Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-06-14


~ seen at Baraboo.
The Menasha Common Council passed
a curfew ordinance.
On account of the continued dry wealth
er the strawberry crop of Sank County
viii be almost an entire failure.
Mrs Anna Ladd, Menasha, was shot
through the thigh. A revolver was in a.
trunk which she was packing and in some
manner was discharged.
Hiram Rous, an employee in the Aysins
Lumber Company's sawmill at Grand,
Rapids, accidentally had the middle fin
ger on his left hand sawed off.
Michael Mulquin died at Janesyille,.
the result of small scratch on his fin
ger which terminated in lockjaw. He
leaves a wife and six children.
Thos. III. Dickson of Chippewa Coun-s
ty has been granted divorce. He came
from England four years ago, but his
wife refused to come TO America to join
him.
Filberto Ricchio was arrested in Ke-
nosha, charged with being fugitive from
justice. He was indicted by the last
Chicago grand jury and bail fixed at
$4,000.
James Wilson, a workman on the Great
Northerns new steel elevator at West
Superior, fell sixty feet from the side Of
that structure and died from the effects
of the injuries received.
The remains of Charles Johnson came
to the surface of the Wisconsin river al
few miles from Baraboo. The body was
found along the shore, having drifted
from Kilbourn, where he was drowned.
Reports come from various sections of
the northern farming country that the
crops are being destroyed by the contin-
ued dry weather 1t is claimed by those.
experienced that the hay crop will be
worth scarcely anything if rain should
now fall
George Sanquist, member of the crew
at the Lehigh Coal and Coke Company's.
dock at West Superior, was instantly
killed and another of the crew was seri
ously injured. A broken cable allowed a
coal bucket to drop in the midst of the
Workmen.
Thomas Kelly. a we'll -known logger
of Chippewa Falls, received word that
his logging camps on the west fork Of
the Chippewa river had been destroyed
by fire. The loss will be in the neighbour
hood of $1,000. Forest fires are raging
in the woods north of the fork.
Harry Balloon, who has been so fire.
quently mentioned in connection with the
attempt to exterminate the Wise family
at Anoka, Mimi, has proven to Detective
Thomas Murphy of Grantsburg that he
was not within seventy miles of the
Of fha
committed
Plans for a new high bridge to con-
meet southwestern Wisconsin with north
eastern Iowa have been approved by the
Government engineers and the construc-
ton of the bridge will be commenced
shortly. Bills authorizing the constrIsc
ton of the bridge were passed by botIs
houses Of Congress some time since
Albert Platz, Jr., of La Crosse, for
merly of Racine, has gone to Idaho.
where he takes personal charge of the
property of the Idaho Gold Coin Mining,
and Milling Company of La Crosse. ina
the Seven Devils mining district. The
company is just putting in a cyanide
plant of a capacity of seventy-fve tons
per day.
AILiCleS VI !HcoIpOIdlIOH nave UeeIl III"
ed by the Racine Fire Engine and Mo-
tor Company with capital stock Of
$4,000. J. J. Wright and r. H. Lam
yon of Chicago were elected vice presi-
dent and secretary and treasurer, respec--
lively. The new company will manufac-
ture fire engines and motor OF horselessg
fire apparatus.
Barnard Sanders met with peculiar
accident while hunting 1T Layalle. There
was some game in a tree that he desired
and after cooking his revolver he COM
menced to CLIMB upward. After getting
considerable distance mp, the revolver
was discharged by rubbing against a.
limb. The ball tore downward through
the flesh of the leg, creating a very seri-
Gus wound.
Emanuel Lewis of Hemlock is the first
man in the State who conceived the idea
of propagating the gensing root, from a
commercial standpoint Living in a ter
ritory Indigenous to the growth of the
root he went into the business. IIe has
now growing on his small farm over &c.
600 healthy plants and expects to con-
tinue increasing his acreage until he has ,
the best-paying farm in Clark County,
w
for the root. will not be long.
Mrs. J. j. Bartlett, wife of the keeper.
of Evergreen Park, south of Racine,
pluckily brought tramp to time at the
muzzle of rifle. The woman had occa-
sion to enter large hall in connection
with the park. A tramp came along and
stole the keys from the door. Mrs. Bart
lett went out by another door and re-
quested the tramp to return the keys. He
denied having stolen them. She then
ran into the house, got rife, hurried af-
ter the tramp and at the muzzle of the
gun walked him back to the hall and
compelled him to place the keys in the
door from which he took Them and he
was then allowed to depart.
A decision in favor of the defense has
been given by Judge Bum in the Federal
court at Madison, in the case of the Gov
eminent against James Stinson of Chica-
go, involving the title to 1900 acres Of