Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-02-08
WISCONSIN NEWS.

! MISS FLORA HNJFl, VIC ~ o
daughter of F. B. Swift, a wealthy
Altonyille, Lafayette County, farmer,
RECENTLY met John Dunn, aged Is years,
a student at one Of the schools In that
| vicinity. It was case of love at first
sight. The girls papa objected to their
marrying, but the young couple VENT TO
Shullsbure and were married. Now the
father has been asked to forgive them.
THE MINNEAPOLIS, st. Paul & Sault Ste;
Marie Railway Company has settled
with the state of Wisconsin the claim
for taxes without going into the courts:
by paving the states claim of So, 94S.9
and interest at per cent. from August
10, 1892, which amounts to S69O.o5, max
ING total of 1924, 639.4S. The attorney
general had begin suit to compel the
company to pay.
The title of ten Appleton men to Co.
600 acres Of pine lands in Florida was
secured to them by recent decision OF
the supreme court Of that state.
MARY FIpE was awarded $500 IN her
suit against the city of Oshkosh. She
sued for $1,000 damages for injuries re-
ceived upon a slippery walk,
| GEORGE LAIRD's residence at Fond du
Lac was partly destroyed by fire. Loss
$500. The blaze was caused by the eX-
plosion of kerosene lamp.
The town hall at Washburn will be
used as a school room owing to the
burning Of the public school building at
that place.
JOSEPH LAcHNER, JR., young Racine
machinist, died at the County Hospital
in Chicago of smallpox.
A DECISION has been made by the APP
pellate court of Chicago affirming the
! legality of a Wisconsin statute in the
case of Charles A. Thompson, of Osh-
kosh, VS.. the Firemen's Insurance Com
pany, of Chicago. In 1891 Charles
Thompson desired insurance upon his
single mill. The regular board COM
panies refused to carry the risk on the
ground of it's being extra hazardous.
Mr.. Thompson procured insurance from
nom board companies which were not
allowed to do business in the state of
Wisconsin. He applied to the Fire
mems Insurance Company and upon
application that company issued its pol
| icy and collected the premium from Mr..
| Thompson After the shingle mill was
! burned the company refused to pay,
and Mr. Thompson commenced suit to
recover the full amount Of the policy.
THE funeral of Gavin Campbell, late
general superintendent of the Wiscon-
sin Central lines. took place at Stevens
Point. Officials from nearly all the
Western roads and many former fellow
workmen were present. delegation
of fifty workmen from Waukesha at
tended the funeral. The Masonic or
der had charge Of the services.
THE Murphy Lumber Company at
Green Bay is hauling logs from the
woods by rail to it's mill and already has
nearly 5000, 900 feet on the ice before
the mill waiting for the spring work.
CLINTON VAN DE BoGART has been
bound over for trial at Baraboo on
charge of bigamy. His bonds were
fixed at $500.
GEORGE SrrINMAN was given twenty
five days in the county jail for 'beat
ing a board bill at GAINESVILLE.
TIE mystery of the letter written to
eX-Secretary of State Won Baumbach, of
Minnesota, by his wife in Eau Claire in
1866 and which he received recently
has been fully explained. Ernest
Meyer, living Il .ew miles west of St.
Peter, Mimi, is cousin of Won Baum
bach and had told Mr.. Meyer to give
the latter's mail to him. In some way this
particular letter became mixed with Mr..
Meyers letters and has remained there
unopered all these years. Mr.. Meyer
has been sick For some time ana about
week ago he took a notion to look over
large number OF accumulated letters
for the purpose of DESTROYING those he
did not desire to keep. In doing SO he
came across the one written to Won
BaumbaCh.
JOHN STEVENS, OF Neenah, will build
steam yacht at Oshkosh this spring 100
feet long. The boat will have two pro-
polling screws to be driven by two
tripleexpansion engines.
LOUIS SCHoENLEDEN, the Racine black
smith who was arrested on a charge of
threatening to kill his wife and abus-
ing his dying child, was sentenced to
the county jail for three months.
FIRE destroyed the First Ward prima-
~ schoo! at Washburn. The building
was owned by the Methodist Church |
and was formerly occupied as chapel.
Loss, 5000; no insurance.
Mrs. J. W. HALVES, aged II years died
pioneer at Fond du Lac, where she re-
sided from 1854 until 1880
w. ii. STARK, a pioneer of GAINESVILLE,
died at his home in that city, aged Sc |
years. He served several terms in the
state legislature.
A. ". WlNsEL, of Austin, Mimi, was
found near La Crosse in an unconscious |
condition with his feet and hands badly |
frozen.
RAY BIG,sLow, an employee of pulp
mill at Ashland, had his right hand |!
crushed in a compressing machine.
THE residence of Timothy O'Brien, at
La Crosse, was destroyed by fire. The |
loss Will reach 81 900
A NEW public school building will be
erected at Fond du Lac during the COM
ing summer.
TIE Woman's Relief Corps at Fond
du Lac cleared 500 at its charity enter
tainment.
THE Dodge County fair will pe held at
Beaver Dam September 25 to % in
elusive.
WITHOUT recaininr consciousness