Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-06-22
WISCONSIN NEWS.


scape from drowning a few days ago.
They We're fishing on Spread Eagle
Lake and in throwing the anchor over
board the boat was capsized. Mr..
Kingston, who luckily was a good swim
mer, managed to keep his companions
head above water until assistance
reached them from the shore. Mrs.
Warren was conveyed to hotel as she
was suffering from nervous prostratlon
Mrs. MELCHIoR Fox, of Eau Claire,
has offered reward of $500 for the APP
prehension and conviction of the per-
son who murdered her husband at that
place about ten days ago. Eau Claire
County will probably offer an addi-
tional 5000.
JUDGE john r. BALTzELL, of Madi-
son, died at his home in that city at the
age of "a years.
THE police authorities at Eau Claire
claim to have clue to the murderer of
Melchior Fox.
Gus NEWMAN, a resident of Wash
burn, died on board train near Bay
field. He had been suffering with
typhoid fever and was at a boarding
house in Washburn. The proprietor
evidently did not care to keep him and
had him put aboard train by two men.
The conductor supposed it was lame
man and his condition was not known
by the train hands until the train
started. His wife lives at Bayfield, and
has been trying to get divorce from
him.
BURGLARS entered the residence of
Herman Specht at Prairie du Chen and
stole $l1Oin cash and three gold watches.
The thieves evidently made their es.
cape in a yawl down the Mississippi
a
dence was also stolen. 4
THE stock Of the demoralized Lappen
Furniture Company, Milwaukee, APP
praised at something like $4,000, was
purchased at sherif''s sale by Gimbel
Bros, of that city, for $40, 725.
Mrs. JOANNA VIM, of Madison, was
struck by a runaway horse and SO badly
hurt that she died in few hours.
THE 16-year-old son of N. G. Strout, a
La Crosse merchant, was drowned while
bathing near that city. The boy could
not swim and was taken with cramps.
1t was the boys birthday.
THIEVES entered Oscar Linberg's
shooting gallery at La Crosse and stole
$25. Two young men named Patrick
Kerrigan and Samuel Vanderbilt have
been arrested on suspicion.
Mrs. J. n KELLOGG, a La Crosse
woman, while attending wedding re-
ception, fell down stairway and was
seriously injured internally.
FRED. TEiLMAN, a wellknown La
Crosse business man, expired suddenly
at his home, aged IS years. He had
been about town as usual and Ayas APP
parently well man. The heat at that
place was intense and it is thought he
suffered a partial sunstroke. He was
well known in Western Wisconsin hav-
ing held number of public offices.
THE following were elected orators in
the senior contest to be held next year
to determine the Wisconsin Universty's
representative in the Northern inter-
at Madison in May: M. X. Reilly, r. N.
Rienow, Helen Kellogg, Winnifred Case,
L. kaunberg, II. r. Dockery and A. x.
Smith.
WORD has been received at Marinette
that Charles Johnson, a Swede, died at
Beaverton, Ore, recently and left $1,000
to his daughter, Frieda Charlotte John
son. He stated before he died that
they had formerly lived at Marinette,
but that he left that place few years
ago and had lost all trace of his daugh-
ter,
The strike of carpenters at Ashland
for the eight hour day has been aban-
doned. The men will return to work
under the ten-hour system.
A YOUNG man giving his name as r. J.
Cole entered the police headquarters at
Minneapolis and gave himself up, say
ing that last fall he robbed his room
mate in the Wilbur House in that city.
Cole says his companion had $l6o, which
he carried in his trousers pockets. One
night Cole got up and took $50 of this
sum. The roommate did not miss it,
and after staying with him for two days
Cole left him and went to Phillips, Wis,
where he lived since that time, spend
ing portion of the winter in the woods.
Conscience troubled him, and at last, he
saws, he had to confess his guilt.
JOHN DAWSON, of La Crosse, has filed
an application for the position of col
lector of internal revenue for the West
ern District of Wisconsin.
THE report sent out from Eau Claire
that the pearl button industry of that
place was killed was without founda-
ton. The report gained ground from
the fact that the Eau Claire Pearl But
ton Company was absorbed by the
Badger Pearl Button Company, of Eau
Claire, the original enterprise, which
intends to enlarge it's plant and employ
an additional fifty workmen.
ATTACHMENTS aggregating over $4,000
have been served on A. C. Probert, pro-
prietor of the Bank of Washburn, which
closed it's doors last week.
The United States district court at
Madison has opened the June term.
Several important criminal cases are to
be disposed of, among them that against
A. A! Cadawallader, the Superior bank
err, charged with embezzlement, who fled
to South America after his indictment,
but was recaptured. A new trial will
be held in the case of the Indians ke-
since and Moneypenny, accused of the
murder at Boneash and his squaw, Bes-
segishigokw on the Bad River res
ervation, the jury having disagreed at
the previous trial The first case taken
up will be that of Taylor Gordon, in
dicted for assault with intent to kill
Regis Belle on the Lac Court d
GRIZZLIES reservation last summer. Both
parties are half-breed Indians.
JOSEPH RUPP, a Madison youth, has