Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-04-13

The Delafield Military Academy battal-
ion holds itself in readiness to make q
forced march to OconemoWoc on a few
minutes notice.
At Kenosha, the Common Council pass.
ed an ordinance prohibiting saloons within
800 feet Of any church or school over May
or Pettit's veto.
A riot took place at the polls at the Ma
pie precinct Of the town of Brule, in which
several men were cut with knives and
slug1ed with clubs.
Two representatives of a large Nebras-
ka land corporation have been in Boyd
for the purpose Of locating lands suitable
for settlement Of Nebraska farmers.
M. 2. Larrabee, president of the Chip
pewa County Board of immigration, says
that 1000 persons settled on lands in
Chippewa County the past five years.
The body of an old man named Loomis
was found lying half undressed outside
the door of his farm house, near Rice
Lake. 1t is not known in what manner
he came to his death.
Ex-Gov. w. Fl. Upham has closed a con-
tract with George Baldwin and other par
ties for $4,000 acres of hardwood lands,
between Medford and Merrill, the consid-
GRAFTON being $4,000.
In Westfeld, at the funeral of Post
master LaWton, while conveying the body
from the house to the church, the hearse
team ran away, completely wrecking the
hearse. The casket was uninjured.
In Hayward saloon Fred Searles
struck woodman named John Howard
a blow in the eye, knocking it out. The
latter was Immediately sent to the hos
pital at Ashland. Searles is now in Gus
tody.
John Gruber, his wife and their 9-year-
old daughter Melonia are at the Trinity
hospital, Milwaukee, seriously injured as
the result Of a collision between an cleo
trio car on the National avenue line and
their carriage.
When the employees of the Western
Hardware Company at Milwaukee went
to work the other day they were told that
they were to do piece work. The en-
ployes absolutely refused and the foundry
had to shut down.
At Milwaukee, Policeman Charles Krie-
ger was shot in the face and badly wound
ed by one of two young men he had stop
ped on the street, suspecting them to be
hold-up men. Both escaped and the Off
Ger is at the hospital.
Miss Mary Inez Pettibone, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. V. Pettibone Fond du
Lac, and Charles B. Hill of Chicago were
married at Fond du Lac, Rev. A. w.
Bill, pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, performing the ceremony.
The Hotel Baldwin at Honey Greek was
destroyed by fire. The building was a
two-story frame, nearly new, and was
owned by the f. G. Klein company Of
Burlington. William Danmier conducted
the hotel. The loss is about $4,000.
Joseph Verville, woodsman, commit
ted suicide by taking carbolic acid at Hur-
ley. Little is known of him except that
he had worked in the woods under the
name of Joseph Business, and it is said
he had lost all his money the day before
in gambling. He was Frenchman, about
33 years old, and unmarried.
The secret marriage Of an 1S-year-old
boy and a 16-year-old girl has just been
| discovered, although the ceremony unit
| ing the youthful lovers was performed six
months ago. The parties to the romantic
! affair are Florence Sherman, daughter Of
| William Sherman, artist, who until re-
Gently resided in Milwaukee, and Herold
| Duncan, her first cousin, the son Of Au-
| gustus Duncan, a mining prospector resid-
| ing in Boston. Recently Duncan went to
Utah to see his father, who was there on
business. He dropped off at Denver,
| where Miss Sherman now resides with
her parents. Then the secret was reveal
ed. The wife is still with her parents and
the boy bridegroom is back in Milwaukee
at his desk in a manufacturing company
offices endeavOring to accumulate cash
and age enough to go to housekeeping.
John Blumenroeder, an old miser resid-
ing two miles north of St. Joe, in the
town of Marshfield, was found in his log
hut dead, three revolver shot wounds be-
ing found in his back. Mr.. Blumeproeder
was 75 years of age and lived in a log hut
on the farm of Lawrence Foestner, who
came to this country from Bavaria, the
same place in which Mr.. Blumenroeder
was born. The hut was about 100 feet
from the FOestner house 1t has been the
FOestner's custom to take the old gentle
man his meals, and on entering the door
they found Mr.. Blumenroeder lying on
his face and his clothes saturated in
blood. The alarm was sounded. The men
gathered and talked the matter over, but
nothing further was done. Mr.. Blumen-
roeder was an old shoemaker and during
his lifetime had accumulated large for
tune, which was supposed to have been
secreted about the cabin. Whether the
murderers found the treasure or not is not
known.
Neither Crystal Spring Lodge, I. o. G..
T., nor the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union will be able to build a temple
with the money of the late Elizabeth Ann
Sutton, Judge Johnson at Milwaukee held
that it was impossible to determine what
was meant by a bequest for temperance
purposes because there was too great a
difference Of opinion as to what consti-
tutes temperance work. The litigation
over the Sutton estate has attracted the
attention of temperance advocates every