Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-01-06
Shaw's tannery at Rib Lake was burr
cd, entailing loss of 81 $780, with full

cd, entailing a loss of $1,000, with full
| insurance.
The Bertillon system of identifying
| criminals will be adopted by the Racine
police department.
John S. Sweet, formerly clerk Mt the
Grand Hotel at GAINESVILLE, died at Biloxi,
Miss, of yellow fever.
Mrs. Frank Gray, one of the pioneer
residents of GAINESVILLE. died suddenly. she
fell recently and broke her hip.
The Wisconsin Malt and Grain Com
pany at Appleton has decided to double
the capacity of its plant at once.
Joseph Unger, a Milwaukee brewer,
will spend the next six months in the
| house Of correction for abusing baby.
At Appleton, the family of Albert
Bentz had narrow escape from death
By the escape of gas from coal stove.
Miss Almena De Puy, library expert
of Jackson, Mich, has been engaged to
classify and organize the public library at
Appleton
w. r. Durfee has in prospect for 1893
another good seasons run for his saw
mill. He has closed contracts for saving
100000 feet
Mrs. Hannah A. Woods, wife of Alan
son Wood, landlord of the Hotel Mari
nette, died suddenly at Marinette of heart
failure. She was 50 years old.
Dan Shea of Appleton was murdered
at Watersmeet, Mich. but by whom or
under what circumstances is not known.
| He was a man of about 26 years.
| Mr.. ard Mrs Herman Yahr of Wash
OFT r,fv oh hn
| yersary of their wedding. The couple
| came to Wisconsin from Germany in
| 1S47.
| The machinery for the new knitting
plant-fifty-two knitting machines and
| thirteen ioopers-at Stevens Point, has ar
rived and is placed in the building. The
| plant will start.
| Eau Claire people have not yet given
! UP hopes of getting the normal school To-
Gated in their town. They will try to get
the matter Of relocating the school before
the Legislature
Arthur Keller of Brookfeld confessed
to the theft of $215 from William Keller
of Iomah and has produced the money.
| The ease against him was continued to
| the next term of court.
Fritz Gerber, a cheese maker, living
near Afolkey, H.. sixteen miles from
| Monroe, was struck and killed by st.
Paul passenger train on u crossing three
miles east of that city.
| c. NJ. Burlington has asked to be releas-
! ed from the receivership of the CONNER
cial Bank at Eau Claire. as it's affairs
are about Strengthened out. A final divi-
dend will soon be declared
| A young man named Bennett, living
near Williams Boy, has confessed to
placing a steel raid OH the railway track
near Ringwood, H., which came near
wrecking a passenger train.
| Father Joseph Tiepel, late. missionary
hpriest in the diocese of Tennessee, has
- ..,'eeed in charge Of the Sacred Heart
| Catholic Cav. oh at Manawa. The church
has been without a priest cc;.,ee October.
More than 150,G00 Christmas trees
We're shipped from the northern Wiscon-
sin pine woods this year. One dealer in
| NariIette County shipped eleven car
loads. Tie total yalue of the cut is about
| $4,000.
The Chicago and Northwestern passen-
ger train from Chicago, via GAINESVILLE,
| dashed into a loaded coal train in the
Fond du Lac yards the other evening, in
| juring five persons. An open switch on
Il sharp curve was the cause of the acct
dent
The postof1ice at Iron River, Bayfield,
! County, over which there has been such a
bitter fight as to who should be the in
cumbent, lacked only 81 of coming in the
class appointed by the President. G. D.
German has been recommended for the
position.
Winnebago County might have had
new court house and Jail if water and
willing hands hadn't been SO plentiful.
Fire did several thousand dollars damage
to the ranshackle structure, and as the
loss is covered by insurance it will proba-
bly, be repaired.
State Deputy Game Wardens Stone
and Johnston arrested two persons named
Beauregard and Butler of Spooner, near
Shell Lake, charged with violating the
game laws. About 800 pounds of fish
were found In their huts, which was con-
| fiscated and sold.
A small dog belonging to a Marinette
family recently became angered at the
mistress of the house, Mrs. Ryan, and
chased her and the hired girl into pam
lily ttHU kcpt tHCtII lIicIN LII oCt Clu AOuAos
The dog was finally killed by man who
discovered their predicament.
Mrs. A. Moses, wealthy woman Of
Chippewa Falls, was badly burned by
fire which caught in the feathers of her
hat from a gas jet which she was light
ing. The drapery in the room also ignited
and in an effort to extinguish the blaze
Mrs. Moses received serious injuries.
O. Delisle, an elevator boy of Mari
nette, was unloading goods from an cle-
vator in the basement of three-story
klock in that city when the Compound
weight became loose and dropped, and the
elevator shot skyward at a terrific rate.
1t struck the top of the shaft, and by an
almost miraculous chance Delisle was
hurled out Of the opening on the third
floor by the shock. He was uninjured,