Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-05-24


ton from the Postoffice Department that
the salaries of all the clerks in the ke-
nosha office had been increased $500
year.
The public and parochial schools of Me-
nasha, which had been closed for two
weeks owing to the smallpox epidemic,
have been reopened, as the disease has
been stamped out.
In Tomahawk three business buildings
on the main street were destroyed by fire.
The loss is only partially covered by in
surance. There are indications that the
fire was Of lncendiary origin.
Robbers entered the general store of
Charles Evan at Hersey and secured sew
eral hundred dollars worth of clothing
and cutlery. They also secured about
$50 from the postoftice. There is no clue.
Prof. ]. NJ. Phillips of the University
of Illinois. who had charge Of descrip-
tive geometry and elementary drawing in
that institution, has accepted an assist
ant professorship in the University of
Wisconsin.
Former Senator G. *. Edwin has re-
signed as steward at the Home for Fee
BILE Minded in Chippewa Falls. which po-
sition he has held since the home was
opened. Mr.. Erwin will move to Spo-
| kane, Wash.
Some gas ignited in the vat OF the
| Cassyille brewery and Louis Unterharn-
| scheit, who was at work in the vat, was
| enveloped in a mass Of flames. He man
| aged to make his escape by crawling
| through a manhole which led from the
vat.
| The WATERFOWL chief of police arrested
| two desperate men, supposed to De the
ones who held up a machinist at Fond
du Lac. One of the men attempted to
| shoot the chief. but the officer knocked
the revolver out of his hand just as 1t
was discharged.
| While a force of men were engaged
making excavations for the new addition
to Racine County insane asylum, four
miles west Of the city, they unearthed a
number of petrified frogs and toads. EV-
cry part of the toads is perfect even to
| the claws and mouth.
| DR.. Grin Grant Libby, who has, since
1895, been instructor of history at the
| University of Wisconsin. has accepted
an offer made to him by President Web
ster Merriield of the University Of North
| Dakota to become assistant professor CT
history at that institution.
| E. c.. Wiswall, for the past eight years
principal of the Kenosha high school and
| for twenty-five years a well-known teach
er in Wisconsin schools, sent his resig-
nation to the board of education and will
retire from educational work at the close
| of the present school year.
The new Common Council Of Neenah
has refused to give the Northwestern
Railway the franchise which was grant
ed to it by the old Council. The fran
chise granted the company to lay double
tracks on Walnut street. The railway
company will fight the repeal of the fran
chise.
Ferdinand Schlesinger was perma-
nently freed from his debt to the Plan
kinton bank, the Supreme Court affirm
| ing the decision of the Milwaukee Circuit
Court approving the settlement made and
declaring that there was no fraud IN Mr..
| Schlesinger's statement of his financial
| condition.
The cause for the reduction of the sal
airy of the Racine postmaster is said to
be due to the falling off in the sales OF
the office. 1t is claimed that number
of local business firms have been buying
their stamps from Chicago department
stores, from which they are able to Sc
cure a slight rebate.
A freight wreck occurred on the Mil
| waukee road at South Germantown. The
draft iron came out from under a box
car, throwing it off the rails, and nine
others piled up on it. The cars were
completely demolished and their con-
tents were badly damaged. Three tramps
were stealing a ride in one of the cars
and were badly injured i'll the smashup'
The village of Cottage Grove was all
excited the other night over a crazy man
who put up at the Hotel Upphoff and
who was discovered later by the land
lord pfling up the furniture in his room
with the supposed intention of making a
| bonfire. On being discovered he ran out
Or the street entirely naked, IN driving
storm, and led a posse of citizens lively
chase, but was finally captured. A card
| in his pocket shows membership i'll cooper
Union No. 1877, st. Paul
The residents of West Superior were
greatly shocked by the decision rendered
by Judge jenkins in the city bond case,
1t is feared that the decision given out
will iniupe the city's credit to such an
extent that it will be a difficult matter
to secure money in the future. The mat
ter will undoubtedly be taken to the
United States Supreme Court in order to
secure a reversal of the decision. When
the court decides which bonds are legal
| they will be paid by the city.
While she was engaged in a playful
scuffie with her brother at Oregon, Miss
Pearl Netherwood's neck was broken.
The two had been playing for some time
| when the young man caught his sister
around the neck and tipped her head
back. She made an cutlery for him to
STOP but he supposed it was all in play
and paid no attention for the moment
When young Netherwood did let go his
hold his sisters mead dropped to one
side and he found that she was uncon-
scious. A physician found that Miss
| Motherhood had sustained a partial frac-
ture of the neck. 1t is feared she Will
not recover.
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