Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-07-05
BADGER NOTES.


Manager Lift. Mr.. Lit says he will
probably appeal the case to the supreme
court
/ DIPHTHERIA is epidemic among the
Germans at Fall River, twelve miles
northwest of Augusta.
/ THE large stock barn of A. w. Law
renee, on the outskirts of Sturgeon Bay,
was consumed by fire on the LIST. All
the stock was saved. The barn was
valued at 81 900; insured for 81 900.
| THE Milwaukee pension Office paid
out nearly $6,000,0o0 the past year.
| MILWAUKEE cracker concerns will Join
the Western combine in that trade.
SERGT. CHAs. A. REED. who has been
on duty at the signal station at La Crosse
a little over a month, having been trans
ferred from Vicksburg, died at the local
hospital after brief illness. His re-
mains were forwarded to Carrolton, n.
j., for burial.
| MILWAUKEE and Chicago parties have
bought 100 acres of land in the town of
Lake.
THE labor commissioner finds very
few children illegally employed in Wis
consin.
The State Board of Normal School Re-
gents at its annual session elected Of
fcers as follow: j. H. Evans, of Platte
Vile, president; S. M. Hoy, of Osh-
kosh, vice-president, and w. II. Chan
der, of Madison, secretary. A good
deal of routine business was transacted,
and reports of committees on appoint
ments during the year ratified. There
was nothing done of any special import.
The State Board Of Charities and Re-
form met on the LIST, and accepted the
plans submitted for jails in Dodge and
Monroe Counties. Some other routine
work was accomplished.
SENATOR SPooNER has introduced an
amendment which will make it possible
to 90 on at once with the Milwaukee pub
lic building.
JERRY NJ. KESNEY was elected captain
of the Milwaukee First Light Battery.
THE option for the purchase of the
Milwaukee & Northern Railroad has eX-
pred
EDWARD BOWMAN, of Clinton, Ia, lost
one of his feet by falling under the fast
mail train at La Crosse. Dan Bauvor,
of La Crosse, fell under street ear,
and was SO injured that one Of his feet
had to be amputated.
AT Madison, on the Goth, n man
named Loberg, aged about IS years, was
found dead in his room. Prostitution
The State Labor Bureau has compiled
for the wears 1888, 1856, 1887, 1885 and
1889. The total factory loss by fire in
the state during this period was So, 49,,
476.5S. The loss for each year was:
1SS5-Sll5, 46S; 1SS6-S66l ,75O; 1857
Sis, 002 81; 1SSS-SSl4, 1901; 1SS9-Sl,-
1l7,065.97. The heaviest losses were
distributed through the following indus
tries: Beer and malt--S560, S90,6 con-
fectionery and steam bakeries-Sl0S,-
5G0.33; flour and feed-SlOO, 800; furni-
ture-Sl69, 1873; lumber, hath, shingles,
ctc.-Sl ,.6j.l35.7S; machine shops, iron,
and brass foundries-$23O ,S43.09; paper
1900; sash, doors, blinds and planning
mills-$227 ,352.773.
ETHEL GARDNER, a miss of IS, joined
the Salvation Army at Eau Claire
against her fathers wishes. On the
2Sth her father went to the army S meet
ing and demanded his daughter. The
army formed Il square around the girl,
and the female captain, Halleluiah En-
ma, screamed, "Gou can't have her; we
want Ethel for Jesus" But the angry
father dispersed the army, seized the
girl, and took her away. In the melee
the female captain claims to have been
out a warrant for GARDENERS arrest for
assault and battery.
THE temperature ut La Crosse was 81
by signal Office reports and about 100
earth level, the hottest of the week. a
plaSterer named Myers, overcome by
the heat, went under a shed for shelter
and was found soon after dead. Joseph
Struh, dealer in cheese, from Dodge
Vile after travelling about tow III day,
fell from a chair at the City toCel at 5
p. NJ. He was taken to the hospital and
died before g.
TWENTY cases of sunstroke were re-
ported at Milwaukee on the 18th. Two
were fatal in the city, and there were
two fatal cases at Wauwatosa.
JoHN GooDRlCn, man of 56 years,
who lives on Thirty-sixth and Wells
Streets. lust outside the Milwaukee
city limits was shot and fatally injured
in somewhat mysterious manner on
the night of the Goth. Lizzie Goodrich,
his daughter rs years of age, was ar
rested and taken to the station, pend
ing the further developments of the
case, which, it is thought, may show
that she fired the shot.
JOHN DoRsCIIER, janitor at the Wash
burn Observatory, Madison, suffered
paralvtic stroke from lightning in a pc
culiar manner, on the 10Th. He was
seated in front of his house talking with
couple of visitors, no rain being fall
ing at the time, although the SKY was
overcast A sudden flash OF lightning
Knocked the three men down, and
Dorscher was found to be paralyzed in
his entire left side. 1t is thought the
paralysis is the result of induction, as,
had spark struck him, it would have
killed him Immediately. The case pre-