Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-17


Acting Gov Stone has issued proc
lamation designating Monday, Sept. 4, as
Labor Day.
S. V. Chappell, prominent stockman
of Oregon, was kicked in the stomach
by horse.
Fire at Roxbury destroyed the barn Of
Henry Bloom, with FIVE horses, besides
cows and calves.
Mrs. J. D. Southworth of Marshfeld
died at the home of her son, Attorney P.
A. Williams, aged 6S.
Rev. w. D. Ganty, pastor Of the First
Presbyterian Church at Beaver Dam,
has gone to Oshkosh to receive treatment
for appendicitis
August Simpson, farmer of Sturgeon
Bay town, lost six head of cattle by
lightning striking herd that had sought
shelter under a tree.
The La Crosse Carriage Company has
decided to rebuild it's plant recently de-
stroyed by fire. This means the employ
ment of seventyfve men.
Game Warden Fisher captured a 70
foot seine and arrested r. B. Clifford and
William Gieser at Brodhead for illegal
fishing. They were fined $25 and costs.
Fire destroyed large barn owned by
the Cream City Brewing Company of
Milwaukee and also an adjoining build
ing occupied by John Schewenka at
Marshfeld
The Wisconsin Knitting Company and
Osius millinery establishment at Racine
came near being destroyed by fire. A
blaze was found early in the morning and
extinguished.
Paul Pulls, well-known resident of
Eau Claire, was arrested on the charge
OF shooting chickens out of season. He
pleaded guilty and paid fine and costs
amounting to $54.19.
Four well-known Appleton men, while
fishing up the Wolf river on board
chartered steam yacht, came in conflict
with the game wardens. The men were
fined $25 and costs each
The body of julius Stern was taken to
Brillion from Baraga Mich. Stern was
employed as a head scaler in a sawmill
and while leaving the mills slipped and
fell thirty feet, dying that night.
Miss Lorena Emmons, residing two
miles west Of Stoughton and until re-
Gently teacher in the public schools OF
Milwaukee, has been adjudged insane
and sent to the Mendoza asylum.
Isaac Wing of Lynxville found pearl
weighing fftyseven grains. Experts
pronounce it one of the largest and most
perfect shaped pearls found in the State.
Its value is several hundred dollars.
A special election in ST. Croix County
to determine whether or not the county
build the bridge across Apple river at
New Richmond, destroyed by the lorna
do, was carried in favor of building.
Charles Lahner, assistant superintend-
| ent Of the Eau Claire street railway, paid
| So fine and costs for striking a boy in
the riot on Water street. Cars are run
ming and the trouble is apparently over.
Charles Newbauer filed a petition in
bankruptcy at Milwaukee. His liabilities
are $S0,S66 and his assets $55.25. He
was member Of the firm of Newbauer
& Son, which made an assignment in
| 1882.
| Contracts were signed for the erection
| of the mills at Hixton which burned in
| March, 1896 Chenneworth & Sons Of
Lansing, Iowa, have bought the power
and plant and will begin the work next
| week.
| Miss Fay Carlyle, a passenger on the
| Omaha train, was found near Gordon
in light attire. She had walked off the
train in the night and though the cars
were moving, her injuries are compare
| lively slight.
E. H. Gerard, Stoughton lumberman,
met with loss of 81 500 by fire. A small
building containing a carload Of tobacco
cases was consumed and a large build
| ing formerly used as an icehouse was
badly damaged.
John Sullivan has been held for trial
in the Superior Court at West Superior
on the charge of attempting to kill Will
liam Moore. The defense put in no tes-
timony at the preliminary examination.
! Sullivan will remain in Jail.
James Doud drowned in the bay at
| West Superior. He had gone out with
James Erickson, another elevator en-
ploye, and rocked the boat. 1t capsized,
and only Erickson could be rescued.
Douds body was recovered. He was %
years old and unmarried.
| Lobbying is held to be illegal by Judge
Johnson of Milwaukee in an opinion de-
Gliding the suit of Architect Charles Fitz-
| gerald against It. A. Walsh. Irrespective
of it's illegality, the court decides that
lobbying forms no part of a construction
of building and cannot be construed as
a lien upon the building.
The Chippewa Falls police are after
Philip Martell, who assaulted his wife
with a club, inflicting fatal injuries.
Neighbors rushed to interfere, but Mar
tell held them at bay by threatening to
shoot the first one who attempted to stop
him. The womans body was fearfully
| bruised and her clothing torn into shreds.
The county board Investigating COM
mittee, which has been trying to find
some foundation for the stories that
someone was trying to blow up or burn