Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-24

dropped dead while milking cow.
A man, supposed to be John Nelson, a
railroad laborer, was struck by passen-
ger train near Watertown and killed.
Rev. Father Vaughan, who has been
Claire for a year, has been ordered to
South Carolina for mission work.
DR.. Naissennes, professor of languages
in the University of Chicago, and Miss
Carrie Morton, also a teacher of that
institution, were married at Crivitz.
A threshing machine, belonging to f.
Kugler of Manitowoc, was filled with
straw and set fire to by an incendiary.
The machine was completely destroyed.
No business is being done at the east
ern Minnesota -four sheds in West Supe-
rior, the company having locked the
doors. Two hundred and fifty men are
out
Racine police picked up an insane man
who gave his name as John Steel of Chi
cago. He was poorly dressed and hat
less and said that he had been fasting
four days.
Sneak thieves broke into George frog
ner's residence at Neillsville and carried
away clothing, in the pockets of which
was something over $3.50 and valuable
gold watch.
e. Nussle of Chippewa Falls was tried
at Eau Claire and found guilty of hav-
ing prairie chickens in his possession
June 30. The court imposed fine and
costs amounting to sos.
Thieves tried to break into Aid. j. M.
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saw them working at the window and
fired at them. The ball lodged in the
edge of the window sill.
Lieut. Mcbride of the Thirtieth Unit
ed States volunteers has secured Samuel
J. Wilman and Daniel Irvine Of Mari
nette and David Cooney and Gus Rass-
mussen of Menominee, Mich, for the
army.
Emory Stacey, young man of about
II years, went into a we'll at Colby and
was overcome by foul air. 1t was abQrt,
twenty minutes before he was gotten out
and then he was too far gone to be re-
suscitated.
Ferd. Bauer and wife of Newton were
seriously injured in a runaway accident.
Mrs. Bauer sustained a fracture of the
skull and her husband had one arm brok-
en-. The accident occurred near Silver
Lake convent.
Lewis B. Glenn, one of the prominent
farmers of Vernon County, pioneer
settler and war veteran, committed sui
eide by hanging himself in his cow sta
BILE. He had experienced some mental
trouble of late.
August Schneider of Plymouth, while
working near New Holstein, boarded a
freight train, and in attempting to pass
from one car to another he slipped and
fell under the cars and was killed. He
was frightfuly mangled.
Henry Ehlers, a Milwaukee butcher.
died from nosebleed. His nose had been
bleeding for nine days and all efforts to
stanch the flow of blood ended in failure.
He was 81 years of age and had been
noted as great meat eater.
Ellis e. Humphrey, an aged resident
of the north side of La Crosse. was run
down by Burlington train as it was
crossing the bridge over the Milwaukee
roads tracks. His body was terribly
mangled He lived but few minutes.
Near Rice Lake, Frank Katcema and
John Hijek, section men on the Omaha,
were fatally injured in collision Of a
handcar, on which they were riding, with
a gravel train. They died shortly after
wards. They were single men and had
been in the employ of the company only
a few days.
At Plover, the Green Bay and Western
and Wisconsin Central depots were en-
tered by burglars. Nothing of much value
was secured in either place. 1t is be-
lieved that they were the same gang that
entered residence near Amherst juno
ton a few nights ago, where they Sc
cured 500 in cash.
James Monahan was killed by a Mil
waukee road train north of La Crosse.
From papers found on his person after
the mangled remains were picked up it
was learned that he had lived or had
relatives at Springfield, Ohio. Monahan
was a deaf mute and did not hear the
train coming up behind him.
AT Kaukauna, a lads curiosity came
near bringing about a sudden close to his
life. Oscar Alger found an unexploded
dynamite cartridge in some place and
was picking it open with his knife to see
what it contained, when it exploded with
and the thumb of his left hand, badly
decorating the flesh of his right hand, and
a piece also striking him in the face, cut
ting it open just below one of his eyes.
Frank Rohlinger, II years old, giving
his address at North Evanston, ILL.,, was
found by the Racine police in barn,
suffering from serious injuries received
in falling from a train on which he was
stealing a ride to- his home. Coroner
Stripple received letter from the boys
mother asking for information in regard
to the death of the boy, as she had heard
that he had been run over by the cars
near Racine and instantly killed. The
letter was written about twenty four
hours before the youth met with the ac-
cident.
An attempt was made to wreck the in
terurban car on the Chippewa Valley
Electric Railway, one mile out Of Chip
pewa Falls. Ties and rails were placed
slI.