Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-16
WISCONSIN NEWS.

| Several boys were arrested at La
| Crosse for causing the recent series OF III
cendiary fires. There have been nearly q
| dozen. In one instance there were three
! at one time. The most serious DESTROYED
| Crosby's planning mill. The others have
/ been in barns and vacant houses. one
! was in q lumber yard. The boys dld II
| Tor DO purpose except to watch the DiaZe
| and to watch the fremen race by. IheY
| broke into the patent kindling-wood rae
tory and stole stuff to start the tires with.
The franchise of the Wisconsin Auto
matte Telephone company at cshkosa
was annulled by the council recently.
/ It's representatives claim that the action
was Illegal, since they had fulfilled every
condition and had put in twelve lnstru-
ments They will go Oh and install the
| exchange, TO which they have 2oO SUB
scribers.
The interior of st. Joseph's church
! at Fond du Lac is being newly frescoed
and improved in ether ways Two 9e e,
| tiful statues of St. Peter and st, Paul
have just arrived from Paris. and Will De
placed on Dedestals on opposite sides OF
| the altar. A new statue of the Savior
has also been received.
| The Manufacturers National bank
of Racine filled the vacancy IN ITS dlrec'
tory by electing Charles e. Erskine, to
| been vacant since the death OF NJ %.
Erskine, was also filled by electins
| Stephen Bull to the office.
The Racine police have unearthed
nine bicycles that We're sold there by Z.
| f. Wheeler, arrested at Chicago on
charge of being connected win guns
| of bicycle thieves. The machines were
| sold for about $40 each.
Albert Lame, who abandoned his wife
and child about three weeks ago at Leoa-
! non, Ind, and eloped with woman from
Indianapolis, was found at Green Bay
Matters were amicably settled and Lane
| returned to his home.
GAINESVILLE finds the price of her water
works an absolute bar to city ownership.
The original cost was S31O,OOO, which
| with interest. improvements, etc, make
the total cost of the plant under franchise
stipulatiOns $500.
John Cartwright of Dekorra, Column
bia county, who was arrested TOR OBTAIN
ing cigars from Charles e. Geistler, the
Portage manufacturer, through false rep
resentation. went before Judge Taylor
and entered plea of guilty to the charge
preferred and was sentenced to one year
in state prison.
A man named Bryan was found near
La Crosse in an exhausted condition.
His head is terribly cut and his cheek
bone broken. He could give no eXplana-
ton as to how he came in that condition.
Robert Stolfus of Fond du Lac acct
dentally shot his wife and child with a
shotgun, which be supposed was not
loaded. The wounds will not prove fatal
in either case.
Art. Bundy, one of the young men
arrested on a charge of misusing Esther
Perrin, was found guilty at Beloit and
sent to Jail for six months.
C. e. Wheeler of Racine has been ar
rested on charge of selling stolen BIZ
cycles. He recently arrived in that city
from New York state.
John Shaw, a well-known lumberman
of Marinette died at Lincoln Beach. near
that city, aged 30 years
Twenty acres of grain belonging to
John McGee near Randolph. We're de-
stroyed by fire.
AT meeting of the ordinance commit
tee of the city council at Appleton to dis
c,ss the proposed franchise for the Wis
consin Interurhan Electric railway be-
tween Oshkosh ana Kaukauna, very
cars to cross the river bridge, or to run
on Lake and Pearl street hills. There
are grave doubts whether 4 franchise can
be granted to run through Appleton.
The university creamery at Madison
reports that owing to the present trouth
the quantity of milk received has sllrunk
about 40 per cent. Prof. Henry esti-
mates the shrnkage of milk throughout
the dairy district at 80 to 50 per cent,
and rs the dairy output of this state is
something like S2,OOO.0O0 per month at
this season Of the year, Wisconsins loss
in this product alone IS something tfe-
mendous.
"A few days ago Il young man called
on Landlord John Chenevert, says the
Fond du Lac Reporter, and handed him
the former landlord. When Townsend
opened the package he found it contained
money and jewelry that belonged to his
deceased wife The package was direct
ed in her handwriting The whole affair
rs wrapped i'll mystery.
la Crosse business men are protest
ing vigorously against the action of the
burlington road IN peremptorily dis
charging Il number of employees and pass
ing theln out of the state without pro-
tecting the claims of merchants with
whom the discharged employees had open
accounts
The first public lands to be sold at the
Ashland land office for years were put
ZIP at auction by the department day or
two ago, being an island in st. Louis
river near West Duluth, MINI. John
Armstrong of Duluth put in the success
full bid and got the island for S1502.
In the ease of the county Of EEau
Claire against Charles Seaman, superin-
tendent of the county poor farm, for I'm
lawful detalner, Il justice court at Fail
Creek gave Judgment for the plaintiff
and ordered Seaman to vacate the poor
farm. Seaman promptly gave bonds and
notice of appeal to the circuit court, and
will fight for the possession of his office
as long as he can. The complaint against
Seaman IS made by Chairman Cranshaw
of the county board, While Seaman is
backed by several members of the board
and influential citizens.
Chief ScLwarz has laid off his fifteen
United States deputies at Ashland They
We're employed at the expense of the Wis
consln Central railroad at the beginning
of the 4. X. T.. strike and have been on
duty guarding the docks, roundhotlse ears
and other property of the Central rail
road for about thirty days.
The La Crosse police arrested Robert
Duke and Mrs Chesebro of HilIsboro
an an alleged eloping couple. Both are about
~ years of age and both are married and