Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-12

laborer employed by the Milwaukee road
had both legs cut off by being run over
by a gravel train.
Work has just been started on the new
Jail building in Grantsburg The plans
call for one of the best jails of the small
towns in the State.
A log jam on the st. Croix river near
Grantsburg contains 50,O00,000 feet of
logs and is nine miles long. One hun
dred drivers are breaking it.
The Madison Common Council had a
protracted wrangle over the granting of
retail liquor licenses, eighty-one being
granted and three being refused
Indications are that a railroad chrome
graph factory will be established in Be
lott in the near future. Eastern capital
lists are said to be interested in the pro-
ject.
Robbers attempted to blow open the
safe in the office of the Gray bottlins
works at GAINESVILLE with dynamite. The
work was evidently an attempt of begin
hers.
Nick Rausch an employee of the NAL
leable Iron Range Company in Beaver
Dam, was severely injured about the
head while operating a polishing wheel IN
the shops.
SO George S. Davidson, a resident of Ash
land, was robbed of hand satchel con-
tanning over 1000 worth Of oil bonds at
the Northwestern depot in Chicago, while
he was awaiting a train.
Richard Finler, 4-year-old son of Mr..
Niy,Jo into ~
tern at Racine. His little sister discoV-
cred him and his mother reached down
with a pole and pulled the child out.
At meeting of the Oshkosh Yacht
Club the dates for the annual regatta
were decided upon, July 80, 81 and Aug.
1 being selected. The races will be sail
ed over the usual triangular course.
Augusta Pozenaski of Chippewa Falls,
while horseback riding, was thrown vlo-
lently to the ground, striking on his head.
When picked up he was thought to be
dead. but after an hour he regained con-
seriousness.
One hundred and twenty-five million
feet of standing pine on the north shore
of Lake Superior on Minnesota SOIL mas
been purchased by Akeley q Sprague OF
Washburn. The firm has decided to lou
BILE it's present holdings.
On account of the inability of Miss
Ida Fleischer, recently appointed lnStruc-
tor in the modern languages at Lawrence
University, Appleton, to accept the posi-
ton it has been offered to MISS Louise
Lummis of Middleton, n. Fl.
James Fisher, an old resident of Mari
nette, has been committed to the insane
asylum. He has a delusion that street
cars and railroad trains have to go out
Of the way for him and it was feared
that he would be killed unless restrained
f. w. Stephenson, charged with the
murder of William Cooper at Waterloo
on Feb. 8, in company with hive other
prisoners, sawed his way out Of the coun-
ty jail at Jefferson and effected their es-
cape 1t is thought that the prisoners
had hep from the outside.
In making a short turn on the Hall
avenue road in Marinette, the rig occu-
pied by II. L. Wright and II. j. Jorgen-
son. members of a delegation sent to ex-
anime a proposed poorhouse site, was
overturned Mr.. Wright was badly bruls-
ed and had his knee sprained.
A telegram was received at Milton from
Las Vegas, N NJ, telling of the death
of Albert c. Whitford. He was rail-
road conductor on the Santa he and
was killed while performing his duties.
He was the son Of Prof. Albert Whltford
and a nephew of the late President w.
C. Whitford of Milton College.
Mrs. N. M. Smith and her 6-year-oId
daughter had a narrow escape from
death at Baraboo. The house had caught
fire and the bed in which the mother ana
child were sleeping was surrounded WIN
flames before Mrs. Smith awoke. When
the woman awOke she seized her cnlld
and Jumped from a second-story WINDOW
lust in time to save their lives.
Otto, the 14-year-old son of Marcus
Sterr of Waupun, lost part of his scalp
and is in a very serious condition. He
Jumped on a land roller to have d ride
while the machine was being taken
through the street. and in some manner
was thrown in front Of the roller His
head was dragged in the gravel, tearing
off a piece Of scalp as large as persons
hand.
Prof. e. BlackweIder and several stu
dents from the Chicago University are
at Baraboo on the trail of a glacier. The
region about Baraboo is famous for its
geological formations and for the eXcep-
tionally distinct evidences of the glaciers
which visited this State many years ago.
The terminal moraine of the glacier will
be carefully studied and with their bright,
new hammers they will endeaVor to crack
some of the difficult and unsettled ques-
tons surrounding this undeyeloped geo.
logical field.
Judge Tarrant in the Circuit Court at
Milwaukee gave a sweeping decision
against the Lake Geneva Elevated road,
in the quo warranto suit brought by
property owners along the proposed route
of the road in the city. The suit was
brought on the ground that there was no
statute in Wisconsin whereby the city
could grant a franchise to an elevated
road. The Lake Geneva road, az 1t IS
known, was incorporated over a year ago
bv Clarence S. Darrow Of Chicago, Isabel