Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-01
Gustav Winter, Milwaukee cigarmak-

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An insane man has come into the hands
of Appleton officials who cannot discover
his identity.
La Crosse G. A. r. gave a reception
and banquet to Col. NJ. I. Moore of the
Third regiment.
At Burlington. Mrs. William V. Moore
was found dead in her room, having been
suffocated by coal gas.
The oldest woman in Marinette is Mrs.
Madagin, aged 50, who is still active and
interested in business affairs.
The curfew ordinance at Spring Green
has gone into effect, the hrebell being
rung every evening at O'Clock.
The Winneconne Union Bank has been
organized by w. X. Rideout, r. T. Nor
gan and r. Fl. Hackett of Oshkosh.
At Manawa, Wis, the wife and two
sons of c. 2. Rosenberg were poisoned,
it is supposed, by eating headcheese.
Wolves are numerous in western Bar
ron and eastern Polk counties, and farm
ers are losing large number of sheep.
The postoffice building at Dayton was
entered the other night and the safe was
blown open by the burglars. The amount
of money taken was small.
Nicholas Bartell, an Italian workman
at kenosha tannery, drowned in vat.
The theory Of his death is that he must
have tainted and fallen in.
Maud Carpenter of Beloit has brought
suit in the Circuit Court for Rock Coun-
ty for So 900 damages for injuries receiv-
ed on an alleged defective sidewalk.
Tobp u.rvov NTovore tla x1-raaEar of
the Milwaukee Home Building and Loan
Association, pleaded guilty and was sen
fenced to four years in the State prison in
Waupun.
A Demorest gold medal contest was
held at Appleton with competitors from
Appleton, Green Bay and Waupun. The
contest was won by Miss Louisa Loeb of
Appleton.
An order has been issued establishing
postoffice six miles northeast of Water
town in Jefferson County to be known as
Grellton, with Henry G. Baurichter as
postmaster.
John T. Clements of Stevens Point has
been appointed to go to Porto Rico to Sc
cure and return with the remains of j.
Theodore Bronson of Company A, Second
Wisconsin, who died there in August.
Z. G.. Len of Shanghai, China, is guest
at the Plankinton House. Milwaukee. He
comes to Milwaukee direct from China,
the object of his visit being the purchase
of machinery for large plants in China.
A man by the name of Charles Odennis
of Stiles was seriously and probably ia
tally injured near Chalk Hill Rapids. A
tree fell on him, breaking seven ribs and
fracturing his skull and in uring him in
ternally.
A. J. Phillips of New London, while in
Chicago drew $3.50, the amount due him
from an express office, put it in his pocket
and started for his hotel three blocks
away. After going a short distance he
discovered that his pocket had been cut
open and his money stolen.
The potato crop around Marinette is re-
ported by farmers to be far above the av-
erage. The Murphy Provision Company
of Chicago have but recently completed
the erection of a warehouse at Peshtigo
for the reception of tubers with a capacity
of fifty cars. They are shipping on an
average a car a day now, at prices rang
ing from % to % cents per bushel.
A bold holdup took place in La Crosse.
Joseph Botzner, Minnesota farmer, was
held up and robbed of large sum. The
police shortly after arrested Albert Miller
and Mike st. Mary, saloonkeepers, John
Weber, Elmer Kelley, Lawrence Olson.
Olson confessed the whole business, ex-
pecting to get off easily, but his story was
radically different from that told by Botz-
ner and he was convicted and sent to
Waupun for one year. The others were
discharged.
Mr.. Anderson, formerly connected with
the car shops, is in Oshkosh in the inter-
est of the much-talked-of reftigerating
machine, of which Mr.. Pierson is the pat
entee. and in which several Oshkosh men
are interested. The purpose of Mr. An
derson's visit to the city is to locate a fac
tory there in which to make the machines.
He has st. Louis capital interested in the
venture. The machine is a device which
will produce a low temperature in which
articles may be kept cool and fresh with
out the use of ice.
Murder and suicide were attempted at
Milwaukee by Williams Evans, a coach
man. Jealousy was the motive which i'm
PEELED him to the crime. Four shots were
fired, two of which took effect in the body
of his sweetheart, Minnie Parrish, and
one imbedded itself in his own body. Ev-
ans injuries We're not great and the wom-
ans wounds will not cause her death. The
woman, who is 26 years old, came to Mil
waukee last January from Manistee,
Mich. Evans, who is % years Of age, has
been one of her admirers. The other af-
ternoon she went to the theater with an
other man and Evans did not like it.
Wisconsin farmers will not be crowded
for want of space yet for while. Ash
land County offers $4,000 acres of land to
settlers in farms from forty to $50 acres
in extent, at so cents per acre. In other
words. here is an opportunity for at least
800 settlers to secure homes and farms at