Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-11-11
no second bank Of Durand has been

bridge across the river y. ehe.s e>S n
feet long and costing SS,o93.
Thieves broke into the Bohemian Catn-
olic Church at Prairie du Chen ana stole
the sacred vessels of the altar
PETER Graef, hotel proprietor, shot and
!! Instantly killed Louis Klaus at CrlvHz.
| He was in Graef's saloon trying to run
! the place.
! Wolves are reported unusually numer-
ous between Trempealeau and New AM
sterdam. One farmer reports the loss OF
! forty sheep.
| The general merchandise and drug
store of T.. Nickerson at Waucoma was
entered by thieves and number of artl-
(! cles were stolen.
| Alexander Kirkwood, postmaster at
| Kirkwood, committed suicide by taxing
| laudanum. Financial trouble is supposed
| to be the cause.
Iauis Wilson. a bootblack at Fond du
| Lac. has just received word that o'ooo
crowns V ere left to him in Denmark py
the death of a relative.
! A Dane County farmer recently gain
cred fifty bushels of hickory nuts from
q few wild trees on his farm and sofa
| them for 81 per bushel.
A stranger from st. Paul, giving the
! name of Patrick Burke fell under pas
| senger train at Hudson and had both feet
| crushed. Both feet had to come OFT.
| Wesley Vanderbilt of Sherman has an
eagle which he secured alive, rlfie snot
having broken its wing. 1t measures
more than eight feet from tip to tip.
Francis Warnes, an inmate of the Mil
| waukee Soldiers Home, died as result
| of falling down the stairs at the nome OF
! his wife on West Huron street In chicago.
! A factory for the manufacture Of aXles
will be established at Racine Junction.
Fifty thousand dollars will be spent IN
the enterprise and 100 men will be gwen
employment.
| In fit Of dependency caused by lack
| of work. Charles Golbeck OF PeWaukee
made an unsuccessful attempt TO end ms
| life by taking rat poison. He Will prop
ably recover.
| Charles Danfeldt, wandering farmer
boy, was adjudged insane at Janesvliie
| and taken to Mendoza. Where Dan
feldt's home is, or where his relatives live
is a mystery.
The Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha
Electric Railway Company IS now formal
ly opened between Racine and Kenosha.
The first run was made to the kenosha
| limits in less than an hour.
| Mrs. Frank Bomahock of Kewaskum
| committed suicide by hanging herself III
! her COW barn She had been in poor health
| for the last two years. She leaves nus
| band and eight small children.
The first of numerous eviction cases of
| the Illinois Steel Company against squat
| tiers on Jones Island was decided in favor
of the Illinois Steel Company in the Unit
ed States District Court at Milwaukee.
By means of skeleton keys several Of
fees in Superior were entered. The New
York Life Insurance Company's office
was ransacked and money and stamps
stolen. Titus & Mcintosh, attorneys, lost
So.
i At Big Bend a young man by the name
! of Anderson from the southern part OF
the State was badly wounded. While go
! ing through the woods he was taken for
a deer and shot by a member of a party of
| hunters.
Berlin people are circulating a petition
| to have the county seat removed from
hartford to that place. If enough names
can be secured, the proposition will come
| before the people Of the county at the next
| election.
| Marshall & Mcdonald of Chippewa
Falls are erecting large flour and feed
mill at Boomer. The site is that occu-
pied by the saw and grist mills, which
were swept down the river by the flood
] six years ago.
The barns on the farm of John Calen-
|
! Gus Boyer, were consumed by fire, to-
! gether with COW, hay, straw, fodder and
other property. The loss will amount to
nearly $4,000.
| At Fond du Lac, the amount of 81 ,436
| was paid over to the county treasurer to
cover the shortage Of County Clerk Fergu-
son, who shot himself last January and
died in June. The money was paid out
of his life insurance.
Articles of association have been filed
| by the Goddard & Allen Company of Be
| lott to manufacture carpet stretchers, etc.;
capital stock, $4,000. Also the Mann
! Gerber Company of Milwaukee, to ham
de woolens; capital, $4,000.
While hunting near Sullivan, Leonard
Hoffman Of Milwaukee succeeded in
shooting and wounding large gray
eagle. The enraged bird then attacked
Mr.. Hoffman, who had lively skirmish
before he dispatched the eagle.
The Danish American Lutheran College
Investment Association purchased the
Howard property in Racine on which will
be erected the Danish Evangelical L,l-
theran College The purchase price is
/ $1,000. The site is beautiful one
! The store of G. w. Thomas at Trempea-
| leau was entered by burglars and many
articles of value taken Checks for ST.