Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-05
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L of Ashland $500 for back pay due the
men.
Charles Young. whose home is at Oak
dale, was killed by the cars at junction
City.
Rural mail routes have been recon-
mended to be established at Brandon and
at Berlin.
Six prisoners escaped from the county
jail at West Bend while the sheriff was
attending caucus.
The Shiocton Lumber Company's mill
at Shiocton was destroyed by fire. The
loss over insurance is 81 200.
Ringing Bros car shops burned at
Baraboo. The contents were all remov-
ed and the loss will be about $500.
John Hunzicker, who lives in the town
of Shields, was killed at Redwood by
freight train on the Milwaukee road.
The Little Wolf River Telephone Com
pany is now connected with Oshkosh. A
toll station has been established in that
city.
The rural free delivery Of mail at Au-
gusta will be put in operation on April z.
John Victory has been appointed mail
carrier.
A young son of Charles Hass, a farmer
living east of Fox Lake, was killed in
runaway accident by being thrown out of
a wagon.
At the high school defamation contest
at Marinette the Misses Helen Feeney,
Alice Seymour and Helen Hamilton won
the honors.
The dry goods store Of Bort, Bailey Il
Co. at Beloit was entered by robbers.
Silk dress goods to the value Of $500
were taken.
Clapp Miner, one of the Oldest and
wealthiest men in Kenosha County, was
found dead in bed at his home in the
town of Salem. The deceased was 9o
years Of age.
Secretary Of State w. III. Froelich has
returned from Washington, where he has
been pushing the bill to recOmpense Wis
consin for the 100000 acres of swamp
lands still due her under the old grant
to the State, the value of winch is estl-
mated at about $1,5O0,OOO.
A bold robbery was comrnitted at
GAINESVILLE Fletcher Bros grocery was
entered and $3.50 was taken from the safe
and the cash register. The grocery
stores close at $50, and when the clerk
came back after supper to lock the safe
he found the robbery had taken place.
The Rio State Bank was organized
with capital stock of $4,000. William
Moore, an extensive farmer of the town
of Otsego, was elected president; FL. A.
Hanson, vice-president; Apdrew Amund-
son, cashier, and Charles Caldwell, as
sistant cashier. The bank will open for
business as SOON as building can be-
erected.
The business portion of the village Of
Kingston was almost wiped esut by fire.
The fire started in Joslin's furniture
store. Nine stores and dwellings, were
burned The following are the losers:
Dave Keller, four buildings; William
Lueptow, Gustave Marquardt, Edward
VIM, X. s. Williams and George Will
liams. The loss is about $2O.OO@-
Three persons escaped from the Mari
nette County Jail. They were Charles
Reifscharger and Joe Martin, under SEN
tence for larceny, and John. CarTigan,
a short-term man. A key was careiessly
left in the door leading into the office
IcONl Cne1E cells. i HIS tASy hAhd6oO "
turn and made their escape through the
basement. Three other persons confined
in the same quarters refused to- lsave
with the escaping men.
The, sale of the stock Of the Wafer
Yeast Company of Fond du Lac was eff
fected when the entire property was
transferred to a board of directors COM
posed of William McDermott,, f. }.
Wolff. Jay T. McDermott, G. A. Dohgns
and George T. McDermott. 1t. is, the I'M
derstanding that this board will. sell the
entire belongings of the Wafer Yeast
Company to the Northwestern Yeast
Company of Chicago.
The sale of the properties Of the Citi-
zens' Traction Company at Oshkosh,
which has been pending for some time,
was formally made in New York. Emer-
son McIillen & Co. are the purchasers.
The sale includes the electric car line
and the interurban line between Oshkosh
and Neenah, thirty miles in all, and
park south of the city. The company
was capitalized at $225,00 The pur-
chase price is not made public.
There was an unusual criminal case in
the county court before Judge Briadley
at La Crosse. Robert Gollinick, a. farm
err residing in the Mormon Coolie, per
sistently laughed at the wife of Carl
Wolf, neighbor, every time he, saw her.
Wolf was ordered by his wife to thrash
Gollinick, and he did So. incidentally
breaking Gollinick's nose. Wolg was fined
$40 and costs, and now he IS to. he sued
in civil action brought by Gollinick for
personal injuries.
The future disposition of the Charles
III. Sieg Manufacturing Company plant
at Kenosha was solved when deed was
filed transferring all the property Of the
company in that city to A. d. Meiselback,
the Milwaukee bicycle manufacturer. Inc
price paid was $4,000 cash. The deed
is signed by Fred W. Morgan of Chicago,
to whom the plant was recently assigned
to satisfy mortgage of $4OO70.92. It IS
reported that the plant will be opened
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