Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-06-23

Bayley Euper, a 12-year-old Water
town boy, was drowned in the mill race.
At Berlin, Mrs. Il. Field attempted to
commit suicide l:y drowning in the Fox
river.
Louis Luecl "A Ripon teamster, at
tempted suicide Ivy cutting his throat with
a razor.
Sneak thieves robbed the house of NJ. S.
Stoddard of GAINESVILLE, making away with
$24 in gold and other articles.
John Tremper, aged "a, has disappeared
from Racine. A few days ago he injured
his hand and was not able to work.
The Republican State central commit
tee has decided to hold the Republican
State convention at the exposition build
ing in Milwaukee Aug. II.
The body of Frank White, a miner from
the Vcrmilion range, north of Lake SUI
perior, who had been spending few
weeks visiting his mother at Omro, was
found in the Fox river near the dock.
Whether the drowning was an accident or
not is unknown. The body was almost
unrecogniza BILE.
james Price, aged about GO years, COM
mitted suicide at Omro by taking paris
green and morphine. All attempts to save
him he resisted. Dependency was the
cause of the act. He fell last spring and
broke the patella of his right knee and
has been unable to work since. He leaves
Il wife and one daughter.
The spring catch of herring on Greer
bay near Marinette is proving much larg-
or than usual The small boats from the
.;,-;,, TO, lHy
with many packages of fish. Several thou
sand packages have been received at both
places. 1t is estimated that 10000 pack
ages have gone East from Fish Creek and
other points. The herring are packed in
salt.
Carl Runge, Milwaukee's city attorney,
has announced that he is not in favor of
appealing the case Of the city against the
Milwaukee Street Railway Company. In
this decision the court held that the Com
mon Council had no right to order, "A re-
duction Of fare on the ground tlISt the
road could not be operated at a reasonable
profit under the proposed rate of 4 cents.
The new city attorney says he thinks it
would be useless expense to carry the
case to the Supreme Court. II
Mrs. L. Field, formerly a resident Of
Berlin for many years, and now of Chi
cago, who was in Berlin on a visit, it is
thought, attempted to commit suicide by
drowning in the Fox river. She was
found lying in shallow water in an I'M
conscious condition by fisherman named
Charles Hess. Her head was just out
of the water when found. 1t was learned
that she left the house at about midnight
and went direct to the river, waded cut
about fifteen feet from shore and then
sank into the water. She will recover
from the exposure.
The Northwestern Railway Company
has been using the services of n ''spotter"
for some time past. and us n result some
fifteen of tie Oldest and bcst-known con-
ductors on the road have been given sixty p,
and nincty-day vacations. In some in
stances the men have been laid off for
''pocketing change" taken from passen-
gers for travel, while in other cases it has
been for disobeying rules. Under the new
system adopted some months ago it is al
most impossible for Il conductor to knock
down" without being caught. Not only
have conductors through Fond du Lac
been discharged or laid off, but the axe
has been brought into use between there
and Milwaukee, Madison, GAINESVILLE and
even on the Chicago division.
On the Miles Wilbur farm, less than
two miles from Palmyra on a wild, rocky
hillside of the Kettle range of bluffs, is
huge rock known far and near as the
''stone elephant" 1t is annually visited
by large number of people, some of
whom pronounce it a petrificd elephant,
but the theory most generally believed is
that it was hewcd ont of the solid rock, in
which it seemed imbeddcd, centuries ago
by some prehistoric race. 1t is about
twenty feet long, six or eight feet high,
Of n dark gray color, and weighs hundreds
Of tons. The body only is above the level
of the ground, its legs being deeply sunk
below, holding it firmly in standing po-
sition. a tradition believed by many is
that around this huge stone the Indians
gathered to offer sacrifices to the great
spirit and burn their prisoners at the
stake, or make them the victims of slow
torture.
State Bank Examiner Edward l. Kidd
has submitted his sixth scmi-annual re-
port to Gov. Scofcld, showing the fnan-
cial condition of the State, private and
savings banks of Wisconsin at the close
Of business ON May 5. The total number
Va b"hhS VI tHiS CIilSS III operation IN w IS
consin is 247, of which ten were estab-
lishcd in the past six months. The total
resources and liabilities of the banks now
in operation are $51. 1I9, 436, the increases
in the six months being: Resources. ST.
oo5,046; loans and discounts, 5000 $50:
capital, Sill 900; deposits, $4,GS6 406;
available cash, $1,212,643. The Surplus
and profits decreased S200,243. Tne cash
reserve, 1851 per cent of the total depos-
its. shows slight decrease since the last
report. An unusually large increase in
deposits is shown, the aggregate being ST.
$50, 400, the largest increase within the
same period Of time since the organization
bf the bank examiners Office four years
ago.
At Iron Belt John Formalo, an Italian
miner, performed a daring feat, partly to
show his patriotism for his adopted coun-
try and Dartly TO earn S10 ofrorod bv