Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-11-29
WISCONSIN NEWS.


sons who are committing robberies Of
various kinds. Lumber wagons, cows and
articles of clothing are few of the things
which have been taken away. Suspicion
has fallen on certain parties and arrests
will probably be made in few days.
Judge Marshall has filed his decision
at Chippewa Falls on the Louisiana scrip
cases, holding that the defendants title
was valid under scrip location The de-
cision is very important one and TAR.
reaching owing to the large quantity OF
valuable land involved.
During one of the dynamite blasts
at Marinette in eXcavatlng on the new
hotel site brick was thrown through
q window of James Washers house, 200
feet away and landed on q bed where two
children had been lying few minutes
before.
The Ashland county board of canvas
sers has finally decided to give the GER
titicate Of election to Miss Maggie Ryan us
county superintendent of schools The de-
<.iSion finally settles the contest between
Miss Ryan and Miss Hattie Freeman for
the Office.
The Alexander Stewart Lumber com
pany of Wausau will put III 100000
feet of it's own logs this winter
An important transfer of land was
recorded at Chippewa Falls-that of the
sale of 1000 acres of pine land i'll Chlppe-
wa county and 80 acres in Eau CLAIRE
county, by the Northwestern Lumber com
pany of Eau Claire to the Chippewa Lum-
her and Boom company. The consldera-
ton was S32,O1J.
The arrangements for the Wisconsin
Press association excursion as completed
provide for Il special train of three Wag-
ner Sleepers, which will leave Chicago
from the Union depot, over the Chicago,
burlington IL Quincy, at 400 O'Clock p. IN.
Arrangements have been entered into
which will render the outing somewhat
seSS expensive than was at first expected.
Considerable stops will be made at Dali
las and at Waco, where the great cotton
exposition is now in progress. a day
will be spent at Galveston and one at
San Antonio. On the return stops will
ae made at Hillsboro, Dennison, Henri
eta, Fort Worth. Parsons and either at
Kansas City or st. Louis.
Judge Gilen of the probate court at
ShcbOygan refused to grant the petition
of Mr.. and Mrs Ira Bean to be permitted
10 retain the adoption of little Gertrude
KSein. Mr.. Bean has appealed to Judge
ellison asking to be appointed guardian of
Che child, and the judge has appointed
December ; as the date for hearing the
petition. Sheboygan people are greatly
worked up over the case. Friends of
Mr- Klein induced him to withdraw his
consent to the adoption, as Mr.. and Mrs.
Bean were Protestants.
Christian Boon of Eau Claire has
been brought near to deaths door in an
unusual manner He found it necessary
to- have tooth pulled, and as means
of deadening the pain he went in advance
tn a drug store and took Il dose of lauda-
num. Then he went to the dentists of
nee and there he was given an anaeS-
thetic of some kind. The tooth was sue
cessfully extracted, but since the opera.
ton Mr. Boon has been in the hands of
n physician and in Il dangerous condition,
as result of his experiments.
One of the worst sufferers from hog
cholera in La Crosse county is William "a
gear a farmer residing one mile west OF
Lyttle's on Black river The disease broke
out at his place about two weeks ago. and
since that time thirty-three hogs have
died, six mora are infected and will prob
ably die and the eight remaining of the
whole herd will probably so the same way
aS the others. Mr.. Sagear estimates his
loss at $500.
"A romance with quite & sad ending
has just come to light at Eau Claire,
Many years ago Mr.. and Mrs. John Kim
&tail lived in an Eastern city. Mrs. Kim
very observation-disclosures childish. She
adopted Il son over thirty years ago and
this boy grew up with her until he was
EG years of age. He did not, however,
set on very we'll with Mr.. Kmball and
sAlsout twenty-seven years ago he ran
away from home. Nothing was ever
aeard from him and the I\imballs event
unIy removed to Eau Claire. The run
away lad is now prosperous Nebraska
contractor, and reached Eau Claire Il
few days ago. In Il roundabout way,
from friends in the East, he had learned
cf his fostermother's illness and he has
HeuTsi to her. He found his adopted moth
/ ~
Yet been able to divulge his identity to
,hcT. The stranger is known rs j. A. Day
and he is 81 years of age.
Mrs Albna Pcllerdi. the alleged wom-
an connterfeiter held at Superior in de-
fault of $4,000 bail, has been removed
from the county jail to the st. Francis
Hospital. She does not stand confinement
egstCy well and was taken with commissions.
AT the hospital are some private cells
and in one of these the woman was
placed fer safekeeping, the authorities
not intending that she shall escape through
their leniency. The police are wondering
whether Mrs. Pellerdi. too will escape
the punishment which the law would in
Eict upon her. Thus far, none of the
three gangs of counterfeiters captured
IN Superior have stood trial. A couple
of years ago Frank Mclean was capt
arcd and confined in the Jail at
GAINESVILLE, from which he escaped be-
fore trial and has never been appre-
hcnded. About Il month later Charles
Mack was detected in the same line of
business and jailed While awaiting trial
be saved sufficient morphine from his
daily allowance to end his life and one
anssu5Dg he was found dead.
The dedication of the Father Gold
smith memorial chapel and the reburlal of
tine missionary remains in the new edi-
Zee At Chippewa Falls was attended with
ava elaborate ceremony. A solemn mass
OF requiem was solemniZed in which Blsh-
>op Schwebach Of La Crosse was celebrant.
;ssssisted by deacon and sub-deacon All
she ornaments were removed from the
altar and black and purple drapings were
fisss only embellishments. Thirty-siX priests
Grom various parts of the state and 100
=zcolytes participated in the exercises: The
music was chanted by choir OF htty
voices The memorial chapel is an artistic
structure and adjoinS the church. Judge
j. A Anderson has begun book on the
life of Father Goldsmith.