Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-10


At New Richmond, many large and
fine brick business blocks are being built
and others are starting every day.
The OBrien Lumber Company Of Chi
cago sold to Buffalo parties at Ashland
about 100000 feet of white pine.
James Hoole, awaiting trial for burg
larry, and Charles Kunkel held for grand
larceny, broke Jail at Chippewa Falls.
Mrs. William Loef1er, wife of the city
clerk of Chicago, broke her leg at Ke-
nosha in jumping from buggy while at
tending funeral.
The question of issuing bonds to the
of water works was carried at Sun Prai-
RE in special election by a vote of lit
to 50.
Prof Charles Everett Skinner, instruc-
tor in English and history in the Ste
vens Point high school, has resigned to
accept the position of principal at De
Kalb, Ill.
George Allingson and Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph f. Lapley of Babcock were taken
to Grand Rapids by Sheriff Vincent and
placed in the county jail, awaiting trial
under criminal proceedings.
The piston rod of the carriage in the
Sawyer-Goodman mill at Marinette
broke, throwing a big log Of 300 feet
through the air. The carriage riders
barely escaped being caught.
Margaret Garvin. aged 1O6 years and
Z months, died in the town of York. She
was the Oldest person in the State. She
leaves surviving her four sons and daugh-
tiers, thirty grandchildren, forty-four
Observation-Disclosures and one great-great-
grandchild.
James Mellen, for many years a tim
Der foreman, was killed mile and half
from Glidden by falling from the wagon
he was riding on. He fell back OF the
horses and it is supposed that one of the
horses broke his skull by kick. De
ceased was about 80 years of age
Wholesale burglaries are reported from
Onalaska and Midway. Several houses
were entered on a recent night and
number of watches and some money
were secured. Assemblyman Butties
residence was robbed of lot of provls-
ions. 1t is evidently the work of a gang
of tramps.
The marriage of Albert w. Whitney
and Miss Martha r. Bill, daughter Of +.
w. Bill, took place at Beloit, the groom's
father, Prof. III. M. Whitney, officiating
The couple will go at once to Berkeley,
Cal, where Mr.. Whitney has been en-
gagged as an instructor at the University
of California.
G. Paige died at Oshkosh in tent
back of his house. where he lived by his
physicians orders. He was one of the
most prominent men in Oshkosh he
was interested in the Eagle iron works,
| the Casket Hardware Company, and was
| president of the Oshkosh Electric Light
| and Power Company.
| At Eau Claire, Tommy Oldfeld, III
years old, confessed in court that he
threw big stone into the smoker of an
Omaha passenger train near the city Inn
| it's the other night General Manager
| Scott was on the train and offered $lUO
reward Chief Higgins Of Eau Claire
found the offender and gets the money.
| The boy was sentenced to thirty days in
| Jail in default of fine and costs. He IS
| the son of section boss.
A father with three sons, all born on
| the same day of the same month and
| still not being triplets, is an occurrence
never before chronicled but such case
| has been brought to light in Neenah.
| Christian Anderson, Il farmer, and his
wife, who have been married eight years,
had a son born in 1898. In 1898, an
other male child was born, and on the
same date in 1897 another male member
| was added to the family.
William Kehr, deckhand on the
steamer Lion, running on the packet line
| between La Crosse and Wabasha, Mimi,
al NV, nd fQ
| ten times with four-inch dirk by one of
them. 1t is feared Kehr will die. All
four of the men, John Miller, William
Trapp, Richard Foss and William Kick,
were arrested and are held by the police,
awaiting the outcome of Kehr's injuries.
Miller, who is charged with doing the
stabbing, is member of one of the most
prominent families of La Crosse.
A severe wind and lightning storm WIS.,
tied Couillardville and destroyed much
property, and it is feared the hail has
ruined the crops. Albert Sylvester was
struck by lightning. The residence of
Edward Couillard was struck and almost
totally destroyed by fire. Cattle in adj
Joining pastures were killed. At Mays
Corners the storm was accompanied by
hail. which covered the ground to depth
that many reports of severe injury have
been received.
Cranberry men are counting ON big
Weld on cultivated marshes in Jackson
and Wood counties this fall and even the
wild marshes give evidence of their old
time productiveness. The prospects are
said to be the finest in many years. The
old cranberry pickers had given up the
idea of ever seeing a crop on the wild
marshes. The cranberry bushes are well
along for this season of the year and
| SO much water in the swamps that there
| is but little danger of frost before the
| harvest, which will commence no later
than September.
The first car was run over the Oshkosh
Neenah Interurban Electric Railroad the
| other day. The test was successful. The
distance is thirteen miles. 1t is the prop
| erty of the Citizens Traction Company
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