Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-04-20


Mrs Hassam of Lake Mills were married
at the home of the bride.
James Dennie was instantly killed at
Stratford by sawlog rolling over him.
He was single man, aged %.
Harry Robinson was found dead on the
stairway of the Archie block in West SUI
perior. He probably died of heart failure.
Miss Ruth Stebbns, daughter of J. M.
Stebbins of Kenosha, and Paul McKin-
non Of Chicago were married at the home
of the bride
Arthur Gilbert was caught in the fly
wheel of mill machinery at Fairchild and
was killed. He was a member of the
County Board.
Nearly all the windows were blown out
of the Wisconsin Central blacksmith shop
at Stevens Point by" the explosion of gas
in the blast pipe.
Whitehall secured the new Trempealeau
County asylum, involving an immediate
expenditure of $4,000, by the action of
the County Board.
After several shots were exchanged, the
Elgin police captured one of a trio of
burglars who gave his name as Arthur
Anderson of Chicago.
Arthur d. Alverson and Miss Clarissa
Bryant were married at Stevens Point,
Judge Webb having granted him divorce
from his former wife in the morning.
Mayor-elect David Douglas of Eau
Claire, who came to New York in 1875
from England, secured his second papers
in order to qualify for the office of Mayor,
Weddings in the State: Miss Alice Sa
bin of Windsor to E. G. Dodge Of Lake
Mills; Miss Fredericka Woodruff of Mari
nette to Charles A. Brampton of Chicago
At Milwaukee, Fred Watson was sen.
fenced to a term Of fourteen months in
the house of correction for having robbed
the money drawer Of the Walworth post
office
The Aluminium Manufacturing Com
pany's large factory at Two Rivers mar.
rowly escaped destruction by fire. The
loss will be about 81 900, covered by in.
surance.
The big strike at the J. I. Case Thrash.
ing Machine Company works in Racine,
involving $50 men, has been satisfactorily
settled. No discrimination is to be shown
by the company.
Assemblyman H. L. Daggett of New
lAolluou Is authority lOE the SldIclucut
| that he has been offered $1,000 by a large
| corset factory in the East for the use OF
his name and picture.
| The Northwestern Cedarmen's Associa-
| ton, which met at Marinette, advanced
| the price of the best shingles to s. per
| thousand, and posts and poles from 10 tG
| 20 per cent over former prices.
Burglars entered the store of Scheid &
| Miller at Jefferson, dry goods and gro
ceries, and drilled the safe. They obtain
ed about $50 in cash. They forced an en-
trance through the basement door.
Maj. and Mrs. II. J. McGrath arrived
| at Eau Claire from Havana, where they
! went soon after their marriage last No
yember. Maj. McGrath is chief engineer
of the second division of Gen. Lees army
| corps.
| While playing about a moving freight
! train in the Omaha railway yards in Chip
pewa Falls, Joseph Privett missed his
footing and fell beneath the cars, result
ing in the loss of hand and a badly
crushed leg.
In consequence of dissensions in the
German Catholic Church of Eau Claire,
| the authorities have ordered that Father
John Metzler of the Eau Claire church
and Father Geyer of Chippewa Falls ex-
change places.
Michael Won Strohmeyer, born in Aus
tria, descended Of royal blood, died at
Butternut, aged 76. The deceased at one
time owned a large estate in his native
land, but lost it, He died bachelor and
in apparently destitute circumstances.
Congressman jenkins has received at
| least $500 packets of garden seeds for
| The fire sufferers about Cumberland, and
this, together with the 1000 packets from
Senator Mitchell and 1000 from Senator
Spooner will be a godsend for the strick-
en- people.
A portion of the crew at Radfords
sash, door and blind plant at Oshkosh
walked out owing to dissatisfaction over
the wages paid Scattering instances are
reported of employees of the Paine Lum-
Der Company walking out for the past
few days, dissatisfied with wages paid.
Deaths in the State: John B. Whitcomb,
aged 10; Timothy O'keefe, aged so; En-
nest Nichols, aged 16, and Mrs. Ward
Stowell (nee Cynthia Daggett), aged 10,
of Beloit; J. O. Stade, Marinette; Mrs.
S. c. Cool, aged "a, Evansville; Miss
Maud S. King, aged 10, GAINESVILLE; Mrs.
Louis p Morehouse, aged Al, Beloit; Il.
n. Waldo, aged 81, Bristol; Mrs. Eliza
beth Cary, aged SO, Racine; Levi w.
Botsford, aged 50, Racine; Capt. Henry
Gray, aged y, Racine.
Lewis Breyer. employed in a lumber
camp north of Arbor Vitae, witnessed the
strange spectacle of an eagle killing deer
| recently. The great bird swooped down
on the gentle denizen Of the forest and
with one stroke of its talons cut the deer's
juguar vein, and the deer soon hled to
| death. The eagle endeayored to carry off
! it's victim but the carcass was too heavy,
and after dragging it about rod left and
soon returned with two more, and the
three devoured about half of the deer.
The Kenosha City Council passed the
| ordinance granting a franchise to the Mill
] r.arlsnn Racine and kenoSha Esectric