Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-05-18

The loss is $1,000, with no insurance.
The Fond du Lac Street Railway and
Light Company has purchased the plant
of the Fond du Lac Electric Company, the
consideration being $4,000.
At Cumberland, County Clerk Simpson
received from the State Treasurer the
$4,000 appropriated for the relief of the
fire sufferers of that county.
Senator and Mrs. John c. Spooner, Mr..
and Mrs. Willet Spooner and Phil Spoon
er will sail for Europe June IA, to be gone
during the summer months
Fire at Chippewa Falls destroyed the
residence and other buildings of A. FL.
Heller. The loss is between $4,000 and
$4,000, with S., 100 insurance.
Only one of the Kaukauna paper mill
strikers was arrested and he is out on bail.
Two others, who committed the principal
assault, escaped, leaving town.
The first work the board of control will
undertake will be to advertise for blds
for the new buildings at the home for the
predetermined at Chippewa Falls.
At Sheboygan the dwelling of William
Becker was destroyed by fire at loss OF
$1,000 The adjoining house of August
Kobald caught fire, but was saved.
1t is impossible to get enough laborers
for the Oshkosh Neenah Interurban road
in that vicinity and some will have to be
imported from Chicago or Milwaukee.
Martin Simon, Sevastopol farmer,
was in Sturgeon Bay recently looking for
his two sons, Edward and Henry, aged
10 and II years, who disappeared from
home.
Rev. w. A Broadhurst, former pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church Of
Chippewa Falls, and Miss Fannie Finn
were married at Norwalk, Ohio, the
brides home.
John Renk was struck by a train near
Whitewater. His collar bone and several
ribs were broken, his wagon was demol-
ished and one horse killed. He was
farmer 70 years old.
The work of laying the rails for the new
Fond du Lac street railway has been COM
menced and it is estimated that with good
weather the entire line will be laid and
cars running by JEly 1.
The bench warrant issued for A. f.
Baehr, the former Oshkosh business man
charged with forgery who forfeited his
not putting in an appearance.
Alexander Vollrath of Sheboygan and
John Dewey of Baltimore, students at
the Franklin Mission College, twelve
miles from Sheboygan, were drowned In
letters lake by boat capsizing.
At Evansville, 3. f. Emery, II years
old, while constructing a wire fence, was
struck on the side of his head by tool
for stretching. The taut wire suddenly
loosening. His skull was fractured.
The safe in Martin Monson's store at
Blanchardville was blown open by burg
lars, but the contents, amounting to $500,
were not taken. Apparently the burglars
were frightened away after the explosion.
The large residence of Fred w. Lem
decker on Browns lake, near Burlington,
was destroyed by fire. The house was
built last summer at a cost Of about 3d.
900. 'Racine camp" was also destroyed.
Sidney Potts, aged 5 years, son of Maj.
Samuel Potts of Western Union Junction,
had the left side of his face blown away
and an arm and shoulder badly injured
by playing with shotgun which was &C.
cidentally discharged.
T. H. Oukrust, merchant of Newton,
was knocked down in his rooms by two
masked men, pounded into insensibility,
and after being robbed of 1925 in bills
was left lying on the floor with hand
kerchief over his mouth.
Ashland officials have started a war
against gambling. The authorities have
allowed gambling houses to run on pay
ment of a monthly fine and seven different
hoy Of
to the municipal court.
A. NJ. Whitlock, living near Berlin, and
nearly so years of age, was found dead
in his chair by neighbor. Whitlock was
something. of a peculiar character. He
lived all alone with his dog, which he al
ways kept chained.
The women of kewaunee have closed
three days fair for the benefit of the sol
diers' monument fund. The net receipts
were nearly 500, the amount needed to
complete the payment of the monument,
which will cost $4,000.
The members of the defunct Appleton
anti-matrimonial organization, known as
Marble Hearts," have received letters
from all parts of the country for copies Of
constitution and bylaws and branches"
are being organized in other cities.
The traversing conveyor used for BIZ
luminous coal at the dock of the Lehigh
Valley Coal Company at West Superior
was blown down by a high wind. The
entire heavy iron and wood superstruc-
ture was demolished and is total loss.
The damage is $4,000.
Chris Larson, a Scandinavian about 40
years old, was sentenced at Marinette to
fifteen months in Waupun for burning
telegraph poles along the st. Paul right
of-way last winter. Larson pleaded gull
ty and said he set fire to them in order
to get back into Waupun.
An attempted murder and suicide oc-
Cured at Berlin, as result of which Au-
gust Smith. fruit grower and gardener,