Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-09-09

A tramp fell under moving train at
Onalaska and had one leg cut off.
Frank Ruffeis of the town of Lowell
was seriously if not fatally gored by a
bull.
Alec Byrnes, a pioneer Of Reedsburg.
took his life by shooting himself with a
revolver. Deceased was so Yeas old.
The barn of Peter johnson, together
with horse, harnesses, hay and other
property, was destroyed by fire at Racine.
The dam in the Wisconsin river at Kill
bourn City has been washed away, leav-
ing the pleasure boats in the Dells high
and dry.
Frank Long, State factory inspector,
has been in Racine looking up children
who are working in factories. He found
twenty under age.
Mrs. Bessie Higgins, daughter of Will
lam buckingham, was found dead in bed
at her home in Ridgeway. She was in
perfect health the day before.
Several barns on the farm of Joseph
Rambolt, near Beloit, were burned, caus-
ing loss of $4,000. Mr.. Rambolt lost his
residence by fire year ago.
Sam Trickey, lodged in Jail on charge
of perjury, went before Judge Goss at
Hudson and pleaded guilty. He was SEN
fenced to Waupun for two years.
About thirty molders working in the
Fuller & Johnson machine works at Mad
ison went out on Il strike for higher
wages. The company refused to grant it.
At Belmont young son of Patrick
Munion was severely lacerated by a dog.
The boy is in a serious condition, and
there is much indignation over the affair.
The new building being erected at the
Wisconsin State Soldiers Home is rapidly
nearing completion. There are applicants
enough to more than fill the new quarters.
At Racine Edward Anderson, aged II
years, dropped dead in a drug store of
heart disease. He had been an excessive
rider of a bicycle, which weakened his
heart.
Owing to the extent diphtheria is pre-
vailing at Two Rivers, the School Board,
upon advice from the health authorities,
deemed it advisable not to open the
schools.
AS Rev. Mr.. Griffith, pastor of the Meth
odist Church of Glenwood, was returning
from Connorsville, he fell from his car
riage, striking Oh his head, cutting it over
the temple.
The lumbermen of the Northern Wis
consn district are preparing to go into
the woods and the coming winter prom
Uses to inaugurate a season of activity not
equaled during the past four years.
Report comes from IXilbourn that Will
of Do IN, bo
Wisconsin river catfish weighing sixty
five pounds and the same day caught a
rock sturgeon that weighed 125 pounds.
Stephen Wheeler, aged 60 years, had
his head severed from his body by the
cars at Gainesville, Tex. He was a men,
Der of the Third Wisconsin cavalry and
had been State Senator and Auditor in
Arkansas since he left Baraboo.
A farmer named Nelson, three miles
north of Eaukauna, lost all Of his grain
by fire. A steam thresher had been en-
gagged to do the threshing, and had just
begun when fire was discovered among
the grain stacks. The thresher was saved.
While Hugo Vollert and number of
companions were in bathing near Rocky
Point, at Pewaukee, he was seized with
cramp, and although he is an expert swim
mer, he would have been drowned but for
the timely aid of Miss Clara Luenzmann,
who swan out in deep water and brought
him ashore.
A praiseworthy work is being carried
on by the Junior Endeavor Societies in
Fond du Lac. Flowers are collected and
sent to Miss Wilkie to be sent to the Chi
cago Flower Mission, for distribution in
the hospitals and orphan asylums. Three
crates, each containing twenty-four bou-
quets, are sent away every week.
Last spring quite an amount of sugaI
beet seed was distributed among the
farmers in Brown and neighboring coun
ties. The farmers We're given instruction
how to cultivate the vegetable and it was
expected that, if the season was favor
able, successful test could be made of
the growing of sugar beet. The season
thus far has been an ideal one, and now
all who are interested in the experiment
are waiting anXiously for the vegetable
to mature so that an analysis can be
made. The first beets that mature will
be sent to an Analysing chemist, who will
ascertain the amount of saccharine mat
ter they contain.
The monthly report of State Treasurer
Peterson to the Secretary of State shows
the following balances in the several
funds Aug. 81: General fund, $274, 331 rs;
school fund, $5,626G3; school fund in
come $30,395.57; university fund, ST.
1900; university fund income, So, 1853. 90;
agricultural college fund, $12, $3.50; ag-
ricultural college fund income, $49. IA;
normal school fund, $25,647. 1S; normal
school fund income, $1,822.41; drainage
fund, $15,969.22; indemnity fund, ST.
911.7S; delinquent tax fund, S2,O54.11
deposit fund, $10,635.67; St. Croix depos-
it fund, $408.02; redemption fund,
S151 .92; Wis. r. r. f. M. l.. & Co. fund,
81, 1864; Columbia and Sank indemnity
fund, $916.54; cash on hand, $500, 1908.
Emil Springer of La Sale, ILL.,, had a
narrow escape at the village of Wauwa-
tosa from the vengeance of mob of 400