Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-06-29


ed stage OF tuberculosis when the test
was applied.
A collision between two Milwaukee
road freight trains occurred near West
ern Union Junction. and the cars were
badly wrecked. ~ one was seriously
injured
Joe Pickard had thirteen cows poisoned
on his farm near Calvary. Ten of the
cows died. 1t is believed to have been
the malicious work Of a gang, but there,
is no clue to them.
f Fifteen years in the State penitentiary
is the sentence imposed on Thomas Dona-
hue and John Rooney for the shooting
of Patrolman William Kruger at Mil
waukee. This was the maximum PEN
atty.
The case Of Sarah Hodges VS.. James
Wilson for personal injuries, which YVES
twice taken to the Supreme Court, result
ing in verdict Of 81 800 for the plaintiff
was settled at Racine by stipulation of
the attorneys.
The Fond du Lac police found two skel-
con keys in the prison cells, which had
evidently been made by the prisoners.
The keys were made Of maple wood and
of lead and fitted the cell doors so as to
lock and unlock them easily.
Work is progressing in the shaft being
sunk at Kettle River Rapids, near
Grantsburg, and several sample ship
ments of the ore have been made. The
ore shows considerable copper and is get
ting richer as they go down. IN
John Lemmel, aged IA years, died at
his home in Albany. Mr.. Lemmel served
through the civil war and lost the use Of
one arm. He was postmaster at Albany
for twenty-five years and was then elect
ed county clerk serving two terms.
High water is reported on Black river
from its source to it's mouth, reaching six
teen feet at some points. Not more than
100000 or 100000 feet of logs remain
above the falls, and all below that point
will be brought into the boom on this rise.
Fifty years ago Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey
Lathrop were married at Middlebury, N.
Y. Recently they celebrated their golden
wedding. The couple came to the West
and settled in Racine right after their
marriage and have lived there ever since.
tornado struck three miles northeast
of Pensaukee and blew down the build
ings on four farms. No lives were lost.
The same path was taken by the tornado
that it took twenty-five years ago, when
it destroyed the entire village of Pensau-
kee
The Racine Building and Lumber
Company has made an assignment to
Theodore f. Wadewitz. The assets are
estimated at $4,000 and liabilities $4,000.
Poor collections and pressure of credit
ors are attributed as the cause of the
failure. es
George Roberts and James Murphy,
who entered the offices of the WATERFOWL
Table Slide Company recently and blew
open the safe, were sentenced by Judge
Grimm at Jefferson. Roberts was given
two years and Murphy three years at
Waupun.
Henry G. Roethlsberger, vice-president
of the G. w. M.lprath Company of Mil
waukee, has filed a petition in bankrupt
cy in the United States Court. Liabili-
ties $76,O47, assets 5000. OF the liabili-
ties $4,000 is secured, $60,347 unsecured
and $4,000 in accommodation paper. a
The Delavan lake assembly is now
erecting what is said to be the largest
auditorium ever built by any of the West
ern Chautauquan associations. The as
sembly is young, having held it's first ses-
sion last year under canvas. The new
auditorium will seat 5000 persons and by
a convenient side arrangement of lifting
doors 5000 can be taken care of.
The Wisconsin Grass Irvine plant Of
Oshkosh has been consolidated with other
similar plants in various parts of the
country into an association to be known :
as the American Grass Irvine Company.N
The capital stock of the reorganized cor
poration is $15,0OO000. The companies
included in the combination are the /,
Northwestern Grass Irvine Company, of 7
which the Wisconsin Grass Irvine plant (
Of Oshkosh and the Minnesota Grass (,
Irvine plant Of ST. Paul are sub-com- =
panies, and a new plant to be erected at
Superior, Wis The new plant at Supe-
rior will employ 500 hands, which will
be increased as soon as possible until the
aggregate number of persons on the pay i
roll will be 100. "
William n Jones, who has been in the
United States navy for the last SIX years
and who manned the wheel of the cruiser y
Brooklyn in the terrific engagement Off
Santiago when the Spanish fleet was de-
stroyed is in cell in the Racine county
jail, where he will complete thirty days
sentence unless pardoned by the GOV
ernor. Jones was arrested charged with
carrying concealed weapons. He started
out the other day intending to deliver
speech at the high school. The janltor en-
countered him before he had an opportu-
nifty to tell the pupils the story of the bat
tle.g and, demonstrating with him, said
that he would have to postpone mas
speech making until some other fsne.s
Jones thefeupon grew wrathy and the ar
rest followed.
Robert Mayeski, formerly an assistant
cashier in the office of the Pennoyer san
itarium in Kenosha, was arrested on
charge of grand larceny preferred ny
Miss Marion Brunell of Milwaukee, VINO