Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-02-26
ROYAL BAKING PoWnE.,

'o'o t 'H NIFTY 81 ~ S Spor'
..~,uics seized by the trustee in bank
ruptcy after the building h<d been sold
The objection was that the court has
no jurisdiction.
The so-called independent lighting con
ccrn, organized among the business men
of In Crosse to compete with the old
company, has been gobbled up by the
latter, the Central Electric Company hay
ing leased their plant to the La Crosse
Gas and Electric Company for II term
of eighteen years.
The new ST. Roses Catholic Church OF
Racine, built at cost Of $50 200, was
dedicated by Archbishop Mcssmer Of Mil
waukee, Mgr. Fox OF Green Bay and
Vicar General Schinner Of Milwaukee,
The dedicntory sermon was delivered by
Rev. James Il. Conahan OF Marquette
College, Milwaukee,
| Two State free employment bureaus,
at Milwaukee ard Superior, report that
the tendency Of workers in this State to
| frequently change their places of en-
| ployment is small and that the labor Of
the commonwealth is tolerably well en-
gagged. For several weeks the reports
have shown the same thing.
| Henry Springstroh and family of APP
| pleton were chased into the bitter cold
| by fire which consumed the building and
| all its contents. Hardly any clothes
could be saved. But for the fact that
the father stayed up few moments
| longer than the others. the entire family
might have been burned up.
One Of the "Red Feather Opera com
I,.,1 l. AL . ~.
employees OF big Ia Crosse department
store found it. When it was returned
to the lady OF the show troupe. she grab
bed the first man in sight and planted
II rcsounding smack OH his cheeks. Then
she went through the same process with
another and another until the men gave
out
Mrs. Mary Arndt, aged 40, living near
Post Lake, was burned 10 death In her
home. The woman was paralytic from
the waist down, and helpless. The fire
originated in the basement and the house
was destroyed before the husband and
assistance arrived. The family of grown
up boys and their father were working in
the woods near home when the fire occur.
rcd
Because the engineer OF freight train
on the Chicago. Milwaukee and St Paul
road failed to run his engine into the
clear while making a switch III the RAJ
cine yards, the engine was struck by
three cars and thrown from the track, as
We're also the three ears. Engineer Il.
Il. Barten, Fireman John Corbett and
Conductor Muckcrheide, I'LL of Milwau-
kee, were quite seriously injured.
Louis Nentner employed in the cleo
trical department Of the Oshkosh Gas
Light Company, was. ecctrocuted the
other afternoon. He was at the top OF
n 40-foot pole, repairing the wires back
of the T.. A. Plummer building, which
was burned and in some way came in
contact with a live wire. He fell across
the wires and lay there several minutes
before the power house could be notified
to shut off the current.
The county OF Fond du Lac has decid-
ed to offer a reward for the apprehension
of John j. Riley and John Cline, who
are alleged to have forged signatures to
n deed, thereby obtaining loan OF So
900 from George Hobbs of Byron. The
men secured, through the A. G.. Dana
agency, loan of $1,000 from Hobbs.
giving as security n mortgage on the
iHIHN VI SLiIoEu GeiSc, Ill Met0Hen, Tor |
which Riley and Cline held a deed This, |
it Is claimed by Cease is forgery
The remains OF Henry Gamble OF Sha- |
wano, who died Dec. II, 1908. were dis
inferred and an autopsy made. An in I
quest was held upon request of one of his /
sons. Mr.. Gamble was divorced from /
his first wife and married again to |
Young woman, to whom he willed all his
estimated at $4,000, giving his
oldest son $40, daughter $40 and his
son 500 only. The latter has
brought the inquest about, as he claims
undue influences had been brought on
lis father when he made his last will.
Gamble died very suddenly.
Otto II. Lonstorf. long resident OF
but now in the State of
Washington. has filed papers in a suit
or divorce from his wife, Emma. The
Lonstorfs got their millions recently
through favorable decisions In the long
contested Minnesota mining suits.
There was panic in an electric car on
fourteenth street. Racine. The car he
anne grounded and there was an cleo
rical display. with loud reports. The
ar then caught fire. and fifteen passen.
,ers crowded out, falling In the road ON
op Of each other. Two or three women
Rere hurt