Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-04-18

e. nraay was found drowned near Gaze
nova. lie was an old soldier and had
been missing several days.
Chippewa Lumber and Boom Com
pany's mill started up at Chippewa Falls
Ibis is the earliest in fifteen years.
The Marinette city library and tho
block IN which it is located were damaged
to the extent of about 81 1000 by fire.
Eugene Badger, carder in the cotton
mills at GAINESVILLE, who mysteriously dis
appeared, was found drowned in the mill
race.
Chief of Police Wesbrod has issued
orders forbidding the playing of poker in
saloons and all other public places of Osh-
kosh.
nAll the necessary capital for the new
State bank in Dale is subscribed. and
the bank. will soon open in Temporary
quarters. A handsome bank building
VIII be erected as soon as possible.
There was great demonstration at
Crivitz. The citizens burned the effigies
OF Peter Graef, candidate for chairman,
and NJ. Wloch, candidate for clerk, who
were defeated at the town election.
A postoffice official has established a
rural free delivery route extending south
and east from Neillsville through the ter
s ritory covered by the Day, Carlisle and
Shortyille postoffices. Robert Eunson.
contractor.
John Czech, a Bohemian, who works
for the Girard Lumber Company at Dun
bar, was killed ten miles west of Penn
blne. He went to sleep on the railroad
track and was run over by 500 pas
senger train. ~
Harry Kerr, a brakeman ON a Mil
waukee road freight train, was instantly
killed at Tomahawk by being caught be-
tween the bumpers of two fat cars An
open switch derailed the two cars be-
tween which he was riding to uncouple
them.
The bodies of Myron Baker and Louis
Larsen were found floating in Partridge
lake near Fremont Baker and Larsen
went duck hunting last November and
We're lost, nothing but their boat and de-
coyS being found. Baker was a promi-
nent young groceryman of Weyauwega.
To check the epidemic of crime which
has been raging in Kenosha the Council
complete police telephone service, and to
increase the force by the addition of a
night desk sergeant. If this does not
check the depredations the Council will
authorize the appointment of several spe-
cial policemen.
Mrs. j. G. Duffied came to Fond du
Lac from Pewaukee,' where she resides,
to view the remains of the man who
died at the county Jail from the excess
siye use of opium. She stated, upon see
ing the body, that there was strong re-
semblanee between her husband and the
dead man, but that was all. The iden-
tity of the man is still a mystery.
John Winterfeld, the missing Monroe
County farmer, who left his home near
Cataract some days ago, was found dead
in Chicago and his remains were sent
home for burial. Nothing is known as
to how, or in what manner, he came to
his death: but the presumption is that he
committed suicide, as he had on different
occasions threatened to take his own life.
A narrow escape from fatality that
would have caused two deaths occurred
on Chequamegon bay near Ashland. A.
J. Lindsay and William George, two
well-known citizens of Ashland, while
driving across Chequamegon bay from
Washburn to Ashland drove into an air
hole. The team of horses and the sleigh
were lost. The men were rescued by
friends who saw the catastrophe from
the shore.
Seven business men of Racine have Of
fered $4,000 toward the erection OF
public library building under the follow
inc conditions: That the city permit the
building to be erected in West Park; that
the CITY levy an annual tax not less than
40 mills to sustain the library, and that
the citizens subscribe $4,000, including
the $4,000 already pledged. IT the clti-
zens can raise more money the gentlemen
gree to raise their offer in proportion.
A daring and almost successful attempt
at horse stealing was perpetrated at oey-
mour by Frank Camden, who has been
unprecedented by Sheriff Wurl and mas
pleaded guilty to the charge camden
cut the tie strap of horse when was
hitched on the main street or seymour
and attempted TO escape III dayllght. Inc
horse became frightened at the frant'c
efforts of the driver to increase the
speed, and shying to- one side, tipped the
buggy, and threw out the robber, lnJur-
ing him so that the officers had no Gill
Guilty in making the capture.
An attempt to break Jail was made at
Richland Center by Joseph Jordan ana
Floyd Perkins, who are held to answer
TO a charge of riot, and Charles culver
awaiting trial for alleged burglary. lhey
had two pieces of lead pipe ABOUT SIX
feet long, which they used as PATTERNS
rams. They had also unfasteneu some
bolts, of which they made chiseIs, Ms
8 n Ross. wife of the sheriff, heard the
nr;soners pounding on the wall and she
notified the under sheriff. who found that
about one foot of stone wall had been cut
away and with little more Work the
prisoners would have escaped.
An appeal to the Omitted States 9u-
nrame Cont has been taken from the de-
a;s;on of tbe Wisconsin State Supreme