Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-05-06

cine, killed himself at Horton, La.
The Augusta school board met and de-
cided to retain the present teachers the
coming year.
The Kiel Roller Mills, owned by Will
liam Meyer of Elkhart Lake, burned to
the ground The loss is So COO; insur-
ance, $4,000. The building was a stone
structure and nothing but the walls are
standing. The origin of the fire is mys-
terry.
Ole C. O'Kern, brakeman, was seri-
ously injured at the icehouses near Pc
waukee Tuesday. While alighting from
car to turn a switch he was struck by an
electric light pole. His left arm was
broken, his body badly bruised and his
face severely cut. He is now at the Ross
man House in Hartland.
The most important case on the criminal
calendar at Appleton was that of Porter
Ross, charged with murder. Ross plead
ed not guilty and his trial is set for the
extra jury term in June. He will be de-
Tended by Attorney Nugent. Ross is not
bearing his life in Jail well. His looks
show that his health is poor, and he bears
the appearance of broken down man.
he was first arrested.
Ralph Phillips, aged 81 years and re-
siding about five miles east of Beaver
Dam, committed suicide by hanging. lie
was found in the barn hanging to one OF
the beams. 1t was evident that he had
been dead several hours before being dis
covered. A year ago he was struck by a
falling tree and received severe injuries.
1t is the suppositon that his mind was af-
fected as a result of the injuries. He
leaves wife and two children.
DR.. G. E. Edwards of Stevens Point,
manager of the Plover Paper Company's
mill, had a narrow escape from drowning
Monday afternoon. He got into rowboat
above the dam, intending to cross over
to another point The river is very swift
at this point and before he could realize
it he was carried over the dam and
through the rapids below. He was thrown
from the boat into the water, but came
up under the boat and held on, finally
drifting on to an island from which he
was rescued by Il boat from the mill.
A wave of interest has been aroused by
the announcement that Rev. Sabin Hal
sey, d. D., will start a grocery store in
Milwaukee. DR.. Halsey recently resign
ed his pastorate in GAINESVILLE on account
of i'll health. DR.. Halsey is one of the
best-knovn clergymen in the State. 1t
was he who started the matrimonial bu-
reau at the Grand Avenue Methodist
Episcopal Church parsonage, which, I'M
der his and Rev. Mr.. Hunsberger's adj
ministration, became famed all over the
country. DR.. Halsey was at one time
presiding elder of the district, and was
twice pastor Of the Grand Avenue Church
At the conclusion Of his last pastorate
he was succeeded by MI. Hunsberger.
At the conclusion of service in the
Superior First Baptist Church Sunday
night the Rev. Frank Swartwout, the
pastor, resigned. In doing so he said:
God has taken from me all hope in the
present system Of churches, and He has
shown me the apostasy among the people
who are processing false doctrine and
making the church an amusement bureau.
1 have also learned that the clergymen
of to-day have no sanction of the word of
God and that they stoOp to please All I'M
regenerated people. They discuss secular,
ethical and popular themes, and hardly
ever a gospel note is sounded by them
from God to the lost Therefore, as a
protest, God leads me to entire separation
from this man-made system for the rest
of my life. The religious people of to-day
have no scripture to back their apostasy,
and the conditions are rapidly becoming
worse. | now give up voluntarily every
| thing that has marked me as belonging to
! the clergy ordained of man, but do not
go out of Gods ministry"
Gov. Scofeld had vetoed eight and ap-
proved twenty-three of the thirty-one bills
| left in his hands when the Legislature
took its recess until August. AS this was
a recess and not an adjournment sine die
| the vetoes will come before the Legisla-
ture for action at the August session. The
| acts approved since the recess include
| the capitol employee bill, the bill to enable
cities to take an equity in water works
| plants, the bill regulating building and
| loan associations, the new school code and
some others of Importance Twelve bills
were vetoed by the Governor during the
session, making total of twenty which
| have met their death at the hands of the
executive after passing both houses of the
Legislature. The total number of bills
which have been passed, approved and be-
come laws is 374. This is thirteen less
tnan TWO years ago, when there were 0Sl (.
| Gov. Scofeld has, unlike most of his pred
| ecessors, acted on every bill which has
come before him, none being allowed to
go to the Secretary of State to become
laws without his signature.
The plant of the Wisconsin Beet Sugar
Company at Menomonee ceased opera
| tons Wednesday and discharged seventy
workmen. For a week experiments have
| been made with the beets which have
been in the pits ali winter and it was
learned that they had lost G6 per cent of
saccharine properties. 1t was not, how
ever, until Wednesday that this was fully
demonstrated, when the manufacturers
put forth every effort to produce granu-
lated sugar and the results were very
| meager. There was doubt in the minds
| of many whether sugar could be made of
beets, but this needs no demonstration,
as samples were distributed and tried by
| great many. The management is high
ly elated over the result that. they could
show Wisconsin people their ability to
| make sugar Of beets, and they are salts
| fed that the industry will prosper in the