake to a
lumber company.
A SOCIETY for the promotion of teen teen
meal science has been formed In MIL
Waukee.
Ed. HERBERT, of Bayfield,, and four
sWedes drowned in Lake Superior.
THOMAS SAWYER, a homesteader, was
found dead in the woods near Ashland,
where he had been caught by falling
! tree.