Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-11-02
WISCONSIN NEWS.

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volyed is the southeast quarter of sec
ton Z, township 40, north, range s,
west. It lies within the limits OF the
Wisconsin Central land grant. DAILY
made homestead entry Of land on Feb
uary %, 1891, the same date the lands
we're thrown open for settlement. On
March IL Mills filed contest against
Daly's entry, alleging that he had APP
piled February q, earlier than Daily,
two days prior to the opening OF the
land for entry. Mills went upon the
land December 5, 1890. The decision
was in favor Of DAILY.
RUNAwAYs are frequent, since the in
PRODUCTION of the electric cars at Fond
du Lac. A horse driven by Mrs. Col
vim, of that city, became frightened at
a car and ran away, throw
ing Mrs. Colvin out Of the buggy. She
was slightly in ured. Another accident
was that which occurred to Mr.. Rohlfs,
an old gentleman, whose team was
frightened by a car and ran away,
throwing Mr.. Rohlf onto the pavement
and cutting cash in his skull, and Sc
verely spraining his wrist. Patrick
Quinlan narrowly escaped injury by
similar accident.
A. V. PITTS, of Chicago, travelling col
lector for the J. [. Case Company, of
a Burlington east bound train at Omaha.
His right side was paralyzed and he was
render ed speechless. lie was conveyed
to hospital in Omaha.
BERT BRADLEY and II. J. Thornton,
awaiting trial at Merrill, on charge of
burglary, made application to plead
guilty before County Judge Comstock
and were sentenced to one year each i'll
the penitentiary.
PAUL KEMELER, who was injured in
the accident at the Normal School at
Oshkosh, will probably recover, al
though he is not yet out of danger.
THE Ashland Sulphite Fiber Com
pany, of Ashland, intends to add large
brick addition to their plant.
In small garden patch on his farm
on Madeline Island, Bayfield, County,
Thomas Stahl raised about twenty bush
els of potatoes that woull do credit to
the agricultural exhibit at the Worlds
Fair. Every one is large and perfectly
sound, many Of them weighing over
two pounds each, and some weighing
as high as two and three-quarter
pounds. In the same garden were some
lutabagas which also attained an enor-
nous growth.
JAMES PATTERSON, Of Racine. was ar
rested on charge of having assaulted
Nellie Sewell, of Mt. Pleasant, on the
night of October Is. He was held on
examination took place before Justice
Wentworth. The attorney for the pris-
oner made motion for change of
venue on grounds Of prejudice. The
| Justice OVer-ruled the motion and heard
the case.
The six men arrested at Beloit on a
charge of robbing freight cars were
brought to trial, but owing to the fact
that Marshal Appleby. wasn't certain
whether he arrested them on the llll-
nois or Wisconsin side of the line, the
cases were postponed. Two of the men
were discharged and one, William
Howes, was re-arrested on charge Ct
burglary.
BECAUSE the tramp looked cold and
hungry Mrs. Tollen, of Evansville, gave
him supper and allowed him to sleep
in the house over night. The next
morning on rising Mrs. Tollen found
that the tramp had disappeared with
two revolvers and gold watch belong
ing to young man who was boarding at
her house.
WILLIAM NJ. JOHNSON, of Mt. Pleasant,
| donated land to the Mt. Pleasant Cream
cry Company, with the understanding
that it was to be used exclusively for
creamery. Since that time the creamery
has been made into a private dwelling.
| Now Mr.. Johnson demands the return
of the land and has commenced suit for
ejectment.
JUDGMENT by default was given Isabel
R. and Robert Beck, of Madison, heirs
of Valentine Beck, deceased, in their
suit against the Brooklyn Life Insurance
Company to recover the value of a poll
cv for 81 900 held by their father in the
company.
JOHN PATTERSON, station agent of the
Chicago & North Western road at Platte
vile, died after a lingering illness. He
built the first stationary engine manu-
featured at Galena, Ill.
AN attempt was made to wreck
freight train mile west of Middleton,
Dane County. A tie was placed on the
track, but the cowcatcher pushed it off.
F. M. KNAPP made an application for
the appointment of a receiver of the RAJ
cine Wrench Company, of Racine.
Judge Fish appointed D. &. Jonas.
WILLIAM CURRY, who was found guilty
of burglary at Madison, made an I'M
successful attempt to escape from the
county jail
Mrs ELIZABETH S1MMs an old resi-
to an insane asylum.
i Miss MAMIE PARSONS. of Depere, died
at La Porte, Ind, where she had been
visiting relatives.
A FARMER living near Western Union
Junction was swindled out of 5000 by a
Chicago sharper.
THIEVES carted off two wagon loads of
potatoes from the farm of Homer Allen,
near Oshkosh.
Mrs. JANE EVANS, an old resident of
Racine, died at her home in that city,
aged 73 years,
A YOUNG woman giving the name of
Mime. +. |. Thomas, who took up her
residence at Eau Claire recently and adj
vertised to give music lessons, mysteri-
ously disappeared a week or ten days
ago. Her mother arrived at Eau Claire
three days ago from her home at Esca-
naha Mich where she has consider