Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-03-17

railway tracks, ''Aees
FRANK n. t'ifeld and James Fifeld Of
oalltsVliie have purchased the Phoan;v
mills at GAINESVILLE.
Scott q Iayior's new single mill at
Ashland is now in operation and is tnrn-
ing out 4o,OCO shingles daily.
Jack Haynes, a paper maker of S+o
Vens Point, has fallen heir to considarahla
property left to him by relatives IN Enc-
land -
w. q. BONN of Iron River will build q
saWmill at Melen, where he has CON
tract for saving 100000 feet of hem
lock timber.
Il. Inc sophomore class of Beloit College
VIII present Greek play, the 'Alcestis"
or Euripedes, at its annual entertainment
this spring.
Green goods men are ut work at Ra-
cine. The town has been flooded with
circulars and many victims are said to
have been caught.
School bonds to the amount of $25, 1000
were sold at Racine at a premium of So
9o-.oO to the Milwaukee Mechanics In
surance Company.
VIA Tobin, a newsboy of Portage. was
ned up and robbed of S. 20 by footpads as
ne was returning home from his route in
the outskirts Of that town.
The home Of E. Bartlett in Marinette
was burned with all its contents, The
total loss is about 81 200. The fire start
ed from an explosion Of kerosene
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail
road Company will rebuild its depot at La
Crosse and add covered transheds, MAX
lng the structure practically new.
Articles of incorporation have been filed
OF the Interstate Telephone Company,
with a stock of 100000. Headquarters
Of the company will be in La Crosse.
NJ. 8. Helmber Of Fond du Lac will
build en- elevator in that city with ca
pacity Of 10000 bushels Of grain. The
ground dimensions will be 3Gx3G feet.
Nels johnson was held up by two men
west of Racine. One held Johnson's hands
behind his back and the other placed 8
revolver to his head and took his money.
John Baumgartner a cheesemaker in
the Wittwer factory, town of Washing
ton, who, on Feb. 20, put a bullet through
his head, with suicidal intent, died from
the effects of the wound.
L. y. Erhart, who was elected Mayor
Of Ford du Lac at the spring election in
1907, has vacated his Office by moving
his family to West Superior, where he
has engaged in business.
Congressman Henry A. Cooper ended
a long drawn-cdt and bitterly contested
postotiice fight by announcing that he
would recommend ex-Mayor Jackson |.
Case as postmaster Of Racine.
Fred Keeps son. aged years, was ac-
cidentally shot by q companion at Bara-
boo. They found the gun on a shelf and
while playing with it, the weapon was dis
charged. The boy cannot recover.
Burglars entered the factory of the Ex-
celsior Shoe and Slipper Company at
Cedarburg. They were discovered by en-
ployes and one of the trio was captured
after being shot and slightly wounded.
The town board of Algoma still refuses
to permit the Citizens Traction Com
Iany Of Oshkosh to lay line through the
town to the proposed summer park near
that citq. The project may be given up.
The jury in the case Of the killing of
the deaf and dumb lad, John Hanson,
near Superior, found that the Omaha
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miles an hour in violation Of the State
law.
The projectors of the interurban electric
railway from Oshkosh to Omro and Ber-
lin have applied to the Council of Ber-
lin for franchise to run their road from
the eastern to the western part OF the
city.
Prof. l.. e. Gettle, in charge Of the
school library work Of the department Of
education, has announced himself as
candidate for the Republican nomination
for State superintendent of public instruc-
| ton.
The family of L. Higgenbotham of She
boygan had a narrow escape from asphyX-
iation from escaping gas. The father was
awakened and was only able to crawl
from the house and summon aid Tor the
| inmates.
Louis Sporty, the 13-year-old son Of
NIyron Sperry, was caught in the gearing
of a srindstone in the Phoenix planning
mill at GAINESVILLE. His right hand was
crushed. so that it had to be amputated
at the wrist, and one rib was broken. He
may die.
John Williams. an employe Of the Dia-
mond Match Company at Oshkosh, mas
suffered from phosphoric poisoning for
three years. He has been compelled to
submit to three operations for the removal
of pieces of the skull and the strange dis
ease will undoubtedly prove fatal in
| short time.
At La Crosse, Sheriff Lang sold under
execution practically all of the assets of
the Eureka Chemical and Manufacturing
| Company save some scattered accounts,
formulas, good will, trademarks, ETC., to
James McCord, for $500. The liabilities
of the concern, when the recent assign
ment was made, aggregated $119,S2S.74
The large frame warehouse Of the Thil-
many Paper Company at kaukauHa got
a bad scorching and a worse drenching.
| The hlilding was Il two-story affair, on