Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-01-22
BADGER NOTES.

DIPHTHERIA has been raging in and
about Cross Plains, Dane County, for
several weeks. Five children in the
family of Theodore Dresser, farmer,
have fallen victims to the dread dis
ease, and it is feared two other children
will 90. The schools of the place have
been closed for weeks.
OVER $4,000 has been subscribed by
Eau Claire Democrats to the new daily
paper scheme.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER and not Mr..
Cleveland. will be invited by the senior
law class at Madison to deliver the an
nual address to that body.
AT the annual meeting of the Congre-
gatlonal Church at Hayward, Thos. Nc
Donald was reelected trustee for three
years, and Horatio Flagg was elected
church clerk.
EAU CLAIRE officials would like to get
Jack Mccoy after the Denver police get
through with him for the trivial offense
of killing man. Mccoy is wanted in
Wisconsin for counterfeiting.
JAMES SHERWOOD, of GlenWood, WIS,
aged so, went to bed on the night of the
10th complaining of pain in his side.
His wife awoke in the night and found
him dead. The neighbors thought he
was in trance, but physicians called
applied a powerful battery without ef-
feet. Heart disease was probably the
cause. Deceased was a son-in-laW OF
John Jackson, Of Eau Claire.
MILWAUKEE curriers' won the Raflin
medal at Chicago.
FIVE boys broke through the ice at
North Avenue bridge, Milwaukee, but
were rescued.
PETER FLANAGAN was killed at the
Milwaukee flushing tunnel.
ASHLAND will put good ball team into
the Northwestern League.
THE Rev. John Ralph, pioneer in
Wisconsin Congregationalism, died at
Rochester, Wis.
The Schlesinger syndicate has secured
all the money needed to carry on all its
enterprises.
THE State Horticultural Society meets
at Madison February 2.
THE lifeless BODY of Walter Patterson,
aged %, well-connected young man,
who has been wild in his habits, was
found in the hallway of an Eau Claire
clearinghouse ON the night Of the 18th.
There was a bad bruise on his forehead.
1t is not known whether he fell down
stairs Or was the victim OF foul play.
THE La crosse city council has voted
to issue bonds to the amount of O,O0C
for new city hall, thirty to be OF 81 goo
each, and twenty of $500 each.
ECKE Bros. general store, at Hilbert,
was robbed of raZors, knives, silver
ware and fine revolvers.
THE scheme to take land from Wood
Clark and Marathon counties and form
a new county is being agitated.
Gov. PECK appointed his son George
an aide-de-camp on his staff.
WISCONSIN people in Washington are
very active socially.
LA CROSSE COUNTY authorities are drill
ing for an artesian we'll at the insane asy-
lum, and will go down 500 feet.
CT lRLEs ARMSTRONG caused the arrest,
at Ashland, of a man named John A.
Armstrong, no relation, for running
away with his wife.
CHEF OF Police BYRNE, of La Crosse,
has piece of continental paper money
made at Annapolis, Md, in 1910. 1t has
the inscription on the back, ut is death
to counterfeit"
Thomas BARDoN, in the circuit court at
Ashland, recovered against John +.
Burton ct al, a Judgment in the sum of
SS7 ,79S.07 and certain property, lnclud-
ordered sold to satisfy the Judgment.
THE Paint River Iron Mining Com
pany met at Ashland and elected ]. H.
Stack president.
EDWARD EvERsoN ran his arm against
a planer in an Eau Claire mill and may
lose it.
WAUzEKA, Grant County is big enough
to be village, and will be Incorporated
as such.
Ten of the seventy county school SUI
perintendents of this state are ladies.
the highest salary paid is 81 200. Only
five counties in the state pay that much,
viz Columbia, Manitowoc, Marathon,
Vernon and Milwaukee.
GEORGE HILES has associated himself
with some Chicago capitalists for the
purpose of operating a line of "car-
cites" in Milwaukee over Grand Ave
nue., East Water Street and Farwell,
and possibly some South Side streets.
The cars, which are step between
street car and an omnibus, will be fur
nished with conductors, and charge a
fare of 5 cents. Having wheels like an
omnibus, they will run independently
of car tracks, and stop wherever hailed.
THE Painters and Plumbers Unions
of Milwaukee will demand the adoption
of the eight-hour day May /. The Ma
sons and Bricklayers' Union will, on
April I, ask that their minimum wages
be fixed at IS cents al hour. The Hold
carriers Union will demand an increase
from % to q cents an hour, beginning
April /.
Two men who committed a burglary
at the residence of Max We'll. Cass
Street, were arrested inside of twenty
four hours.