Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-12-20
BADGER NOTES.

HE body of Albert Mueller, team
ster employed by Coke Bros, of Mil
Waukee, was found in his barn at 4
O'Clock on the morning of the 10Th.
Mueller left his wife in the afternoon,
ana she supposed that he was spending
the evening in saloon near by. Whe1
ne had not returned at midnight,
search was made and the dead body
found hanging in the barn. No cause
Tor the suicide is known.
JANET, the 6-year-old daughter of
Roger {: Spooner, ex-consul to Prague,
died at Madison on the 18th of diph-
liberia. There are seven more cases in
the city. There are five of these cases
IN one family.
MILWAUKEE has a lonesome case of
smallpox, the first in nearly two years.
JACK HOFFMAN,, of Eau Claire. car
ried John Mcclellan in wheelbarrow
over every street on the North Side, to
pay an election bet.
SINCE Ashland was incorporated as a
city they have been tinkering at the
charter. At Madison, next session,
further changes will be made.
Miss GRACE RAwLEY, of Madison, who
a year ago, married Arthur Camp,
banker OF Oxford, Neb, and three
| months later eloped with st. Louis
drummer, was again married at the
home of her parents in Madison, on the
18th, this time to her first love, Chas. S.
Miller, a student of the State University.
THE amount of pensions paid at the
Milwaukee agency by Capt. i. E. Pond,
for the week ending December Is, is
$459, 1876; a considerable increase over
the corresponding week of last Septem-
Der.
WHEN II. H. Hayden, of Eau Claire,
left Washington, after Il trip to the
Spooner-Taylo Hayden gold mine in
North Carolina, he borrowed Senator
Spooner's new overcoat. After his ar
rival at home a sneak thief stole it from
a clothes line on Hayden's premises,
wore it to a dance, and finally traded
the senatorial toga to a bartender for a
few drinks: SIS and a REFER. Next
morning the police recovered the coat
and arrested the thief The coat was
sent back to Mr.. Spooner.
MILWAUKEE physicians are discussing
the propriety of declaring diphtheria to
be epidemic in that city. There are
more cases reported to exist than at
any time for years.
Z. II. BRoDHEAD, one of Milwaukee's
wealthy and prominent citizens, died at
his home in that city on the 18th, at the
age of 81.
On the 18th inst. the firm of P. A.
Gross & Co., wholesale milliners, Mil
waukee, discovered a shortage in the
books of Emil T. Wolff, their book
keeper, who Immediately disappeared.
Next day he committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head.
The English Lutheran Church, of the
Redeemer, situated on Sixteenth Street,
| between Grand Avenue and Wells
STREET, Milwaukee, was dedicated on the
| 18th. Rev. William X. Prick is the pas
tor.
THE Madison Democrat announces
that an additional passenger train will
be put on the st. Paul road between
that city and milwaukee,, in the course
of a few weeks, probably about Janu-
airy |.
VIM. SMITH, bartender, attempted
| suicide at the Milwaukee central police
station.
GUSTAV J. ORTIZ, a commercial travel
err, committed suicide by shooting. at
Milwaukee.
THE Ashland County Board has at last
passed resolution offering the court
house site of eight lots for considera-
government building.
IT is said that Senator Spooner is con-
sidering whether to take the vacancy on
the supreme court bench.
A MAN named Tomsvie accidentally
shot himself in one Of McCrossen's
| camps at Giles. Ashland County The
| injuries. though serious, are not fatal,
and with good care it is thought he will
recover.
THE contest for speaker of the Assem-
| bly, is believed to be mainly between J.
| J. Hogan, of La Crosse, and Ed. keogh,
of Milwaukee.
RICHARD TRACY, charged with murder
in Ashland County, was acquitted.
JACK MEEHAN was arrested at Ashland
charged with not properly caring for his
horses. BY a jury, however, he was
found mot guilty"
THE sale of state lands has been COM
pleted The total sale was 300 acres.
The commissioners state that the aver
age per acre greatly exceeded their ex-
pectations. The total amount received
has not vet been computed, but it will
average So or Whereabouts to the acre.
Lumbermen say that an average of 81
per 900 feet stumpage was bid, but the
commissioners doubt this. The highest
price paid was $50 per acre, and several
tracts in Washburn County sold for
over $50 per acre. There was an at
tempt among buyers to form pool, but
outsiders spoiled the combine.
Ex-CoURT CLERK WELLINGTON, of Mil
waukee, has returned from Denver, and
SAYS his retention of 81, 200 was simplya
mistake.
BARRON COUNTY is shaken to the center
over the row between Rice Lake and
Barron as to where thu seat of govern