Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-05

Crosse Rubber Works were recorded at
In Crosse with capital Of S4O,OOU.
Hog cholera has made its appearance
near Augusta. Eau Claire County, ana
cases are reported from near La crosse.
Mayor Graham Of Racine says that ne
will not sign the ordinance to issue No.
600 school bonds, passed by the Councii.
Henry Wetzel, treasurer of the town OF
Ludington, Eau Claire County, IS a
heavy loser at the hands of burglars.
They secured between 500 and SSOo III
gold and q silver watch.
The little schooner Myrtle Camp of She
boygan cleared Wednesday, bound Tor
Honolulu She will be gone five years.
trading along the South Pacific ISLANDS.
She carries crew of six men.
The GAINESVILLE Electric Light and Pow
er Company has been organized with a
capital stock of $4,000. The officers Of
the company are: President, Charles Is.
Conrad; secretary and treasurer, Charles
+. Lowing, Chicago.
The school census just completed gives
the school population of ManltowOc as
follows: Males, 1,762; females, 1928; to-
tai, 1857. Taking the school census as
basis, it is estimated that the population
of Manitowoc is about 1000.
Superintendent Earle of the Quinnesec
Logging Company says that it is the IN
tention of the company to resume opera
tons in the woods early the coming
month. 1t is it's purpose to bank between
10 900, 900 and 100000 feet near the
red bridge across the Menominee.
Joseph Ivers, a laborer at the Ollouez
ore docks, West Superior, was standing
over a pocket into which a car of ore was
about to be dumped, when he lost his bal
ance, falling twenty-siX feet. lie was
picked UP unconscious with blood starting
from ears and mouth. His skull was
fractured.
There was considerable surprise mani
tested in Juneau business circles and in
Beaver Dam, when it was learned that
the estate of the late John j. Williams,
the Beaver Dam philanthropist and fore
most citizen, who established and gave to
Beaver Dam fine library, had among it's
assets Rambusch forged mortgage for
$4,000.
The Government dredge in working at
Sheboygan dug up il number of old guns,
which are supposed to have been the prop
erty of the Sheboygan Rifles, which dis
banded in 1861 when threatened with be-
ing called into service. Many of the COM
pany objected going to war and one night
the guns were stolen from old Deacon"
Browns temperance hotel.
In the wilds of Marinctte County, sew
enty-five miles from Marinette, Sheriff
Brown found the dies with which the
counterfeit money passed in Marinette
4. II, for anlf
ing pot and bogus money. Trace of it
was secured through Frank Sinclair, one
of the men arrested for passing the
money The cabin is located near the
Forest County line. Money has been
made there and circulated all over the
Northwest for two years past.
The widow of the late Henry Mulbur-
ger, the well-known Watertown real es-
tate man, capitalist and lawyer, has
brought suit in the Circuit Court of Dodge
County against Louis ]. Merkel for ST.
600. This is another case-one OF many
which has for it's foundation one Of RAM
busch's forged mortgages and illustrates
pretty we'll one of the favorite methods
of the great defaulter to get money. Mr..
Merkel left the above sum with Ram
busch to loan and received in return
mortgage purporting to be executed by
one Fred w. Stole and wife on large
farm in the town of WiIliamstown, near
the city of Mayyille. The mortgage was
witnessed by w. r. Rambusch and A.
Oveson, an unknown or fictitious person.
Mr. Merkcl assigned the mortgage to the
late Mr. Mulburger in June, 1888. Inves-
tigatiOn reveals that no such person as
Fred ". Stole ever owned the premises
1o;, +r> hor
busch also furnished Merkel with an abb
stract of title, which he in turn turned
over to Mulburger. This abstract show
ed that Stole, the alleged mortgagor,
owned the premises and was a forgery.
With every forged mortgage Rambusch
would give a forged abstract. Rambusch
acted as Mulburger's agent in collect
fDg the interest and paid the same prompt
~ when it became due, thereby warding
off all suspicion as to the mortgage being
a forgery. Now the Mulbergcr heirs
claim that Merkel is bound to make good
the mortgage assigned by him.
A life full of activity and long and
useful service on behalf of the public
comes to a close with the death Of ex-
Senator james r. Doolittle of Wiscon-
sin. Few if any, of his contemporaries
coIlu look DUCK upon SO EXTENDED ana
varied career. Judge Doolittle at the
time of his death was 80 years old, and
for nearly sixty years he had been an ag-
gressive worker in the fields where des-
tiny placed him. Immediately upon his
election to the national Senate, after a
highly successful term upon the bench as
district judge, he became prominent fig
ure in the nations affairs. Always mod
crate and conservative, and having plen-
ty of firmness and decision, he was one
of the leaders in urging vigorous war
policy as soon as it became apparent that
war was inevitable. His senatorial term
covered the troubled administrations Of
Buchanan, Lincoln and johnson, and
might have been extended indefinitely