Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-09

hundred thousand dollars in Texas oil
lands.
Twenty-three head of stock in the town
OF Spring Brook were killed by order of
the State veterinarian on account of tu
| berculosis.
La Crosse will be represented in the
school system of the Philippine Islands
by Miss Winnifred Mitchell, who has
9een notified of her appointment as a
school teacher in the islands.
The Wisconsin Central Railway Com
! pany has a crew of men repairing the
levee on the Chippewa river in Chippewa
Falls. 1t is estimated that 10000 square
feet of rock will be used in the work.
| a 100000 Incorporated company com
posed of well-known Chicago capitalists.
has Professionally leased the Gottfreds2n
| brewery i'll Kenosha for the manufacture
of electric dynamos of all descriptions.
The first free rural mail delivery route
for Kewaunee County will be inaugural
ed in a short time The route will be
| about twenty-five miles long and will EN-
| brace territory containing about 200
| people.
The body of Louis Knuteson, who was
drowned while repairing the dam of the
| Grand Rapids Paper Company at Biron
last October, was found by John Steib
about two miles above the Grand Rapids
west side water works.
About 1900 acres of land have been
sowed with peas by the w. Seyk Canning
Company and n. Il. Wanninger, proprie-
tors of the two canneries in keWaunee.
This will be the first season of the Seyk
cannery, which has d capacity of about
100000 cans.
To save her father from being injured
by his son, who was brutally assaulting
the old man, a young woman, living near
Hayward shot her brother through the
hip. Eugene Buell. was arrested and
lodged in Jail, charged with committing
Il vicious assault.
The colony of French people who left
Rudolph last month for Alberta, Canada,
have been heard from at Wetasklwln,
Alberta, and it is Il sorry story they tell
of the climate they found. The promises
made by the Canadian government 6gent
i'll regard to land, accommodations, ETC.,
are said to be unfulflled and few Of the
party are comfortably housed.
The board of appraisers, who have been
in session valuing the Appleton water
| works plant, with Il view to its purchase
by the city, have reported, fixing the hg-
ure at $3.50 900. The price is generally
| considered too high and the probabilities
| are that when the question is submitted
| at the special election the people will vote
for the city to build it's own plant.
| Jay Conley, Chicago peddler, met
with terrible death under the wheels
of a south-bound passenger train in Ke-
nosha. Conley had been walking along
| the track and, in order to avoid a north
| bound freight train, he stepped over to
| the track and was crushed by the passen-
ger train. His body was thrown forty
feet in the air and every bone broken.
The body Of Jacob Biederman, who,
because of disappointment in love, drown
ed himself on the night of April 6, was
recovered at Oshkosh. 1t was seen float
ing in the river between the Wisconsin
avenue and the Wisconsin Central Rail
way bridge, and Robert Sawall and w.
b. Potter took small boat and secured
| the remains. A physician examined the
body and stated that there was no evil
dence of foul play.
! The circumstances attending the death
OF Mrs. J. T.. Totman, formerly of La
| Crosse, who was fatally poisoned by eat
| ing soup a few weeks ago, are being in
| yestgated at Missoula, Mont, where her
husband now lives. The servant girl who
| prepared the soup has been acting very
| strangely since the occurrence, and re-
fuses to eat or talk, according to reports
from there. For the past couple of weeks
she had been melancholy, and morose,
and her sanity is now questioned.
John Berg, the 23-year-old son of eX-
Postmaster Adolph Berg of Kenosha,
was arrested in Racine on the charge of
burglary. He admits that with three
others he entered the stores Of Henry
Deberge and Henry Anderson and took
| $500 worth of dry goods and hardware.
Officer Frank Lane surprised the burg
lars and fired a shot at one of them but
all four escaped, taking an electric car
at the northern limits of the city. Young
Berg refuses to tell the names of his
companions He says he was intoxi-
Gated at the time he entered the store.
He intimates that he will implicate sew
eral prominent young men with him.
Daniel Phillips, an old war veteran, is
on his way to the national home at Mil
waukee, reconciled to the h0pelessness of
ever seeing his wife again, from whom
he has been separated nineteen years
Philips is 70 years old and in the early
DAYS resided near Winona. He staked
out a claim in the Western gold region
and wrote to his wife to join him. Phil
ipps never received any reply and he set
tied down on his claim, concluding that
his wife would come when she got ready.
Philips longing for his wife grew ana
a short time ago he started out in search
of her. He followed UP other rumors.
but despite his persistent efforts to find
her he has failed.
William \. Benorde of Milwaukee, an
elderly timer, succeeded in his third at
tempt at suicide, to which he was driven
by the spirits, according to his own story.
First he gushed his hand with a knife,
telling his daughter the spirits told him
to draw blood. The next day he preach
ed a sermon from his porch warning the
neighbors to prepare for death. On the