Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-09-07
The red brick primary school house at
Wonewoc burned. The building and con-

frame buildings in the FIRE at Victor,
Colo. He carried no insurance on ac-
count of the high rate
The sawmill owned by the Ruplinger
Stave and Heading Company of Loyal
burned to the ground. The heading mill,
located nearby, was saved
The Citizens Traction Company Of
Oshkosh has voluntarily increased the
wages of its employees. Motormen are
receiving ID cents an hour.
The Sun Prairie water works bonds
were sold to the First National Bank of
Columbus at 31a per cent for fourteen
years. The amount is ST., 800.
Among the parties taking out hunt
er's license at La Crosse was Mrs. l.. J.
Mansur Of West Salem. She is the first
woman to apply for license there.
Hugh Conner Of bridge crew fell
dead at Cumberland at the breakfast ia
BILE at the Windsor Hotel. Conner was
married and lived in Minneapolis.
While the driver was filing tank at
the Pecatonia river at Beloit team be-
longing to George Gleasman, a we'll
known farmer, ran into the stream and
drowned.
West Superior police found an unknown
man dead in a Northern Pacific box car
at the east end. No money or papers
were found on the body to aid in ldenti-
fcation.
About thirty Chinese Masons held their
annual State session at Oshkosh. The
day was spent in strange festivity, no
new members being taken in or lodge
work done.
Government surveyors are at work
| measuring from the stumpage the
amount of timber which has been unlaw-
fully cut from the Indian reservation. 1t
is expected suits will follow.
A team owned by J. Lucterhand ran
away at Marshfeld, throwing out the oc-
cupants Of the buggy and seriously injur-
| ing Lucterhand and his wife and break
ing both bones of her right leg.
| Mabel Roderick, a bright little girl, 5
years old, daughter of William Roderick,
was run over and crushed to death by q
| wagon belonging to the Landreth Pea
| Packing Company at Manitowoc.
The machinists' helpers of the Eastern
Minnesota repair shops at West Superior
| went out on strike. They have been re-
CclFlAS pl.cO per Jay anu ucHdhu PA.s
| The strikers number about $50 men.
The largest barn in Eau Claire County
| was struck by lightning and consumed
with forty tons of hay, over 1000 BUSH
els of oats and three horses. The prop
| erty was in the town of Washington.
The Rev. Peter B. Morrison of Eau
Claire, widely known in the Ancient Or
| der Of United Workmen, was stricken
with a strange illness resembling paraly-
sis and was, for time, unconscious.
| An interurban car on the Chippewa
| Valley Electric Railway struck wagon
| containing seve npersons, severely injur-
| ing Mrs. s. L. Stafford of Eau Claire.
| The others escaped with slight bruises.
w. B. Pearl, proprietor Of the Cliff
House, Devils Lake, has pair Of huge
| oyster shells sent him from the Philip
pines by Gen. Otis. Their weight is 375
pounds, and the freight bill amounted to
| $3.50
Mrs. John Parman Of Kaukauna, who
| was confined in the county insane asylum,
escaped and was found at Bear Greek
with another escaped inmate, a Mrs.
| Buck, whose home was formerly at that
| place. Both are returned.
John Miles, boy employed at Hotel
Racine, confessed to the Racine police
that he had been pilfering from guests Of
| the house. He said that he had once
worked at the Hotel Pfister, Milwaukee,
and was discharged for dishonesty.
Five prisoners dug their way out of the
county Jail at Hurley and made good
their escape. The sheriff has issued cir
l 10. - -
and counties to look out for them, as
they are known to be tough characters.
The big Mcbride ice house at Twin
Lakes was burned to the ground. The
| Mcbride icehouse was the property of the
| Knickerbocker Ice Company and was
said to be the largest owned by the COM
| pany in Wisconsin. At the time of the
! fire the house was almost emptied of ice
| and had been used as storehouse for
| tools and other equipments. The loss from
| the fire is said to be about $4,000, with
| partial insurance. There is no theory as
| to the origin of the Re, as when it was
discovered the proper ty had almost been
| consumed 1t will be rebuilt at once.
James Clarke, banker, whose home is
at Steele, n. D., jumped from Pioneer
] llIllloU Train Ou lIe NlllWduke IOdO ucdl
West Salem, while the train was running
at high rate of speed. Clarke was trav-
cling with his wife on his way to see his
| father, who is critically i'll at his home in
Ohio. This is supposed to have preyed
upon Clarke's mind, and together with
| the intense heat, is thought to have made
him temporarily insane. Clarke tried to
| cut the screen out of his section of the
| sleeper, but was prevented from doing so
| by a porter and the conductor, who were
summoned by Mrs. Clarke. He after
wards assaulted Mrs. Clarke with the
same knife.
A number of paper mill changes have
| been made at Appleton during the sum
mer months. In the list is the placing Of
new machine in the Telulah plant of the
Kimberly & Clark Company. The ma
chine formerly used at Quinnesec Falls
was rebuilt and has taken the place Of