Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-05-26

The residence of James Wcd.ock, three
miles east of Mineral Point, was destroy
ed by fire. Loss, 81 goo; insurance $500.
In sa:ocn brawl Frank Nathan was
knocked against Il stove, resulting in his
breaking his neck. Death was instan-
taneous.
Sheboygan is to have a new $4,000
church before next fall which is to be
built by the First Methodist society CT
that city.
At Ashland a 14-year-old boy named
William Willis was run over by a street
car and killed instantly. Willis lived near
Marengo.
Mrs. August Johnson of Dunbar gave
birth to three girl babies. One died the
following night, while the other two are
doing nicely.
Two sets Of fish nets, containing a large
catch of fish, were discovered by Deputy
Game Warden Links near Peshtigo point
and destroyed.
Mrs Amelia Gruno was badly injured
near Livingston in a runaway accident
Her left shoulder was broken and she was
otherwise hurt.
a. G. Merryman, Il wealthy ,lUmber1nan
of Marinette, caught 5-pound rainbow
trout in Iron river, the largest brook
trout ever caught there.
Jacob ]. Vollrath, aged "A, died at She
boygan. He was president of the j. j..
Vollrath Manufacturing Company, and
had lived there since 1858.
Robert Hall, lincman at Racine, fell
with tree to which had been attached
the wires which he sought to take off.
Hall was severely injured.
The heavy taxpayers and the finance
committee will meet at Oshkosh to decide
whether to bond the city for $50, 600 to Sc
cure the Harris public library bequest.
August Kessle~ of Eau Claire has not
put in an appearance there since he was
rejected as volunteer at Camp Harvey.
No one knows his present whereabouts.
G. S. Smith has purchased the Elroy
Eagle roller mills from John Hutchinson,
who has owned them ever since they
were built, some thirty-fve years ago.
Mayor Kelrer Of Eau Claire will or
der the saloons Closed on Sundays and
will also enforce the ordinance ccmpell-
ing saioomkeepers to close their places Of
business at II o'clock p. m.
Scarlet fever has set in at Nesauna, a
suburb of Oshkosh Several cases Of
diphtheria were reported at Oshkosh
few days ago and that city has just re-
covered from a smallpox scare.
Little Ralph Smith of Menasha fell in
to enc of the open sideways at the mills
there. The water was moving SO fast
that his body was buoyed UP until help
could be given him at lower point
Charles Henning, an employee of the
GAINESVILLE Barb Wire Company, went to
sleep on a Northwestern Railroad cross
ing at GAINESVILLE and was run over by
special train from Beloit to GAINESVILLE.
Fred Brock of Caldwell, who went to
Klondike with the Horn Company, is re-
ported to have died near Chilkoot noun
tain as a result of an attack of spinal
meningitis. Brooks parents live in New
Berlin.
A company has been formed at Baraboo
with a capital stock of 100000 for the
purpose of constructing telephone lines
all over the State. The incorporators are
+. II. Brewster, T. A. Philbrick and w.
H. Hatch.
Oshkosh police think they have made
an important arrest In G. w. Brooks,
who has been sentenced for forty days
for jumping board bill. The contents
of his valse have made some very inter-
esting revelations.
Prof Newell, who discovered the
Spring Valley iron deposits, the kaolin
deposits at Hersey and gold at Rock Elm,
hoe low Of u
near Spring Valley, and is trying to start
a porcelain factory there.
The imbec:le son of John Torgenson, a
Norwegian farmer living in the town of
Winchester, will be sent to the home for
the Predetermined at Chippewa Falls. He
is stone Blind and is entirely incapable
of attending to his own wants.
Edmond Gauthier, the 22-year-old son
of Adolph Gauthier of Two Rivers, was
found dead in bed at his lodging place at
the Washington House. ApopleXy was
the probable cause, according to the
jury's verdict impanelled to hold an in
quest over the remains.
The usually fatal combination of a
small boy and a toy rife all but got in it's
deadly work at La Crosse. Lulu Sholes,
the 9-year-old daughter of James n.
Sholes, lies at the point of death as re-
suit Of gunshot wound accidentally lit
f1icted by George Hanson, aged u, with
a % long target rifle. The boy was play
ing soldier and missed the target, shooting
the girl at distance of 225 feet.
A burglar gained entrance to the CHI
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul depot q t
Centralia and rif1ed the money drawer Of
it's 0eistemts;sona a few cents in change.
From there lie crossed the river to Grand
Rapids, gained entrance through a back
window in George T. Rowland & Sous
grocery store. While he was inside he
was discovered by Undersheriff Little and
arrested. The man proved to be Edward
Graves, a resident of Grand Rapids
One of the boldest burglaries that has
ever been committed in Marinette was the
piundering at Lindquist's dry goods es
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