Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-02-15
WISCONSIN NEWS.

TIE plant OF the kaClnc 1ardWafe
Manufacturing Company, located at
Racine Junction, was sold at public
auction to NJ. w. Sherman, of Nlilwau-
kee, for 9,O00 When the company
assigned about six months ago the
liabilities were placed at 500, 900 and the
assets about the same. The assignee
has in hand $4,000, SO that the creditors
will receive about 20 cents on the dollar
WILLIAM MUELLER and Frederick
Pfster, the two young men arrested at
Oshkosh on charge Of burglary, plead
ed guilty to the charge and were each
sentenced to eighteen months at Wau-
pun.
ALTHOUGH it has been demonstrated
that the late Herman Groenke, OF Ra-
cine, was poisoned, the authorities do
not seem inclined to exert themselves
in investigating the case.
The Oshkosh Electric Light Com
pany has notified the city they will not
furnish street lights at $50 year any
longer. They ask $50 and expect to get
it.
Mrs PHILIP GREENING, aged 20 years,
died at her home in Fond du Lac She
settled in Green Bay in 1919 and moved
to Fond du Lac in 1859.
1T Is CNpcCtCd tIldt W lbuiH q lCW ~CCfAo
contracts will be let at Racine for $780,
600 worth of sewers in the southern
part of the city.
The Kiel Woodenware Company
manufactured 100000 bushel and peck
measures during the season 1898.
THE Vulcan paper mill at Appleton
has been shut down for few weeks
owing to lack of orders
WILLIAM MARTIN, formerly principal
of the public schools at Mineral Point,
died at Patterson, Ia.
THE factory Of the J. l. Case Thresh-
ing Machine Company, OF Racine,
which has been closed the past five
ployment, will start up with full force
on February 49, The Mitchell q Lewis
wagon factory will resume operations
February r. The latter company en-
ploys 500 men.
The Ashton murder case is likely to
cut quite figure in the judicial cam
paign in Rock County next spring.
Friends of Judge Bennett declare that
the opposition to the Judges re-elec-
ton has conferred thus far among those
who want the Fulton man to have anew
trial Two petitions, one favoring the
election of Judge Bennett and the other
favoring William Smith for circuitjudge,
are in circulation.
THE two Misses Mccarthy, of Apple
ton, have taken the final VOWS and en-
tered the Convent Of the Good Shep-
herd at St. Louis They will be known
as Sister Mary of st. Celeste and Sister
Mary of the Cherubim. They have
given up all the pleasures Of the social
world and entered a life Of absolute Sc
cluslOn.
e THERE is q house situated about five
miles east of Albany, in Rock County,
that farmers claim is haunted. Several
families have rented the house within
the past year, but in every case they got
out as soon as possible.
WILLIAM LIKE has been arrested at
Oshkosh on a charge Of obtaining money
under false pretenses. The trouble
grew out of contract to dig a well.
Herman E. Bahr claims the work was
incomplete.
THE suit of Charles Wolf, of La
Crosse, against the Burlington &
Northern Railway Company has been
settled, the plaintiff recovering $500.
No pupils will be admitted to the
Marinette public schools after March l
unless they can show certificate of
vaccination.
HEREAFTER when q tramp is sentu at
Oshkosh he will be obliged to work
upon the streets until he has served his
time.
THE Sawyer Cattle Company, Of Osh-
kosh, has been organized with capital
stock of $780, 600.
The city officials at Racine are having
consid erable trouble enforcing the vac
cination order.
THE Northwestern Stave and Head
ing Association was formed at Eau
Claire at a meeting of Wisconsin manu-
facturers in which investments in this
industry amounting to about 81 100000
were represented. Articles of agree
ment were drawn and signed by six
teen manufacturers and will be signed
was fixed at a cents, but nothing was
done about slaves Officers were elect
ed as follows: President, +. N. Steb-
bins, of Barron; secretary, E. +.
Winch, Of Marshtield: treasurer, J. A.
Wilson, of Wilson. The signers agree
to maintain prices.
SOME Of the settlers on what is known
as the Red Cliff reservation claim that
Commissioner LamoreuX's order does
not apply to them, that their claims do
not come under the jurisdiction of In
dian authorities, and are therefore sub
ject to entry the same as any other
lands held by the government.
In accordance with the directions of
the State Board of Health the Eau
Claire Board has prepared notice fix
ing February ID as the date before
which the pupils of all schools must
present certificates that they have been
yaccinated, on the penalty of exclusion
from school,
CONDUCTOR FRANK WEsCHE, of the Chi
cage 4 North Western road, was thrown
against the stove in the caboose of his
freight train in the GAINESVILLE yards and
his face was burned severely. The sud-
den stopping Of the train threw him
from his feet.
ERAsTUs MEEHAN and his wife were
found at GAINESVILLE in an exhausted
condition. They had walked from La
Crosse to that place. The couple we're
on their way to their former home in
Middleport, Conn.
THE City Council Of Platteville has