Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-03-11
DR.. A. E. oviatt has been appointed

DR.. A. e. Oviatt has been appointed
/ health officer at Elkhora.
| Willie Munson, 10 years of age, while
| playing around the cars at Superior, was
/ killed.
4 chant, made an assignment to n. Green
| gard.
Curfew shall not ring tonight or any
other night in Kenosha. So decided the
| Common Council
| Griff Griffiths. aged II years, died at
Belmont He lived as a hermit and was
| in destitute circumstances.
| Near Victory, the dwelling house of
| Claude Griffin burned. 1t is thought to be
the work of an incendiary.
| 1t is now more than likely that the
GAINESVILLE Street Railway will be sold to
a syndicate of Milwaukee business men
who are represented in the negotiations
| now pending.
| Henry kroeger. who controlled a saw
mill about three miles from Plymouth,
was struck in the breast by a board and
| instantly killed He was 33 years of age
and leaves wife and four small children.
At meeting of the Beaver Dam Com
mon Council it was decided to have plans
and specifications for an incandescent
light system. An ordinance was passed
over the Mayors veto to have the st.
Paul Railway Company put in gates at all
| the principal crossings in the city.
The rate Of mortality in Oshkosh is
| little more than one day. The record for
the past year by months is as follows:
| March, ~; April, q; May, 30; June, %;
July, 81; August, 81; Sept amber, 30; Oc-
tober, 81; November, %; December. SO;
January, 30; February, A; total 400.
James Clark, janitor of the La Crosse
Sixth ward school, committed suicide. He
climbed into the belfry of the school
house, fastened the bell rope around his
neck and then swung off. The bell rang
twice, tolling his own death knell. Clark
was man 55 years old and leaves a
| family.
johnson Dromgold & Co. of Logans-
! port, Ind, will move their hoop factory
to Phillips in August or September. They
employ about fifty men and operate their
plant the whole year. Mr. johnson has
been there looking over the elm, and
states that it is the finest quality he has
| ever seen.
The Racine Board of Public Works de-
cided to award the contract for street
| improvements to the lowest bidder, ac
cording to the city laws. Accordingly
firm at Lansing, Mich, will secure the
| work. There was an effort made to have
the contract awarded to a local firm. The
work amounts to about $4,000.
At Racine, articles of incorporation
were filed with the register of deeds by the
Il. ID. Eisendrath company. The capital
| is $4,000. The object of the company is
| to conduct a tannery. The old firm of
Eisendrath Il Co. passes out of existence.
The factory will be started up there at
once under the new firms name.
John O'Donnell, convicted of the MUIR
der of his wife, was sentenced to impris-
onment for life by Judge Bailey at Eau
| Claire. When asked what he had to say
| O'Donnell replied: 81 have nothing to say
except that l am innocent of the charge.
| never thought to do such a thing. l
could not do such a thing" He was ap-
parently unconcerned.
At the foot of the hill leading to the
Menononee river in Wauwatosa, Il sub
urb of Milwaukee, a trolley car came to
| a stop after a runaway down the steep
descent Less than three feet more and
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the river, forty feet below. The motor
man and conductor were alone on the car
and jumped without injury.
| Under an order from Judge Bum Of the
| United States Court at Superior, all the
remaining assets of the defunct Supe-
rior National Bank have been sold, DIR.
James II. Parker of the United States
National Bank of New York making the
| IL
depositors to be paid in full, with interest
at 6 per cent from proof of claim. The
bank failed in 1895 with 100000 liabili-
ties and 100000 assets, and has already
paid 20 per cent dividend to dcpositors.
AS a result of the strike of freight
handlers at Ludngton there is something
of a blockade of -four and other freight
on the Wisconsin Central line at Mani
! towoc. 1t is stated by Flint and Pere
| Marquette officials that the effects of the
strike are pretty we'll overcome In the
neighborhood of 100 freight handlers from
Saginaw and other points have arrived at
| Ludington to take the places of such of
| the strikers as still refuse to return to
| work.
| Albert Il. Choquette, of Milwaukee,
went to Kankakee, H.. to visit his broth
er, partly owing to i'll health, and he died
! in that city Dec. 26. When his will was
| filed the value of the estate was supposed
| to be S27 ,26O, but it now develops that
| the French sewing machine man was
worth. according to his heirs, more than
| $500, 900, nearly all of which is stored in
a safety deposit vault in st. Paul. The
| probate court is askel to name Il commits
sioner, under heavy bonds, to determine
| the value of the estate.
| Hans Christianson. a laborer at Eau
Claire, while suspended in 9O-foot we'll
| forty feet from the surface. mending the
curling, was precipitated to the bottom
by the breaking of the pulley. He drop
ped fifty feet into water over his head.
The broken pulley struck him and broke
two ribs. He saved himself from drown
ing by padding for fifteen minutes. and
was then able to hold to rope which
was dropped to him. and to which he
chung while three men hauled him to the
surface. He will recover.
An electric car OH the South Milwaukee
line slowed suddenly while descending
sharp grade on Pennsylvania avenue
Monday morning and capsized, rolling