Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-08


stroyed by fire.
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Fillmore Of Hor-
tonville celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
of their marriage.
George Stutzman, Black Greek farm
er, was shot accidentally by his compan-
ion while hunting.
AT Manitowoc, Joseph Noyak, who was
arrested on the charge of numbering
Frank Rathsack, was discharged.
Work on the railroad extension from
Casford's Park to Delavan lake has been
commenced. A Chicago firm has the con-
tract.
Mrs. Gordon Ross died at Washburn
from an internal hemorrhage. During
violent coughing fit she ruptured blood
vessel
Frederick Metz, II years old, son of
Henry Metz of Prairie du Chen, broke
through the ice while skating on a small
pond and drowned.
Two freight trains collided in front Of
the general Office at Baraboo, wrecking
both engines. The train crews jumped
and no one was injured.
The furnace in the basement of Peak Il
Cramers stone at Baraboo exploded, caus-
ing considerable damage. One of the plate
windows was demolished.
The unknown man who has been detain-
ed at the county Jail at Appleton for two
weeks, was adjudged insane and commit
ted to the Northern hospital.
Lillian Valley, aged Is, farmers
daughter living near Cumberland, was
accidentally shot by her little brother,
who was playing with gun in the house.
Her leg was amputated and her condition
is critical.
While John Davis and George Rudd of
Eleva were out rabbit hunting, Davis &C.
cidentally discharged his gun within a
few inches Of Rudd's head, nearly sever
ing the entire head from the body. The
boys were aged respectively ID and 16
years.
The blacksmith in the ST. Croix COM
pany lumber camp, near Spooner, COM
mitted suicide by tieing an anvil on his
neck and jumping into the well. He leaves
a wife and three children and was resi-
dent of Saltwater, MINI. No cause for
his action is known.
AS Barney Ohmen, a Mansion saloon.
keeper, was standing on the sidewalk
someone threw a stone which struck him
on the head, fracturing the skull. His re-
covery is considered doubtful. Two per-
sons suspected of having thrown the stone
have been arrested.
Edward Keogh, a veteran printer and
proprietor of one of the largest printing
establishments in Milwaukee, died from
stroke of paralysis, aged 63. Mr..
keogh served several terms in the State
Legislature, and once held the office Of
Speaker of the Assembly.
At Cameron, child was born in fam
lily named Dunn The father, in celebra-
ton of the event, is reported to have be-
come intoxicated, and returning home
seized the babe and dashed out it's brains.
He was on the point of strangling his
wife when neighbors interfered.
The double track on the Northwestern
road between Elroy and Baraboo is being
hurried forward with double crews. The
cost of construction between BaraboO and
Madison alone will be about 81 100000, a
distance of only thirty"seyen miles, and
the cost between Baraboo and Elroy,
about the same distance, will be not much
less.
Notice has been received of the assign
ment of Patrick Hoy, capitalist and ex-
tensive contractor Of Mcdonald, Pa, and
the financial hacker of the Mead Con-
struction Company, which is building the
new Christ Episcopal Church in La
Crosse. Hoy is very heavily involved,
but the failure will not complicate the new
church in any way, as the Bond company
has already arranged to go ahead and
complete the new church. Hoy is said to
have lost $4,000 to $4,000 on this con-
tract, which was taken at about half the
amount bid by two Milwaukee concerns.
Harry f. Crabbe, alias Kirby, etc., a
confidence man who operated from La
Crosse some months ago, was arrested at
Mankato, Mimi, where he was collecting
money on subscriptions for st. Paul
daily. 1t turns out that he is ticket-of-
leave man from the State reformatory at
st. Cloud, MINI. He was sent back to
that institution to serve out his term of
five years and do little extra time as
punishment for breaking the terms of his
parole. While in La Crosse for several
months he pretended to represent a large
cigar manufacturing concern of Platte
Vile.
At West Superior, sentence has been
passed upon Thomas Marlin, convicted in
the Circuit Court of forging and passing
bogus check. Marlin was enlisted in the
Sixth United States infantry and was in
the Santiago campaign. At San Juan
| hill he received bullet in the shoulder
and another in the leg. He was given a
six months furlough and came to West
| Superior, where in an endeavor to get rich
as fast as possible he got into trouble.
Judge Vinie sentenced him to one year in
| the State prison at Waupun, giving him
the lightest possible sentence under the
law because of his services in the late
war.
At Beaver Damy the special accommoda-
| ton freight train collided with freight
train bound in the same direction. The
accommodation was going at a fast rate,
and struck the caboose of the other train
with considerable force, knocking it on
one end and lifting it to the top of the fat
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