Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-10-18

postmistress at Kesbena, vice Hattie e.
Bishop, resigned.
Mic Mayer of Kewaskum shot an eagle
which measured 5 feet 10 inches from tip
to tip of its wings.
Mrs. Matt Ohioranz was arrested at
Berlin, charged with stabbing her hus-
band with butcher knife.
Holmes & Son, logging contractors, are
extending their logging road seven miles
further into the large tract of land in
the Pembine district
\ proposition to establish manual
training in connection with the public
schools of Beloit was defeated by large
majority Of the electors.
plant was sold to Brown & Mayer OF
Chicago. A new plant will be put IN at
a cost of about $4,000
Il. c. Stanley of Chippewa Falls and
w. r. Bartlett of Eau Claire have dis
posed of their holdings in Oregon and
the consideration was over $1,O0O,0OO.
Julius Eckhart, a Civil War veteran,
hanged himself at Milwaukee. He vas
a widower SO years old, and his wife died
a year ago, having cut her wrists with
suicidal intent.
Harry Hubbard of Milwaukee, who
has been operating a shooting gallery in
Beaver Dam, was accidentally shot
through the windpipe with a 22-caliber
rifle in his gallery. He will recover.
A. P. Nelson, cashier of the First Bank
of Grantsburg, received a telephone mes
sage the other day stating that his 2-ycar-
old daughter Constance was instantly
killed in the Board of Trade elevator at
Duluth.
Miss Gertrude Anthony of Central
City, Iowa, teacher Of science in the
Madison high school, is at the isolation
hospital with smallpox and precautions
have been taken to prevent an epidemic
among the 600 pupils.
Burglars broke into Stockman Bros
store at Woodville and secured $50 in
money and $275 in checks. The safe was
found open by the burglars. Burglars
also broke into the postoffice at Elmwood
and secured 5000 in money.
The purchase of large tract of land
along the lake front and surveys begun
along the dock lines lead to the belief
that iron docks are to be built at Ash
land. The purchasers of the land are
said to be Pittsburg men.
The passenger steamer Mystic, which
was chartered by party of hunters, sank
in shallow water fifteen miles above Osh-
kosh, in the Wolf river. The boats
wheel got tangled in weeds and her shaft
broke. No one was injured.
Secretary John M. True of the State
Board of Agriculture estimated that the
loss to Wisconsin farmers on the corn
crop this season by reason of the cold,
wet weather during a portion of the sum-
mer and the early frosts this fall approx
mates $5,000,O00.
Peter Caski, known as "Crooked Pete"
and man named Johnson, both of Hur
ley, tried to force an entrance to saloon
at Pence, where Isaac Strang was sleep
ing. He admitted the men and com
menced shooting, killing Caski instantly.
Strang was arrested.
The town of Burlington was threaten
ed with destruction by fire. The fire
started in the plant of the Burlington
Mailing Company and within an hour the
buildings were in ruins, causing a loss Of
100000, with insurance of $4,000. In
the building were 10000 bushels of malt
and barley owned by Albert SchWill &
Co. of Chicago.
Martha Bolt, the 1S-year-old daughter
of John Bolt, living one and one-half
miles west of Abrams, was accidentally
shot by the discharge of a shotgun in the
hands of her younger brother, who was
c,Aaning it, not knowing it was loaded.
The shot hit her in the right side of her
forehead. There is very little hope en-
tertained for her recovery
Dan Avery, the negro who shot and
killed his sweetheart, Ray Davis, at Ike
nosha was captured at Waukegan, hut
the police refused to turn him over to
the Wisconsin authorities. The officers
say Avery tallies perfectly with a IMAM
wanted elsewhere for murder, and they
will hold him pending inquiry. Avery says
he killed the woman because she had
once tried to poison him.
Forest fires are burning near Middle
Inlet and thousands of dollars worth of
property is in danger of destruction. The
large farm house, barn and granary of
e. Nankeuran was burned the other day
and the lumber yard of George Dillon
Every woman and child fought fire with
buckets OF water. The fires were start |
ed by farmers clearing land and, as there
has been little rain for weeks, the flames
travelled rapidly.
Sheriff Reinhardt and District Attor-
ley Thomas returned to Eau Claire from
lorthern Polk County, where they ar
rested John Roche, homesteader near |
The st. CroiX river, on the charge of |
murder of Luxe Schneider, whose skele-
Ton was recently found at Coon Fork.
lear Augusta and identified by his |
widow, who lives with her nine children
lear Humbird. Schneider met his death
N or about June %, 1893
By decision of the Supreme Court,
which revcrses the decision of the Circuit
Court, George Yeiser of Beloit retains
he possession CT the Slaymaker farm,
or which a bill Of sale was given him by
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