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

| the shed near her house she slipped. break
| ing a bone in her thigh.
Lewis Schleiter. a young man 16 years
old, hung himself in the woodshed at La
| crosse. Temporary arrangement is sup
posed to have been the cause.
Earnings of the Milwaukee and st. Paul
for the third week of March aggregated
| SooS,53S, as against S623.S11 for the cor
responding period of 1896 decrease of
| $117,273.
| w. j. Plank was taken to the city hos
! pltal at Marinette in very weak state.
The physicians say he will die. Plank
has been at Ellis junction under doe
tors care ever since his alteration with
woodsman at that place. Plank alleged
that the man kicked him three times in
| the groin.
| David e. Stewart of Greenwood, who
| was examined at Fort Smelling March l
for a cadetship at West Point, received
telegram from Alexander Stewart, NJ c.,
stating that he had received the appoint
ment. He will enter upon his duties
| June l.
The committee on Legislation" of the
Common Council of West Superior has
forwarded to the Legislature protests
against the passage of the bill providing
for the taxation of water companies of
the State upon their gross earnings in
stead of upon their property valuation as
| is the present method.
Frederick Eissenger. secretary and
| treasurer of the wholesale LIQUOR firm
known as the J. p. Eissenger Company
| one or the oldest wholesale houses in Mil
| Waukee. fell down flight of stairs ut the
| home of his father and was fatally in
| cured, his skull being fractured 1t is
| supposed he was stricken with apoplexy.
| "A very novel wager has been made at
henosha between two well-known men.
The wager is one of $1,000 and by it's
terms one man is to walk to New York and
return i'll ninety days; must do no work
| on the road, but must have $500 and
wife upon his return. The progress made
IS TO be reported from iifty-four towns
marked out on the route.
! Receiver Burlington filed his report on
| the Commercial Bank of Eau Claire 1t
gives tho total liabilities a $G4 9O6.64, the
assets and nominal value thereof $94,-
| 6oS.Go. The receiver. however, specifies
various deductions which must be made
from the items of nominal assets, and
States that it appears the actual value
of assets will not exceed $50, 191.
Gov Schofeld was in Marinette and
| stated that his logging operations on the
| Poppe river are completed. His COM
| pany banked about 10000. 900 feet Of logs
! for the Schroeder Lumber Company of
I Milwaukee. The Governor has had a
profitable logging season and is we'll pleas
ed with the winters campaign in the PIN
cries The Fence River Logging Com
pany has also broken up its four camps
and other companies are rapidly following
| suit.
| Mrs. Alvers, an old lady of 81 years.
was found dead in her home at Kenosha
| by neighbors who called. The cause of
her death is reported to have been over
| excitement Shortly before her death
| must have occurred she had had a warm
| discussion with Il man concerning some
| thing about the farm. Her excitement
| became very intense She stepped into
| the house and dropped dead just inside
| the door. She had always been in the
| best of health.
The extension of the Sheridan road
| through Racine County will meet with
bitter opposition on the part of farmers
of Caledonia and Mount Pleasant and 9TH
| or towns. Preliminary steps have been
| taken to begin the fight. Farmers have
| engaged Peter Il. Nelson to take care of
| their side of the opposition. Petitions are
being circulated and signed. addressed to
| Assemblymen w. Il. Lewis and Thomas
| "A. MOSher. The farmers claim that the
| tax for such 4 road would prove too heavy
| Il burden and that many would not be able
| to pay it.
A terrible drowning accident, the only
| fatal one so far as the result of the re-
| cent floods in that vicinity, occurred Mon
day evening in Lewis Valley. Bernhard
! Koch. a farmer, hitched up his horses and
! with his wife and the latters little broth
! or Jim, son of George Hermann, started
| for Leon. Two miles east OF Bangor they
| came across Il rapid freshet caused by
rain and melting snow. On driving in
| the current upset the wagon and threw
| the occupants into the water. All three
were drowned. The bodies have since
| been recovered.
Gov. Schofeld will take steps to pro-
| vide, if possible. for the care of Mary
| Sweeney, who has made so much trouble
| for many merchants in Wisconsin towns
| by smashing plate glass windows. This
woman has Il history, being Intelligent
| and we'll educated. She is still goodlo
| ing and talks we'll She once taught school
in Marquette Mich. and also in Stevens
Point this State She was married years
ago, but on account of her freakish out
breaks her husband left her. Mary says
she doesn't know why she breaks windows
and only does it when the craze seZes her.
She uses cocaine literally on such occa-
sions, saying it quiets her nerves.
The first tests of the new sheep shearing
machines, which the Northwestern Rail-
road has introduced at its sheep yards ut
La Fox, ILL.,. were made Wednesday at
ternoon. The tests We're satisfactory, and
those who have the process under their
control consider that complete revolu-
ton in the methods of sheep shearing in
the United States will be brought about
thereby within very few years. The
plant which the Northwestern company
has ready for operation consists of only
ten machines, but a very large number
will be put in so as to be ready as soon as
the shearing season actively opens. The
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