Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-09-17

the Milwaukee < Northern Railroad
company for the first week in Septem-
per = were poo, l59; increase, $3, 1876.
-, LIE great ID. j. Spaulding farm near
WatertoWn, ). D., has been leased by
II. A. Bright, an Eau Claire lumber
man.
CAPT. BALLARD, of the Griffin Rifles at
Eau Claire, who has resigned, will prob
aoiy be succeeded by Lieut.. Percy Coch-
rave
THE milk dealers of Milwaukee have
oeclded to raise the price of milk
cent after Oct l. The principal reason
given is the higher standard required
by the health commissioners. There is
an ordinance before the Council regu-
latlng the sale of milk and prescribing
2, stan dard. and the milk dealers assert
mat 1t would be impossible to attain
that standard without better and more
expensive feed.
The resignation of George Raymer as
member of the Board of University
Regents, which had been in the gov
ernor's hands for nearly two weeks, has
been accepted, and his successor, the
Hon. Breese j. Stevens, of Madison,
appointed. Stevens is an attorney.
BUCKwHEAT and corn crops in the
vicinity of Osseo. Trempealeau County,
will be total failure, owing to the late
frosts.
CUDAHY BROS, of Milwaukee, were no.
titled by Secretary Rusk that they have
been placed on the list of houses which
are TO have government meat inspect
or.
The total numberof persons who have
used the Milwaukee natatorium from its
opening lii January, 1890, to August /,
1891, was 2l8, 249, an average monthly
attendance of about $4,000.
ALIMoNY is hard road to travel or at
least Peter Valid, Of Madison, thinks so.
He was ARRESTED the other day for re-
fusing to comply with a court commits
sioner's order to support his wife pend
ing the decision of the court in the di-
Torce proceedings against him.
THE report at Madison that Miss An
toinette Abel, young and favorite So
prano singer OF the Capital City, Was
likely to lose her eyesight, proved
groundless.
e. L. BRoCKwAY, Of Wisconsin, has
been appointed examiner of timber
lands on the White Earth Indian Reser-
walton.
PROF. FRANK w. BARKER, principal of
the Florence Free High School, died in
that city on the Sth, after an illness of
five days. He was about so years old
and unmarried. Prof. Barker taught
the Florence school the past two years,
and had been re-engaged for another
year. He was the principal of the
Galesville High School for several
years, and ranked among the foremost
educators of the state.
AN assay of the ore taken from the
Old Samson mine at Plummer de-
veloped about 60 per cent. of pure iron,
making it Bessemer.
THE logging firm Of Joseph McKash 4
Co., of Florence, has failed.
MANY of the Indians on the Bad
River reservation are harvesting the
wild rice which grows in that region.
1t is expected that fully 1000 bushels
will be harvested.
PRAIRIE DU CHEN Catholics laid the
cornerstone of another church.
A FEED mill is to be built at Port Wash
ington by Frank Schumacher.
MAJ.J. M. BuNDY, of the New York
Mail and Express, is very low in Paris,
after stroke of apoplexy. Maj. Bundy
was for many years connected with the
Milwaukee press.
THE Dane County fair opened on the
Sth under most suspicious circum-
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