Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-10-20

State Treasurer Kempf says that the
/ interest on State deposits in banks of
Wisconsin is $4,000 above all expenses
IN the conduct of his department.
Allen Heater of Waukesha, aged SO
years, committed suicide with a double
barrel shot gun. He leaves a wife and
large family. He lived with his aged
mother.
/ Charles McCarty died at st. Agnes
| Hospital, Fond du Lac. Mr.. McCarty
was injured by the collapse of a wagon
on which he was riding. Paralysis caused
his death.
Property valued at $1,000 was de-
/ stroyed in the fire which visited Maple
Grove The saloon, dance hall and
| dwelling of James Mullins was COM
pletely destroyed.
| w. A. Brown of Rib Lake was placed
| into yellow fever quarantine at Jackson
vile, Fla, on his return from Cuba, and
secured his release after getting an aft
| davit from Wisconsin.
Mrs. J. M. Bray, wife of a prominent
Oshkosh lumberman, her daughter, Miss
Hazel Bray, and Miss Ripley of Chi
| cagO were thrown from a double-Seated
| carriage in a runaway and badly bruis-
| ed
/ Miss Annie Louise Palmetier, the
| well-knoWn golfer, and Edwin Reynolds
Whitcomb of Milwaukee, son of P. f.
| Whitcomb, president of the Wisconsin
| Central railway, were married in Ke
| nosha.
The body of George Vosburg, an in
mate of the county insane asylum, who
had been missing for several days, was
found in the river at Evansville His
hands were tied, and it is thought he
committed suicide.
The Marinette and Menominee paper
mill was nearly destroyed by fire. By
heroic efforts of the fire departments of
Marinette and Menominee the sulphite
plant was saved. The loss is estimated
at $4,000, covered by insurance.
A year ago John Roberts was sudden
| ly stricken blind while at work in
Neenah paper mill. The other morning
upon arising he discovered that his eye
sight had been regained. His wife
claims the cure was effected through her
| prayers.
Yeska Sunbeam, the Athens prize cow,
has beaten the worlds record for butter
and fat, she making S57, 145 pounds of
butter fat from Oct. 1, 1904, to Sept.
30, 1905. On Aug. 10, 1905, the cow
gave 81 pounds Of milk, testing 5.42 per
cent, producing 2.S1 pounds of fat.
Superior grain interests will purchase
| an elevator in which to store grain IN
| spected under the laws of the State of
| Wisconsin. During the last three days
over 1900 cars of grain have been
brought to Superior and all have been
inspected by the Wisconsin inspectors.
Rev. John Steel died in Lodi. He To-
| Gated there in 1S49 and crossed the
| plains in 1850. He was the first Lieu
| tenant in CO. f, One Hundred and For
| ty-hrst Illinois infantry, and entered the
| Methodist ministry in 1867. Rev. Mr..
Steel acted as a missionary to New Mex
| leo from 1872 to 1879.
The Ferari Bros Carnival Company
received a very rude reception in Beloit.
| The show arrived in the evening and
some time during the night thieves broke
| into a wagon While it stood on a fiat
| car in the Northwestern freight yards
and carried the safe half block away,
| where it was broken open and rided. The
sum secured by the robbers is 81 800 in
| cash.
Because he allegedly circulated
| slanderous stories about Mrs. Anna
Buchanan, a neighbor, and the jury be-
lieyed her allegations, Joseph Teporren,
of Keil, was charged with judgment
| of $3.50, this being the amount awarded
| by the jury in curcuit court at Chiffon.
| Both parties are prominent in the farm
ing community where they reside and
| the case created a sensation.
| William Hannigan, aged 70 years, APP
| piled for warrant in Neenah for the
arrest of his son John, who is married.
| The son induced the father, says the
! complaint, to deed over the valuable
| farm to him, the old man to be cared for
| during the remainder of his days. After
| the deed had been recorded, the son had
his father placed in the poorhouse, it is
also alleged, but later brought him back
| to the farm, where the old gentleman
| was to work at so cents per day and his
keep.
Sheriff Armstrong at Little Suamico
has arrested Fred Braunschreiber, aged
70 years, charged with setting fire to and
| burning the barn of his nephew, Herman
| Braunsch:eiber. Mrs. Herman Braun
schneider says that she saw the fire about
| as soon as it was started and that she
| also saw her husbands uncle running
| away from the barn. In his hurry to
| escape, she says he did not notice a barb
wire fence and got badly tangled up in
it. Others also say they saw him run
ming from the barn. Family troubles are
said to be at the bottom of the case
The State tax commission announces
| the final assessment for the railroads of
| Wisconsin under the ad valorem tax law
to be a total of 1923, $4,000. The total
tax is $3.50, 29066. The valuation of