Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28


was As years of age.
Charles B. Hathaway and NJ. S. Robin
son, well-known street railway men OF
Cleveland. are in Racine, looking over the
line and power houses of the Belle CITY
Railway Company.
Miss Martha Cunningham, of James
| vile, being refused permission to attend
a dance, took dose of poison. Her lfe
was saved hy prompt action, and she mas
been sent to an asylum at Mendoza.
The army of unemployed is greater at
Iron Belt than it has been for the past
three years, largely because there IS less
work being done in the woods than in pre-
vious years. Mines work but very Few
men and some shafts have shut down pre-
sumably till spring.
Assignee H. S. Butler, of the suspend
ed Bank of Superior, has filed state
| ment showing assets and habliltles at
S12G,777. The bank has loans and real
| estate to the amount of $1OO,OUU. Inc
liabilities include SIT 600 deposits. This
was the only bank at Superior and Will
probably be reorganized.
At Menomonee Falls, William Radke
was killed at the Wisconsin beet sugar
| factory while at work raising a heavy
stick of timber. The derrick used Tell
| over upon the workmen. The man leaves
a wife and three children. He lived about
six hours after the accident happened.
| William Tetzloff, aged 3S years, was
instantly killed in one Of Knapp, Stout a
Co.'S lumber camps at Cedar Lake. He
was standing on load of logs driving his
team, and rs he approached the lake the
| he 10 tbrayxiru him fnrw0 rO.
He struck his head on the tongue, break
ing his neck. The deceased lived at Me-
nominee.
The big male chorus choir at the Con-
gregational Church in Appleton was in
creased from ninety voices to lOl, and
will be maintained at that standard here
| after The choir has attracted much at
tention and has come to be a popular fea-
ture of the services at the Congregational
| Church. A great many requests have
come from neighboring cities for concerts
by the choir and a tour is now being ar
ranged to include Neenah, Oshkosh, Fond
du Lac and Green Bay.
After nearly three weeks delay the
body of Levi Taylor has been taken up
and a coroner's inquest held at Grants
| burg. The verdict was that death was
caused by a violent blow on the head in
a manner to the jury unknown. William
Stone, half-breed Indian in whose COM
pany Taylor spent the last two days of
his life, has been arrested and examined.
His story is that they drank three pints
of lemon extract and got sick. Stones
squaw tells the same story. Stone, when
examined for the alleged murder of Tay
lor was discharged for lack OF evidence.
II. M. .8yllesby of St. Paul. Arthur S.
Huey of Minneapolis, David Douglas of
Eau Claire and other capitalists will ask
the Eau Claire Council for franchise to
develop the water power on the Eau
Claire river by the erection of a power
house in the center of the city for furnish
ing power and light. The gentlemen nam
ed have al option on the power and all
necessary lands now owned by the North
western Lumber Company. The enter
prise involves an investment of about
100000. The gentlemen interested are
closely associated with the parties in
stalling the electrical power ON the new
Minneapolis dam.
John Peters, % years DID, and Charles
Schaeffer, alias Carl Schmitz, q years
old, were arraigned in Yorkville police
court at New York as suspicious persons.
A letter wrstten in German and addressed
to Mrs. NJ. Weigel 3O6 Eighth street,
Milwaukee, was also found in Schaeffer's
pocket. 1t was signed carl Schmitz"
and mentioned handling goods The Mil
waukee police were notified. In the room
occupied by the men and in mattress
there were found ninety-one knives, three
pairs of BARRIERS clippers and razor.
The property belonged to L. Lowe, of Mil
waukee The men were held in $1,000
bail each.
Seventh ward school house No. /, at
Eau Claire, caught fire in the roof We'd
nesday mor.ling. In the building were
500 pupils, the principal and seven woman
teachers. The alarm was given from the
outside by a teacher from another school
house. Each teacher in the burning
building was quietly notified, and each
gave her scholars q series of signals,
which constitute the school fire drill. In
response the scholars rose, passed to the
cloak rooms, put on their outer garments,
and marched out. reaching the street
without p:nic or fright. Most Of the $500
books i'll The school house and some of
the furniture were carried out by the
ianitors a:ld fremen. The bell fell through
to the second floor, and the whole build
ing was flooded with water The build
ing was damaged to the extent of $4,000,
and insured for $4,000 1t was built
thirty years ago and was fire trap Of
the worst kind. 1t will be torn down and
a new one erected. That there was not
great loss of life was due to the GOODNESS
of the teachers.
Since last November there have been
thousands of pounds of venison shipped
from Northern Wisconsin to Chicago.
some of which was en- route to New York
and Boston, says Superior special It ia
presumed that the game wardens do not
even knew it, for if they did undoubted-
ly an arrest would have been made occa-
sionally, whereas not single violation
has been brought before the court to an
swer to the charge of slaughtering deer
| out of season within year. The yanison