Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-02-05
BADGER NOTES.

AMONG the latest of the numerous
positions to which Senator Spooner has
been assigned is place on the inter
state Commerce Commission.
AN Ashland County jury acquitted Jo-
seph Venora, who was tried Tor the
murder of Edward Mccarthy in Gile
saloon last July.
RHvINHoLD ScHoTr, the Madison
wrestler. has made match with Du-
buque, Ia, wrestler.
WHILE coasting at Florence, I2-year-
old Jimmy Mckenna sustained proba-
bly, fatal injuries.
VOTERS of the town of Knight, Ash
land County, voted to build town hall
at Epson.
A PYrH1AN Lodge of colored men has
been installed at Milwaukee.
THREE companies have been added to
the Milwaukee fire department..
THE Milwaukee Common Council en-
dorsed the bill to extend the city limits
one-h half mile on the south and one mile
on the north.
c. M. CoTTRIIL was reelected presi-
dent of the Milwaukee Merchants AS
ISOLATION.
A SHOCKING accident near whitehall
on the ID resulted in a father killing
his step-son. Jorgon Nelson, farmer,
who was chopping wood, and several
boys, including his step-son, we're run
ming about and playing near him. Sud
denly young Nelson dashed IN front of
his father, whose descending axe came
down on the unfortunate boy, who re-
ceived the full force of the blow. The
axe cut a frightful hole In the boys
head, killing him instantly. The father
is Frustrated by the terrible accident.
SENATOR SpooNER will probably spend
several months in Europe before set
Ting down in Milwaukee.
BRICKLAYERs and stone masons of half
a dozen Wisconsin towns have formed
kind Of general union.
MINING men outside of the Schles-
niger syndicate talk of building another
railroad on the Menominee range.
Col. KING was elected president of
the National Guard Institution of Mil
Waukee.
DR.. MARKS, of Milwaukee, has been
reelected president of the State Board
of Health.
EDWARD DENNY aged IS, fell heavily
on the sidewalk at Eau Claire. lie Will
die.
ELMER GRAHAM and William Lenz,
young men of Eau Claire, We're arrest
Su Oh u NaIIallI Clstt SAAdS Nn0An ~"
having failed to provide for their lam
lies They pleaded not guilty and the
cases were adjourned.
THE La Crosse Kirmess is to take place
in April, under the direction of lady
whose extensive knowledge OF spectac-
ular and realistic beauty is said to excel.
T. r. KIRKLAND, representing Mil
waukee syndicate, yesterday bought
tract of land in the mining region OF the
state of San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
Mrs. JOHN BLACK, of Milwaukee, died
very suddenly from heart failure on the
3Oth.
THE Z. P. Allis Company, of Milwau-
kee, has secured contract to recon
struct the east side Of the Washburn
"A' flour mill at Minneapolis. 1t is in
tended to increase its capacity from
1880 to $500 barrels. The contract
amounts to about $l25, 900. The Allis
company recently completed $4,000
contract at the Columbia mill in Mime
apolis.
"JACK THE RIPPER" La Crosses ia
nous fighting cock, was killed in bat
lie the other day with Minnesota bird
Jacks" head was pierced by the steel
gafts of his opponent, and quite sum of
money went with the result.
HARRY HUBBARD and Albert Hansen
had row in La Crosse saloon, and
Hansen felt two or three inches OF cold
steel in his ribs. Hubbard is under $500
bonds and Hansen is in the hospital
DR.. ADAMS, of Johns Hopkins, deliv
cred the biennial address to the State
Horticultural Society.
EAU CLAIRE RIVER loggers will bank
so 600, COO feet of logs if they get enough
snow.
DIpHrHER1A caused the closing of the
Winona, Mimi, schools, and La Crosse
is in fear of the contagion.
THE Fuller & Warren Stove Company
will begin operations lin Milwaukee
March l.
SALooNKEEPERs of Milwaukee have
formed a protective association.
ST. MARY's hospital, Milwaukee, has
received supply Of lymph direct from
Berlin.
A HEAVY snow fall is reported from
several points in Northern Wisconsin
LA CROSSE newspapers state, in view
of the arrest of Mrs. Willetts, that
dance house dives flourish in Northern
Wisconsin az lawlessly as ever. A bust
ness man Of the city is quoted as fol-
lows: "You need not tell me there are
no sucn places in Northern Wisconsin,
for l have seen them. just outside Of
Merrill, about two miles from the town,
are three or four of these places, and
they are all of them surrounded with
eight board fences higher than the fence
around the fair grounds in this city, and
then there are gates fastened with locks,
and the places are regular prisons"
RUBLEE A. COLE, the Ashland criminal
| lawyer, has gone to Washington to argue
| the Graham kabeas corpus case before
the supreme court.
PRESIDENT SMITH, of the Milwaukee 4
Bee Line road, says the line can be
built from Superior to Milwaukee at
cost of s., 100000.
MINDoRo, La Crosse County, has
branch of the Farmers Alliance, with
H. B. Fuller as president. There are