Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-15
NOTES OF INTEREST.

NOTES OF INTEREST.
Hereafter men who ere strapped, or
who have left their wallets ii other
street car lines just as though they had
paid their fares. The same holds true
Of persons with bills so large the con-
Guctors cannot make change. By a rule
Which went into effect today conductors
will present such passengers with a
small card. which is in fact promissory
note The passenger minus his fare
signs the note and is not further inter
fered with. If he fails to pay he may
be sued. The note reads as follows:
This certifes that | am indebted to
the Twin City Rapid Transit company
cents for non-payment of fare. | prom
Use to forward this amount Immediately
to the Office of the company
Alfred Owre has arrived in Minneap-
oils from Hudson. Wis. He has been on
the road from Chicago nineteen days
and has averaged nearly twenty-siX
miles a day. The distance between the
two cities is 42O miles, but, having fol
lowed wagon roads most of the way,
DR.. Owre says he has covered at least
800 miles since December IS. In the
course of his long jaunt the pedestrian
has exhausted two companions. DR.. For
rest III. Orton accompanied his friend
from a point about hundred miles this
side of Chicago, as far as Eau Claire,
where he left him. giving up his place
to DR.. H. l.. Ulrich, who came to with
in two days of Minneapolis and then
took a train. 1t had been expected that
Owre would come as far as st. Paul
and take a car there for Minneapolis,
but he decided to walk the whole dis
lance.
Among the applicants examined at
naturalization court in EastOn, Pa, was
Francesca Due, an Italian of Rosetta.
who was closely questioned by Judge
Stewart regarding the form of govern
ment under which he lived. Due was
asked what duties were discharged by
the President of the United States.
There was a blank expression on Dues
face and he could not answer. Finally
Judge Stewart asked:
How does the President of the Unit
ed States earn his salary"
by interfering with everybody elses
business the Italian replied quick as
flash.
Everyone in the courtroom was con-
vulsed with laughter, while a broad grin
overspread Dues face and he looked
around the room with an expression of
satsfactio at the sensation he had Gre
ated. He was fairly accurate i'll his an
swers to the general questions and re-
ceived his papers.
Arwin E. Price, the eccentric mayor
of Elgin, H. and member of the Leg
slature. is on the water wagon. The
executive declares that he has taken his
last drink. All of the temperance So
cieties Of this city and neighboring
burgs are claiming the victory, as for
months they have been praying for
Mayor Price and concentrating their
thoughts on him, hoping to convert him
to prohibition by mental telepathy. The
mayor, however, points to his wife and
declares that she and not the blue rib
bon organizations can be thanked for
his redemption. About a year ago May
or Price attracted attention when he
visited church festival On another
occasion he thrashed newspaper re-
porter who wanted to interview him on
the subject of his favorite beverage.
There are other similar escapades
charged up to him. but he says that it
is ali over now. He insists that he has
not taken a drink of anything intoxicat-
ing since election day and feels conf
dent that he can keep his contract with
Mrs. Price.
Capt. Thomas Sphinx of the British
steamer Conway, from GulfpOrt, Miss,
for Havre via Norfolk, reports to the
Norfolk, Va, photographer that when
en- route up the coast December 81 the
Conway steamed through wide area
of bubbling or boiling water. Capt.
Dunn of the British steamer Lord Duff,
ferin, recently made a similar report or
such an occurrence on a different date.
Il will probably die before my term
is finished, and | want my last appear
- l.
BILE lineage" said Ignazio Perone, when
he appeared in evening dress IN Eliza
beth. n. J., for his trip to Trenton,
where he will serve ten years at hard
labor for the murder of Luigi Melessaro.
Perone appealed to the warden, who
acted as valet, and when he was led
from his cell in the county Jail he was
respondent in the latest style of TuXe-
do suit. with all the incidentals from
silk hat to patent leather shoes and
gloves, furnished by prosperous friends
in the Italian colony.
While James Lawliss, manager of the
Jackson street feed mill, in Brazil, Ind,
was guiding corn into a cruSher some
thing cold struck his hand. AS the object
struck the teeth of the crusher Lawliss
snatched it from the machine and was
Mortified to find that it was a stick OF
dynamite. If it had gone into the crush
er it would have blown up the whole
mill, The corn in which the dynamite
was found was brought to the mill by
one of the wealthiest farmers of the
county, who has no idea how the stick
got into the corn.
If damages for injury to the feelings
could be collected from goat, David
Miller of Arbor, Pa. would have, heavy
ones to collect from Billy belonging
70 Albert Noll. The two men We're
standing upon the edge of a high wall
beside ditch at the home, of Noll, when
the goat, approaching from the rear,
butted the visitor into the deep mud be-
low. The attack was entirely unpro-
voked except that the goat had bad
reputation to sustain.
Antona Leanan. foreigner, whom no
one thought knew the rudiments of ras-
cality. is in Jail. charged with stealing
wood and undertaking the real owners
in the market at Carmel. the Jewish set
TinoJanH II I.panan