Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-08
BADGER NOTES.


between the cab and tender, looking
back. when he was struck by the pipe
of water tank, crushing his skull. Inc
fireman did not see the accident, ana
the train ran one mile before 1t could De
stopped. Doane was dead when the
train backed down to where the body
Law between the tracks. He was about
81 wears of age, married and had three
children. He had been an engineer
about year.
TIMOTHY Mccormick has been award
ed the contract Of furnishing the klm-
berly & Clark mill at Kimberly with
5000 tons of straw. The contract Is
J, worth $4,000.
BURGLARS cracked the safe in Villas
Follett's store at Co!oma, securing sew
eral thousand dollars worth OF notes,
mortgages, ETC., and gold watch.
A NEW opera house at Ashland is now
assured, the necessary subscriptions
having been secured. The building Will
cost, when completed, $l2o, 900.
H. N1EDECKEN & Co., of Milwaukee,
have been awarded the contract for
furnishing the state with paper the en-
suing TWO years by the state printing
commission.
CAPT. WILLIAM WILSON, a pioneer
lumberman of the Chippewa Valley,
and one of the founders of the Knapp,
Stout & Co. Company, died at his home
in Menomonee at the advanced age OF
/ IS years.
FRANK PIcKARD has resi- signed the city
attorneyship at Marinette to engage in
business at Chicago.
WAsHBURN has accepted plans for
new library building.
THE new Madison directory, just is
sued, contain $3.50 rames, and on this
basis the population is estimated TO ex-
coed 5000.
| A BOARD fence ten feet in height is
being erected around the new federal
building site at Milwaukee, which will
cost So, 400. Col. Watrous has received
/ notice that the fence cannot be used for
advertising purposes.
A COMPLETE train of fifteen freight
cars loaded with Milwaukee beer and
decorated with red. white and blue,
Grand Army banners, ETC., left MilYau-
kee on the night of the LIST for Wash
ington to supply the wants of the thou
sands who Will attend the Grand Army
! encampment there.
| The Rev. W. P. Ten Brock, of La
! Crosse. now in England, has received a
tender of professorship at the Fari-
history. It is position we'll suited to
the taste of Mr.. Ten Brock, and he may
decide to accept, although he dislikes TO
leave his parish.
! ALEX. MALCOLM, a prominent logging
contractor, died at Eau Claire after a
period of illness.
A HEAVY white frost fell in the vicin
ity of Marshfeld on the night Of the
night of the 3lst, causing considerable
damage to root and corn crops.
FIRE destroyed the Office, pattern
room and all the patterns and brass
castings of the Novelty Iron Works at
Ashland. The loss is estimated at fully
$4,000. No insurance.
c. w. HOPKINS, city assessor at Ash
land. was arrested at Duluth in COM
pany with Mrs. Williams, who formerly
lived at Ashland. Hopkins is 81 years
was made at the instigation of his wife.
TEN years ago Milwaukee barely sup
ported two inferior theaters. To-day
the city has one of the finest houses i'll
the country, and three others equal to
any of those of decade ago. In addi-
ton to all this, a number of Milwaukee
capitalists have inauguarated as
q supplement- to the indoor
amusements presentation of an out
door spectacle of the last Days of
Pompeii," IN which the lite, manners
portrayed by means Of pageants,
scenery. fireworks, etc. The stage in
cludes a miniature lake, and the am
phitheater will seat 10000 spectators.
The performances, which close with |
eruption of Vesuvius and the destruc-
ton of the city, began ON the LIST inst, I
and will continue until the close of the |
state fair.
DANIEL STEELE DURR1E, librarian Of the |
State Historical Society, died unexpect- |
eddy ON the 31st, although he has been |
quite feeble for some months. He was
born at Albany, n. Y, III 1919.
Nor dollar Of indebtedness hangs
over the Monena Lake Assembly
grounds. The Hon. WbMett S. Main |
was reelected president
MILWAUKEE coal dealers have given
notice of their intention cd raising the |
retail price another notch The fol- |
lowing item, from a, Milwaukee paper,
shows tbs result: "The cedar blocks |
used by tine city in paving FOND du Lac
Avenue are SO nice and clean that some
of the people living on that street con-
cluded to- use them for kindling wood. |
When the men who are doing the paw
ing came. to work yesterday morning
there wasen't enough blocks left to
play ninepins with. The contractor ap-
pealed to Commissioner Dunck, who
communicated wi tn bhe police depart
| ment, and in few minutes q squad Of
policemen and two patrol wagons,
started for Fond du Lac Avenue. A
call was made upon q number of citi-
zens. and they promptly produced the,
blocks wien they saw the officers. In,
an hour enough blocks had been recov-
cred to allow the work OF paving to be-
resumed"
GEORGE LENDERBAA, q carpenter about
81 years of age, dropped dead on the
side walk at Eau Claire, while on his
way to doctors office TO have his eyes