Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-10-04
WISCONSIN NEWS.

.4r inst in from an eight-days'
"A p. wisconsin over the Northwest
outing 1 ~ composed of j. E. Baldwin
err I" -i,,,atj Col w. l.. Barnum, DR.
Of in q,aITot Charles f. Nixon, Charles
E. . o., and DR.. o. W. Nixon of Chi
B1d"lDl rare sport. In six days fishing
G2o' 10, +,rad 100 muskallonge and TWEEN
they cap Sg."aIIevpd pike Having no ice,
ty-touL, q boatload of fish to the nearest
they 'T +lLr-.antv-tive miles away, and gave
tgN Nn tn the natives; Ihey also supplied
an In'I ,Inur fifty Of the catch of the last
home, fishing The largest We're two
t"2 U';;fnuuders and one seventeen
e'5luIa The orders were that all fish
!lID's than four pounds be returned to
VI ,r1f4r. TO grow up with me country
jIe a the pighteen-pOund tlsh caught by
jt' %;y1n was marked on his snout
"; Ills head is being prepared, and
s.. .u,rtsman lost such Il fish and
1.Id him in the Manitowish waters
i,, year. he will perhaps recognize his
'1', ,S,-rrr friend. The fish were very
-,g" .y i ten-pound muskallonge rushed
7, ,n, hi, hiding place and seized the end
l.'' lLa nar of Dr. Talbot's boat, and
vi anr later seized his hook and was
i,oIpd in the boat.
The contractor who is grading at
q,.;n Lake. kenOsha county. has struck
,ot apUears to be Il bOttOmleSS marsh.
a.na engineer estimated that 5000 cubic
,rIs Of dirt would fill it, but 10000
II ra already been dumped in and the
Iv effect is that the surface is two feet
"ar than it was before the dirt was
burglars are making life a burden for
merchants in small towns around James
vile Last Saturday they ralded a hard
AZ 20 store ut Milton. taking 500 worth
ha rH-
,rIrp store at Evansville was robbed of
2,DD worth of cutlery. {. L. Drake &
81 a., store at Clinton was next entered
ard 4 shotgun. two revolvers and twenty
8 five dozen pocket knives were stolen.
& LATER they looted the store of Terry Bros.
8 If Orfordvlle, taking twenty-five suits
of clothing and Il quantity Of neckwear
8 and gents furnishing goods. Altogether
q fine amount Of goods stolen is over $1,000.
II i, supposed to be the work of the same
gang Of thieves.
William st. George. who miraculously
escaped death III a fall from Il derrick at
N3rinotto. is getting along very well at
five feet. but while falling grasped Il
rlpp which retarded the momentum of
the drop somewhat. His lighting place
WAS Il pile of rocks. Coming down feet
foremost saved him. AS it was, his left
Irg ahuy" the ankle was shattered badly.
Mrs J. DankWart of the town of Lima
i, seriously Ill from the effects of Il shock
received by the presence of burglars in
her house.
A petition is being circulated among
the members of the Ashland county board
for the purpose of putting to work as
many of the burned-out homesteaders as
need work and money to live on through
the winter. The promoters of this petit
ton claim that the county roads need
could he taken than right now when
50 many willing workers are i'll need.
There are in Marnette only sixteen
firms whose personal assessments run
over $4,000 The H. Witbeck company
heads the list with $1SS,OOO and the n.
E.udington company is second with over
SGT 600.
Stroypd by fire 1t was the only inst-
tuition left ut that Inflated town by the
recent forest fires. Railroad trains were
delayed i'll coming through on their trip
north
Philip Deitz is under arrest at Me-
uaSha on charge of being one of 4 party
who assaulted Frank Podolski few days
ago. He was held in bonds of $500. His
case will come up October ,.
A stock company with 100000 is be-
iug organized at Narinette for the pur
pose of building Il tirstclass hotel. OPP
touS have been secured upon the most
desirable sites in the city.
Theodore Larson. 14-year-old boy,
while oiug a windmill on Il farm near
Baldwin. accidentally fell to the ground,
distance of forty feet. He died from
the injuries.
Prof Henry of the agricultural de-
partmeut OF the State university is per-
forming an experiment which. if success
full, will mean thousands of additional
arabic acres to Dane county. He says
there are $4,000 acres in Dane county
alone which can be reclaimed if he can
prove conclusively to Wisconsin farmers
how cheaply and how easily it can be
done. Southeast from the university
farm on the marshes by the side of Lake
Mendoza. he has diked off about eleven
acres, which before was under water the
year round. This area is to be drained
by 3-nch tile, laid from three and one
half to four feet deep and all leading to
Il reservoir. 60X40 feet and four and one
half feet deep.
Louis Bretzke, formerly drug clerk
in the employ of John +. Bull of Chicago,
was arrested at Portage charged with
completely in removing nearly $4,000
worth of goods on which Peter Vanshaack
~ Sons, wholesale druggists, held mort
gage.
Mrs Margaret Clune of Wrights-
town. Brown county. who has been con-
Hhed III the county insane asylum Tor
some time past, was taken before Judge
Huntington for examination. She was
adJudged sane and her release ordered.
r. |taubish attempted suicide at Ash
land by shooting himself through the
heart. He missed the mark about two
inches and is still alive.
The death of Mis-. Sophia Gates oc-
CURED in the town of Oakfeld, Fond
du Lac county. She celebrated her Soth
birthday few weeks ago.
R c. Ross, a banker of Scottsboro,
Ala, who was murdered at Stevenson,
Ala, by the four Shelton brothers, was
formerly Il resident of Neillsville, WIS.
lioSS was fired on from ambush by the
Tour brothers as he was waiting TOR
train at the depot at Stevenson. The
cause OF the murder was the belief on the
part of the Shelton brothers that Ross
hld Wronged their sister. Annie Shelton.
jle belle of Scottsboro. The. Skeletons
are Il wealthy and aristocratlc family.
IAe trial of the SHELTON brothers tor the
murder is now in progress at Scottsboro
hoSS left a widow and five children. the
last child born five days before the trag-
ely. Ross father was at one time one
81 the wealthiest lumbermen in Wlscon-
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