Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-16
BADGER NOTES.

COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS WATRoUs has
received instructions from the govern
ment to advertise for bids for re moving
the old buildings from the site of the
future government building, block %,
Milwaukee. The bids are to be opened
July 80, at 2 p. NJ, and then forwarded
to the government architect at Washing
ton, who has power to award the con-
tracts. This is thought to indicate that
the work of laying the foundation for
the new building may be begun this
year.
J. w. P. LOMBARD was banqueted at
Marinette by $50 business men previous
to his departure for Milwaukee. One of
the pleasant features of the evening was
the presentation to him of very ele-
CANT gold watch, valued at $500, and set
with diamonds, rubes and pearls.
MRS A. G. PECKHAM, of Ashland, will
receive fourteenth share of a $3.50 900
fortune left by an uncle who died re-
Gently at Lockport, n. Y.
HENRY, an Swear old son of Herman
Glinke, who lives at the corner of Clark
and Dousman streets, Milwaukee,
drowned on the 18th while bathing in
the river above the dam. Several boys
of his acquaintance were near him
when he ventured out too far. He
called Tor assistance, but before the
from view. The police were notified
4 and began to search for the body, which
4 they found four hours later.
MARY MUNDT, aged ID years, was
B crushed to death by the elevator at
Ferneke q Bros wholesale confectiOn-
8 cry, 222-224 East Water Street, Milwau-
kee.
II A wELL-DREssED young man who came
y to the Republican House, Milwaukee,
Il shortly after O'Clock on the night of
the 9th and registered as ''W. H. Aid
III rich, Chicago" shot and killed himself
in the room assigned to him.
THE high bridge across the Kickapoo
81 River near La Fargo collapsed while S.
" j. Paul was driving over it, but Mr.. Pau
escaped apparently unframed. His
81 team, which was fast in the timbers,
& was badly barked up, but received no
serious injuries.
The mechanical engineering depart
0 ment of the State University has recent
Nj ly received the gift of fine dynamo
% from the National Electric Company, of
VI Eau Claire. 1t has a capacity Of thirty
Ell incandescent lamps and Is of superior
81 workmanship throughout.
THE State University regents have
adopted plans for the proposed armory
@ building on the condition, however, that
in them. The architects are Con over ~
# Porter, of Madison. The structure is to
@ be three stories high including the base
0 ment with dime nsions of 1OOX20O feet.
VI 1t is to be constructed of red brick with
8 red sandstone trimmings. The base
ment will be used as the armory proper,
and the first floor will contain the drill
hal and several offices. The third Will
@ contain a base ball cage, and shooting
& 10y Il poo
architect firm of Ferry Il Glass, of Mil
# waukee, have prepared plans for the
dairy building to be erected at the uni
versity, but they are not completed. 1t
is estimated that the building will cost
81 1926 900, and the heating and cooling ap-
paratus nearly $4,000.
M GEO. II. DANIELS was reelected chief
81 of the Eau Claire fire department.
The La Crosse Daily Press issued
81 handsomely illustrated special edition
q on the Fourth.
On the morning of the 9th DIR. F. H.
y Bodenius, the Madison health officer,
& were arrested by the sheriff Of Sank
VI County on charge of shipping con-
q tagious diseases The warrant was
y sworn out by the father of the young
man who died at Alderman recently Of
81 diphtheria. after being sent to that
81 place in a box-car. The gentlemen ar
rested Immediately retained an attor-
ney, will waive examination, and the
I'd case will come up in the circuit court.
ID MICHAEL REGAIN, of Madison, was SEN
q fenced by Judge keyes to one year in
& the state prison for robbery.
n CHARLES G. DEWITT, a Grand Rapids,
Mich, man, has got himself into trouble
by impersonating an internal revenue
81 officer at Florence
q TIE largest muskallonge ever caught
NJ in the Sturgeon Bay waters was cap
tured by Henry krause, of Hammond,
Il Ind. The fish tipped the beam at thirty
# nine and q half pounds.
81 OFFICERS of the Southeastern Wiscon-
sin Teachers Association were elected
as follows: President, IL. l.. Terry,
a Lake Mills; first vice-president, c.. II.
81 Sylvester, Whitewater;' second vice.
81 president, Arthur Burch, Milwaukee,
secretary, w. S. Axtell, Beloit; treas
urer, Supt. Agnes Worsley, Sylvania;
III official reporter, J. II. Gould, La Ike &c
81 neva: executive committee, Prof. s. Y.
ID Gilman. of Milwaukee, for three years;
81 D. D. Mayne, TT. Atkinson; Mary j.
Gillian, Milwaukee: James A. Sheridan,