Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-10-01

Christ closed at Milwaukee on the 25th
| win lecture by Mrs. Persis L. Christ
| ian. OF Eureka Springs, Ark, on "Wom-
en- In Mission Work y A resolution in
1aVor of cloing w. nsin saloons was
| adopted.
MAY IEMPLEToN, the 17-year-old girl
VINO abducted 14-year-old Jennie Brad
| shaw from Eau Claire to Minneapolis,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the
reform school until she is q. Nav
lempleton's real name is Scottman, and
her nome is at Brainard, Mimi.
LIE residence Of William Neitzel,
1l9 Meinecke Avenue, Milwaukee, was
entered by sneak thieves and about
S4OO stolen.
AT Ashland, on the 25th, an iniunc-
ton was served by the school board on
tne city treasurer to restrain him from
taking $4,000 out of the school fund
ana putting it into the general fund, as
ordered by the mayor There is quite
d sensation over the fight.
IHE earnings of the Chicago, MilWau-
| kee d st. Paul Railway Company for the
third week In September were 1874, O97 +:
increase, sos, 494. The earnings of the
Milwaukee Il Northern Railroad Com
pany tor the third week in September
were $40, 534; increase, 81 1872.
MRS. EMMA l.. TRAYsER, wife of a
former Milwaukee printer, committed
suicide by drowning in the lake at
Union Park, Chicago.
DIR. NICKERs T. ATKINSON, chief in
spector at Chicago of the Bureau of
Animal Industry of the Department of
Agricultural, ex-state veterinarian and
| for years familiar figure in Wisconsin
politics, died at the National Temper
ance Hospital in Chicago on the oath.
Mrs. HERMAN KGpLINE, of Augusta,
was suddenly attacked with fit of in
sanity few days ago, and tried to end
her life by taking pair of scissors and
cutting ugly gashes in her wrist and
throat, the latter being cut through into
the .Wlnd-pipe. A telegram was dis
| patched to her brother in Chicago, who
took care of her.
A RAILROAD bridge near Potosi, ninety
| feet long, on the Chicago, Burlington &
Northern Railroad, burned on the go,
delaying all trains. The passenger
trains will run over the Chicago, Mil.
waukee q st. Paul River Division track
between La Crosse and Dubuque until
| the bridge is rebuilt.
INFORMATION is received which con-
firms the report of proposed changes on
the st. Paul road, the purchase of the
| Lawler pontoon bridge at Prairie du
| Chen, and the running of through
| traffic over the Prairie du Chen division
into Northern Iowa, Southern Minneso-
ia and South Dakota. 1t is said that the
| Lawler bridge was purchased by the
st. Paul Company for large sum not
mentioned and stipulation that one of
LAWYERS sons should be given a posi-
| ton with the company DIT a comfortable
salary.
AT the session of the Sovereign Lodge,
l. 90. F., at st. Louis, Portland, Ore,
! secured the next encampment, with SO
votes against IS for Atlantic City, n. j.,
and Is for Milwaukee.
JONATHAN i. BURNuAM died on the
oath at his home in Milwaukee, aged
about "A years. Mr.. Burnham was one
| of the pioneer residents, having come
| to Milwaukee in 1913 from Plattsburg,
| N. Y, his native place. He began the
manufacture of bricks in 1914 at the old
| Rogers yard, at the foot Of Thirteenth
| Street, in company with his brother,
| the late George Burnham. Up to the
time of his death Mr.. Burnham was a
member of the firm of j. l.. Burnham d
Sons. His two sons, Clinton and John
F., were associated with him in the
| business. He was one of MilWaukee's
| most substantial citizens.
THIEVES entered the residence Of 5. g..
| Herbst, corner of Wellsand Fourteenth
streets, Milwaukee, while the family
were at supper and secured about $500
worth of diamonds. The jewels were
| taken from an apartment on the second
story, and the thieves effected their
escape before the robbery was discov-
| cred.
A uIGHwAYMAN held up John Shafer
and Thomas Yelinck, at Prairie du
Chen, and made them give up all their
| clothes and money.
lT is said that the death of Dan Dris-
| coll at Ashland will occasion the first
| test of the Dodge legacy law in the
state He willed his property to Catho-
| lie Church charities within the past three
months. 1t is not known yet what steps
| will be taken. Driscoll was unmarried.
FOUNDATIONS have been laid for a
new library building at Wauwatosa by
| the Harwood Library Association. The
site chosen for the building is tri-
angular tract of land north of the
depot. The building will be completed
| this fall.
CHARLES +. HAAsE, wood and coal
| dealer of Milwaukee, dropped dead of
| heart disease in his office on the 23d.
| He was about 60 years OF age.
A Michigan Family Poisoned.