Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-12-07

Emil Haugen, farmer living near
sparta, had his right hand crushed in a
feed MILL = :
John Miles, colored. Milwaukee, wan+s
@l,uoo from the Schlitz Hotel because a
waiter refused him refreshments.
A man about 30 years old was found
dead on the railroad track near Devils
lake. He was killed by a south bound
passenger train.
George G. Thomas, one of the best
known photographers in the United
states, died of asthma at his home in
Raclne. He was 81 years of age.
William e. Sawyer of La Crosse. one
of the best-known and wealthiest voung
lumDermen of the Northwest, died at
Fine Bluff. Ark, of typhoid fever. He
was ut the head of the Sawyer 4 Austin
Lumber Company
a neatly wrapped package containing
burglar tools was found in the court
house yard at Marinette 1t was dropped,
1t is thought, by one of the three men
arrested on suspicion Of being safe blow
ers, while they were being taken to the
county Jail.
at Fond du Lac George Wightman, 81
years old, was found guilty of murder in
the frst degree. He was charged with
the murder of Clarence Updyke, whom he
shot year and a half ago because he
believed Updyke was alternating the at
fections of his wife.
The Sieg bicycle factory of kenosha
has passed into the hands of the trust
a hnRnvN1n En, - h. A
Bicycle Company. The factory was clos
ed and notice given the men that they
would be re-employed when the sale and
transfer had been arranged.
The State board of control has issued
an order to compel persons who have
relatives in State asyluns for insane to
pay for their board and care by the State.
The new order will do away with the
secrecy which now obtains and make
these cases matter of public record.
From some unknown cause fire origi
mated in the Chicago and Northwestern
freight warehouse at Lodi and burned
both freight and passenger depots. All
was consumed except the records. The
water tank and elevator were not burn
ed The loss on the freight was consid-
NlopASs Jul On OtASl plOpSAlSs
Wisconsin game brought the State in
$4,000 in the shape Of nonresident hunt
ing licenses this year. Deer hunters liv-
ing outside the State, SO in number, at
license fee of $25 each, paid ia $3.50,
and non-residents who secured licenses to
hunt ducks, geese and other small game,
but did not go after deer, paid 1,61O,
there being 161 of these at $40 each.
Mrs. Retta Duncan, the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Long Of Kau~
kauna. who went to Alaska over two
years ago. has arrived in the States and
is now visiting relatives at Cadott. Mrs.
Duncan bears the distinction of being
the first white woman who settled in
Skaguay, and occupied the first frame
building erected in that city of shanties.
Avis Hotter, aged 60 years, plaster
err by trade and an old resident of Jeffer-
son, died at his home. Mr., Hotter was
boarding at hotel at Lake Mills. AT II
o'clock the other night he was found at
the foot of the stairway unconscious,
dressed in his night clothes. His head
was lying in pool of blood. No one
saw him fall. His friends are not salts
fed with the appearance of things and
will cause an investigation to be made.
It is claimed that the Minneapolis, ST.
Paul and Ashland road, which has de-
cided to extend it's line from Ashland to
Superior, has already secured terminal
property at West Superior and that it Is
located at Allouez bay, the present scene
of much activity in railroad building.
There has also been deal on for the es-
tabishment of one or two sawmills as
a result of the roads determination to
make terminals there. This road will
bring logs to West Superior which would
naturally have gone to Chequamegon bay
to be sawed
There is somewhat of a mystery sur
rounding u discovery made by hunters
recently in the Chat settlement. While
cruising through the woods traces of
set gun We're discovered and near the
spot recently eXcavated grave was
found. carefully covered over with
boughs and leaves. The hunters made
no investigation as to the contents, bur
notified Sheriff Rusch of the find and
guided him to the place. But when they
reached the place the contents had been
removed from the grave and it was left
open, the bottom being lined with soft
bOughS ana moss. 1T is SuppoStu ludt
some person set the gun, but having Sc
cured u human victim had buried him and
then afterwards removed the body for
some reason.
The Wisconsin Central is spending
$3.50, 900 in concentrating it's Waukesha
and Stevens Point shops at Fond du Lac.
Twelve hundred men will be employed at
the new shops Immediately upon their
completion, 600 of whom will come from
the Stevens Point shops and 500 from
the Waukesha works. The pay roll at
Fond du Lac will average between $780,
600 and 100000 month. Storage tracks
which will hold 1000 cars at one time
now are being built, and ten receiving
tracks are in the course of construction.
The site of the shops is three miles north
west of Fond du Lac, and arrangements
for the building of an electric railway
between it and the city have been COM
pleted
Sensational charges are made against
the Central Trust Company of New York