Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-02
BADGER NOTES.

has begun at Fargo, \. ID. Re mIngtOn'S
lawyers attempted to introduce plea of
insanity, but the judge would not permit
it. Remington also stated that he had
been placed in dark, damp cell in La
Crosse and confession forced out OF
him.
WILLIAM Do1G, of Dundee, Scotland,
as putting in the new linen machinery at
Eau Claire.
Mrs. J. NJ. FLOWER, formerly of Madi
son, has been appointed member of
the Chicago Board of Education.
THE crack shots Of Co. C, First Min
nesota Infantry, of st. Paul, want to
shoot a match with those of Co. E,
Third Wisconsin Infantry, of Eau
Claire. The st. Paul men will either
come to Eau Claire, or are willing to
have the Eau Claire boys go to st. Paul,
or Will make it a telegraph match.
w. ID. Fox, the weil-known landlord
of the Cameron House, La Crosse, was
married on the 29th to Miss Mary Kin
dale, an estimable young lady who has
been for some time employed III the
dining-room Of his hotel.
THE Wilbur Opera Company has been
secured for the opening of the new Len
ner Hall Opera House, at Marinette, on
July Is to Is.
TIE financial statement of the Chica-
go. Milwaukee & st. Paul road for the
month of May was given out yesterday.
1t shoWs gross earnings of 81, O97 ,547, an
increase as compared with the same
month last year of S97 ,293, and net earn
lngs 500, 433, an increase Of S57 ,9Zl.
MIKE L0oNEY. q miner, fell 200 feet
down shaft at Ryan option, near Hur
ley, and was instantly killed. Another
fatal accident occurred at the Ashland
mine, Gus Johnson, q SWede, being
struck on the head by a falling timber.
ROYAL AVER, one of the oldest settlers
in Sank County, died from the effects Of
a fall upon a hay-Iake.
Mrs. J. M. FLOWER, formerly of Madi-
son, has been appointed a member Of
the Chicago Board of Education.
TIE Florence News reports that hun
dreds of trout are WantOnly destroyed
in the Pine and Brule rivers by blast
ing.
TREASURER SAVAGE, Of the Wisconsin
Fair Commission, has made arrange
ments for plat for the Wisconsin build
ing. He says: Immediately on the
west Of the park entrance is located the
Wisconsin site, Il plat consisting of 225
feet front by ITO feet deep, taclnga small
Enclosed lake, and separated from the
lake by a boulevard"
HORSESHOE ISLAND, near Eau Claire, is
offered by the Daniel Shaw Lumber
Company as a site for the new normal
school.
WILLIAM SMELL was struck by wild
freight on the c.. B. & n. early on the
morning of the 26th in the suburbs of
Prairie du CHEN, sustaining badly
fractured skull, internal injuries and
confusion of the body that will undoubt-
eddy prove fatal.
Mrs. Cora EDRINGToN, the Eau Claire
County farmers wife who ran away
with James McBride is in Jail at Eau
Claire unable to get bail. She begged
her husband, on her knees to take her
back, but he refused.
SECRETARY OF STATE CUNNINGHAM has
published the fish and game laws in
pamphlet form.
FRANK CLAUDE, of La Crosse, is abed
from the effects of spider bite. The
poisonous insect stung him under the
knee and caused his leg to swell nearly
double the size.
THE partly completed new armory of
the Eau Claire Light Guards, Co. |,
Third Infantry, which is to cost Sl5,0 900
when finished, was opened on the night
of the 25th with great eclat. Adjt.-Gen,
Doe, Mayor John IRE, Gen. Griffin and
others delivered addresses. and after
wards there was a bail and supper.
Mayor IRE has presented a hand
some flag which floats over the summit
of the tower, 100 feet from the ground.
On the forenoon of the 25th, at Christ
Church, La Crosse, the Rev. Bishop
Whipple, of Minnesota, ordained to the
diacOnate George Herbert Ten Brock,
son Of the Rev. w. p. Ten Brock, of
La Crosse. The church was crowded
with friends of the young man, who IS a
fine scholar and has promising career
in his chosen profession. A reception
given Bishop Whipple IN the evening
was very largely attended.
AN envious Milwaukee paper says:
"Burdocks ) feet high are cut in the
streets Of Madison"
A coRoNEn's jury found that Patrick
Mclaughlin, who was killed while
crawling across trestle near Hubbard,
Columbia County, came to his death
through his own fault.
SECRETARY REEVE, of the State Board
of Health, has issued the thirteenth an
nual report of that board. 1t contains,
besides the regular features of the re-
port, several interesting papers on SAM
tary subjects prepared by prominent
sanitarianS.
GERrIE kENNEDY, 16-year-old Ash
land girl, was arrested as she was about
to start for st. Paul with T. II. French,
a brother of Murderer French.
A FREIGHT train was wrecked Tues
day morning on the La Crosse Division
of the St. Paul Road, at Duplainvllle,
where the St. Paul and Wisconsin Cen
trail tracks cross. 1t was regular
freight, No. IS, southbound, and the
locomotive and eighteen of the thirty
six ears composing the train went into
the ditch.
TIE recently organized La Crosse
Iancers is the only company of its kind
in the state, with one exception, the
Milwaukee Light Horse Squadron. 1t
is proposed 10 make the organization
permanent. and about twenty-five have
consented TO remain in it.
RICHARD FIELDING, a st. Louis travel