Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-23

Four new rural mail delivery routes
will be esta blished out Of Mondovi.
Walter Thomas of Ridgeway died Of
cancer while undergoing treatment in a
Chicago hospital.
Little Hazel Patterson, who was kid
naped at Kenosha, was recovered by the
Waukegan chief of police.
The hardware store Of f. e. Mcdowell
at Pewaukee was entered by burglars.
who took So worth of cutlery.
The 1O-year-old daughter of Henry Nc
Cam was drowned in the river at Jims
Falls. The body was not recovered.
The farm residence of Mr.. Rowson, To-
Gated about one mile from Hancock sta
ton, burned to the ground. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
At Jefferson by special election it was
decided that the city will buy the plant
of the Jefferson Electric Light and Pow
er Company for 1000.
Sadie and Libby Lauk, aged and 4
years, drowned in the river at Necedah.
They were playing on raft and fell off
in water four feet deep.
George Alben, a teamster for Wilson
& Co. at Stella Junction, was found dead
in barn. Heart failure is thought to
have been the cause of his death.
Henry NJ. Lowry of Milwaukee,
prominent Elk, was found dead from an
overdose of morphine at Colorado
Springs, where he had gone in search OF
health.
A farm hand named Alex. McKiver,
Nd
broke his neck. He was employed on
the farm of John Ref, six miles west Of
Oshkosh.
Over twelve miles of track, bridges and
grading of the Chippewa River and Me-
nomonie Railways road near Appollonia,
was washed out by cloudburst, causing
heavy loss
The storage warehouse of Ole Hensing
of Stoughton; known as the Finley ware
house, was partly burned. The building
cost about $4,000 and was insured for
81, 900. The loss on the building will
probably be about $500.
The Wisconsin Carriage Company, re-
Gently burned out at GAINESVILLE, will erect
a new model factory to employ 100 hands
and to cost about $4,000. The citizens
of GAINESVILLE raised $4,000 to purchase
location as an inducement to remain.
The A. o. U. w. picnic at Sank City
was not so we'll attended as usual owing
to the intense heat. Madison, Baraboo,
Portage, Alderman, Elroy, Arena, North
Freedom, Sank City, Wonewoc, sent del
egations. The next picnic will be held
at Madison.
l.. s. Packard of Combined Locks re-
ceiyed letter from Stockbridge telling
of the death there of Laura B. Packard
and asking if she was his daughter. He
had no relatives there and does not know
who Laura Packard is. She left some
property worth looking after.
The Racine Golf Club now claims to
have the handsomest links in the State.
Many improvements have been made.
The grounds have been piped and six Or
eight wells distributed about the same.
Arthur Rigby is the instructor and many
of the members are quite proficient at
the game.
The Union National Bank of Racine
has been consolidated with the First Ma
tional Bank, the latter bank purchasing
the good will and arranging for the dis
position of the collection of the assets and
the prompt discharge of the obligations
of the former bank and assuming the
payment of the 100000 deposits.
Knapp, Stout & Co. of Menomonie
recently sent the largest raft Of lumber
down the Mississippi that was ever float
ed upon that stream. 1t contained 9,OOO,-
600 feet of lumber and sixty carloads Of
lath and shingles The raft was made
up at Saltwater, Mimi, and the lumber
was consigned to dealers in st. Louis.
Will, the 1O-year-old son of Albert
Semrow of Grand Rapids, was accident
ally shot, the bullet Of a revolver enter
ing through the side of his nose and
lodging in the back Of the brain. At the
present time the boy is unable to speak
or move. How or who shot him his par
ents are unable to find out. The boy
borrowed the revolver and it is claimed
that he was shot by one of the boys Of
the neighborhood. The doctor says there
is no hope of recovery.
Three unknown men attempted to
break into the ban& at Genoa Junction
at an early hour the other morning. The
men were discovered in the act of cutting
named Prouty. He went to his home
and fred off a giant frecracker and
awakened the people of the city, who
started after the would-be robbers. The
men went from Genoa Junction to the
home of John Burgess and stole team
If horses and vehicle, in which they made
heir escape.
A La Crosse man has not exactly killed
a goose that laid golden egg, but he has
done the next best thing. Otto Oehler
killed a hen and in the crop was found a
good-sized grain of sold. He runs meat
market and the supposition is that some
farmer has gold on his farm and this en-
terprising chick picked up a bit Of it.
The precious grain has not the appear
ance of having ever been worked and is
like virgin metal. Every effort is being
made to find out who he bought the hen
from, so that some prospecting may be