Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-15

An analysis shows that it has medicinal
qualities and is ineXhaustible.
s. J. Hanowitz, dealer in dry goods and
clothing at Amigo, made an assignment to
Edward Neff The liabilities are about
$4,000 and the assets about $1,000.
e. A. Phelps, well known as composer
of music and for years the musical drec
tor of Patti Rosas company, committed
suicide at Berlin by taking laudanum.
The librarians of the Stout Free Trav-
cling libraries in Dunn County closed
most successful librarians institute at
Menominee. Fifty librarians were pres
| ent.
! For the first time in the history of Hur-
ley there is not single policeman on the
pay roll. The fund for paying the police
has been exhausted and the board refuses
to issue more orders.
Among the passengers on the Portland,
lost off the Massachusetts coast was Will
liam l.. Chase, former resident of Ke-
nosha. He was said to have been COM
mercial traveller, musician, an actor and
public speaker.
| Under foreclosure proceedings the State
Fair park, located at North Greenfield,
was sold to the State of Wisconsin, AS
! sistant Attorney General c.. e. Whelan
bidding in the property on behalf of the
State, which held mortgages to the
amount of 1884 ,265.
A. G. Whalen of Chicago business man
ager of the Northern Chautauqua Asso-
citation of Marinette and one of the best
known workers in that movement in the
| West is missing. He left Marinette Sept
II last on whaleback excursion and has
not been seen since, except at Oconto,
where he was for q few days afterward.
Word has been received by Gov. Scotield
from Washington that Wisconsin's claim
of between $56,C0 and S57 900, whicl, the
State paid to Wisconsin volunteers over
and above the pay allowed by the Govern
ment for the time between the call for
troops and their enrolment into the regu
lar army, will be returned to the State in
full.
| Carl Heine. 4 deserter from the regu-
| lar army, told 4 friend that it would take
| him only fifteen minutes to fool the whole
of Uncle Sans army. and he kept his
word. Entering his mothers house III
Bay View he swallowed a dose of strych
nine and died in commissions in forty min
utes. Heine belonged to Troop II. Fifth
cavalry. which was at Huntsville Ala,
but in November went to Porto Rico. Be
ing denied permission to go home to see
his family he deserted.
At Milwaukee. Minna Liebenberg has
| brought suit against Adolph Liebenberg
for a dissolution of what were to the pair
simply the bonds of an engagement. Both
are Hebrews, and last August, to bind
their engagement they were married by
| justice of the peace as a preliminary to an
orthodox ceremony. The young woman
later changed her mind and has since re-
fused to marry her husband according to
the rules of the Hebrew faith. She now
sues for divorce and her husband is
fighting the case.
The most destructive coal dock fire
which has been experienced at West Su-
perior in years is burning at the Lehigh
Coal and Coke Company's dock, and it
| is almost certain that at least three lives
| have been lost. The fire was discovered
in the section loaded with Great Northern
| Railroad coal. 1t undoubtedly started
| from spontaneous combustion. In a few
hours it was seen that the fire was beyond
control and the city fire department with
| two fire tugs from Duluth were summon
| ed. Foreman James Love took six labor
ers to the top of large coal pile to throw
a stream of water down. While there the
| dock underneath them collapsed and the
men were carried into the bay.
While all the deer hunters were chasing
deer all round through the pines, one little
fellow by the name of Henry Mcklin Of
Brule was watching a runaway and came
near losing his life through the non-effect
| lou, .r,aI-
along and biff bang, squirted out the gun,
| but on came the enraged deer at Mcklln,
who. almost frozen. began hide-and-seek
game behind trees and firing at every OPP
portunity. At last the deer fell PROSTATE
to the ground, and Mcklin, thinking him
dead, was about to cut the deer's throat
when he jumped up. catching Henry with
his antlcrs and throwing him high in the
air and letting him down in the top of
small balsam Here he and the deer stay
ed for two days. until A. J. Jones of New
town came along and killed the deer.
A peculiar accident occurred on the
| Chicago, Burlington and Northern Rail-
way near De Soto. A caboose on the
special freight caught fire while the train
was running at a high rate of speed by
lamp in the hands of Brakeman Ed. Mil
Ter exploding. The fire spread RAPIDLY all
over to the top of the car. Miller alone
was in the car. and unable to get to the
door of the caboose and open it, to pre-
vent suffocation and burning to death, he
| was obliged to break the glass out of the
windows. He was badly scorched, as his
| clothes were all burned off his body. The
| fresh air through the broken window
panes revived him, and crawling to the
end of the car, he managed to break open
the door and get out on to the platform
and jump from the rapidly moving train.
When the train came to a halt at De Soto
the caboose had been reduced to two pairs
of redhot trucks, dragging along behind
the last car Conductor +. \. Mitchell and
the head brakeman were in the engine and
when they saw what had happened they
supposed that Miller had been burned to