Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-09-30
Minor State Mattera

Minor State Matters
An electric light plant is being put in 1t
| Crivitz.
George Howard, pickpocket, escaped
from Jail at Sheboygan.
There are five cases of scarlet fever in
one family in Marinette.
The pearl clam excitement at Beloit
| may be duplicated at Marinette.
Harry B. Ross, of Beloit, is in quaran-
tine at Meridian, Miss, where the yellow
fever panic prevails.
Be1nie Albee, "a years of age, wandered
away from his home at Milton junction
| in demented condition.
The assessed valuation of Ill personal
property subject to taxation in the city
OF Sheboygan foots up 81, 1864
Jennie Koehler, 10 years old, attempted
suicide at Sheboygan by taking chloro-
form. A physician saved her life.
j. +. Labounty, a dry goods dealer at
Ashland, assigned to e. e. Tenant,
cashier Of the First National bank.
H. J. Case, one of the best-known
farmers in Sank County, was adjudged in
sane and will be taken to an asylum.
Theodore Bocheim, employed in J. j.
Hogan's wholesale grocery, at Lacrosse,
was caught in the elevator shaft and
fatally crushed.
Ten thousand dollars is asked by Miss
Ella V. Pratt from the city of GAINESVILLE
for injuries sustained by falling on a de-
fective sidewalk.
Benjamin Rude and Walter Cosgrove.
of Eau Claire, were shooting at target.
Cosgrove accidentally discharged rifle,
killing Rude instantly.
Edward Weitenberg, farmer resid-
ing ten miles north of Appleton, was
caught in a windmill and so seriously
injured that he may die.
Oliver P Rankin, who, it is alleged,
passed forged check on Landlord Stowe
at the Palmer House, Fond du Lac, was
arrested in Davenport, Iowa.
At Appleton the Waverly house vas
totally destroyed by fire. The building
was valued at $4,000. 1t was veneered
brick and about twenty years old.
Hinbert Wilkes, the speedy PAGER,
owned by Soverhill & Porter, Of James
vile, took first money in an $500 purse at
the Minnesota State fair, in st. Paul.
During heavy electric storm lightning
struck the Nj. e. Church at Reeds Cor
ners, SCATTERING the spire and damaging
the church to the amount of several hun
dred dollars.
John Pike brought into Elroy from his
farm tall stalk of corn. The stalk meas
ures 1G feet inches from the top of The
tassel to the root. The entire field was
extra tall corn.
Blackberrying parties have been the go
of late, and for nearly two weeks there
has been steady stream of pickers to the
berry patches north of the Keshena reser-
Walton, many from points as far away as
New London.
Valentine Mundvitzke, the last man ar
rested by the government officials at Ash
land on charge of running an illicit
whisky disti1lery, was taken before Court
Commissioner Tomkins at Madison and
waived examination.
The body of Chris Nelson, who was
drowned at Little Falls about June Is,
was found few days ago on an island be-
low Chippewa Falls. There was nothing
left but the skeleton of the body. The
head and arms were gone.
Farmers near Palmyra report an hith-
erto unknown species of bug-a little
larger than an ordinary bee-working in
and destroying their corn crops. Corn
and husks are destroyed with rapidity and
by the acre, leaving an entirely cleaned
corncob.
During the past three weeks about 49,
100000 feet of lumber has been shipped
from Marinette, exceeding any shipment
ever made in the same time. A large Num-
Der CT logging camps are being started up,
more than for twenty years at this early
time IN the season.
A $4,000 damage suit against the vii
lage of Sun Prairie is one of the POSSIBLE
ties of the future. The curfew and per-
sonal rights seems to be the basis of the
suit The complaining witness is an in
dignant citizen, whose young son was on
the street after the curfew had rung and