Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-11-24
Ole Grundt of Menomonie died Of in.

| the near vicinity Of Marlnette, but it is
said the animals are unusually timid this
season.
1t is estimated that $4,000 acres of wild
land, heavily numbered with windfalls,
logs and brush were cleared in Barron
/ County by the forest fires of September
last.
The remains of John Bosch, who died
aboard vessel in Prince Williams sound,
Alaska, ON his way to the Klondike last
April, were brought back and buried at
| Gratiot.
The Rev. John Faville of Appleton, who
has preached at the Congregational
Church there since 1886, has been called
as pastor of the First Congregational
Church at Peoria, Ill.
Hog cholera has made it's appearance in
Marinette County in the vicinity of For
WHY'S Corners, and in parts of Coleman.
One farmer in Coleman is reported to
| have lost eighteen in a week.
The 16-year-old son of Matt Brausch,
residing at Rockville, while fooling with
a revolver, shot his S-year-old brother in
| the breast the ball entering the lung.
| The boy may recover, though in a critical
condition.
Giuseppe Puci and Miss Marietta De
| Strefuna were married at Fond du Lac.
| The bride is 16 years old and arrived from
! Italy a few days before. The groom works
| at Marblehead. About fifty Italians from
| Marblehead accompanied the pair.
| The body Of Ernst Messmann, the MUIR
| derer of Mr.. and Mrs. John Bahls at
| Mishicott, has not been claimed by his
relatives, though they have been noti-
| fed of his death. 1t will be inferred in the
| public cemetery at the expense Of the
| county.
A man who registered as Fred Wider
| and is supposed to be from Nelson, was
found dead in his room at the Hart House
| in Eau Claire. He had evidently died as
soon as he reached his room, as he was
not undressed His head was resting on
pillow and his feet on the floor. The
death is supposed to have resulted from
! heart disease.
A telegram from California announced
| the death of David W. Emerson, a pion-
Ger lumberman of Racine. Mr.. Emerson
was born in Vermont in 1899 and settled
in Racine in 1916 He went to California
a year ago on account of his poor health
He served on the school board of Racine
| for fifteen years and held other public
Offices.
| Charles Dodge, the Kenosha colored boy
who was arrested some time since On a
charge of burglarizing Tack Il Tuerk' s
saloon and stealing a turkey and duck,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced by
| Judge Slosson to one year in the State
reformatory at Green Bay. The boy is a
minor and at the time of the theft he was
intoxicated by liquor bought from the
men he rob 5ed.
Several members of the sophomore and
| freshman classes of Beloit College have
| been fined So each by the faculty for par
| ticipating in a ''cane rush" recently. The
| rush" was Of little consequence in itself,
| but as it was expressly forbidden by the
faculty, the penalty has been imposed
! The sophomores are held in the greater
| responsibility in the matter for, since the
| night of the freshman banquet, they left
no stone unturned in their efforts to force
! the freshmen into contest of physical
strength.
At Marinette, the little son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas LeMieux died after brief
illness of day and half. The cause Of
death is given by the physician, DR.. Addi-
son, as gastritis and peritonitis of the
stomach caused by swallowing some indi-
| gestible substance. The latter, all the
evidence indicates, was small nails and
pieces of cork. 1t is known that the baby
had eaten corks and it is quite certain that
the child also swallowed nails, as the
| symptoms indicated it.
William Holmes, Jr., better known as
'Black Bill of Marinette, the general
| superintendent of the road, helped unload
| logs at Pembine. The bridge from which
| the logs are rolled off the cars is about
| thirty or forty feet above the rivers sur
| face. Mr.. Holmes, while unloading, start
| ed to cross in front of a loaded car, part of
| the chains of which had been removed.
! When about half the length of the car,
brakeman loosened the remaining bind
| ing chain, letting the logs loose. The only
| way to save himself was to jump into the
| river in advance Of the logs and take
chances of landing in the water farther
down stream than the logs did. After
hard fight in the water he was picked up
by the crew completely exhausted.
There has been change in the Manu-
facturers' Paper Company which has
been taken in the East to mean that two
of Wisconsin's big news mills had taken
steps to join the big Eastern trust which
is known as the International Print Pa
per Company Though it is certain that
the two mills have left the Western COM
bination which corresponds to the trust
in the East, it is said that there is no
| foundation for the belief that the mills
will be bought up by the trust. The Fox
river combination, as the Manufacturers
COMPANY is sometimes called, on Nov. l
lost two of its members, the Nekoosa Pa
| per Company and the Grand Rapids Pulp
and Paper Company, the former making
sixty tons of paper day and the latter
thirty five tons. Since that time the mills
have been marketing their own product
and the tonnage controlled by the Manu-
factureru' Company is reduced to 80.
The two mills which withdrew entered in
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