Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-09
WISCONSIN NEWS.

WIOCONO1N NE WO.
The owners of the various summer
parks in the town of Mount Pleasant,
Racine county, at which liquors are sold.
will be compelled to pay the S400 license
imposed by the town as against $500 to
be paid by the city saloonkeepers. One
park keeper has already paid up, and he
is urging on the supervisors to make the
others pay up.
Thomas Meredith. an aged farmer of
the town of Wheaton. Eau Claire county,
was burned so badly that he died shortly
after A stack Of hay Oh his farm caught
fire. and in attempting to rake down the
burning portion the stack fell on him.
Before he was pulled from beneath by
his wife he was horribly burned.
Rock county populists in mass conven-
ton at GAINESVILLE elected John Hyland,
]: H. Hayeland, Charles Sexton, James
Cleland, William Beals and John Stock
man delegates to represent the county in
the congressional convention at Racine,
August l. The delegates are for Hamil-
ton Utley for Congress.
An attempt was made by unknown
persons to poison Mrs. A. Schneider OF
Arcadia by putting Paris green in her
is not known definitely what motive the
perpetrator had, but suspicion is directed
toward certain parties.
James Sullivan pleaded guilty to a
charge of assaulting his wife with in
tent to kill her at Oshkosh and was SEN
fenced to six years in state prison. Sui
Ivan was at one time Il prominent citi-
zen of Oshkosh, but he let liquor get the
upper hand
II. G. Storer, agent for Wells Aledi-
cine company of Berlin. was found dead
in the road near Fox Lake. A coroners
jury found that the deceased died OF APP
poplexy.
Park Main fell off the new normal
school building at Stevens Point ana re-
ceived internal injuries of serious ma
ture.
Mrs. Bastien, a Racine resident, was
badly burned about her face and hands
by the explosion of gasoline stove.
-Four hundred Racine church people
who went to Milwaukee on the steamer
Virginia were sent back on the steamer
Menominee during a heavy sea. The
majority of them were very sick. On
North Point a huge wave struck the stern
of the vessel, and some passengers were
thrown down, a table was wrecked and
water pitchers in stateroOms overturned.
4 panic ensued, and the Rev. j. Il.
Farmer of the First NJ. e. church made
q speech and quoted the frightened
crowd.
Eddie Wieckert, aged II years, who
lives at Neenah with his parents, was ac-
fatal A young friend woke Eddie at
o'clock in the morning and pointed re-
volver at him to brighten the boy. The
weapon was accidentally discharged, and
the bullet penetrated the boys left lung.
The 4-year-old daughter of Almond
Cook of Stockbridge strayed away from
the house and was gone one night and
do A 0rf.hi rr nptTy
sitting near spring about four miles
from home.
Casper Zwickey. soap manufacture
err died suddenly yesterday at his home
in Springfield. Ill.,. of paralysis. He for
merly resided at Madison.
"A 7-year-old son of Nels Johnson of
Stockbridge was attacked by dog and
terribly lacerated about the arms and
breast.
The Stone estate. over which there
has been so much trouble in Rock cOun
ty, which now inventories at SAT 900,
has been settled at last and the vast es-
tate will probably be distributed among
the benefciaries by Christmas time: I'm
til that time, or until the assembling OF
the county court ON the first Tuesday III
December next, Administrator Sylvester
Morgan will hold possession of all the
property The decision agreed upon is
said to be as follows: Mrs. Ashton is the
first to receive securities amounting to
$4,000. Second come Winans & Hyzer,
who are to get $4,000 i'll securities
There is to be $4,000 endorsement on Mr.
Carpenters note. originally $5430, but
now $4,000. The balance of the estate
is to be transferred to Fethers, ..Jeffris
Fifield & Matheson. they to make the
division among the other heirs.
DR. f. f. Woods and wife were
picked out of the debris of a wrecked
buggy at GAINESVILLE. Mrs. Woods was
partly unconscious and her husband had
an ugly cash over the right eye. Mrs.
Woods received Il very bad scalp wound,
the greater part of the scalp OH the lett
side being torn loose. and besides this she
received internal injuries.
While on their way to the Pacific
coast the Rev. and Mrs. Updike OF Mad
ison were obliged to ride distance OF
some 600 miles in Il stage on account OF
the great strike.
Patrick Tierney died suddenly at his
home i'll Fond du Lac, aged - years
He was a brakeman ON the North West
ern road.
The death of Mrs James Nash oc-
Cured at her home in Eldorado, Fond
du Lac county. Deceased was ~ years
Of age.
A franchise has been granted to the
Citizens Electric Light and Power Conf
pany at Appleton.
Warren Parker. an old resident ot
Beloit. died at his home in Roscoe, H.,
aged SO years.
Herman Kaiser fell off scaffolding
at Prairie du Chen and broke his thigh
bone.
Josiah Hoover. charged with the muir
der of his cousin. Elias Hoover, at Rock
falls Dunn county. on May Is, 1893, was
brought before Judge Bundy at Menomo-.
ME. He pleaded guilty to the crime of
manslaughter in the first degree, and was
sentenced to five years at Waupun. Sew
aral of his old neighbors were present
and testified to his previous good char
acter and to the bad reputation of the
murdered man. After the murder Josiah
fed and remained in Northern Wisconsin
and Michigan until last April, when he