Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-09-07
WISCONSIN NEWS.


forcible possession Of the new school
building now being erected at that
place, dispossessing the contractor, the
Minnesota Stone Company, OF Minnie
apolis, the architect having condemned
the work being done. The contractor
will take the matter into the courts.
Meanwhile the city has possession and
will probably go on and complete the
building which is Of brown stone and
viii cost 100000
THE Racine Land and Improvement
Company has begun suit against Michael
Hanley, of Racine, and Roberts Bros,
| withheld on the sale of the Walker
property, west of Racine. Hanley, as
one of the incorperators OF the com
pany, sold the property. He claims
that he sold it at $500 per acre, while
! the company claims he sold 1t for S40O
per acre and is holding back the bai-
ance of S6,032.
THE Board of Public Works at Racine
| has awarded contracts for over $4,000
worth of sewers, which means employ
ment for large number OF the Unen-
ployed laboring men in the city. The
| city treasurer is selling 900 sewer
bonds to pay for sewer work.
SUPERVISOR A. J. BEUHA, of La Crosse,
was shot and seriously woundad while
helping himself to wild grapes on farm
at Dresbach, MINI. He was not aware
that he was trespassing until he saw the
farmers wife run towards him with q
horse pistol.
Miss PATTERSON, young woman from
| Tennessee and Miss Florence Hawkins,
OF Lawndale, who have been spending
! the summer at Lake Geneva, went in
swimming. Miss Patterson got beyond
her depth and was sinking when Miss
Hawkins went to her aid. The former
clasped the latter by the waist and both
would have drowned but for the prompt
assistance OF Stanley and Arthur Mids-
ley, two boys aged II and II years re-
spectively, who swan to the girls and res
cued them as they were sinking the sec
| Ond time.
GEORGE A. MARKHAM, of Independ
ence, nephew of Rear Admiral Mark
ham, who was in command OF the Brit
ish ram CamperdoWn when she rammed
the battle ship Victoria off Tripoli sew
eral months ago, was i'll Eau Claire a
| few days ago at a convention OF Good
| Templars Mr. Markham said q letter
from the Rear Admiral to his brother
at independence expressed cOnsldera-
bic displeasure at the result OF the
court martial and the belief that the adj
| mlralty would reverse IL.
w. H. KELLEY, a member of the
Board of Public Works of Racine, has
been requested to resign by Mayor Case
! and several aldermen. He Is charged
with having let employees of the city do
private work in digging his cellar and
hauling away the dirt and that the city
paid for the work.
Four or five masked men tn rev
| stones at the house Of Chris. Brinkman,
farmer, on the Hurricane tract in Grant
| County, and when he appeared pre-
scented pistols with demand for his
money, asking where he had put the
$3.50 left him out Of his fathers life in
surance. He gave them 81 and his
watch. Two arrests have been made.
MICHAEL w. DEGAN, Of Madison. hiss
sued the Chicago & North Western Rail
way Company for $50, 900 damages for
an injury to his foot, which was caught
under the wheels in the yards at Madi
son the night Of July u, 1889.
A RACINE woman who was in Chicago
last week claims to have seen James
| McLaren, the missing eX-clerk Of court
| his home about three weeks ago and
nothing has been heard of him since.
JAMES BRENNAN was arrested at
! Rhinelander and taken to Green Bay
upon a charge of stealing cattle. Being
unable to furnish $1,000 bail he was re-
handed to jail to await his trial.
THE Marinette School Board has es
tablished rule that a person must have
| two years experience in teaching be-
fore they are qualified for a position as
| teacher in the Marinette public schools.
VERGo ScHoYEN, Madison young
man, has been arrested on a charge of
larceny. He is also accused Of adultry.
He was held for trial in bonds Of 81 900.
EAU CLAIRE lumbermen are having
considerable difficulty in rafting logs
down the Chippewa River owing to tne
low water.
JOHN WILSON, resident of Chippewa
Falls, committed suicide at Mime
apolis by taking dose of poison. He
was about IS years of age.
BURGLARS entered the jewelry and no.
ton store of Theodore j. Meir, of Ra-
cine, and stole 500 in cash, five gold
and silver watches and eighteen gold
rings. Entrance was gained by forcing
a rear door.
Two Racine young men fought duel
with oars in boat for fair damsePs
hand. One of the youths was knocked
senseless and left on the beach to re-
cover, while the other one walked off
with the girl.
FoUR well-known La Crosse young
people were the principals in a roman
tic double marriage at the Worlds Fair
a few days ago. They were Miss Annie
Taushe and Louis Smith and Miss Lena
Beckel and Bert jerks.
Mrs. ANNA B. orr, a physician, who
died in the Mendoza asylum last March,
confessed prior to her death that she
had robbed the American Express
Company's Office at Madison Of $1,000
twenty-five years ago, for which Grim a
man named Douglass, who was the
agent at that time, was made to suffer
disgrace. She said that she was called
TO attend Douglass sick wife one night