Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-02-01

county.
While William Beach was hauling a
load of pulpwood across a small lake four
miles from Three Lakes, his team broke
through the ice. One horse was drowned
and the other was saved, but severely cut
and bruised
The depot building of the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway at County Line
was burned. Tickets, trunks, furniture,
telegraph instruments and pretty much
everything else was consumed The, loss
is about $4,000.
Harold Stancliff and Frank Murphy
were drowned in Fond du Lac river while
skating. The bodies were recovered. Both
belonged to well-known families. Stan
cliff was 6 and Murphy was years of
age. Murphy's home was in Chicago.
Free mail delivery will be established
at Whitewater April 1. The proposed
route extends south and west from the
city, and will accommodate about $50
families. John P. Fellows has been rec
commended for carrier. Lou Carpenter is
substitute.
DR.. A. J. McDougall of Detroit has re-
! ceived notice that he has fallen heir to
5000, 900, extensive landed districts and
the title of Lord McDougall in Scotland.
DR.. McDougall formerly lived in Ash
land, where he was plain Justice Nc
Dougall and ran for Mayor.
w. G. Wallace, who has been road
| foreman of engines on the Madison d.
vision of the Chicago and Northwestern
for some time, has been promoted to gen
eral foreman of the company's shops at
Clinton, Iowa. j. W. Williams will be
appointed to succeed Mr.. Wallace at
Baraboo.
Charles Schultz, late of the Ninety
fourth New York volunteer infantry, and
an inmate of the National Soldiers Home
near Milwaukee, was found dead in bed
at a cheap lodging house in La Crosse.
Schultz is supposed to have died of heart
failure. He was about 20 years of age,
and had been in feeble health.
w. III. Bump, farmer living three
miles east of Albany, is dead. He had
! been i'll with typhoid fever. The attend
| ing nurse left the room for few min
utes and when she returned she found
that her patient had left his bed and got
a two-ounce bottle of carbolic acid and
drank all the contents. He only lived
! five minutes.
At Marinette Policeman Jacobsen fired
into a crowd of toughs in Shantytown
and wounded Carl Larsen, 17-year-old
boy. The crowd had been on drunk
and was destroying the fences and over
/ turning the boats of the fishermen living
| in that section When Jacobsen approach
ed the boys fed and he fired, striking
| Larsen in the leg.
Three tramps at Jefferson entered the
store of Edward Seifert while the pro-
prietor was out and the clerk was down
in the cellar filing orders. They stole
two overcoats, but the goods were MISS
ed Immediately by the proprietor on his
return and he gave the alarm. A posse
of citizens started in pursuit. ,Ihey
| caught the tramps about mile south OF
the city after fierce struggle and lodg-
ed them in Jail.
Rolo Tracy, a well-known young man
of Oshkosh, has been adjudged insane Dy
| Judge Cleveland and committed to- the
| Northern hospital for treatment. Ills
mentali ailment is attributed to excessive
cigarette smoking. He was arrested on
a warrant sworn out by his wife, charg-
ing cruelty. According to the statements
of his wife he smoked several boxes OF
| cigarettes a day. Sometimes when ne
| had no cigarettes he would get out or ped
at aight and search about in the WOOD
box for butts he had thrown away. Tracy
! has wife and two children.
Judge Goodland of the Outagamle Clr-
cult Court has rendered decision con-
| firn,ing the rights OF Oneida INDIANS re-
| siding ON allotted lands on the reserva-
| txyf n
| eral elections. The finding was IN the
| case of Leslie Wheelock. an Oneida IN
dian, who sued James Garvey, eiectlon
inspector in the town OF Freedom, TOE
damages for refusing his vote at recent
election. The court held that under an
| act of Congress and the laws OF WIS
conrin. operative after the allotment Of
| their lands. the indians were entitled
TO exercise the elective franchise.
Dealers in logging camp supplles report
| business in that line as being oO per cent
+! better thas during last season, Whlch Iur-
nishes evidence to the fact that the log
cut this year is to be heavy one. IL
is with much difficulty that camp crews
are kept up to the required quota ZOE
men who may have already hlred TO SO III
| to .he woods are in many instances APP
preached by others in quest OF iaDorers'
and an advance if So or more per month
over what they have been previously ol
fered is an allurement which they cannot
we'll resist. There are no unemployed
me,. A man with any kind of logging
kit can obtain a job putting in logs IL
is safe to estimate that there is 10 per
cers more logs on the banks OF rivers
ano lakes now than there were last year
at this time, and the woods are 1u,i ol
skit;ded logs. The opea winter mas peen
a sar;ous drawback tc the logging indus
try
a.ba John Amin Lumber Company has
commenced the erection of two-pand
say,mill on Devils creek, near Bruce.
Thy have a large amount of pine N tnat
sec ion and will operate the mil during
the summer months
The Common Sense Trunk factory was
bur aed at Racvine. entalllng ioss On