Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-09

resulted in his acqnittal.
rovaral If the rural mail boxes near
Marshall have been broken lnto.
s. sove,x windstorm at lola blew tnIee
100 carx off the track and did consfd-
cradle damage.
Andrew Mattson was drowned u D "a
IFS lake. He was duck snooons an1
his canoe was overturned.
The hardware store Of William COOK q.
Ironton vas burglarized. Goods anu
money valued at $50 were taken.
Common s. Kraus of Marshfield 500 70
Oshkosh parties ], 400 acres OF pine l ann
IN Villas and Forest counties for S1I'ooo'
Milwaukee presbytery voted to re
h,,La,, Roy. J. ID. Van Doren, 20, roma
du Lac. for maligning his Ministerial
brethren.
stanley J. North, aged SO, of the hrm
of North & Evans, wagon makers =,
Snring Green, was killed by 81. Faui
train backing over him.
V. P. Atwell has resigned as genera
manager of the Stevens Point LlghIihs
Company and has been succeeded Dy oin-
claire Mainland of Green Bay.
Daniel Cleveland, an employe IN the
Hudson car shops, was found ON the
Rurkhardt road lying beside his Dicycle
with his neck broken. he was ahse
when found, but died shortly afterwards.
Fred Olund, an employe in the tannery
at Phillips, was accidentally shot Wniie
hunting in the woods. coroners jury
was summoned for an inquest anu
brought in a verdict of accidental sioot-
ing.
Some nersons entered the Oshkosh
Yacht Clubs house and converted an olu
fishing smack into a den, where ammunl-
tion. blankets, lanterns and novels were
found. They did much damage to boats
in the vicinity. The police are looking
for the marauders.
Fire started in the general merchandise
store of August Elmer OF Neosno. An
the goods and the building, belonging TO
the Baker estate, were destroyed, as was
also the dwelling house Of Frank Hau-
pert. a very valuable mastiff belonging
| to Mr.. Elmer was burned to death.
StanleI Clark, school teacher, while
| hunting on Genesee lake, in the township
| of Summit, had his right arm shot OF
above the elbow through the accidental
discharge of his gun. He is the son or
| Charles Clark of MukwonagO and is
graduate of Beloit College and was
member IF Company A, Fourth Wiscon-
sin volunteers, in the late war.
| James A. Rape of Marinette, who
walked ID the G. A. r. encampment at
| Cincinnati, and wheeled to the encamp-
ment at Philadelphia, has decided ON an
other unique method Of making the trip
to the naxt encampment at Chicago. lie
will shove a wheelbarrow from Marinette
to- that lity and on it he will carry
camping outfit. He will procure his own
| sustenan.,e, prepare all his meals and
sleep in the tent nights during the jour-
ney to and from Chicago. Mr.. Rape eel
ebrated his eighty fourth birthday re-.
| Gently.
| Congressman J. j. Esch has returned
from EaI Claire County, where, in conn.,
pany with Col Henry Casson, superin-
tendent Of free rural delivery, he inspect
| ed and approved Of two routes, which
will be put in operation Jan. 1, 1900. The
route out from Eau Claire is twenty three
miles long and will furnish service for
Ito farm houses. The Augusta route is
a mile shorter and passes $50 houses.
| Carriers for both routes have already
been selected and their names sent in to
| the Postoffice Department in Washing
| ton.
The heirs of William Lynch of Keno
sha have given up their fight to evade
the payment of the per cent legacy tax
levied upon the estate by the new in
heritance law. The law as passed was to
be in operation from and af+er the first
day Of July Of this year. Lynch died at
noon on the first day Of that month and
the attorneys for the estate held that the
heirs were not liable for the tax. The
county Judge decided against the estate,
but the Attorney General has handed
down ala opinion that the heirs must
pay. The estate is valued at $4,000
Joseph Hill and his son, Joseph Hill,
Jr., met with very serious accident
while returning to Kenosha from Pleas
ant Prairie on a Northwestern freight
train. GUST after the train had passed
Racine junction sudden stop was made
and the shock was so great that the ca
boose WIS almost thrown from the track
| Mr.. Hill and his son were thrown from
their seafs in the caboose and the father
was thrown up against the wall, where
| ~ was QiihloAeu ny d uCdNy iron stove.
AS soon as the boy could release himself
he went to the assistance Of his father.
When Hill was pulled out he was in an
unconscious condition
| The Postoffice Department has issued
an order which prescribes that beginning
Nov. gil mails between Harvard, ILL.,,
and Foniana, Wis, passing through Big
Foot and Walworth, that have hitherto
been Carried by stage, shall be carried
| by the Chicago, Harvard and Geneva
Lake Railway, an electric road finished
the past summer from Harvard to the
shore OF Geneva lake. With better car
ry1ng facilities two additional mails will
arrive daily, one morning and one even
ing. The directors of the road are pre-
pairing - extend their line in the spring
TO Delavan and Elkhorn, touching Della
van lake at Mettowee park.
John Ward was found guilty of burg
larry at Neillsville. The many circum-
stances SlIrrOlIndiny tho COCO hove ,,,aaa =