Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-05-17
WISCONSIN NEWS.

-7ohn Roman, OF FiOfence IS Jdoii'Ah.
over what purports to be a big deposit u
nickel The metal was discovered On MI
| Romans farm near Badwater. lie mas
+asted the ground for distance OF De
tween 200 and 800 feet and is satlsheu
that nickel abounds there in vast quantl-
ties An assay of the mineral has Deeh
made in ST. Paul and the quality IS pro-
nounced excellent. AS nickel mines are
very scarce in this country and the meIai
in it's raw state commands big prices. NJ ~
Romans find may prove a yerltaple W.
nanZa.
-Silas Schwartz, of Racine, was run
away with in the town or mount 1ea1
ant, and sustained injuries ron fn, mIii Nv
he may not recover. lie was Ioullu uy
the roadside unconscious, and mas re-
NAMED in that condition since
Deputy Game Warden Blgtord, OF
Fond du Lac. made several big hauls OF
gill nets during the past few days.
amounting in all to over 1,ooo Ieet.
--Elbridge Smith, a pioneer OF Wlnne-
nasha, aged Is years. He had resldeo III
that town for fifty years.
Miss Betsy" Torgerson, an odd char a.
acter of Racine, has been adJudsed IN
sane She is so years of age.
A FEW DAYS ago Miss Mabel Hanks, OF
Marinette, was notified through an
Eastern firm of attorneys that she had
fallen heir to an estate worth S9OO,OOO
bv the death of Warren Hanks at
Cambridge, Mass. The relatives and
acouaintances Of the persons OF the
name of Hanks who live in Cambridge
were skeptical when questioned con on
corning an estate valued at Syoo,Ooo.
The only person Of the name VINO mas
died recently in Cambridge Is the hev.
Stedman W. Hanks, whose not extern
Ilye his s'o widow and his daughter.
In his day the Rev. Mr.. Hanks
travelled throughout the West,
but that was more than thirty years
ago. and it is not credible, according
to those who knew him, that any rela-
tiyes of his are inhabitants Of that part
of the country The city government
clerks of Cambridge scout the notion
that a man of any such wealth has died
lately in the University City. Not
since the death of Mr.. Rindge,. the
noted phianthropist, has there been
any talk about extensive estates and
millionaires' wills. Miss Hanks claims
to have positive information that the
story of her inheritance is true.
ABOUT year ago w. c. kneibush, q
brakeman on the Chicago & North
Western Railway, while coupling cars
in the Beloit yards, broke coupling
| pin, a splinter destroying one Of his
eyes. He brought action against the
company to recover damages. A YER
dict of So, 800 was awarded him by a cir
cult court jury at GAINESVILLE.
FRANK LANGBAUER, of La Crosse,
whose wife committed suicide recently,
has been adjudged insane. He will be
taken to Mendoza.
THE Fond du Lac Journal has sus'
pended publication, and has been abb
CORDED by the Daily Reporter. The
Reporter is now the only English Dem
ocratic paper in Fond du Lac County.
Part of the Journal plant will be moved
to Menasha, where a new daily will be
established about June /. The editor OF
the Journal states that he is convinced
that Democracy is dead.
HARRY DAVIS, a colored youth, plead
ed guilty to a charge of burglary at Osh-
kosh. Sentence has not yet been
passed upon him. Cal Rhodes, his
partner, pleaded guilty several weeks
ago and was sent to Waupun Tor one
year.
CHARLES ADAMS, a vagrans who was
serving 81 sentence in the La Crosse
criminal charge. He was bound over
for trial in bonds of 81 900.
JUDGE BENNETT announced an I'M
portant decision in the Carpenter dam
age suit at Janesvi!le- Carpenter, in
shipping horses, had signed q contract
in which the value of his horses was
named at 500 each, and the defendant
by this contract undertook to MAINTAIN
that no greater sum COULD be recovered.
The Judge held that contracts made by
a railway company by which they are
relieved from liability resulting from
negligence, are void. The case Is at
tracing considerable attention among
horsemen in Rock County.
The Empire Gross Spring Company's
factory at GAINESVILLE has been closed on
ehattel mortgage proceedings, and the
effects of the company are to be SOLD on
May y.
HENRY BANEs was sentenced to sixty
days in the county Jail at Appleton for
assaulting his wife, Sentence was sub
sequently suspended pending good be-
| havior.
ERNST TEsCI, charged witr placing OBJ
structions on the railroad track near
Oshkosh, pleaded guilty to the charge.
He was sentenced to the Industrial
school at Waukesha until he is 81 years
Of age. The PRISONER is ONLY IA years
cid.
CHARLES BARNES, a farmer living near
Delton, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the heart. He served
in Wisconsin, regiment during the
war. He had been of unsoRnnd mind for
Come time.
MISS Mabel hanks, Marinette young
woman, is one of the heirs, to an estate
worth $900,0OG- 1t was left to her by
her grandfather in Massachusetts.
FRANK j.. KhYEs pleaded guilty to a
charge of forgery at Oshkosh. He was
given one year in the state prison.
JOHN WE1DENsAUL, an old German
farmer living west of Orfordville, Rock
County, met with Terrible experience
which nearly cost him his life, accord
ing to this GAINESVILLE Gazette. He was
hiving swarm of bees that had lodged
on tree, when second swarm took
refuge ON the same place. This pre-
cipitated war between the hostile
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