Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-09-29

The tobacco crop this year is bringing
| between 6 and 8 cents to the planter.
Capt. L. +. West and Band Sergeant
Woodie Of Monroe have become sick with
| typhoid fever.
Fire destroyed the brewery owned by
Mcclellan Bros. and the pop works of
Fred Neibuhr at Hurley.
Albert Macarthur of Company / and
Frank b. Gray of Company NJ are now
confined with typhoid fever at Palmyra.
Stephen T. WEIGH, half-brccd of Cal
umet, eloped with Carrie Kramer, Il farm
er's daughter of Redwood Falls. Mimi.
The postoiiice at Bloomington was brok-
en- into and robbed. Much money and
| large number of stamps were taken. No
| clue.
The infant daughter Of Editor Arthur
| Franckenberg of the West Bend Demo-
crat was christened Manila in commem
Grafton of Dcwcy's victory.
| One of the largest lumber sales of the
season was made by the |. Stephenson
Company of Marinette for 15,o0O,0OO
shingles.
A. H. Grover Of Menomonic received
verdict of 5000 for tailor's using his
| name on Il pair of trousers displayed III
| his window.
Peter Olum Truax. living with his sis
ter at St Paul. a nephew of Peter Truax,
capitalist of Eau Claire, was kicked by
| a horse and his skull fractured.
Prof G. G. Williams, former president
| of the State Teachers Associa ton, and Of
| late years teacher of science in the high
| school at West Superior, died of typhoid
| fever.
Frank l.. Goodfellow Of Marinette har-
| vested second crop of rod raspbc1rles
| in his garden. The berries are large and
| luscious and apparently as good as the
| first crop.
At the German Methodist conference at
Kenosha and the West Wisconsin Meth
odist conference at Eau Claire it was de-
| cided to give laymen and ministers equal
| representation.
A freight wreck took place at the Bur
| lington depot at Trempealcau, in which
! six cars went over the embankment into
| the river Other cars were broken and
twisted so as to blockade the tracks
Douglass Gibbs, who has been with the
| Chicago and Northwestern Railroad ut
Shcboygan as agent for twenty-thrce
| years. has resigned and has been sue
ccedcd by David Braeger of Rhinelander.
While standing on the railroad track ut
| the Sharon depot, talking with members
of the Fourth regiment, which passed
through. John Wilkins was struck by the
fast sourh-bound train and severely in
| jured.
Rust, drouth and frost combined have
| damaged the potato crop in Columbia
County fully one-half Early potatoes
were Il fair crop. but late ones were struck
with the blight early in August, scarcely
n piece escaping.
The Baker-Ogden Furniture and Hard
| ware Company of Oshkosh made vol
untary assignment to William Decker.
| The affidavit filed places the nominal as
sets at $4,000. The failure is directly
traceable to the strike.
The official board of the Methodist
| Church of Appleton, which recently asked
for transfer of DR.. j. Scott Davis, the
| pastor has voted unanimously in Il recon-
| sideration Of its action to ask his return
to the Appleton pastoratc.
The explosion of lamp at the home of
| Elmer Cole at Kaukauna caused quite
| blaze The building, a small tenement
| house owned by Ii. s. Cooke, was saved,
| but was damaged to the extent of lnsur-
ance $3.50, valued at $500.
A second attempt was made at Augusta
at KIDNAPPING Some one picked up the
child of Charles Fox of OsSco during the
fair and got away with him, but Mr.. Fox
gave chdse and the man dropped the child.
| bo, az nnprnhpp InI
"A newsboy named laval was nearly
killed by n savage bulldog at Marincttc.
The dog threw the boy down and chcwed
his face, arms and body horribly. Two
men pulled the dog off and carried the boy
to the nearest DOCTOR where several
stitches were taken in the face wounds.
David G.. Green was appointed special
administrator Of the estate Of the late
Stephen a. Harrison in Milwaukee
| against tho strenuous opposition of the
widow, Mrs. Alice w. Harrison. Mr..
Harrison left an estate valued at $500
600, to be divided between his widow and
three daughters.
George w. Hall, editor Of the West
Salem Nonpareil. shot his partner, c. f..
| Thomas. Hall says he supposed Thomas
| was a burglar. Hall was placed under
! arrest Thomas, after the shooting. went
! to his hotel. but made no report Of the
affair. and no one knew of ii until the
next morning, when he was found in bed
| unconscious with bullet hole through his
| neck. He is now in dangerous condi-
ton. The men have had several disputes
lately.
At Milwaukee, the infant daughter OF
Joseph +. Carney foreman of the Daily
| News, was burned to death by gasoline.
The mother of the child was pouring the
gasoline from n bottle into wash boiler,
and in doing so the fluid became ignited.
/ In trying to throw the bottle out of doors
| she struck the servant girl. whose clothes
caught fire, and the flames were in some
way communicated to the child. The SER
want girl received some burns, but was
not seriously injured.