Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-06-01

AdAu was DduIy pounded IN saloon row.
Forest fires at Cedarville destroyed the
cedar yard of Horace Petinot; about ST.
600 worth Of timber was ruined
j. Miller, in the employ of the North
western Iron Company at Mayville, fell
off car, smashing a foot and dislocating
finger.
Ex-Lieut. Gov G. w. Ryland of Ian
caster has retired from the business of
banking, with which he has been connect
ed many years.
Martin Hansen, proprietor Of the Stur-
geon Bay wagon works, lost two fingers
of his right hand while operating shov-
ing machine.
NJ. P. and J. r. Hartford of Loyal and
Herman Doegl have returned from the
Alaska gold fields, Disguised with their
venture there.
Louis Lavigne, resident of Chippewa
Falls, was drowned near Hayward while
driving logs. He slipped and fell between
the logs and was unable to come up again.
Wilbur G. Hart and Mrs. Elizabeth
Hart, well-known residents Of GAINESVILLE,
avoided the FIVE days publication required
by the True marriage law by getting mar
ried in Chicago.
The Brillion Touring mills and two ele-
vators belonging to G. w. Behnke burned.
The blaze was first discovered in the third
story Of the mill. The loss is $40 900, in
surance $4,000.
Milwaukee police are trying to recover
500 in cash and $1,000 in bank certif-
Gates of which Gustav Petersen, Wat
ersmeet, Mich, saloonkeeper, says he was
robbed in that city.
While a farmer and team were crossing
the railway track at Superior Junction
they were struck by handcar run by
lot of Italians. The farmer was thrown
quite distance, dislocating his shoulder.
William Carlin of Eagle died, aged SO.
He was conceded to be the heaviest man
in Waukesha County. His weight at the
time Of his death was 3S5 pounds. Fatty
degeneration of the heart was the cause
of his demise.
At Sun Prairie, while playing ball at
school Lyle Cobb, aged 10 years. met with
quite painful accident One of the boys
who was at the bat swung the club around
and it flew from his grasp, striking young
Cobb in the right eye
L. J. Norton, inspector for the State
dairy and food commission, visited several
grocery stores at Chippewa Falls and ere
ated a stir by condemning large amount
Of canned and bottled goods. The con-
demned goods will be returned to the man
ufacturers.
The Normal university of Normal ILL.,,
defeated the Oshkosh normal in debate.
The question was, Resolved, That the
time has ne when the policy of protec-
ton should be abandoned by the United
States" Wisconsin had the affirmative
and Illinois the negative.
Gov. Scofeld's stand in informing the
legislators just before they adjourned that
he would not approve any expenditure
above the income Of the State will cut off
improvements and additions at the Home
for Feeble-Minded at Chippewa Falls and
the new reformatory at Green Bay. These
two institutions together were allowed
over 100000, but at a special meeting
of the board of control it was decided not
to expend any money to enlarge these in
situations until there were revenues in the
treasury to meet such expenditure.
An old scow, called the Jersey Lily and
owned by number of boys living in Ke-
nosha. was capsized and sank in the lake
just off Washington Island about 8 o'clock
the other evening. Robert Steinbach and
William Meyer, two boys about Is years
of age who manned the vessel at the time,
had a narrow escape from drowning. At
ter they had chung to the spars Of the
sinking craft for over an hour, the boys
were seen by some companions, who noti-
fed the lifesaving station. Capt. Cam
eron and the entire crew went to the res
cue and picked the boys up in an uncon-
scious condition.
A railroad project involving the expendi-
ture of So, 100000 in Milwaukee was made
public in the form of an ordinance grant
ing to the Milwaukee Traffic and Termi-
nal Railway Company the right to lay
tracks in nearly every portion Of the man
ufacturing and wholesale districts of the
city. The company has the backing Of
Eastern capital and the ordinance pro-
vides that the work shall be completed
within two years. If the ordinance passes
it will give belt line facilities to MilWau-
kee, Racine and Kenosha, and connect
with Chicago by way Of the belt line that
is now being built from Waukegan to Ke-
nosha.
The first annual convention of the Wis
consin conference of the Woman's Home
Missionary Society closed at Oshkosh
with the election of the following officers:
President, Mrs. Eliza Manchester of Mill
waukee; first vice-president, Mrs. Myra
G. Plantz of Appleton; corresponding sec
rotary, Mrs. E. w. F. Requa of Oshkosh;
recording secretary, Mrs. Walker of Osh-
kosh The following district managers
were elected: Appleton district, Mrs.
Edith\S. Davis of Appleton; Fond du Lac
district, Mrs. Garnet Green of Sheboy-
gan; GAINESVILLE district, Mrs. E. L. Cum
mings of Fort Atkinson; Milwaukee dis
trict, Mrs. McChesney of Wauwatosa;
Oshkosh district, Mrs. F. w. Houghton.
Fred Maresh committed suicide at his
home in Manitowoc by shooting himself
through the temple. During the morning
in conversation with friends on the street
he babe his friends good-by and said that
they might attend his funeral in three