Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-01-09
MILWAUKEE MATTERS.

lie came to w lScOnS1n IN 1913, settling
in the town of Granville where he en-
gagged, in mercantile business and became
a leader among county merchants. He
| came to Milwaukee in 1866 and started in
the dry goods business; of late he has re-
sided in Waukesha. He is survived by a
wife and four children. Davis and
Theodore Wambold Mrs. Charles Gull
yer and Mrs. Joseph Gleason.
While skating on the river near the
Locust street bridge Sunday afternoon
Rudolph Iresek, aged IL years, and two
companions broke through the ice and
| young Iresek was drowned. His COM
panions, John Ludwig. aged II years, of
| 1O5 Lloyd street, and Charles Johnson,
aged II years. of 1892 Fourth street,
were rescued. Patrolman Reuter- warned
all the skaters not to approach the spot
where the boys broke through, as it was
| dangerous. Iresek resided with his pa
rents at 1O7 Lloyd street.
The Infants home has received a gift
| of $500 from Mrs. Meyer Friend in
memory of her husband: Mrs. Meyer was
| formerly a member of the board Of man
ayers.
John J. Brenk, a well-known and high
ly respected citizen of Jackson Mich,
father of Messrs. Robert and Joseph
Brenk of Milwaukee, died at 8 o'clock
Sunday evening at his home in Michigan
after /; long and lingering illness. Mr.
Brenk has frequently visited the fanli-
lies of his two sons in this city the past
two years and was we'll known to many
Milwaukeeans. He was 66 years of age
and is survived by widow and four
sons, all engaged in the tailoring business
in this city and in Jackson. Mr.. Brenk
was man of moral worth and was
greatly esteemed by his fellow towns
men of Jackson, where he had resided
for so many years.
Walter G. Sanger and Katherine Kot-
zenberg of Chicago were quietly married
by Rev. Father McGill on the 9th The
groom is the well-known cyclist.
Daniel Zehm, laborer employed in
Benjamin's coalyard, was struck in the
neck by a hosting block about a week
ago and had his windpipe punctured. He
was taken to the Emergency hospital
where he remained until last Friday,
when he insisted upon being removed
to his home, SIG Muskego avenue despite
the protests of his physicians. Sunday
he died from the effects of his injuries
The coroner will hold an inquest.
Robert Baty, the manufacturer of arti-
fciai limbs, died Sunday at his resi-
dence. 112 Seventeenth street. Mr.. Baty
was % years Of age and resided in Mil
waukee for many years. He was we'll
known throughout the state, having ac-
Quired great repute in his business as a
maker of artificial limbs and surgical ap-
planes. His wife died not long ago.
Warren Brinton, one of Bay Views
earliest residents, died suddenly of heart
failure Tuesday at II o'clock He was
in ohairs no
ing paper, when, without moments
warning, death came. Mr.. Brinton was
born in Salisbury, Conn, August Is,
1925. He came to Bay View to assume
charge of the blast furnace in 1870. Aft
err holding the position for two years, the
mills closed and he moved his family to
Leland, Mich. In 1876 he returned TO
Bay View and has been employed at the
rolling mills ever since. When he left
the blast furnace the workmen presented
him with an easy chair and a gold-head
ed cane, as mark of their esteem He
has been sufferer from rheumatism for
several years, but none of his friends
knew of the existence of heart trouble,
and at his sudden death all Bay View
experiences a sense of personal loss. He
is survived by wife and three children,
Mrs. A. e. Pickard of Ellsworth. Mich,
w. d. Brinton and Miss Daisy Brinton.
Peter Paul Gerezewski of 354 Bartlett
street, policeman whose beat was in
the Eighteenth ward, died at 500 o'clock
Wednesday morning from theeffects of a
quantity of muriate of zinc which he
accidentally swallowed at 1919 o'clock
on Tuesday night at the residence of his
father-in-law, John Lukowicz, 800 War
rem avenue. It appears that Gerszewski
called at his father-in-lawss house and
complained of feeling unwell. The old
man took him into the cellar, where from
a bottle he filled a glass full of what he
supposed was whisky and told Gerszew-
ski to drink it, as it would relieve him.
Lukowicz also took Il swallow of the
stuff In 4 short time both men were
taken very i'll and Drs. Sperry and Lem
on were called. Gerszewski had taken
once apparent that he could not recover.
His father-in-law took considerably less
and is now out of danger. The dead oftl-
GER was appointed patrolman in April,
1892. He is survived by q widow and
two small children. John Gerszeswki,
his brother. is lieutenant of truck No.
in the fire department.
The death of Julius Coll, which had
been expected for several weeks past,
occurred at noon Wednesday at the fam
lily residence on Jackson street. The
direct cause of death was the hardening
of the tissues of the heart. Mr.. Coil
Hau Deen III poor uealtN Slllce ebludl
last.
Mr. Coll. who was nearly IS years of
age. arrived in New York from Bier
bach, kingdom of Wittenburg. i'll 1913,
and a year later came to milwaukee,,
where he took up his permanent resi-
dence. He soon afterwards started in
the dry goods business with Henry Stern,
opening Il small store on East Water
street. In 1852 the firm became Coil &
Frank and in 1861 went into the whole
sale business, in which it has ever since
been engaged. being now known as the
Coll & Frank company. 1t is now an
Incorporated concern and one of the
most extensive of the kind in the West.
The deceased is survived by wife
and seven grown children, Frederick L.
Coll. Mrs. Henry G. Inbusch, Miss Lou
Use Coll. Mrs. Oscar Loeffler, Mrs. Wal
ter Gregg. Mrs. John +. Kern and Mrs.
Charles j. Cottrill. Mr.. Coll was great