Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-08-28

/ A. ne Douy OF FRED Mueller, the MllWau-
| kee youth who was drowned Aug /, was
| recovered four miles south of where the
accident occurred, outside the Sheboygan
| city limits.
The son of John Frisch farmer liy-
| ing 4 short distance south of Amigo,
was accidentally shot and instantly kill
ed while out hunting short distance
from home.
The Stoughton Mill Company adopted
resolution to the effect that an electric
line be constructed to connect Stoughton,
Cambridge and Oregon, providing fran
chises can be obtained
The Kersten bank litigation was COM
plctely settled when the last payment to
creditors, under the agreement Of year
ago, was made The settlement was for
90 cents on the dollar.
The City Council of Waupun has
passed an ordinance regulating the speed
of automobiles and motor cycles not to
exceed six miles an hour, and fixing a
penalty Of So to 500 for each offense.
The Chippewa Falls Common Council
has adopted the general charter law to
substitute the special now in use. On
account of the manner of collecting taxes
il will not be put into use until Jan. l.
William Lippe, of Burlington, As years
OF age, while coming down hill with a
load of rails and ties, fell off and was
run over, sustaining injuries from which
he died. He leaves wife and one child.
The Roddis Veneer Company of
Marshfield, which recently purchased
sawmill and 10000 acres of timber lands
near Park Falls, has plans perfected to
build fourteen miles of railroad extend
ing to the timber tracts at a cost of $685.
600
Fire broke out ut the Phoenix Manu-
featuring Company's plant at Eau Claire
and destroyed the woodworking depart
ment and the lumber warehouse. The
rest of the plant was saved with diff
Guilty, The damage was about $4,000,
insured.
James McCauley of Desoto Is dead,
the result of the kick of horse After
he was kicked and in spite of the intense
pain he mounted another animal and
rode to town, almost fainting from cx-
haustion and loss Of blood. He died
shortly after.
G. II. Goldsworthy, o. Oliver and G.
Martin, real estate agents, engineered
one Of the largest real estate transfers
known in recent years. when they sold
for John Parrish of Grand Rapids, re-
tired lumberman, 5000 acres of cuto
lands in Wood and Marathon counties to
the Waukesha Land and Investment
Company of Waukesha, Wis. The con-
sideraton paid was $4,000.
As Miss Marie jacobson, of Superior
was preparing to retire she discovered
wel-known young man peeking at her
window. She ran to the door and the
man botcd into hiding place. A pasaer-
by was summoned; he dragged the prowl-
er from the hiding place and held him
while the enraged young woman got 1t
revolver and took couple of shots at the
offender. He was not hit, but was badly
scared.
Cornell University, through Charles
Macarthur manager of its office in Eau
Claire, has just sold the South Musca-
tine Lumber Company of Museatine,
Iowa, upward of $4,000 acres of hard
wood timber lands in the southeastern
corner Of Sawyer County for 100000.
In view of the recent reported purchase
of the old Valley company's mill site
will erect extensive mills and manufac-
ture this timber in Eau Claire.
Fred Cara, an Italian, is said to have
assaulted fellow countryman named
Anton Lavonio in Kenosha, with a still
leto, and it is feared that the latter may
die. Cara has been madly in love with
an Italian girl named Lena pacini,
fruit vender, and when he saw her in
company with Laconio as they came
from the opera house it is said he made
a dash Mt his rival from behind, reached
over his shoulder and cut great cash
down the right side of his face. He
then used stilleto, penetrating his vic
TINS lung.
An unusual flag raising took place
near Glen,-ood Springs, Lake Geneva.
\. c. Douglass, who owns the point of
land from which history says white
man first viewed the lake, employed Cap
tain Eph Sanford to plant the tallest
pole that could be obtained, and Old
Glory was run up and is now waving in
the breeze The banner will be kept
afoat during each summer season. 1t
is claimed that the white man who made
the discovery was John Brink, who is 80
years old and is now living with his
daughter, Miss Fay Brink, near the old
village of Crystal Lake. I'll, 1t is known
that Mr. Brink in the early days was an
engineer in the employ of the government
and that he gave the lake its present
name, choosing It from the New York
body of water of the same n:me.
Thomas r. Morgan of Oshkosh, Alder
man from the Seventh Ward and presi-
dent of the Morgan Sash, Door and
Blind Company, was murdered by Fred
Hampel laborer, who hanged himself
by his suspenders in the city lookup after
he had fought desperate battle with
another einploye of the firm and had been
disarmed and arrested. Immediately af-
ter the shooting the employees of the Nor
gan factory and of others assembled near
the lookup, and lynching was talked of
until it became known that Hampel had
taken his own life. Then the crowd dis
perscd. Morgan was walking toward his
factory with John Rowland when Hani-
pei, crazed with drink, began firing at
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