Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-06-25
BADGER NOTES.

Crosse, says the millennium will be
ushered IN next year.
AT O'Clock on the afternoon of the
22d VIM. Lovejoy. employed in the
Davidson planning mill at La Crosse,
while at work tightening belt, was
caught in the gearing and his leg torn
from his body SO it hung by few shreds
of flesh. The doctors think he may
live.
The Monona Lake Assembly opens
July 81. Among the attractions will be
lectures and sermons by I. De Witt
Tallmage and the Rev Russell H. Con-
we'll, d. D. Gen. George A. Sheridan
and Senator Ingalls,, of Kansas, will
speak, as we'll as DR.. Grandson, the
great colored orator from North Caro-
lima. Grand Army Day will be an at
tractive one, DR.. A. j. Palmer giving his
wonderful address entitled "Co. d, the
Die-No-Mores.
DIR. JAMES H. THOMPSON, for many
years leading physician in Milwaukee,
died suddenly on the evening of the
Goth at his home on Wisconsin Street, the
immediate cause of his death being
heart failure, although he had been SUIT
fering for some days with pneumonia.
THE Marinette High school has been
placed upon the University accredited
list.
IT is rumored that Frank A. Flower
and Geo. H. league, will soon obtain
control of the Daily Superior Leader.
Mrs. Cora Erickson, wife of farmer
living near Eau Claire, disappeared. A
few days afterward her husband found
her living at hotel in that city with
James Mcbride. The woman and Nc
Bride were arrested and lodged in the
county Jail.
LOCAL capitalists are to start a pearl
button factory at Eau Claire, to be IN
operation before fall.
In the superior court Fred Weber, a
clerk, was given q verdict of $50 in his
suit against John Baldwin, at Milwau
kee. Weber was riding on his bicycle
on Mason Street when one of Baldwin's
teams forced him into sprinkling cart,
wrecking his machine and badly injuring
him. The suit raised the question as to
a bicycler's right to the use of a thor
oughfare.
The Rockland, La Crosse County,
branch of the Farmers Alliance num-
bers 100 members, making it the second
largest branch in the state, although
Rockland is a small place in point of
populations.
IL
Crawford County, are still specializing as
to the probable fate of young James
Dawson, who disappeared on the first
of the month, while returning from Bos-
cobel where he had sold two hogs. The
bridgeman at Boscobel remembers that
two men in wagon crossed
the bridge. The horses came home
next morning, and the wagon with the
harness and the articles purchased in
town, with the exception of key OF
beer, were found by the roadside about
half mile above the bridge. There is
no suspicion that Dawson was intoxlcat-
ed, as he never drank to excess. Foul
play is suspected.
MAY TEMPLEToN, the woman charged
with the abduction of Jennie Bradshaw
to Minneapolis for immoral purposes,
waived examination at Eau Claire, and
was bound over for trial, bonds being
fixed at $500.
TIE Eau Claire Free Press says the
transformation of the Eastern Alaska
Mining Company, of that place, result
ed from the impression among heavy
stockholders that the sum Of $50, 900
had not been placed where it would do
the most good, and that the old officers
may be sued for the amount, which is
said to have been used for the purchase
of new mine.
HUMANE AGENT ARTHUR A. MEGGErT
instituted the first case the Humane So
ciety has had at La Crosse since it was
organized. Mrs. Ellen q. Keller was
arrested for cruel treatment of an
adopted baby boy less than years old.
It is alleged she picked the child up,
and, in fit of passion, dashed him
down on the porch and otherwise NAL
treated him.
THE Eau Claire Linen Company has
cbinery from Dundee, Scotland. A car
load of flax was also received from st.
Mary's, Ont.
AT the alumni exercises of the Uni
versity, at Madison, Howard L. Smith,
of the class of 1881, delivered an grafton
on 1.-THE Limitations of Civilization"
He argued that mans intellectual pos
sibility was limited by his physical
capability.
AN oil portrait of the late Geo. H.
Paul, of Milwaukee, has been hung in
the office of the regents of the State
University.
meeting of Ashland lumbermen
on the 18th steps were taken for the
purchase of a fire tug to protect the
| lumber and dock interests on Che
quaInegon Bay. The docks alone are
valued at So 000, 900, and a tug is essen
tlal to their proper protection.
Ex-Gov. HARRISON LUDINGToN died at
| his residence in Milwaukee on the 18th,
after an illness dating back to June s.
On that date he suffered partial stroke
Of paralysis, and this, acting upon sys-
| tenn that was run down and worn out
by the experiences of long life, Gull
minated in his death.
THE Rev DR.. Isaac L. Nicholson, of
Philadelphia, was elected bishop Of the
| Milwaukee diocese of the Episcopal
Church on the 18th by majority of
two clerical and one lay vote. Eleven
ballots were taken, the same number as
| had been necessary in the selection of
the late Bishop knight three years be-
fore.
FoRTY-Two societies, located in differ
ent parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa
and Minnesota, will participate in the
coming ssengerfest at Milwaukee.