Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-03-31
Christian Baruth was killed by rum.

| The village of Burlington has voted
against the proposition of incorporation as
city.
The Anti-Saloon League of Beloit will
| bring the license question out in the spring
campaign.
Rev. J. III. Kimball has been ordained
| pastor of the Congregational Church at
! Stoughton.
| At Milwaukee, William Fischer, 60
years of age, was killed by a Wisconsin
Central train.
The Great Northern Elevator Company
of Superior will add a new steel elevator
to its plant this year.
An association has been formed at Bar
aboo for the manufacture of Woods self
feeding threshing machine.
At meeting Of the Racine City Coun-
Gil an ordinance was passed making eight
hours days work for all city work.
Charles Fish, an employee of the James
vile Machine Company, fell twelve feet
in the shops and received severe internal
injuries.
AT mass meeting Of Ashland Repubh-
can voters Thomas Bardon was Endorsed
for Mayor, having been nominated by the
Democrats.
The men in camp on the Red Cliff res
ervation near Ashland have finished OPP
erations, the cut being slightly more than
100000 feet.
James Smith was sent to the county
jail at Hudson for sixty days for throwing
a stone through a window of a passenger
train. He halls from Chicago.
John Marshall was sandbagged in an
alley i'm the rear of a saloon at Marinette.
Marshall had only few cents and gold
watch, which were taken from him.
Fred S. Comstock Of Chicago has ac-
cepted the ordinance granting him fran.
chise to construct and maintain an electric
railway through the streets of KenOsha.
The 5-year-old son of John II. Falter
of GAINESVILLE swallowed a capsule con-
tanning bi-chloride of mercury and was
only saved by vigorous medical treatment.
Patrick Downey and William Burmas-
ter, who escaped from the State school
for deaf and dumb at Delavan, were
found at GAINESVILLE and returned to the
school.
While the agent was at dinner the Chi
cago and Northwestern station at Sheboy-
gan Falls was broken into. The money
drawer was pried open, but no money was
found.
Several West Superior physicians, in
Guiding Drs. w. Z. Ground and J. A.
Rene, have offered their services as sur
geons to go to the front in case or war
with Spain.
The City Council of Marinette has de-
ai6nI 10 a nliSh fb "a of3ao of mis-.
sioner. This will end the trouble which
has existed between the Council and Mr..
Liable, who formerly occupied that Office.
AS 6. Fowler was walking along the
edge Of cliff near Baraboo, while out
hunting. he missed his footing and fell a
distance of twenty feet. In the fall his
gun was discharged, wounding him in the
leg.
George Mari of Algona has returned
from Europe, where he went to purchase
machinery for a lace factory which he
will start in the spring. Mr.. Mari has
been donated a site and $500 for his en-
terprise.
The findings in the Muskego Lake case,
in Milwaukee, by the terms of which the
lake cannot be drained, as desired by the
Wisconsin State Land and Improvement
Company, have been signed by Judge
johnson.
The six young men who We're held at
Oshkosh on a charge Of burglary at Me-
nasha were discharged by order of Judge
Goss. The witnesses who appeared
against them were not satisfactory to the
district attorney.
II. L. BATHS of Fond du Lac is building
s,4o ,ol4 60, T all
nebago 1t will be the only craft of that
kind on the lake and will be a good deal
like miniature ocean cruiser. The boat
will cost about $4,000.
The bicycle track between Racine and
kenosha has been damaged by being used
as a roadway by teamsters. The promot-
ers Of the enterprise are rather indignant
and propose to compel some Of the persons
having done the damage to make it good.
Allie Ross, Herman Noll, Jr., and Char
lie Tuchech, three boys about II years Of
age, who have the Wild West fever, have
rul away from their homes in La Crosse.
Their parents are confident that the boys
will return when they are tired of tramp
ing.
Mrs. II. Cousins and Mrs. Without Of
Eau Claire are soliciting lots and garden
patches all over the city, to be worked by
poor people. They have secured the prom
Use OF several lots. The lots are to be
loaned to the Associated Charities fer one
season.
William Birds, farmer residing On the
Fond du Lac road, five miles from Mil
waukee, was found hanging in his barn.
He was 81 years Of age, and leaves wife
and five children. Temporary int;anity
is supposed to have been the cause Of his
act.
Henry Pollack, peddler, was arrested
at Oshkosh on the charge Of selling cheap
watches as gold ones. Mrs. johanna Drech
tel is the complainant. She says she paid
Pollack $3.50 for a worthless timepiece.
Poilack was nearly mobbed and fled into
a crowd to escape violence.