Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-23

nigh school Will De established at
Hammond next year.
Michael Tomaskefski was killed at
Thorp by the falling limb of a tree.
The Lewis block, recently burned at
Marinette, will be rebuilt in the spring.
Another bank. in which ex-Gov. Up
ham is interested, will be started at Ash
land
The grocery store Of Aid. Dettman of
Aarinette was robbed of about $50 and
some goods.
The Christ Episcopal Church at Chip
pewa Falls was dedicated with imposing
ceremonies.
Cheap horses from southern Wisconsin
are being shipped to France for consump-
ton as food.
John Fisk. an old resident of Omro and
well-known writer ON Horticulture, is
very i'll at his home.
Diphthelia has broken out in La Crosse.
Several of the parochial schools have been
closed on this account.
Thirteen ivory billiard balls, valued at
500, were stolen from the billiard hall
of w. NJ. Stewart in Racine.
Thieves entered the saloon of John
Oberst at Racine and stole a quantity of
liquor, cigars and some money.
Veterans of the Iron Brigade" will
erect monument to Gen. John Gibbon
in Arlington cemetery, Fond du Lac
The citizens of Algoma are working
to get the harbor at that place deepened
SO that it may be better fishing port.
Thirty-six men lost their lives in North
ern Wisconsin by being shot by deer hunt
ers during the open season of twenty
days.
Mrs. Frank Dudley of JanesviNe was
granted divorce by Judge Bennett in
that city on the grounds of cruel treat
ment.
a large cat, which was pet of the
Racine tiremen, recently rode to a fire in
that town, clinging to the ladder ON the
truck.
No insurance can be collected for the
State property destroyed in the armory
fire at La Crosse, as the policies had ex-
pired.
Senator Il. b. Mills has been appointed
by Collector J. Q. Adams of Marquette
as deputy collector for the port of Su
perior.
At Marinette. William Smith, aged 16
years, was sentenced to Jail for thirty
days for throwing snowballs at the Sal
walton army.
w. w. Black of Prairie du Chen died
recently. He was one of the oldest mail
clerks in the service, having been a clerk
for more than twenty years in the North
west.
The Beebe Manufacturing Company Of
Racine has reduced the wages of it's EN-
p!oyes 10 per cent. Thirty of the men
Immediately struck and others are ex-
pected to go out.
The Mayor Of Marshfeld has refused
the petition of a theatrical company to
give a performance ON Sunday in that
town. The local ministers have been ag
itating the subject
A young son Of Daniel Kelly, living
near Beloit, was swinging an AK which
encountered the limb of a tree. The
blade was DETECTED and cut off one Of
the boys ears close to the head
Col e. B. Gray. department command
err of the State G. A. r., has appointed
G. e. Estabrook. T.. ]. Billings and G. B.
Merrick as the historical committee au-
thorized by the last State encampment.
Two departments of the public schools
at Hurley We're closed by the health au-
thorities owing to the prevalence of diph-
iberia. The Ironwood schools across the
State line have reopened after short
close for the same cause.
Over 100 prisoners in the county Jail
at Milwaukee have been exposed to diph-
liberia. One prisoner was discovered to
have the disease and three more are af-
fected. The county physician immedi-
ately ordered the place quamntined.
President Fisher of the Wisconsin and
Michigan Railroad says that his company
will try an electric engine on it's road to
some of the logging camps. Mr.. Fisher
is interested in the Patton motor, which
will be used in the new engine.
A circular saw, revolving 1900 times
a minute, broke in a wood-sawing mill at
Fond du Lac and the fragments infict-
ed such serious wounds on Nelson Erie,
the owner of the mill, that it was neces-
sary to amputate his right arm.
The dispute between the town of Col
burn and Chippewa County about the
proposed building of a bridge promises to
end in lawsuit. The towns want 81, 500
from the county to aid the enterprise,
while the County Board is only willing to
give $500.
The indictment which has hung over
Gustav c. TRIUMPH. president Of the de-
funct South Side Savings Bank at Mil
waukee since Oct -. 1892, was "nolled"
in secret by Judge Wallber of the NUM-
cipal court in November. President
Trumpff was charged with perjury.
A syndicate of Milwaukee capitalists
has purchased the electric plant of G. l..
Cole and NJ. II. Taylor in Beloit and the
two interests have been consolidated and
will be run by the Beloit Electric Light
Company. The Milwaukee men will pur-
chase several plants in the Northwest.
The County Board of ST. Croix County
will make an effort to curtail the fees of
the clerk of the Circuit Court Mr.. Web
e+or tho in ba1lt Sayc that no will