Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-04-19


Grand Rapids has been selected as the
next meeting place of the city officers
of Wisconsin. The date set is June 5
and 6.
Herman Kortseal, aged %, Graftoa
| farmer, committed suicide by hanging
himself in his barn. The cause is not
known.
Prof. George P. Bacon Of the Beloit
College Academy has accepted the head
professorship in physics of Wooster, Ohio
University
G. W. Demmon. the wel-known county
directory and county advertising man.
died suddenly at La Crosse of neuralgia
of the heart.
Mrs. Frank Techmar, wife of WELL
known La Crosse citizen, died from
blood poisoning, which, it is said, was due
| to vaccination.
Edward Weimer. an old resident of
Appleton, committed suicide by shooting
He was about 70 years of age and leaves
a grown family.
Rev. j. MCGOWAN of Briggsville has
been appointed pastor of St. Patricli's
Church at Askeaton, to succeed Rev. \.
Billian, who has been transferred to
| Waupaca.
Rev. George W. Nichols, aged 20. a
| La Crosse preacher and farmer, claiIus
his wife, aged 60, is driving him crazy
by her incessant talking. He has applied
| for a divorce.
| Thomas Fliss, a Stevens Point tailor
about 81 years of age, was found dead in
a clay pit, where he had fallen during
the night. He was lying face downward
under about two feet Of water.
| G. f. Dutton, formerly general man
ager of the old Milwaukee and Northern
Railroad and who conducts a large stock
farm at Wausaukee, was attacked by
vicious bull and severely injured.
One hundred and eleven cans, contain
ing between 100000 and 100000
whitefsh fry, were emptied into the Me-
nominee river the other day from the
Wisconsin State fish commission car
Badger.
John Buffalo Head, the Shawano
County Indian who killed William George
at Shawano Nov. 10 last, pleaded guilty
to manslaughter in the fourth degree and
was sentenced to eighteen months i'm
prisonment at Waupun.
The farmers are very much afraid that
the heavy snow and cool weather will
cause what grain has been seeded to rot
in the ground and as in some places con-
siderable seeding has been done it will
be a great loss to them.
Capt. A. NJ. Sherman of Eau Claire has
purchased the Lake Halle property, the
| famous summer resort, midway between
Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls, from
John IRE for $1,000. The property will
be improved and reopened.
| The First National Bank of Campbells-
port has been organized with a capital
of $25, 900. The officers are as follows:
| President, F. ]. Barber, Oshkosh; vice
president. John Loebs, Campbellsport;
cashier, Henry Bacon, Oshkosh.
The house of J. Olischlager was burned
at Omro. The loss is about $1,000 on
house and with $1,000 insurance Mr..
Olischlager was overcome by smoke
while endeavorng to save some of Ills
household goods. He was revived with
difficulty after several hours of hard
work.
| @. W. Francis, a prisoner at the coun-
! ty Jail in Madison, made an attempt to
escape, while the other prisoners were at
| service. With a chair leg and knife he
| had removed twenty-four bricks from the
| inner wall when he was discovered. Fran.
| els is waiting trial for robbing the post
office at Whitehall early in November.
| Herbert Jones, one of the best known
| young musicians of Racine is seriously
| i'll at st. Luke's hospital in Chicago hav-
| ing undergone an operation for appendi-
| citis. Young Jones was born a cripple
and hardly able to walk or use his hands.
Overcoming these defects, he went
through the Racine high school; took up
the study of music, both vocal and in
strumental, and took part in many nota-
BILE events in the Belle City.
| August Heideman, a wealthy retired
merchant of La Crosse has mysterious
ly disappeared from his home and all
efforts to locate him have been without
avail On March 2G he started down
the river in a small pleasure boat to a
farm several miles below. He never ar
rived at the farm, nor has he been since
heard from. The boat was found lodged
in drift wood 1t is feared that he has
been murdered and robbed. He was 60
years OIL age.
Steps have been taken to extend and re-
| organize the Chequamegon Oratorical
League and the contests of the two
branches of the league will take place
within the next few weeks. The league
has been enlarged so that there are two
branches of four schools each The
Western branch includes the Blaine and
Nelson Dewey high schools of West Su-
perior, Washburn and Bayfield,. The
other branch includes the high schools
of Bessemer, Ironwood, Hurley and Ash
land.
Hundreds of tons of dead fish menace
the health of people of La Crosse. The
shores of every slough and bayou on the
Minnesota side of the river are lined
with the carcasses of buffalo fish, aver
aging eighteen inches in length and with