Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-04-15


| remains were scattered 800 feet along the
| track.
| Mrs. Sophia Fenncr was killed by a
train ut Fond du Lac She was IS years
! or age and leaves Il husband and three
children
Matthias Schroeder an old-time resident
of Two Rivers. succumbed to old age. He
was - years of age and leaves large
family of grown-up sons and daughters.
| Il. Z. Mctmber. a printer employed in
the office of the Plymouth Reporter, ht.S,
| by the death of his grandfather fallen
| heir to an estate in Ohio valued at 500
| 600.
AT Watertown, the home of Il. w. Leh-
mann was entered by burglar early and
/ portion of Mr.. Lehmanns clothing, in
| Which were Il gold watch and about $40,
stolen.
| 1t is estimated that the Beef Slough pco-
pie will lose over $4,000 by the breaking
away of their logging booms, allowing the
| entire product to float down the river
| food for the pirates
| Fire destroyed the barn and considerable
live stock on the farm of James Mahanna,
near Cottage Grove. Loss. $1,000. Mr..
/ NidHiIilli WIS Dduiy burned WHHe cHueuN-
| orlng to rescue some horses
| Hughic Golfer died in the Marinette
| hospital of diabetes Golfer had been in
| Jail since last June and was to be tried
next month. He was large, healthy
man, but prison life killed him.
The Oconomowoc Common Council
passed the ordinance prohibiting the sale
| to or smoking of cigarettes by minors. An
! ordinance fixing the time of cleaning of
| sidewalks aftcr snowstorms, was killed so
| that it remains as formerly, six hours be-
| ing allowed.
A raft belonging to the Valley Lumber
! Company, tied up near their Eau Claire
mill. was carried away by the high water
and wrecked. Six cribs (about one-ffth)
lodged al Roacb's island. The rest of the
raft is probably a total loss. The lumber
in the :aft was worth about $4,000.
Chris Yeager. who was convicted at
| Fond du Lac of assault with intent to
| commit murder on the person of John
| Hahn, was sentenced to seven years in
| the pentcntiary. The first three days will
be in solitary confinement. Charles Ham
mer, convicted of burglary, was given a
year and six months in State prison.
During free fight at Appleton Pat
Mcdonald was stabbed in the left arm
and John Sharp received Il number of
knife wounds in his left side and face.
| Both men are in the hospital. but are not
| seriously hurt. Joseph Ernst and Joseph
kielhofer were arrested and held over for
| trial. The men were talking politics.
After being bound over to the United
| States grand jury at Fond du Lac, on the
4 a,
the mails, bail being fixed at 81 200,
| Clarke :. Matthcson finally secured q
bondsman in the person of Frank Il. Lal-
licr, but was Immediately rc-arrested on
a charge Of criminal libel. preferred by
Louis A. Lnnse. Before Court Commits
sioner Sutherland his bail was fixed at
$500. He was unable to obtain a bonds
man for this amount and was sent to the
count. Jail.
AT West Superior, suit has been brought
against the Northwestern National Bank
by Receiver Stack of the State Trust and
Savings Bank to recover S1O,SOO which
| the Northwestern National took out Of
the State Trust Bank the night before the
latter failed. The suit is backed by the
city of Superior. the banks heaviest cred
itor. The complaint alleges that the
| Northwestern had no authority to enter
the State bank and take securities; that
the State bank being then insolvent the
transaction should be declared void.
The immense jam of ice and logs which
| had lodged against the lower Central rail
road bridge at Chippewa Falls moved out
| Saturday. AT the time large crowd Of
people were on the bridge, and a panic
almost ensucd, which was caused by TIE
Il,
first warning the people had was when
| they felt the bridge under them commenc-
ing to move and there was Il quick move
made for solid ground. But the bridge
| only got out of position few inches when
it stuck fast and the jam passed under
Meath The river is clear Of ice from Lit
| tie Falls dam to Irvine and all danger of
a flood this spring is undoubtedly at an
end
W. S. Taylor. manager of the Pulp
| Wood Supply Company of Appleton, has
returned from an extended trip to Can
ada, where he has been inspecting the Do
| 600 cords of wood gotten out by Contrac-
tor Perry The wood is lying along Georg
| ian bay. east of the 800" and as soon rs
the ice goes out will be made into four
RATS of 5000 cords each, which will he
towed to Appleton about the middle of
July. Mr.. Taylor says that the season
in Canada is just about three weeks in
advance Of other years. The 10000 cords
| of Canada wood completes the supply for
| the local mills for summer use. In all q
! larger amount of wood than ever before
was brought in and two of the mills found
! it necessary to acquire additional piling
| ground for the large amount of wood.
! The Western States can boast of such
| tough customers as "Oklahoma Bill,
"Apache Kid" and "Comanche Jack" but
| Wisconsin has 4 woodsnan who is right
! up to date when it comes to terrorzing
| innocent citizens. There are many hardy
| lumbcrmen at Marnctte. some of whom
! braved night in the haunted camp"
! but the other day they all threw up their
| hands and bowed to Il stranger who made
| his appearance in town at shutdown. The
| man was a walking arsenal. He wore
| large sombrero. had a heavy dark mus
| tache and had his big bslt loaded with re-
volvers and knives. He entered number
| of saloons along the river where the BRAY
est Of the lumbermen congregate and made
| ~ III f1,.> t.,ll las, 1an