Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-09-01
The n. e. parsonage at Lone Rock was

OLD, Tell Off pier into the river and was
drowned.
Mike Schultz Cell from a scaffold at Ma.
rinette and was badly cut about the head
and hands.
Alfred Cushman of Brodhead fell from
the top of telephone pole and broke hiS
leg and wrist.
All GAINESVILLE did honor to the remains
of Private Harry Clifford, who died at
Jacksonville.
Joseph Maloney's barn at Bloomer, fill
ed with hay, burned. Loss, $1,000; par
tial insurance.
Hans P. Larson of Neenah, who was
twice shot at Santiago, has arrived home
on a furlough.
The dam at the combined locks near
Appleton broke away and left the pond
bed almost dry.
Fire destroyed the public school build
ing ut Boyd. The loss ON school property
is about $1,000.
The yacht Perif which it was feared
had been lost in the recent storm, has
put in at Racine.
Ernest Wierski, an old resident of Glen
wood, has begun the erection of large
-four and feed mill.
The contract has been let for an addi-
ton to the KEEL high school, which will
cost about $4,000.
A house at Sparta owned by Mrs. E..
hitting, occupied by +. E. Palmer, was
destroyed by fire.
Corporal Roy Maynard died at Jackson
vile while his mother was on the way
there to nurse him.
Ex-members of Company e of Beloit,
First regiment, w. N. G., have organized
Veterans association.
tray of lemonade, on an excursion steam
er, and injured his spine.
The potato crops near Stevens Point
and Stockton are reported as excellent
this year, farmers receiving 20 to % cents
per bushel.
Forrest De Lap and George Davis Of
Mansion, who have returned from the
Santiago fight, complained bitterly of the
ungrateful Cubans.
The end of the war was celebrated at
Fox Lake by the booming Of cannon, a
display of fireworks and bOnhres. Patrl-
otto addresses were made.
George Johnson of Marinette, while
fishing with Milwaukee friend, cast his
line at a golden eagle, which was sitting
on q stump, and lassoed it.
At Kaukauna, Philemon Nagan's two
story building, occupied by his dry goods
and clothing store, was entirely destroyed
by fire. Loss about $50, 900.
News vas received of the death of Otto
Merkel of Appleton. Private Merkel was
a member Of Company G for some time
and has relatives in Appleton.
W. A. Ellis, who has been treasurer Of
the Peshtigo School Board for forty years,
resigned, He became treasurer of the
board when it was organized
The funeral Of Private Evenson of Ra-
cine was the largest attended and the
most elaborate ever known in that city.
The procession was nearly two miles long.
a building of james Ballentine & Sons
at Mansion was burned with its contents,
consisting of several buggies, cutters and
some stored lumber. Other losses are
reported.
At Kiel, while blasting stone Joseph
Schicker, Jr., had his left hand torn away
while trying to remove charge from
gua which failed to go off. Amputation
was necessary above the wrist.
Eacine bricklayers went on a strike, re-
fusing to work with non-union hodcar-
riers Contractor Edwards says that he
will not discharge the non-union men and
has sent to Milwaukee and Chicago for
bricklayers.
Matthew keenan,, pioneer of Miiwau-
kee and until few years ago vice-presl-
dent Of the Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance Company, died of apoplexy.
He went there when II years Of age, with
his parents, in 1887.
An attempt was made to hoh up Belle
City Street Railway electric car on the
Wisconsin street route, after IL O'Clock
the other night ut Racine Junction, by
two men who wore masks, but the rob-
berry was not accomplished.
A lumber deal involving something like
100000 has just been closed up in La
Crosse. The Sawyer & Austin Lumber
Company has purchased the entire sea-
sons run Of Ray & Pettibone's lumber cut
in the Mcdonald Bros mill.
The will of Eleanor Relrwick of Brod-
head, which has been contested, has been
settled in favor of two sisters living in
New York. The will bequeathed her prop
erty to her relatives without mentioning
names and without reference to those
dead or living.
Gov. Scofeld has par8oned Patrick Nc
Donald, an inmate Of the State prison,
who is over so years old and has been for
thirty years ''trusty" under the various
wardens of the prison. and was allowed
liberty about the city of Waupun in pur.
suing his duties.
About midway between Ripon and
Green Lake lives a farmer who has a
tough luck story" to tell. Several days
ago his 16-year-old daughter, his Is and
20-year-old sons left home and the three
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