Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-07-27

were awaiting trial on serious charges.
Jailer O'Brien was badly bruised and
his escape is simply owing to the fact
that a revolver missed fire, A whole
sale jail delivery had been planned by
Harder and Guam. Jailer O'Brien had
taken Harder to the courthouse, where
he applied for lower bonds. When
they returned 70 the jail Harder sud-
denly threw his arms about O'Brien,
pinioning them 10 his side Guam came
to Harder's assistance, but the Jailer
fought them like q mailman. Finally
Guam got hold of O'Brien's revolver
and levelling it at the latters head
pulled the trigger. The weapon
missed fire and Guam then struck the
iailer with the butt end, cutting his
head badly. The prisoners then dragged
him into a cell and locked him in. Mrs.
O'Brien heard the noise and tried to
prevent the men from passing through
the outer door, but they overpowered
her and made their escape into the
woods. Before the other prisoners
could get out Mrs. O'Brien had locked
the outer doors and threw away the
keys. A passer-by heard the racket
and help was soon secured. A posse Of
men soon started in pursuit but SO far
they have been unable to find any trace
of Harder and Guam.
HERMAN PIsCHE, an employee of the
Dells mill at Eau Claire, was struck in
the face by belt and his nose brok-
en- and his cheek terribly lacerated.
ADAM JACoBUs, La Crosse constable,
was relieved Of 500 by d smooth young
man while riding in street car.
c. B. TIcKNoR, agent for the Wiscon-
sin Central Railway Company at Eau
Claire, who was arrested at Oshkosh
while visiting relatives on the charge Of
embezZlement. claims that the action of
the company was too hasty. He says
that he sold $500 worth of mileage
books on credit, and his cash was there
fore that much short He will sue the
company unless publicly indicated.
JOHN 2. FAzENI, farmer living about
one and one-half miles east of Genoa,
brought to La Crosse specimens of ore
taken from a bluff near his home.
Most of the pieces were iron pyrites,
but one of them bore several crystals Of
galena and gave strong evidence Of sill
yer. The latter stone was composite
and strongly resembled specimens from
the famous silver mines from Nevada.
G.. E. BLUME, az Ashland confectioner,
has made an assignment. The assets
are placed at 81 900. The liabilities are
not known.
| DETECTIVE SHEEHAN arrested two boys
at St. Paul in a freight car and locked
them up. They were sent to the work
| house for sixty days. They are William
Hughes, of Nortonville, Wis, and
George Hess, of Chicago. They started
for home from San Francisco on Sun
day, July g. and paid their fare part
way home, when they reached the con-
clusion they would beat their way
on freight trains. They crept into
car and hid themselves among
a lot of green bananas. To their horror
the car was sealed up a few minutes
after they entered it, and they had no
escape. Becoming hungry they ate a
lot of the bananas, which made them
sick, and induced awful thirst. Upon
arrival in st. Paul they were in thor
oughly miserable condition. They were
convicted on the charge of larceny and
CARRYING concealed weapons, each Of
them having pistol and mask in his
possession. They also had about $50.
In the case of Mrs. Barron against
the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis q
Omaha Company, tried at Eau Claire,
the Jury rendered a verdict the exact
purport of which, by reason of the
manner in which some of the questions
were answered, was dubious. Nomin-
| ally the verdict gave the plalnIllI 9o,2oO
damages if she was entitled to anything
at all Plaintiff having moved for
judgment and the motion having been
argued before Judge Bailey, the Judge
filed an order deciding the matter
against Mrs. Barron and in favor of the
railroad company.
THE filing of claims under the law
passed last winter repeating the law OF
| 1889 known as the Dane County drainage
law is complete. These claims aggre-
gate So, $685. SO. These claims will be
passed upon by the judge of the circuit
court and, as allowed, must be paid by
general taxation Of the people living in
the district which was to have been
drained, but which has not been.
THE appeal from Judge Larson's re-
fusal to appoint an administrator in the
| Qvale matter was heard at Eau Claire by
| Judge Bailey. He issued letters of adj
ministration to James f. Halsbury,
whose appointment had been asked for,
/ thus overruling Judge Larson.