Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-10-04
BADGER NOTES.

which the farmer is compelled to pay.
Wr1rsE and Carr, arrested at La
Crosse for completely with sWlndleT P ad
mer. were held for trial i'll bail OF 9l,ooo.
NEARLY $1,000 was cleared by the
Catholic fair at Washburn.
TIE Ashland County potato crop is
several thousand bushels short.
ARTICLES of association have been hled
with the secretary of state by the Amer
lean ONYX Company, Of Milwaukee;
capital stock 100000; incorporates,
Charles A. Berthelet, George sylvester
ard George w. Wilson.
Mr.. PETER, of Washburn, found Har-
nv Marshall in his wife s room, ana sev-
eral shots were fired by both men with
little effect
MILWAUKEE Republicans nominated
Robert c. Spencer for congressman, anu
named their county ticket.
AT Ashland, on the Both, VIM: Gray
was found guilty Of robbing the on ~ n"d
States Express Company OF S3:UOo
money package on the Rhinelander
branch about three months ago.
D1rnp1cH KoyEMIER, a carsmith, was
killed at the stock yards, Milwaukee.
on the 3Oth. He went under an engine
which had run off the track to jack 1t
up, when the jack-screws gave way,
and the engine fell upon him and cut
him in two. The deceased was 30 years
old
EDWARD JEsKY climbed up in tree at
Madison, slipped moose around MS
neck, tied the other end to a tree ana
jumped. He was sixty years OF age
OCTOBER l Maj A. Belanger assumes
charge of the Colby House at Ashland,
having subleased it from George ID.
Harper, the present manager.
CHAs. DAGoN, Of Madison, has a
double" The two bear such close re-
semblance that both are getting into hot
water all the time.
ARTHUR A. MEGGErT, son of the Eau
Claire millionaire, and MISS Ella
Thrane, were quietly welded at Eau
Claire.
AT Milwaukee, on the 10Th, Frank
Rirkneder. aged 10, of sos Somers
| Street, was struck by an electric car,
and died few hours afterward.
ONE of the biggest schemes ever pro-
| iected in Madison has just become pub
| tic. 1t is a plan to boom the town as
summer resort and residence place, and
it is to be done by the building Of motor
lines around the two lakes and to the
surrounding country. Capitalists out
side the state are the principal parties
| interested.
PINE land operators in Wisconsin are
growing anxious as to the disposition OF
the Indian timber The contractors
would like to get back to the reservation
and clean up the best timber. The
Court d'Oreilles reservation Is pretty
well cleaned, but the others. which
compose the La Pointe agency, are we'll
timbered, and offer tempting plum to
the anxious contractors. Quite num-
Der who have logged there have consld-
cradle money at stake, which they
would like to get out
EDWARD JEsKY, a German, aged about
80 years, committed suicide at Madison
by hanging. He was found dangling
from the limb of tree in an orchard,
having climbed into the tree and
dropped after making all the necessary
arr angements.
HENRY MILLER, of Altoona, late of
Yokohama, has two Japanese swords of
wonderful steel and rare workmanship,
which are thought to be fully 200 years
old. One was used in the emperor's
palace, and in the hands of a powerful
man could cut mans head off at a
blow
w. M. PALMER, agency sWindler, was
sentenced at La Crosse to eighteen
months impr sonment and a fine of
5000. Linn, his brother-in-law and part
ner, who managed a soap and perfume
agency, pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced to sixty days and fine of $500
Whsle, of Council Bluffs, arrested for
the same class of swindling, had an ex-
animation before the court commission
er and was held under$ 81 900 bail. Carr,
of Winona, on the same charge, waived
examination and was put under the
| same bail.
CROWLEY, burglar, and Brown, a
horse thief sawed through the bars of
the La Crosse County jail, and but for
the vigilance of Sheriff Scott, would
have escaped.
THE circuit court docket at Eau Claire
is the largest known for years. There
are $50 civil and criminal cases.
WALTER K. FREEMAN is at Eau Claire.
and says he will never let up on Edison
till he gets his rights.
RECEIPTS of the Lake Monona Assem-
bly, for 1890 were $7,70804; disburse-
ments, 81 ,64O-32; balance, $6772.
GRAY, the express robber in Jail at
Ashland, wants trial now. He had
promised to plead guilty.
EVERY two weeks A. Bigelow & Co., the
Washburn lUmbermen, pay $1,000 to
their employees.
PosTOFFICE INSPECTOR PUICIFER has
been to La Crescent in search of postal
! relics. and was more than successful.
He secured quarterly report dated
December 81, 1857, one dated December
| 81, 1867, another December 81, 1877. and
fourth December 81, 1887, all made
| ont nv the San3A MON 1Ybo L,l -.