Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30
WISCONSIN NEWS.

The Boom company of Marinette has
about 100 men and twenty teams at
work near Twin creeks sacking logs left
on the river banks by the high water.
Ihey have also hive catch marking gaps
running now and are sorting on an aver
age 100000 feet per day. This daily
amount will be just about enough to
keep the booms busy until November 10.
Mason Contractor William Wilson
has completed the new brick and stone
stack at the Kimberly mill at Appleton.
The stack is 160 feet high, the first 20
feet being stone and the remainder brick.
The iron castings on the top weigh 1000
pounds. It is the highest stack on the
river.
The La Crosse county Democratic
convention met and selected delegates to
the state convention. Resolutions were
adopted denouncing the senators who OPP
posed the enactment of such tariff laws
as the Democratic party had promised.
Florence county farmers have sus-
tanned great losses this year by reason of
their being compelled to harvest oats be-
fore the crop was fully ripe, to save them
from the ravages of the army worm and
grasshoppers.
The steamer Water Lily burned at
her dock at Green Lake. 1t is supposed
that the fire caught under the boiler. She
was built in 1892 at a"cost of $1,000.
There was no insurance.
The Rev. J. H. Mueller, for three
years pastor of the German Presbyterian
church at Reloit, has resigned to become
pastor OF the Second Presbyterian church
at st. Louis.
The young women of st. Joseph
church at Fond du Lac gave minstrel
performance for the benefit of the church.
Nearly 5000 was cleared.
Lawrence university at Appleton has
made some changes in its faculty. In ad-
dition to its new president it has secured
the services of three new professors, re-
Gently called to important chairs. These
are Prof. George Merriman of the United
States Naval observatory and for twenty
years professor of mathematics at Ann
Arbor and Rutgers university, who will
have charge of the Underwood observa-
tory; Prof. Charles Treat, vice-president
of Maryville college, who will have charge
of the department of social science. The
fall term begins September II.
Morse Christensen, the 14-year-old
boy who shot a companion through the
neck while out hunting near Burlington,
was fined $50 and costs and put under
bonds to keep the peace.
The new sawmill at Arpin has been
completed. The mill is not as large as
the one burned, and has but one band
saw, but will be operated day and night
SO tlaC lle output VIII De ABOUT tle Stlilc
as heretofore.
August Ladevig of Fond du Lac,
charged with attempted criminal assault
upon girl, was bound over for trial IN
800 bonds.
Two months ago James X. Tillotson
of Toledo was granted franchise by the
Oshkosh council to put in an electric
street railway. He posted a forfeit of
$1,000 in money and later gave Il bond OF
&1nlM SirrnI nv ''Stup Roufa'' Dorsey.
No actual work has been done. Now IT
has been discovered that the grant is in
valid because it was not published two
weeks preceding it's passage, according
to Chapter 14S of the laws of 1893. This
failure probably involves the interurban
railway plan, too.
C. w. Graves of Mineral Point, who
was the secretary of the state board OF
Worlds fair managers. has received from
John Boyd TEACHERS bureau of awards Il
transcript of the award granted to group
SO, mines and mining, which was the
states collective exhibit of carbonate
ores for commercial purposes, comprls-
ing samples of the products OF forty
seven different mines in southwestern
Wisconsin. The award is based upon the
natural value of the production. 1t is
classed by the judges as the best OF any
district in the United States for the pro-
duction of oxide of zinc.
Prank Saupe, lineman employed in
building the metallic line to Marlnette,
suffered a probably fatal accident at Duck
Greek. near Green Bay. With others
he was engaged in setting pole, when
the pole fell, crushing him beneath it.
He received injuries to his back of Il seri-
Gus nature The attending physician says
he cannot recover. His home is III
Appleton.
-Madison's ''sea serpent" that has not
been seen in several years, has again put
in it's appearance in Lake Mendoza. The
monster is described by the yeracious fish
erman who last saw it as having a head
that projects out of the water at least u
feet
The Wisconsin & Michigan Railroad
company will establish shops at Bagley
Junction, giving employment to fifty or
sixty mem.
Isaac Davis is under arrest at Osh-
kosh on q charge of threa tening to kill
Thomas Jones.
The Appleton. Driving Park club is
thinking of building new mile track
at that place
Prospects in the shaft of the Filing
ton Exploring and Mining company, To-
Gated two miles north of Hortonville. are
frightening daily AT q depth of eighty
five feet iron ore of an excellent quality
has been discovered, and the company is
rapidly sinking the shaft through the ore
to ascertain it's depth The ledge or
range in which the ore is located is thirty
or forty miles in length, extending east
and west through the central portion of
Outagamie county, and into Waupaca.
A second company has been organized
lately and options bought on territory add
joining that upon which the shaft is 10
Gated, pending the result of the first COM
pany's explorations
john Scott, an Oshkosh dentist, was
arrested few days ago on q charge of
larceny of Il set of teeth. Mr.. Scott is q
member of the firm of Scott & Spengler,
which sold. to man named Wahl Il
set of false teeth for $50. OF this $40 had
been paid, but VAIL was backward in
producing the remaining $40. Scott went
to the residence of his customer, it is
alleged, and inquired about the teeth,
making an examination also. While
WahFs mouth was open Scott snatehett
the teeth and then departed. Wahl had
him arrested and the matter was set
tied, Mr.. Scott paying the costs and
Wahl agreeing to pay what was due on
the teeth, which were returned to him