Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-05-14
BADGER NOTES.

a CROWD or trampS were making night
hldeous on the outskirts of Madison
with song and noise. They were drunk,
and the police attempted to arrest them.
they resisted, however, and serious
fracas followed, in which the thirteen
yagabonds nearly had the best of it.
The clothes were torn from the chief Of
pollce, and ne was quite badly cut up.
Eleven OF the tramps were arrested.
AUGUST kIINGBELr was thrown from a
sulky by runaway horse at Fall Creek
kllngbell got up. said laughingly he was
all right, walked short distance, sat
down on doorstep and fell backward
dead. 1t is supposed heart disease
caused his death He leaves a wife and
five children.
MARK SrRArFoRD, private Waterman
at Whites lumber ward, foot of Seven
teenth Street Milwaukee, was found
dead on the morning of the 18th, with
his skull crushed. From the position
OF the body it is thought that he leaned
too far out of window in the second
story of the building and fell to the
ground below. Stafford was a single
man and had no relatives in the city.
BuRGLARGES have occurred ut Ashland
nearly every night for week. Jos.
Blumberg shot at and wounded one
Saturday night, but he made his escape.
Tile demand Of John Erickson, of the
town of Brunswick, that the BODY of
his wife, who died several weeks ago,
be dislnterred and the stomach eX-
amlned for poison, has been refused by
the authorities. Physicians who at
tended the woman think that Erickson
Is half crazed by his wite's death, and
that his firm belief that she was poi
SnnnI y hn In 81 noft e. Il
that Erickson will himself dig up the
body.
AT New Diggings, Grant County. an
incendiary fired the saloon of McGiv-
ney Bros, while one of the proprietors
was asleep In the upper story, evident
~ with the purpose OF crematlng the
victim. The saloon was entirely de-
stroyed, but McIiivney escaped with
his life
THE programme at the Lakeside AS
sembly at Madison this season will cost
over $4,000, and will. it is said, be the
best entertainment of the kind ever
given.
ANTON JONAS, laborer on sand
scoW, fell into the river at State Street
bridge, Milwaukee, and was drowned.
The body was recovered and taken TO
the morgue IN the patrol wagon. He
was married and about 80 years old.
Two HUNDRED citizens of La Crosse, in
Guiding the city officers and the Board
of Trade, will visit Green Bay during
the month of June.
Dick COLLINS, of Superior, who was
sent to prison for five years for shooting
and wounding his wife, has been par
doned. He had been incarcerated since
August 10, 1888
THE ladies of Florence have resolved
themselves into Public Library Asso-
citation, with the following as their Off
GERS: President, Mrs. ii. ID. Fisher;
vice president, Mrs. Peter McGovern;
secretary, Mrs. s. I. Beattie; treasurer,
Mrs. G. {. Ohm.
THE body of Henry Aulfuss, crippled
veteran who had been an inmate Of the
National Soldiers Home for several
years, was found on the 10th submerged
in the water OF Honey Creek, near
Spring Meadow station on the st. Paul
road, a few miles east of Elm Grove.
His skull had apparently been hacked
to pieces by a Ratchet, and with hands
and feet tied together, the body had
been thrown into the creek, where it
WAS found. The authorities at the
Home were notified. and al once took
charge of it. The crime Is involved in
al
were obtained which may lead to the
detection Of the murderer.
DELEGATES from nearly al the singing
societies which will take part in tho
coming Spngertest of the Northwestern
Spngerbund arrived in Milwaukee on
the 9th, to look over the quarters and
select such for the societies they repre-
sent. They were received by Messrs.
W. }. Beers and j. Gorney. A COM
mers, participated in by all the mem
bers of the various local and sub-com-
mittees, was given in their honor in the
evening. The chairman of the eXecu-
tive, committee, Mr. Herring, acted as
toast master. President Charles Mayer
made a short address. and was followed
by a number of other gentlemen. a
dispatch from Max Hirschteld, of Min
neapols, the president of the bund,
delegates and visitors later on were
serenaded by the Liederkranz.
FIRE on the night of the Sth destroyed
the tinware mandatory of +. A. Walsh
& Co.. ut the corner of St Paul Avenue
and Thirteenth Street. The loss is es-
timated at 5000.
REV. JACOB Posr, one of the oldest
resident ministers in Milwaukee, died
on the Sth, ut the age of 50 years He
had been pastor of Perseverance Pres
byterian Church for twenty one sue
cessive years, prior to April |. 1890,
when he resigned his position on ac-
count of i'll health.
The first fifty copies of the Blue Book
have been issued.
AUGUST MEIER of Madison, recovered
Judgment for $500 against Hoven, Nor
gan & Co., for injuries sustained by the
fall of an icehouse wall.
EUGENE NrCHoLs, formerly superin-
tendent of the Madison water works,
has been made roadmaster on the Hi
nois Central from kankakee to Cairo,
Ill.