Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-03-29

tue civil war, dropped dead in Racine
The Marshfield City Council has mr.
chased site for future city hall for
$3.50. AoA
| Many adults at Milton have the measles
and are having serious time with the
disease.
Brakeman Richard Boone. whose home
IS III Altoona, was instantly killed at
Marshield
a. y. Black. postmaster merchant and
| town treasurer of Holmen. has made an
assignment.
-Four men were caught in the act of
robbing w. FL. Lomke's dry goods store
at Washburn.
Reilly Bros. barn in the town of Brad
ford was burned with fifty tons of baled
hay. The barn was worth $1,000.
The residence of M. N. O'Brien at
| New Richmond was destroyed by fire.
Loss $1,000, covered by insurance.
Prof. A. r. Wiley, musical director,
contemplates establishing school of mu-
sic and dramatic art in Marinette.
Eight printers employed by the G. L.
| Medicine Company of Racine struck for
higher wages. Their demand was re-
fused.
The Eau Claire Pulp and Paper Com
panys new mills on the Chippewa river
above the Dells dam have begun opera
| tons.
| The new addition to the Riverside FL
| Der Company's mill at Appleton, which
| nearly doubles the capacity of the plant
for bleaching pulp, has been completed.
| Harry Edwards of Ashland won the
| first prize over eight competitors in the
University of Minnesota at Minneapolis.
The subject was the Philippine question.
At the funeral of George Smith, said
to be relative of Potter Palmer of Chi
cago, in Beloit, while the relatives We're
taking last look at the remains at the
grave, one of the cross-sticks supporting
the casket broke, letting it plunge for
| ward, breaking the coffin and exposing
the remains.
During the oratorical contest at the
Kenosha high school building lamp
was overturned and the boards Of the
stage caught fire. There was panic in
the audience until Louis Ferry, one Of
the high school pupils, crawled under the
stage and extinguished the flames at a
risk of his life.
Nellie Mccarthy of Milwaukee is ask
ing divorce from her husband, Michael
Mccarthy, whom she married for fun
| April 4, 1893, and with whom she has
never lived. Her bill says that she was
| carried away by a spirit of reckitssEess
and Indifference during an occasion Of
sociability and entertainment"
The worshipers at the st. Thomas
| Catholic Church in Beloit were greeted
| with strange scene the other day when
they entered the edifce for the morning
mass. A large number of the pews at the
| rear of the church were nailed up, long
| rough timbers being securely fastened
across them, preventing their use. 10
the regular attendants of the church this
was not a surprise, for Father NJ. j.
| Ward had threatened that unless the
seats were all rented by certain date
they would be closed altogether.
About three weeks ago James Wood.
a well-to-do farmer of the town of Green
vile. discovered broken rail Oh the Ash
land division of the Northwestern Rail-
way, near Greenville station, and report
ed the same in time to warn fast ex-
press, probably averting a serious accl-
dent. The other day Superintendent
Hartley of the Ashland division forward
ed Mr.. Brown from Kaukauna hand
some watch with solid gold cases, on
which are engraved an express train and
an inscription commemorating his
thoughtful act.
At their home, four miles north Of st.
Nazans, Frank Schad and his wife were
found dead Officers think that Schad
+ hon, himSaIf
couple had frequent disagreements over
religion, and recently agreed to separate.
EARLY the other morning a 12-year-old
son of Mrs. Schad came downstairs and
discovered his stepfather dead in bed.
He notified his grandparents, who lived
close by, and they found Mrs. Schad in
the barn. Her throat had been cut, as
had also that of Schad. The officers
think the couple quarreled after the
agreement to separate. Schad was 20
wears old and his wife %.
At Kenosha, on the recommendation Of
Mayor German, the following board OF
directors was appointed to have full man
agement of the Simmons public library
after it is turned over to the city on June
/: u. G.. Simmons, George Yule, H. l..
Grant, w. w. Strong, u. G. Theirs. John
O'Donnell, Charles c. Brown, Joseph
Bendt and James Cavanagh. The Coun-
ell also provided that the principal of the
city schools should be an eX-offlclo mem
Der of the board. An ordinance was pass
ed granting to the Council the power to
levy an annual tax for the support OF the
library. This tax is not to B.. less than
| mill and the Council is not limited IN
the amount Fifty thousand volumes
will be bought at the present time.
Ira C. Holt, who has been one OF the
most respected young men in Spring Val
lev. a member of the Congregational
Church, head officer in four or five lodges,
confidential bookkeeper in the North Wis
consin Land Company's office, was the
other night caught in the act of robblng
the safe of Tauberg Brothers, grain and
lumber dealers. He formerly worked for
Tauberg Brothers and at that time made
key, and, knowing the combination It
is charged, has once or twice week 1or