Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-12-03

IOpOIlCu JO Nc SNCCllCuL.
A HOUSE of ill-repute on the Peshtigo
Road, near Marinette, was destroyed by
fire. The inmates barely escaped with
their lives.
MIR. PEIDEAUX, superintendent of the
county schools of Sawyer County, has
been requested by the school board to
resign.
FIRE on the 2Sth near the Eddy mill,
Eau Claire, destroyed dwelling, barn
and three sheds, the property of the
Empire Lumber Company. Loss about
s., 800; insured.
A LOGGER employed near Ashland re-
Gently met with q peculiar accident
He fell, and in striking the ground a
piece of stick entered his mouth and
broke off in such a way as not to be no.
ticeable. One of his companions no.
ticed the man lying on the ground, and
discovered there was something in his
mouth. 1t seemed the stick closed the
air passage, and but for the timely aid
of his companion he would have sutfo-
Gated.
J. d. BELL, chief of police of Mari
nette, has commenced an action for Ii
bel against the Eagle Printing Com
pany on account of an article that ap-
peared in the Eagle October 10, re-
speeding the condition of Marinette
Avenue, which he alleges damaged his
character and reputation to the extent
of S. 900.
AN unknown man was struck by
Burlington engine near La Crosse and
instantly killed.
IGNATz WRESTLER, of Sun Prairie, was
found wandering about in demented
condition. He was conveyed to the
MENDOZA Insane Asylum.
A STATEMENT of the earnings and ex-
penses of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul road for October shows that the
gross earnings were So, 476,656 an in
crease of $570,S as compared with the
corresponding month of 1890. The OPP
Grating expenses were 81 1904 ,632, an in
crease of STA, 1852, and the net earnings
were 81 ,572 ,OO4, an Increase OF $780,
033. For the four months ending Octo-
Der 81 the gross earnings amounted to
$11, 246, 1923.
EDWARD MuNsK1, butcher, and an
old resident of Menomonee, committed
suicide on the Goth, by placing Win
chester rifle in his mouth and blowing
the top of his head off. Financial and
domestic trouble brought on intemper-
ance, and this is the supposed cause.
His wife was compelled to leave him
some time ago. He leaves family of
eight children in poor circumstances.
He was member of the Odd Fellows
and Sons of Herman.
THE directors of the Menomonee
Falls & Western Railway Company are
asking the towns along the proposed
extension for assistance. They con-
template pushing the road as far as
Beaver Dam the coming summer,
and possibly as far as Montello, and
eventually as far as Superior City; and
the road, when completed, will be
eighty-two miles shorter between Mil
waukee and Superior than any road
now in operation.
THE Grand Division of Sons of Tenn
perance elected ID. +. Gilman, of Eure-
ka, as their worthy patriarch.
JAMES RoRR, of Linden, Iowa County,
was found dead in the road, he having
fallen while returning home on foot
from Mineral Point.
A GYMNASIUM class has been started in
the Y. M. c. A. at Ashland. William
Sloan, the secretary of the organization,
il the instructor.
SPECIAL United States land agents have
been in Ashland since the opening of
the Omaha indemnity district, doing
detective work among those who have
field on the land Startling develop
ments are nromised. amnno which will
DE the arrest OF u prominent lumber
man, who has stationed settlers on some
of the choicest of the lands, with view
to obtaining final possession.