Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-02-09
Company E of Eau Claire is being re-

organized.
The Eisteddfod Choral Society has been
| organized at Oshkosh.
Fire destroyed the Union Hotel at New
Holstein. The loss unknown.
The new Sank County Jail at Baraboo
was partly burned the other day.
Sylvester Hughes, aged p, was killed
at Stratford by falling tree. He was
single man.
A. v Berg of Windsor, Kan, was kill
ed in Soderburg's camp at Thorpe by
falling tree.
The coroner's jury returned a formal
verdict in the Willy mill explosion at Ap-
pleton The verdict throws blame on no
one.
The confectionery store and factory of
w. c. Pile at Beloit was closed ON a
chattel mortgage. Mr.. Pile went there re-
Gently from Belvidere, Ill.
A Stretch & Bros, Oshkosh wagon
| manufacturers, have been awarded 3d.
| 900 Government contract to supply 100
dump carts for service in Cuba.
| Several society women recently formed
| themselves into an ambulance club at Eau
| Claire. They ordered a $425 ambulance
| which they will present to the city
| Mrs. Mary Stephens, whose dress
| caught fire from a skillet Of grease on the
! stove, died from her injuries at New Rich
| mond. She was about 70 years of age.
William Strathearn, 76 years old, died
at the residence of his daughter, Mrs.
Mary Judd, in Milwaukee. He was born
in Scotland and located in that city in
| 1852.
The Latin & Rand Powder Company
will begin work on the plant in Pleasant
Prairie about March /. The company
| has given notice to the people on the land
to move their holdings before that date.
! Henry Driver, well-known resident of
| Sheboygan County, was killed at Amigo
by being struck by a falling tree. He was
engaged in clearing piece of property
which he recently purchased, when one of
| the trees struck him.
| Emil Prucha, aged 10, living at 321
| North Sixth street, La Crosse was run
over at West Salem while attempting to
| board through freight train on the Mil
waukee road, losing both his feet. He
was taken to La Crosse for amputation.
Deaths in the State: Mrs. Richard r.
Wilson, aged 80, La Crosse; Alexander
Pinegore, Chippewa Falls; James Hos
trawser, aged II, Irving; Mrs. G. H.
| Thompson, Amigo; Mrs. E. ]. England,
Kenosha; Lewis Cass, aged y, Mansion.
Lottie Jensen, the 14-year-old girl
whose disappearance had been puzZling
Appleton police authorities, has been
found. She had merely run away on &C.
count of whipping, which she had got
| 4 fo
distance west of the city.
| At 1910 on a recent evening John Il.
| truth, a collector and salesman for Nell
son, Morse & Co. of Chicago, was held up
| in front of the Division Street NJ. b..
! Church in Fond du Lac and robbed of
| S140 in cash, two checks for 500 and 500
respectively and gold watch and chain.
Samuel A Jones Of Boston gave Law
renee University at Appleton $1,000 to be
used for a memorial room in the new Ste
phenson Science Hall, in memory of his
brother, Prof. Hiram A. Jones, who was
a member of the faculty for more than
forty years. Mr.. Jones has previously
| given large sums to the school.
| The largest lumber deal of the season,
| and probably the largest of the year, was
recently completed at Marnette, Lowe,
Perley & Co. of Chicago purchasing the
! entire cut of the H. Witbeck mill for the
| coming season. The amount of lumber
| is about 40, 100000 feet, and not less than
| 100000 is involved in the transaction.
A dozen prominent Appleton young men
have organized a society under the name
of the marble Hearts" which has for
| its object the encouragement of matri-
mony for pecuniary advantage. The plan
| of the organization is to deposit in Il bank
| the amount raised by initiation fees as
we'll as the annual dues. Each man who
marries forfeits his right to the pool which
| is thus formed A fine of fixed amount
| is also provided for breaking the vows Of
| the organization.
| The right of colored people to attend
| public places of amusement under the
| laws of Wisconsin is to be tested. Ra-
chael and Clara Black are the nearly
white and attractive daughters Of a col
ored barber, Alfred Black. The young
women visited the Century roller skating
rink at Oshkosh as spectators. The next
| day they received note requesting them
| to discontinue their visits. They went
| again and were invited to leave, which
| they did. The reason assigned by the
| mana gement of the rink is that 1t had eS-
| tablished a rule not to let colored people
| frequent the place.
A great surprise was in store for the
! family and friends of Z. 2. Dawson when
| that young man came to Chippewa Fails
unexpectedly, as the report had been cir
| culated that he had fallen in the battle
of Manila. While his home is at Chippe-
wa Falls he had been engaged in steam
boating on the Missouri river and when
the call came he enlisted at Bismarck as
a private in Company a, North Dakota
volunteers and went with his company
to Manila, where he participated in that
memorable battle; and no word had been
received from that day until his arrival.
| He received his discharge before coming
home and says he has come to stay.
| Greed of money proved fatal to Carl
| Hartmann's pet dachshund, in Milwau-