Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-02-26
BADGER NOTES.

HE filing of claims at the Ashland
| land office began at , O'Clock P. NJ.
| PRAIRIE DU CHEN schools have been
re-opened. They were closed two weeks
on account of the small pox scare.
Two men are under arrest for the
murder of third man, at Grantsburg,
| Wis.
| PATRICK RICE, of Chicago, has sued the
Val. Blatz com pany, Milwaukee, for
commission which he alleges to be due
him for selling The brewery.
| FLORENCE COUNTY has paid nearly $500
for the destruction OF wild beasts since
its organization in 1882.
MILWAUKEE merchants do not like the
provisit of the state fair bill requiring
the city to contribute $4,000.
| LUTHERAN teachers of Milwaukee have
organized a society for the study of the
English language.
Mrs. r. Il. REMINGTON, of the town of
Fairfield, who went to Chicago recently
to have a tumOr removed, died from
the effects of the operation.
| SANFORD MCDONALD, the Ashland man
shot by an angry barber, will recover.
FORGER TyNGo was found guilty at
Madison of committing an assault on
the person of Emma Hanson.
THE clothing of little Swear daughter
of John Burns, residing two miles east
of Lynxville, caught fire during the alb
sence of her parents, and the child ran
| into her bedroom, setting fire to the
house. The little girl was burned with
the house and contents. An older girl,
who was absent when the accident oc
Cured, saved two younger children at
the risk of her life.
CITY ENGINEER BENZENBERG, of Mil
waukee, and Chief Engineer White
more, of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul road, have completed their work
on the plans and estimates for the new
viaduct across the Menomonee Valley,
between Sixth Street and Eleventh
Avenue. The cost Of the structure, in
Guiding the land damages, which the
city will have to pay, has been figured
out at $3.50 900 to $495 600.
TIE Milwaukee Athletic Society de-
cidcd to organize a stock company.
FIRE caused loss of $40, 900 at Schwab
& Sercomb's foundry, Milwaukee.
TIE Schlesinger Railroad has finally
been sold.
EAU CLAIRE is said to have lost $780,
COO last year by reason of unjust differ
entails.
TIE Illinois Steel Company increased
its capital stock to 500, OO0,0OO.
j. f. HEG was elected president of
the State Press Association.
TIE Peoples Theater, Milwaukee,
will be opened by the Blatz Brewing
Company.
FAST, kRAUs & Co., Of Milwaukee,
have been sued for an alleged infringe
ment of brand of flour by Duluth
| company.
ALDERMEN are talking of refusing sub
| urban residents police and fire pro-
| lection unless opposition to annexation
| ceases.
In barber shop at Madison is an or
ange tree bearing ripe fruit, green fruit
anG blossoms. 1t is of the dwarf spe-
cies, and grows to the height of about
| three feet The fruit when ripe is
about one inch and onehalf in diam
| eter, and is Of the average orange color.
THE Bass Island Stone Company and
the Prentice Company are each taking
quite an amount of machinery to their
quarries among the Apostle Islands.
| The continued mild weather has made
| the ice so thin as to render it difficult to
get among the islands this winter.
| Most of the quarries are already in OPP
Grafton, and are taking advantage OF the
recent cold snap to get their heavy ma
| chinery across on the ice.
WHILE working Oh the top of pile
of ore at the Illinois Steel Works, Mil
waukee, on the 18th, Ole Benson, a
Norwegian laborer, fell off and an in
slant later was crushed to death under
tons of iron which fell on him. He
was horribly mangled.
THE Socialist party is preparing for a
! state crusade.
TIE old officers of Milwaukee College
| were reelected.
BURGLAR WHITE has been remanded
for trial from st. Paul to the Eau Claire
authorities.
FARMER BAGLEY, near Eau Claire, filed
corn thief full Of buckshot, but the
marauder got away.
MADIsoNIANS are contributing to can
eel the Indebtedness of the Dane Coun-
| ty Agricultural Society.
EAU CLAIRE may be the new location
of the Normal School now at River
Falls.
SOMETHING like $3.50, 900 will be put
into new buildings at Eau Claire this
| year.
ACCORDING to some Of the evidence in
| the Ashland shooting case Frazier went
| to his house knowing that Mcdonald
would come there, and that he laid in
ambush for his victim.
FRED. WILKINS was reelected superin-
tendent of the Milwaukee County
| Chronic Insane Asylum, and his salary
increased to 81 800 year.
The brewery deal has been consum-
mated by which five Chicago breweries
and the Blatz Brewery, Of Milwaukee,
have been consolidated.
| ED who shot McnonolI at A sh-
| land, has been bound over in $1,000
bonds to await the result of the shoot
ing He went to jail in default Of bail
| Doctors say that Mcdonald cannot pos
sbly get we'll. He is the son Of the late
Lieut. Gov. Mcdonald, of Escanaba,
Mich. The girl who witnessed the
shooting as yet declines to make any
statement.
A NUMBER OF Lutheran school teach
! ers, of Milwaukee are about to organ
! ize a society in which the English lam