Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-10-27

| ton, Ala, for the Fourth Wisconsin.
The residence of Mrs. Walter Wood at
Grand Rapids, occupied by Edward B.
DE Nevers, was totally destroyed by fire.
| j. FL. Hitchcock of Ravensvood. H.,
! civil engineer for the Northwestern road,
| lost a leg under the wheels of a freight
| car.
At Oshkosh. Arthur Crawford, a young
| man employed in the grass-twine plant,
| fell into Il combing machine and was
! killed
Our Savior's Danish Lutheran Church
was dedicated at Racine by President
| Christensen OF Omaha. The edifice cost
/ $4,000.
Thomas Graham, a Racine grocer. made
| an assignment to Clarence J. Richards
| The liabilities are about $1,000 and assets
| the same.
Mrs. Gokey of Rudolph, Wood County,
died at the age of 1O6 years. Her hus-
band was 100 years old when he died
| few years ago.
Several Evansville citizens have been
picking the second crop of strawberries
| and raspberries. The berries are large
and well favored.
Gus Fregin, La Crosse lad, aged II,
was run over by street car and instantly
killed. His head was cut off and both
legs and one arm broken
Owing to the prevalence of diphtheria in
Washburn. the public schools have all
been closed. There have been but very
few deaths from the disease.
Judge Burnell of Oshkosh, in the Sherry
assignment authorized James W. Cam
eron to sell the Leander Choate property
located in Neenah for $15O,O00.
While driving home, Fred Dahlman of
Elroy was held up by two men. Dahlman
made desperate fight, drawing his knife
and stabbing one of his assailants.
Fire destroyed the large storage shed
of Leathem & Smith at Sturgeon Bay, in
which was stored the machinery of their
abandoned sawmill, ship chandlery, etc.
Charles Wussow, young man living
in Cicero, while hunting, accidentally dis
charged the contents of his gun into his
left arm, making a wound several inches
long.
The Mukwonago canning works finished
its run on tomatoes with a record Of 170,-
900 cans, making over 1000 cases. Sixty
hands have been employed in this new en-
terprise.
David Fl. McMillen of Oshkosh has been
sued for breach of promise in the 65th
year of his life. The plaintiff is widow
with two groWn-up sons, Mrs. Empey Of
Miadore.
Black bears seem to be numerous
around Marshfield this season. -Four were
shot inside the city limits the other day.
Five were seen, but one succeeded in get
ting away.
The store and residence of e. A. Holmes
at Milton was burned. A tobacco shed
and contents, twenty rods away, were also
burned. Holmes loss is $4,000 and insur
ance $4,000.
Frank Morgan of Racine, reported by
his father as having probably met foul
play, was found in the workhouse, where
he had been sentenced for stealing ride
on a Northwestern train.
Aibin johnson, an employe of the
Spaulding Lumber Company, fell twenty
five feet from tramway at the company's
mill at Cedar river. He was injured in
ternally and badly bruised.
While out hunting Oswald Schwartz, a
young man of Grafton, by an accidental
discharge of his gun, lost two fingers from
the right hand and three fingers from the
left hand and was otherwise severely in
jured about the neck and face.
Charles Washburn, q member of the Ra-
cine High School football team, was
taken home from Nashotah with two or
three of his ribs broken, the result of the
game at that place. He was carried from
the train to carriage on litter.
Louis Schrage of Fond du Lac was acct
dentally shot while out hunting, and died
an hour later. He was standing on fall
en- log holding his gun by the barrel, when
he slipped and the contents of both barrels
entered his body He was 20 years of age.
Engineer Hurley, Fireman George De
watt and Brakeman Arthur Smith were
seriously injured at New Duluth on the
Fosston branch of the Great Northern
Railroad, by an ore train running away
and crashing into switch train. Two
locomotives and fifty cars were piled in
mass.
At Marnette, the whole family of j.
Nordin nearly suffocated from the effects
of gas from coal stove. The stove had
just been put up and smelled of gas IN the
afternoon, but it was thought to be smoke
from the Stove poHSH. MI. Noluin "ohe
up at 2 a. NJ, hardly able to breathe. He
heard his son moaning, and staggered to
the bed of his boy, who was vomiting and
gasping for breath. He carried him out
of doors and went back after his three
daughters, two of whom were in faint.
He called doctor and then became eX-
hausted himself. 1t was difficult to re:
susc;tate the victims.
1t transpires that the total indebted
ness of the city Of Milwaukee exceeds
her constitutional debt limit by nearly
81 100000, instead of $4,000, which
amount was mentioned in the report of the
Supreme Court decision some weeks ago
in the case of Rice against the city, ems
joining it from selling S35O,O0O of munich
pal bonds. The decision at the time was
not correctly quoted. The court held that