Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-03-03

1ne jury III the w ulte house cdSe Ut La
Crosse disagreed and q new trial must be
had.
A valentine ball at Oshkosh for the ben
eft of the new public library netted near
~ $1,000.
A small rat terrier at Oshkosh recently
killed thirteen rats in fifty-eight seconds,
actual time.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
train shed in Milwaukee collapsed under
weight of snow.
Miss Agnes Dwight of Evanston, ILL.,,
has been appointed librarian for the city
library at Appleton.
In the Vernon County Court Bert Jen
Mss was found guilty of non-support and
desertion of his wife and child.
The Commercial Club of Superior has
appointed a committee to arrange for an
exhibit ut the Omaha exposition.
The Pabst Brewing Company has Sc
cured control Of the Revere House in Osh-
kosh and will place L.. Thence in charge.
Burglars entered the store Of Henry
Smith at La Crosse and distracted 81
from the till. The safe could not be
broken
John Drake, farmer living near Eau
Claire, was badly injured in a runaway in
that city, his team dashing into tele-
graph pole.
Nick Weber, switchman, had his
hand badly crushed while at work in the
railway yards at La Crosse, by getting it
caught between two cars.
Mrs. Elizabeth Coon, aged 80, widow
of Job Coon, an old soldier, was adjudg-
ed insane at Rhinelander and committed
to the Northern hospital.
Adam Comstock of Arcadia, gradu-
ate Of the University of Wisconsin, died
at Gutenberg. Germany, where he was
studying. He was Il civil engineer.
A plank thrown from saw in mill
at Eaton struck a young man named Karl
BucholZ in the breast and inflicted injuries
from which he died a few hours later.
The body of Otto Meimhart was found
beside the tracks of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul Railway at Calido-
MIA. The cause of death is unknown. ~
Harry Quilley of Beloit, whose disap-
pearance had been worrying his friends,
has come to town and announced that he
merely had been visiting in the country.
The kindergarten Association of Sun
Prairie has decided to close the school for
three or four weeks on account of sew
eral eases Of scarlet fever among the pu-
pills.
Fifty Door County farmers were caught
in the city Of Marinette during the recent
blizzard and compelled to remain there for
about twenty-four hours until the storm
had subsidized.
John Weiss and William RadIof, aged
II and 10 respectively, We're arrested by
Sheriff Roach for breaking into a store
at Jefferson. They took tobacco, candy
and trinkets.
Several fine horses were shipped from
GAINESVILLE to Europe. They sold there for
$500 each. There is good demand in the
stock raising districts for horses to be
used in the pineries.
J. X. Tillotson has at last secured a
permit for the town Of Black Wolf to run
Il line Of street railway from the city Of
Oshkosh to the new summer resort which
the electric railway will build.
Francis Spencer, who for several years
has been connected with a hardware firm
in Chicago, has purchased lot at Dart
ford and will build brick block and open
in it general hardware store.
A stock company, comprising w. Stat
ter. G. and G. Burgess, f. and J. Pyborn
and J. Mitchell of Sun Prairie, has pur-
chased 81, 800 2-year-old horse from the
Durham horse farm at Wayne, Ill.
The Racine Water Company has served
it's complaint on the city to recover $780,
1886 for water alleged to have been used
by the city in flushing its sewers and
flushing tanks, for which the city refuses
to pay.
The case of the Stevens Point Water
Company against the city to recover 49,
500 of alleged illegally-colected taxes for
1894 with accrued interest, was discOn-
tinued, the suit having been improperly
begun.
A young man by the name of Papen-
deck, living in the town of Rhine, has dis
appeared He left home saying that he
was going to visit his uncle a few miles
from home, and since then nothing has
been seen of him.
Jere Vosburg, one of the oldest mem
bers of the Oshkosh fire department, was
run over by a hook and ladder truck and
sustained injuries from which he died.
Vosburg was So years Old and leaves a
wife and one child.
Prof. Marsh of Ripon College is taking
soundings of Green lake for the State.
These lake surveys are being taken over
the State with the idea of forming q
basis for an accurate relief map. The
greatest depth of water in Green lake was
found to be PIT feet
The Duke and Duchess of Duval were
passengers on q Wisconsin Central train
going through Oshkosh recently. They
hail from Paris and came to this country
to investigate the Klondike boom. The
duke is interested in several claims on
the Pelly river, near DAWSON City.
C. A. Bartlett was elected from the
office of the La Crosse city weighmaster
by the chief Of police, II. II. Byrne. Some
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