Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-03-25
Minor State Matters.

At Marinette. piece of beefsteak lodg
ed in John Kelly's windpipe and he ex-
pired in Il few minutes.
Katie Duprey, the second victim of
Porter Ross. died of her wounds at the
Beaulieu place, near Kaukauna, where
she was shot.
Eau Claire parties are to erect elegant
and commodious summer resort cottages
and fit up beautiful grounds at Round
Lake, near Hayward, the coming summer.
Warner Hathaway, who had been
resident of Beaver Dam for forty-two
years, is dead in his sixtysixth year. He
had been an alderman for twenty-five
years.
William Virgins, q pioneer and for
over fifty years Il resident of the town of
Rubicon, died at his home three and one
half miles northwest of that village, aged
81 years.
Two daughters of John Ellenbcck of
Holstein We're fatally burned while play
ing in tie garnet. One died Il few hours
after the accident and the other cannot
survive.
J. Harvey Clarkson, formerly manager
of the Superior shirt factory, and well
known on account of his work as end
man in local Ministries, died of pneumonia
at SuperiCc.
Peter Gaca of Two Rivers. aged 3S
years, was adjudged insane by Judge An
-derson. He was taken to the asylum ut
Oshkosh recent lawsuit in which he
was defeated is supposed to be the cause
of his insanity.
Captain C. S. Barker, the successful
bidder for the Government dredging con-
tract at West Superior. has purchased
the dredging plant of II. ]. Cram of De-
troit and Port Huron. The sale includes
two dredges. two tugs and four scows,
approximately worth $125,OOO. Captain
Barker now has full complement of
dredging machinery.
The house of T.. Sheidler, who lives
about two miles from Deansvlle, was
entirely consumed by fire with all its
contents Thursday afternoon. Mr.. Shield
Ter was at work some distance from the
house at the time. Mrs. Sheidler, after
finishing her work in the kitchen, retired
TO an adjoining room and fell asleep. Her
husband was attracted by the fire and
found her just in time to save her llte
Judge Parish signed two orders at Ash
land Which inyaldates one-siNth of the tax
levied by Bayfield, year ago. The Mer-
rill & Ring Lumber Company and Gran
berry Lumber Company of Duluth had
nuantity of logs in the town OF bayfield,,
which were assessed. They brought suit
to knock out portion of the tax. Several
ALLEGATIONS were set up, the principal one
be;no that Il certain tax levied for school
Durposes and amounting to one-slxth or
the total tax. was invalid. Judge Parish
sustained this point, and signed orders
allowing these firms to pay the tax levied,
less this amount.
Porter Ross of Kaukauna, the alleged
wife murderer, who Is connheu at .he
county iail in Appleton awaiting his trial,
asked for a doctor during the nisht. Inc
,,hvs;c;an found that Ross has Abandoned
pat;na FIN and taken to deyouring the
,,';ra snr;ngs of his bed. He got away
,,,;tb . considerable quantity during the
,;.rh+ and had several pieces broken up
hitch he intended to eat for lunch. 10
tho night watch he claimed that he had
aatap sixty pieces in all, varying IN
1ono+b from a quarter of an inch upwards:
An examination of the springs showed
.ha+ considerable wire was missing.
~, Eest. a lumberman, was found
~ ahont forty miles from Hayward
tho beadwaters of the Chippewa river.
He apparently got lost IN the neass sho@ 70
storm and persisted within forty roos oi
a farm house.
No little excitement prevalled a. the
school house in Walworth few days ago
when little Herman Long, aged years,
drank two-thirds of bottle OF INK; Inc
teacher grew white and the scholars
screamed, but Herman was as GOO, a.
cucumber. He was on hand. nano p m"na tbe
however, the next dhy, feellns none '1e
worse for what he had drank.