Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-11-03


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Mrs August Giesen committed sulc,ue
ail,;nc info the Mississippi river at La
Crosse.
Company f of Racine will reloin tne
National Guard, as slxty-nVe neo'
have already signed to 90 So
The 3-year-old child of Mr.. and MIS-
Tosenh Rackes Of Kenosha was Terribly
burned and died in a few hours.
The thirty-third reunion of Company ~,
Eighth Wisconsin regiment, was neiu az
Racine. T. A. Fellows was elected presl-
dent.
Ar Ashland. John O'Donnell, Jr., has
been sentenced to life imprisonment .oi
numbering his wife by administering
strychnine.
Mrs. Julia Rogers, mother of ex-Mayor
w TT Rogers of Madison, and formerly
resident of Dodge County, died at 90
lumbus, Neb.
Mrs. T.. Peck of Racine, aged ~, caught
her foot on rug at her home and fell TO
the floor. breaking her hip and SUSTAINING
other injuries.
Christian Olson, a farm hand, employed
on the Brown farm near Mount Pleasant,
was kicked in the abdomen by a vicious
horse and probably fatally injured.
At Rhinelander, A. III. Marks, druggist,
made an assignment for the beneht OF MS
creditors to S. III. Alban. The assets IN
stock are $4,000; liabilities, 81 ,5OO.
+. p. Hixon, WHO'S the principal stock
holder in the L. 3. Scott Lumber Com
pany, whose large sawmill was recently
DESTROYED by fire in Merrill, announces
that the plant will not be rebuilt.
Arthur Collins of New London has made
declaration for pension. While jumping
from horse at Chickamauga park he fell
in such way as to rupture himself. line
amount he expects is So a month.
The 2-year-old daughter Of August Mey-
err. residing at Oshkosh, was thrown down
and badly bitten about the cheek and
hands by big dag. The injuries are very
serious, if not extremely dangerous.
The Rev. NJ. Konka of Sturgeon Bay
has been called to the passionate of the
German Lutheran Church at Payne's Cor
ners He will succeed the Rev. &. Gevers,
who resigned to accept call to Elkhorn.
spurious check for 500 upon the Citi-
zens' National Bank, to which the name OF
Frank Sycki was signed, was passed IN
Stevens Point. The person who uttered
it is Pole, who went there several days
before and was engaged in gambling.
Chief Of Police Scheck of Sheboygan
arrested two men, who gave their names
as John NJ. Hopper and John Clark, for
passing counterfeit money. Ten dollars
in spurious half-dollars was found on their
persons and $40 in other money. The men
said that they came to the city on the
steamer Arcadia, one claiming to be cook
and the other porter.
William Hemple of Silver died Oct. 8
under suspicious circumstances, and an
investigation is to be made. On the night
before his death Hempke had wrestling
match. During the match Hcmpke's head
was caught in some way under the leg of
his opponent, and he called out that his
neck was broken. He was taken home
and died next morning.
Around Butternut the coming winter
is likely to be the busiest winter in logging
operating since the early zoos. There are
five camps Established east and west Of
there and eleven some distance north, run
ming logging roads into Glidden. These
camps are largely conducted by local men
and lumber dealers Of Chippewa Falls and
employ an aggregate Of nearly 1000 men.
Wages have gone up considerably over
last years wages, the amount paid being
from $26 a month to $780, as men are
scarce.
The Illinois Central combination freight
and passenger train going south from
Madison to Freeport was piled up seven
miles south Of Monroe The train left
Monroe with four freight cars, a baggage
car and a passenger coach. The second
car, heavily loaded with lumber, spread
the rails and, with two other cars filed
with lumber was overturned and thrown
across the track. The baggage car went
Off its trucks and the passenger coach was
derailed. The end of the baggage car was
smashed in. and Baggageman William
Sawhill was slightly injured. None of the
passengers were hurt. About 800 feet Of
track was torn up
fatal accident came near occurring
among the workmen who are engaged by
the Kaukauna Water Works Company in
blasting stone from the trenches in the
river bed. A cartridge had just been ex-
ploded, and Joseph Eppinger, who uses a
heavy iron to break the stone into smaller
pieces, struck an unexploded dynamite
cartridge with it. A terrific explosion
followed and Eppinger was lifted from his
feet and thrown violently on his back, rem,
dering him unconscious for awhile, but not
seriously injuring him. The iron, which
weighed eighty pounds, was thrown sixty
feet. Half "a dozen other men were right
in the midst of the explosion, but came out
unframed. ,
State Fire Warden yNyman says there
are ninety families in and about Turtle
Lake. who lost yerything they had in the
forest fires, and there are 102 families be-
sides in that township who sustained par
tial losses. He says. they are living in GEL
lars, log stables, barns and all sorts of