Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-09-22

Heart Prairie farmers report the ap
| pearance of hog cholera.
| An unknown bicyclist ran into the river
| at Milwaukee and drowned.
Frost damaged corn crops in Juneau
| County, near Sturgeon Bay.
| William Fox of Menomonie has return
ed from Alaska Disguised with gold fields.
Clarence Pullins, formerly Of Stevens
| Point, died in Florida while with the
| Third Texas regiment.
| John Erickson of Fort Howard and
| D. G. Meinert of New London were or
dained at the Moravian synod in Lititz,
Pa.
| After holding out bravely for three
weeks, ninety girls who struck at the
Diamond Match factory at Oshkosh re-
| turned to work.
| Decorsia White of Ellis Junction was
accidentally shot in the woods near Per
ronvile, Mich. He was taken to the hos
| pital in Escanaba, and died.
At Milwaukee, the edgers at the Brad
| ley u Metcalf Shoe Company's plant
struck because their wages were cut.
They had been receiving 81 a week.
1t is reported that the striking car
| penters from the Grant planning mill at
Kenosha have organized and will operate
a mill of their own in opposition to the
| Grant factory.
An important action was called in Cir
| cult Court at Oshkosh, in which Viola
| Smith of Neenah sues the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway in the sum of $685.
| 600 for injuries sustained in an accident
on that road.
| Alexander Stevens of Auburn, n. y,
has been in Marinette to see about dwell
| ing houses for laborerS who will move
there when the work on the big Stevens
| plant begins. Contract for the office build
ings at the plant have been let.
| Norman I. Harrington, who with Con-
sui Robert w. Bowen held Spanish mob
at bay and saved the coat of arms on the
American consulate at Barcelona from
destruction, was married at Milwaukee
the other day. Miss Anna E. Spencer
was the bride.
| While John Prytherch was riding horse
| back, the girth broke and threw the boy
| to the ground. At the same time the
horse stumbled and fell upon him. When
| found he was unconscious and his head
and chest were badly crushed. The acct
| dent occurred near his home at the
| Mounds.
While the big demonstration was on at
Sheboygan, August Goetsch, Carl
| Goetsch and Alex. Strysick broke out of
the county Jail by prying open the bars.
They were confined on the charge of burg
larry and were being held on $4,000 bonds
! A reward of 500 is offered for the capture
| of each man.
There have been several changes made
in the positions of priests in the Green
Bay diocese the past week. The Rev.
Joseph Hemmer goes to Hilbert; the Rev.
T.. Ehr to Hortonville; the Rev. Joseph
Schemmer to ST. Joseph's Church in Ste
vens Point; the Rev. w. DeHann to Kill
bourn City; the Rev. l.. Starostzick to
Amherst Junction; the Rev. J. Holzk-
necht to Center, and the Rev. A. Jessel
as chaplain to st. Mary's hospital at Osh-
| kosh.
The interstate commerce commission,
in an opinion by Chairman Knapp, an
nounced it's decision Of the case Of the
Listman Mil Company against the Chi
| cago, Milwaukee ana st. Paul Railroad
| Company. The commission holds that
no undue prejudice results to La Crosse
or the complaining miller in that city from
milling rates enforced by defendant at
La Crosse or the relations of such rates
| to those esta blshed by defendant for
Minneapolis. The complaint is dismissed
without prejudice.
John Rehan of Pierce County, living
seven miles east of Redwing, Mimi, has
been accused of ill-treating his family.
About twenty-five men called at Rehan's
house and took him by force to chicken
coop, where they disrobed him. They
then proceeded to kill several chickens and
used their blood to discolor Rchan's face.
\ paste was spread over Rehan's body
and he was covered with feathers from
the chickens and made to parade up and
down the street. He was then compelled
to promise to behave himself in the fu-
ture and was set at liberty.
For the past four or FIVE weeks John
Zohlen Of Sheboygan has been unable to
swallow, there being a closure of the
esophagus. From 17S pounds he dropped
to a skeleton. To save his life an OPP
alton was performed An incision was
made in the abdominal wall and an open
ing made in the stomach and the sides
of the wound sewed up to form a valve.
A rubber tube was inserted and with the
AID OF glass 1unnel the patient received
| nourishment Several days after Zohlen
left his bed. He is now receiving nour-
ishment through the tube and will live.
Andreas Schroeder, a medicine peddler
of Sheboygan, was almost instantly killed
at Sheboygan Falls by his horse becom-
ing unmanageable and throwing him out
against a hitching post. Twenty min
utes after sustaining the injuries the man
died. Schroeder was t:riving at rather
rapid rate when the horse turned sudden
~ to one side and he was thrown with
tremendous force out of the carriage
against the post. There were no marks or
bruises on his body, save small mark on
his left temple. Schroeder peddled a pat
ent medicine manufactured by him and
was we'll known throughout the county.