Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-02-04

Joseph OldS. Little frarie IaIhiei
and pioneer settler, died of paralysis, aged
60 years.
DR.. I. J. Iatchen is dead at St. Peters
burg. Fla. He was Mayor of Fond du
Lac in 1870.
In competitive examination for West
Point cadetship, D. E. Stewart, of Green
wood, was successful.
At Milwaukee, Frank Hoyt and Thos
Bailey We're sentenced by Judge Seaman
to two years each in the penitentiary for
the robbery of the postoffice in Kingston
A man named Gorham, living near FL
roy, was shot and probably fatally wound
cd by man residing at Trippyille. Two
shots We're fired and one of them took
effect in Gorham's neck. Officers are
looking for the man who did the shooting
The Log Cabin Inn, an old landmark
in the town of Forest, in Fond du Lac
County, with it's contents. was totally de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $1,000; no lnsur-
ance. The hotel was constructed on the
Fond du Lac-Sheboygan stage road IN
1852 by Newton kellogg.
S. C. French, of Galesville. president of
the company recently organized for the
purpose of placing on the market the wal
err of the Arctic Mineral Springs, is now
in Chicago in the interests of his company.
When spring opens the company Will nave
everything in readiness for pushing the
business extensively.
The newly completed residence Of w.
A. Bishop of La Crosse was destroyed
by fire. The loss is about $500: lnsur-
ance small the building not having yet
been turned over to the owner by the ar
chitect. The fire is supposed to have orig
mated from Il furnace. James u. Miller,
a leading German attorney who roomed III
the house. injured his spine severely III
jumping from window.
Fire broke out in the school building OF
joint district No. 2 in Kaukauna Mon
day, resulting in total less. The build
ing was a seyen-room, two-story struc-
ture, and at the time the fire was discoy-
cred contained between 400 and 900 pu-
pills. The fire started from Il defective
chimney. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000,
$1,7OO being with the Phoenix of Hart
ford and $1,000 with the German-Ameri
can.
Fire which swept away a cluster OF
small buildings on the corner of West
Water and Wells streets, Milwaukee, in
yolved the ruin of the Kueinstlerheim,
quaint Bohemian resort of considerable
celebrity, the interior walls of which were
decorated with odd and fantastic mural
paintings. The place was built and fur
nished in the style of an old German pub
lie house. The loss on the wall paintings
is $4,000.
A terrific explosion occurred in the
kitchen of the Timlin Hotel at West SUI
perior and seriously injured the cook,
Nina King of Amigo. The water in the
back of the stove had been frozen by the
extreme cold weather and the hot fire
caused the explosion. A portion of the
flying iron struck the cook in the body and
set FIRE to her clothes, badly burning her.
The kitchen was badly demolished, all the
plastering being blown off and part of the
stove going through the ceiling and the
cooking utensils going through the win
dow.
Capt. Samuel r. Lawson, a well-known
vessel owner of Milwaukee, was killed by
a trolley car. He was walking between
the car tracks, and, owing to the cold
wind frequently turned and walked back
ward. 1t was while walking thus that he
was killed, the motOrman SuppoSing that
he must have seen the car and would step
off the track in time. The motorman and
conductor were arrested, but were releas-
ed after an examination by the police.
Capt. Lawson was so years of age. He
owned and sailed the schooner Willie
Loutit
A post-mortem examination in the case
of Edward Hale the young farmer from
South Wayne who died from the effects of
a blow received at dance at Gratiot,
shows that he was murdered, although
the two men arrested after the fray were
discharged and the statement was put
forth that Hale died from the effects of
the liquor he drank. The district attor-
ney was induced by Hale's friends to
take up the case and order an eXamina-
ton. The doctors found that Hale's skull
was fractured and there was a large blood
clot on the brain.
The saloon and hotel of Cashier Schom-
mer and the grocery store of Mr.. Gaine,
at Freedom village, in Outagamie County,
were destroyed by fire Monday night. The
fire started from defective fue in
Gaines store, and in the absence of water
the whole village of half dozen stores
and saloons and dozen houses was for
a time in danger. The villagers and
nearby farmers turned out and by hard
fighting prevented the fire from spreading
farther. The combined loss on the two
buildings is about $4,000, partly insured.
George Eoeppen, editor of the Germa-
MIA, and one of the best-known German
newspaper men in the West, died sudden
ly at Milwaukee at the Deutscher Club
Monday night. Mr.. Koeppen was ma
tive of Pottsdam, Brandenburg, Prussia.
where he was born in 1888. He came to
Milwaukee in 1872. The next year the
Germania was started by the Germania
Publishing Company, with Mr.. Koeppen
as editor, a position which he occupied
until his death. He was for twelve years
a member of the Board Of Regents of the
State University, and for the past seven