Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-05-25
WISCONSIN NEWS.

scribed towards a fund for new Y. NJ
A. building at La Crosse.
w WASHINGTON WO0DARD has c Omn, 49,
suit III the Dane County circuit CONT 81 15S5|
the estate of F.. 7. sherman, deceased &l3
OF the town of Windsor. Messrs. Woof3a4&|
ana sherman were partners in the sf7Y&I
business. Sherman died a little more 182
a year ago and when the estate came Sa3{
the probate court for settlement Wood@r3
filed claim OF 5000 against it, clair0fnS
that this amount is due him on the part1nrs
ship account. Mr. sherman's heirs co,,}2&5
his claim.
MARTIN BrcuoLn, OF TIA Thirteenth &x|
enue, milwaukee, met instant death N6&
meath the wheels of an electric car of {3I|
Racine Street and Forest Home Avenil|
line. The accident occurred near the co..
of Forest Home and Eleventh aveni544
Bucholtz being run down while trvina Il
cross the tracks in front of the car SN5
blame attaches to the motorman
AT Eau Claire the cost of arc-lirh fi0<
dropped from 81 10 to 20 cents lamp,
THE new pulp mill at Ashland will Id +
aoperation by the 18th of July. 1t will ~
bout 100000.
NJ. w. TERwILLIGER. one of the ASSIGN IL
of the suspended bank, of Oregon d.
County, makes a rather unfayorabe rene
The assets ofthe bank are S34, 33 and III
liabilities $3l 1857. But of these ass
SIS, 444 are deposits in the suspended Colll IT,
bia Bank, $4,000 in bonds of the associs 81
concern, the United States Loan q TrlN
Association, OF Chicago, and SIS, 600 more IS
the same bonds deposited by Dwiggins n
GJaTbuck against a certificate of depoSf
The assignees place little value on the
bonds, although they receive assurance frdn
Chicago that everything will come out so Is
to pay 100 cents on the dollar.
THE nine farmer fishermen from the tovx
of Mcfarland, Dane County, who were r.
their cases continued with the purpose II
fighting the charge, changed their MIN
and plead guilty. In view of the fact tl&'
they were not regular fishermen they WEI
allowed to plead to the lighter charge &
having the fish in their possession and We
fined $40 each.
JOSEPH SHELLY, the man recently arresta
at Ashland on a charge of selling bogj
watches, was bound over to the next term &
the circuit court in $500 bonds, which w&
furnished.
Eau Claire, received SIS bounty money IA
six fox whelps he had killed while huntinl
for trailing arbutus.
ANGUS MCNICAR, a metal worker for al
Eau Claire electric company died ut lid
home in that city after lingering illness
MARINETrE is to have a new system i
sewerage. The contract has been let to
Port Huron, Mich, firm for $4,000.
THE jury in the damage suit of Mrs
Emma Anderson against the Omaha Rail-
way Company at Ashland returned verI
dict awarding the plaintiff 5000 Mrs
Anderson sued to recover damages for thS
death of her husband, who was Killed whl{
an employee of the company.
A SERIOUS accident in the Methodist
Church at Bayfield, was averted by the pres
ence of mind of the Rev. Mr.. Turner
Quite a large congregation assembled I'd
hear the anniversary programme of tho
the floor settle gradually. Rev. Turner MOI
ticed the fact from his position in the pull pit,
He went down into the basement and saw
that his fears We're correct. He then came
up again and dismissed the congregation III
sections so that the floor would not be SUBJ
jected to great strain. In this manner the
church was cleared without an accident.
1t was found that the floor had settled six
inches.
A PROPERTY loss of $75, 900, with small in
srlrance, one woman badly hurt by jumping
and sick man at the point OF death are the
results of an early morning inccndlary fire
in the villcge oil Mouttort, small place
north of Platteville on the North Western
road. The fire started about midnight i'll
Stevens Bros hardware store, and is sup
posed to have been of incendiary origin.
The loss is almost total except in the case of
Stevens Bros, who carried fair insurance
on their stock.
FIRE in Montello destroyed 8 number OF
buildings on Main and Barston streets i'll the
village. Fire was discovered by night work
men about A. NJ. in the barn of the Ameri7
can House. 1t spread quickly, setting fire
to the buildings on either side. Before 1t
could be got under control it had destroyed
the American House, a large frame build
ing and barn; Schultz saloon and dwelling;
Henning's meat market, dwelling and sey-
eral outbuildings, also a tcnement-hotSe +.
J. Dage's brick dwelling and barn. Maui
they's saloon and house and bakery. All
the live stock and buggies that were IN the
American House barn were burned. The
property destroyed was valued at upwards
of $25, 900 and about $1,000 insurance was
carried on it.
AT the meeting of the Grand Temple, Pa
triarchal Circle, the following Officers were
elected: Grand oracle, A. j. Smith, OF Mau-
kesha; grand vice-oracle, A J. Perkins, Oh
MedfOrd; grand marshal, S. " Kenyon, OF
Janesville secretary, E. b. Chamberlain, OF
Whitewater; treasurer, Il. q. Harper, OF Mil
Waukee.
ARTICLES of incorporation have been filed
by the French Granite Company, OF ASH
land. The capital stock is 100000
RICHARD RRookS, a we'll known lumber
man Of Manistee, Mich, intends to locate
an extensive shingle mill in Ashland -,
THE large clearinghouse in the saW-miii
district of Eau Claire, belonging to the Val-
ley Lumber Company, burned. Most OF tle
contents were saved The loss will reach
about So 600; fully insured. 1t was occu-
pied by mill workmen. John McGoW;an,
one of the employees, was struck by falling
chimney and seriously hurt. William CAR
son, president of the Valley Company, was was
upstairs in the building when the nt =
started. The flames ran through as Il 1t
were haystack 1t was believed by VIZ
large crowd that Carson was being blirileu
to death The firemen rushed III ana
searched until the fire drove them OUT Oo'
Carson had already made his way OUT ,,l,,
AS high Us three tons of perch were ca'lsil'
some days during the present spring at l"'-
tie Sturgeon, Door County.
JUDGE A. w NEWMAN, who has just been
elected to the state supreme bench, mas P"a
chased the residence Of A. z. Henderson d.
Madison for S13, 800 He is to take posi-,