Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-13
BADGER NOTES.

foot, tied in chair by ropes passing
around his body and legs, and was muz-
zled to keep him from biting.
=, TOUR of the state has given State
Chemist F. S. Short many points about
adulterated milk He says that some
of the worst milk is not adulterated.
Milk from stopped COWS he especially
condemns.
A WOMAN, whose name is not known,
and one Bellesbach, hack driver, are
in jail at Eau Claire on the charge of
highway robbery. 1t is claimed by one
c. G. Forest, who formerly lived there
aud has just come back from Montana,
that he and the woman went out
for a hack ride and that in dark
place in the Putnam Park drive
the hack stopped and the driver got
down and demanded SIS for hack
hire, and that Immediately anoth-
er man came out of the bushes,
presented revolver at Forest,
and made him give up about $40, and
that the woman and the driver were
accessories and got up the plot. The
man with the revolver has not been
seen since so far as known. The woman
formerly appeared as an Albino in the
side-show and rode the elephant in
Forepaugh's circus parade. 1t Is said
Forest had 81 900 in money on his person
at the time. The woman is said to
have gone by the name of Alice Mel
nOtte.
A SAIL boat containing seven young
people from Milwaukee was capslzed on
PeWaukee Lake on the 9th, resulting In
the drowning of four of the occupants of
the boat. These were Albert and En-
ma Barth, aged respectively 20 and II
Of of Po VT
the Well-knoWn wholesale liquor dealer;
Martha Kindling, aged IS, daughter of
Louis Kindling, the cigar manufacturer;
and Bella Siegler, aged II, daughter of
Leopold Slegler, a cigar manufacturer
on Muskego Avenue. Those who were
saved were Lora Barth Bertha Kind
ling and Thomas Wright.
Miss BELLE TIsDALE is in Ashland
from Simcoe, Ont, looking for her broth
er Wilmot, from whom she has not
heard in several months.
THE arguments in the Watson will
contest were finished on the Sth, and
the court may reserve its decision to
September l.
THE Sturgeon Bay committee which
went to Marinette to look at q fire
steamer which belongs to that city,
with a view to purchasing it, has decld-
ed that the price asked, 81 200, is too
high.
THE Wisconsin General Hospital, at
102 and 104 Seventh Street, was formally
opened on the 10th, and on the follow
ing day was opened for the reception of
patients.
DANIEL c.. GURNEE, charged with GRIM
inal assault by 16-year-old girl, Hattie
Hanson, came up for examination at
Eau Claire on the Sth. The court de-
MED motion to discharge the prisoner,
but the case was continued one week to
enable the defense to get more evil
dence. Gurnee remains in Jail.
The Ashland office of the Western
Union does a larger business than any
other office in Wisconsin outside of
Milwaukee, handling an average of l 800
messages day.
NORTH LA CROSSE has a tennis club of
eleven members.
MRS CLARIssA r. PAINE, widow of the
late Justice Byron Paine, died at her
home in Madison on the 9th, after a
long illness Mrs. Paine was born in
Ohio in 1881 and was married to Judge
Paine, in gainesville, o., in 1854. After
their marriage they removed to Mil
waukee, and later came to Madison.
Judge Paine died twenty years ago.
SEt RETARY MOsLLEY. of the MOnona
Lake Assembly Association, has pre-
pared figures showing the total receipts
of the assembly this year, which are
nearly correct. The receipts from tick
ct sales were $5,397.34. The excess of
this seasons gate receipts over last year
was 81 ,O6S.55. The excess on rent of
tents and cots is about $500. The big
gest day this season, the day Talmadge
1ectured, the number of tickets sold was
6,537 and the day ingalls, spoke, 1908.
THE Wisconsin conference of the M.
E. Church will convene at Chippewa
Falls on September 16, Bishop John ii.
Vincent presiding. About $50 minis
tiers will be present.
THE pulp mill on White River, several
miles from Ashland, which has been
closed for several wears, owing to the
competition on the Lower Fox River, is
again to be placed in operation.
THE Bohemian Catholics of Prairie du
Chen are about to build church edi-
fee.
TIE Barron County fair is to be held
at Chetek September s, 8 and TO-
FREDDIE VAIL, Is years of age,
drowned in the river at the foot of
w dSuluSlOl pUlCcI. nll WduhCO, vi VIC
9Th. He was one of several boys who
were swimming. The body was recov-
cred and taken to the morgue. The ia
Their of the boy lost his oldest son by
drowning at nearly the same spot, a few
years ago. At that time the mother was
present and attempted to rescue him by
handing him a pole, but he was too
weak to reach it and sank before her
eyes. The terrible scene so affected the
mother that she died soon afterwards.
AT Ashland, on the 18th, William Wat
son. brakeman, was crushed by the
cars in the Wisconsin Central yards and
died early next morning. His remains
will be taken to St. Thomas, Canada, for
burial.
Miss CASSIE BIRD, of Madison, gradu-
ated with high honors at the Leipzig
Conservatory OF Music.
THE earnings of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul Road for the month of
July were $2,309, SOL, against s., 149, 067
for the same period last year, an in
crease of S160. 484. It's auxiliary line,