Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-01-18

The Milwaukee Council has approved
Mayor Roses appointment of George II.
Chase as City Comptroller.
A. E. Clifford, one Of the best-known
lumbermen of the Northwest, died sud
denly in the knight Hotel at Ashland, of
heart failure.
Miss Jennie Frock of Milwaukee died
at the home of friends in Manitowoc. De-
ceased was % years of age and suffered
from consumption.
While working in the tie camp about
three miles from Brownsville Henry
Echie, aged 26, of Elroy, was instantly
killed by falling tree.
Fire destroyed several barns in Evans
vile belonging to N. L. Bryan. Six
horses persisted and several tons of hay
and grain was burned. The loss is about
$500.
Burglars entered Browns dry goods
store at Desoto and, with the aid of two
wagons, carried off all the stock of value.
Manager D. ]. Forbes estimates the loss
at $4,000.
The little daughter Of William Baker of
Sister Bay was fatally scaIded. A little
brother playfully pushed her, as she was
leaning over tub filled with hot water,
and she fell in.
Silas Boardman, one of the oldest Ium-
bermen of La Crosse, died, aged CT years.
He was one of the first to enter into the
logging business when the industry
opened on the Mississippi river.
The Hays Waterproof Dress Binding
Company has sold its patent rights to the
Hays Skirt Binding Company of New
York. The Oshkosh factory will be clos
ed. Sixty people will be thrown out of
employment
William Plinsky, aged 38, died at his
home in Manitowoc. Last April his 8
year-old child died and two months later
his wife died. Eight minor children sur
vive THERE parents, four sons and four
daughters, the oldest being II years of
age.
Lois Steele, aged Is years, committed
suicide at the home of her sister in Chi
cago by drinking carbolic acid Her par
ents live in Whitewater. Her mind had
been deranged by overwork in State
street department store during the holt
days.
1t is feared that Dan McAleese has met
with foul play. He left Leonard's camp
to go to Ashland to attend his brothers
funeral. Checks which were issued to
Dan McAleese before leaving camp were
cashed at Iron River, supposedly by
strangers.
AT West Superior the fire which has
been burning for a couple of days in the
bins of the elevator of the Freeman mill
has been entirely eXtinguished. The fire
originated from spontaneous combustion
in one of the screening bins, and from
there spread into the bin adjoining, so
that for a time the elevator was seriously
threatened
Mrs. Frederick S. Newell, executrix Of
the last will of the late Frederick S.
Newell, formerly president of the Balm
wagon works and one of the wealthiest
men of Kenosha, paid to the county
treasurer $7,026.S7 as the legacy tax on
the estate. This is 1 per cent of the
value of the property as returned by the
estate for taxation.
Two boys, smoking cigarettes in the
gasoline shed of the Leo A. Peil Grocery
Company at Racine, were the cause Of
setting the place afire and nearly caus-
ing most destructive blaze. Barrels Of
gasoline were thrown from the shed into
the street by the fremen and for a block
the street was river of fire. The loss
was $500, fully insured.
The heirs of the late Thomas NJ. Avery,
Mrs Margaret Avery MacCaughey Of
Kenosha and Mrs. Frank Avery of Chi
cago, have consented to make a new di-
vision of the estate in order to prevent
court proceedings to break the will, as
threatened by Mrs. MacCaughey. Mrs.
MacCaughey will receive $4,000 more
from the estate of her grandfather,
bringing her portion up to $4,000, or
one-half of the estate.
AS the result of an accident two teams
and a load of furniture belonging to
Moses Mcdonald, a well-to-do farmer re-
siding four miles south of La Crosse,
went to the bottom of the Mississippi
river. Mcdonald struggled with the icy
waters for fifteen minutes and was hnal-
Iy rescued from drowning. He owes his
escape to the heroism of John Scheutten-
helm, an employee. While driving south
in the dark, both men drove into an air
hole.
George E. Wood Lumber Company at
Woodboro, was badly burned by the ex-
plosion of lamp in the steam log loader.
The lamp was being used to read by, and
Wilson lay in his bunk reading a paper
when the lamp exploded and scattered
blazing oil all over him. He rushed from
the loader and was met almost at the
door by fellow workman, who forced
him back into the room and smothered
the flames in blanket.
Since New Years day the detective
force of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul road has been looking for person
who sent Master Mechanic j. G. Miller
in Milwaukee an internal machine. The
box was delivered to Mr.. Miller by one
of the express companies and appeared
to be a box of cigars. Remarking that
he would have to pass the weeds
around, Mr. Miller started to open the
box. A scratching noise and the sitting
out of some powder alarmed him, and
Investigation disclosed the fact that
anouph of n high explosive was in the