Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-02-18
Louis Peterson was crushed to death
while skldding logS near Marinette

by West Superior street car and fatally
injured.
III. NJ. Coleman, a dairyman residing
at Fond du Lac, was nearly killed in 4
runaway.
Court rendered a verdict of guilty against
Paul Olson on a charge of forgery.
While rolling logs for the Necedah Lum-
Der Company at Cedarhurst, a log came
back and struck man named Tarbox,
breaking his left arm and injuring him
internally.
Nate Foster, of Smutt's Point, Rock
County. was taken before Justice Saw
yer by Warden Pagel on charge of kill
ing muskrats on Horizon marsh. He was
fined 1921.
e. r. McMahon, of Minneapolis, Mimi.
has begun garnishee suit for $4,000
against Adolph Fleming, assignee of the
defunct T. G. Shove Banking Company of
Manitowoc.
Mrs Mary Mansel, an old lady 67 years
Of age, was found dead in her rooms at
Two Rivers. She had been failing for
some time, but no immediate fatal results
were apprehended.
Matt Byrne, one of FIVE brothers, we'll
known acrobats of theatrical company
playing Eight Bells" dropped dead at
Appleton. His body was taken to Nor
wich, Conn.,, for burial
Frank Winchell, arrested at West Supe-
rior with twenty carcasses of deer in his
possession killed out of season, was SEN
fenced to pay fine of $3.50 or $50 days
in Jail, the punishment being SO much per
carcass.
The Supreme Court in deciding the
Kelley law unconstitutional knocked DR..
Alexander Montgomery of the Eau Claire
institute out of $20,41O, which he was
owed by the various counties for treating
patients.
J. c. Taylor, court commissioner and
chairman of the County Board of Super
visors, died at his home III Independence
of pneumonia He was proprietor Of u
Independence drug store and was about
60 years of age.
Charles White was severely injured at
Neenah by being struck by a train on the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway. 1t
is impossible to state the full extent OF
his injuries. 1t may be necessary to am
putate his foot.
Milton has a law and order league with
large membership and subscription
fund of several thousand dollars. This
week an assessment of 10 per cent has
been made and a handsome sum placed
in the treasury. movement is on foot
to prosecute alleged violations of the ex-
else law and ''blind pig" prc.rietors.
Princes Point, on Bark river, SO named
after a man named Prince who encamped
thereon in 1887 to manufacture the first
maple sugar known to have been made
by white man in Jefferson County, has
completed across the river the first inn
provement of the year, and one of the
greatest on the river-an iron bridge.
with massive stone abutments, built by
an Ohio company.
Mrs. Ole Ellingson, living in the town Of
Lund, eight miles from Evansville, was
found in the field frozen. She left home
to visit her sister about a mile distant.
She remained there about two hours and
started back home early in the evening.
Not much was thought of her absence,
as she had remained away for several
days before, but search was commenced
and the body was found about eighty rods
from where she started, lying in the snow
huddled up as if going to sleep. Exam
ination showed she had on no under
clothes, but a thin petticoat. The hus-
band said that she was not in her right
mind. The coroner said death was caused
by apoplexy brought on by exposure.
AS a result of secret investigation by
the Wisconsin Taxpayers Association, it
is announced that suit will be begun at
once against Forest County officials for
alleged illegal collection of taxes. For
several years tie laws limiting the
amount of money that could be raised
in Forest County by taxation was strictly
observed, but in rendering a decision in a
tax case it is said Justice Pinney of the
Supreme Court referred to the Forest
County law as unconstitutional and since
then, it is alleged, the limit law has been
disregarded. The census of 1895 gives
the aggregate population of the towns,
cities and villages of Forest County as
being exactly 1,2SS, divided as follows
Crandon, 4O5; Gagen, 657; Pelican Lake,
226 There were 745 males in the county
two years ago. Still the county raised in
the way of taxes last year the sum of
$4,000. A number of Marinette mill
companies owning lands and timber in
crest County anu tue SHIcdSO uuO
Northwestern road and other companies
and few individuals claim that they
have been unjustly taxed for some years.
A recent decision affecting in part the
claim urged by the Taxpayers Associa-
ton was decided in favor of Forest Coun-
ty, but this has not deferred the associa-
ton from pushing their investigation.
Since the decision of the Supreme Court
in regard to the Kelley cure bills there
has been general satisfaction expressed
throughout the State by the various coun-
ty boards and citizens. Reports have
been sent out from Fond du Lac to that
effect also, but it is not the correct state
of affairs there by any means. There
is no doubt that if the members of the
county board had their way they would
favor the paying of the bills to the Kelley
institutes. One Of the members of the
board was seen and expressed himself as
follows: Il think the bills should be paid
to the institutes as they were contracted
for by the county and there was muck
good resulting from the treatment of the
patients The county allowed the inebri-
ates to be sent to the Institutes and there
is no reason why the bills should not be