Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-06-29
WISCONSIN NEWS.

IRE in session dt -4oilidil,l anu epeIC
seyeral days on historle Madeline Island,
where still remains the hrst Congre egg
t;anal church built in the state. The
s 80 will include addresses by some
q 'eeoIoinent speakers, including the Revs.
S*si4h Baker and George ?. Merrill, of
f$nnpapolis. A Boston tourist party is
- on the way to Ashland to celebrate
q event as the plymouth Rock of the
Wpst." John D. Davis and ex-senator
5awes are among the number. A large
Int has been erected on the island and
Il ia expected to have a two weeks seS-
Han summer school of philosophy.
lens JoHANNsoN SAGMo, the man who
il away a few weeks ago with his step
@ughter, Mrs. Carrie Erickson, of Eau
Slare, was taken to Grantsburg and ar
@ioued before Judge Olson. He plead
81 guilty and was given one year in
hate prison.
Tim plant of the Northern Manufact-
njng Company, at Ashland, was de-
afroTed by fire. Three residences in
lie Immediate vicinity were badly
#orcbed. The loss on the plant will be
bout $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
q THE Eau Claire County Board at a
&bncial session voted $4,000 bonds for
#ate normal school. The vote was FL
. ).
1 THE Kaukauna Sulphite Fiber Com
bany's mill at kaukauna, owned princi-
bally by n. B. Brokaw, caught fire in
3he woOd-rOOm on the afternoon OF the
23d inst, and was destroyed. There
as great apprehension at first that the
digester had not been blown off and
here were fears of an explosion like
HAT at Menasha number of years ago.
In about half an hour, however, the gases
Were heard to escape and everyone
was relic ged. A large amount of pulp
GOOD around the mill was saved. The
las is estimated at from $40, 900 to $780,
10 with $37 800 insurance. tits thought
NE mill will be rebuilt. The origin of
HE fire is unknown but it is supposed
ID have caught from some sulphur.
Il THE annual encampment of the Sons
IL Veterans came to successful close
"A Ashland on June %. The most inn
fortant recommendation was by the
itual committee to the effect that the
delegates to the next Grand Encamp-
tent urge the adoption of three-de
bee ritual Following the report came
LIE election of officers, which resulted:
N. c. Winters, of La Crosse, command
Dr.; II. Wood, Superior, second vice
eommander; P S. Moore, kewaunee,
Ilnior vice commander; William La
meyers, New London, G.. H. Quayle,
BAYFIELD,, and G. W. Hoaglin, Oshkosh,
district council; Joe M. Chapple, Ash
land, delegate-at-large to National En-
fampment; G. 8. Parkhill, Thorp, dele
eate. The next encampment will be
sheId at Eau Claire.
THE special election to fill vacancy in
the office of mayor of Milwaukee caused
DIV the election of p. j. Somers to Con-
gress resulted in a victory for John &.
il och, the Republicacan candidate, over
6arrett Dunck, Democrat.
sM MAYOR IVES, of Marinette, has de-
dared that he would approve no saloon
license unless the applicant had paid
300 therefor. The saloon men have
aiken legal counsel and have been adj
Used that they will be subject to arrest
al any time unless possessed of a license,
and the most of them have decided to
Dav the amount secure their license,
and then sue for the $500 which they
Dlink they should not pay.
81 AN apple tree on the premises Of s.
ID johnson, of Marnette, is an object
Of curiosity this season. About three
Get from the ground a short branch
fhree inches long has grown, out, upon
Nhich Is cluster of three apples equal
81 size to any of those upon the tree.
JAMES kAPINosE has brought suit
eeainst the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul Company for S25, 600, a "fying-
skitch' having mutilated his left arm
I'D fractured his collar bone at a cross
IIhg near his home in Mazomanie.
s. DURING the recent forest fires in
Northern Wisconsin twenty box cars
Do seventy-tive ears of cedar belong
1hg to the South Shore road We're
burned at Sanborn.
81 OWING to the erection of their new
4cademy, the customary commence
hent exercises of Edgewood Villa,
Madison, have been omitted this year.
Miss Rosa PAULY, an Eau Claire girl
was riding a bicycle when she collided
with a street car and received a few
painful bruises.
The annual Methodist Episcopal camp
meeting of the Ashland district is in
Session at York Center.
q The body of the man Leonard, who
Suicided at La Crosse by jumping off a
steamer, was found by Nelson Breed, a
Rrmer residing near that place. The
discovery of the body was made in a
3eculiar manner, and, Mr.. Breed says,
as the result of dream. After retir-
sng a few evenings ago Mr.. Breed says
l.e fell into heavy sleep and dream ed
pat he stood, ON the Homer trestle
watching a steamer come down stream.
rs the boat came nearly opposite him
he saw an object wash up to the surface
"A the river which he at once recog-
MlZed as the body of a drowned man and
ntuitively knew that it was the man
N leonard who had leaped from the
Meamer Daisy. In the morning MIR.
Breed secured boat and roWed to the
i oint seen in his dream. He had no
poner reached the place than the body
Washed against the soat, and making 1t
Rst he towed it ashore.
IuE Sturgeon Bay Advocate is author
~ for the statement that Mr.. Decker
XlIl surely complete the railroad
{hrough that vicinity which was recent
Il commenced. Operations have been
nspended on account of the strlngency
~ the money market.
LIE State University alumni has de-
2ded to establish $500 scholarship;
ii ): Gregory, of Chicago, was elected
XreSldent of the AlImn: Association; l..