Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-09-14

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Waupun for six months for stealing $6O
Rev. J.. HI Todd Of the Lutheran
j Church Of Spencer has accepted call to
Manistique, Mich.
John Hannick Of the town Of Center,
a well-known farmer, was sunstruck and
died in two hours.
H. C. Hjerleid, cashie, Of the National
Bank of DEBORAH Iowa, will open bank
! at Blair about Oct. 1.
Charles S. Radford OF Oshkosh has
| left for New York, where he will rejoin
Richard Mansfelds theatrical company.
The warehouse of the Winnebago pa
| per mills at Neenah, containing paper
stock, was burned, with loss of $12,OOO.
Insurance $4,000.
Tony F'eres, aged 10, Of Racine, was
| injured while riding his bicycle. he was
carried home. unconscious. He mas suS-
/ tanned internal injuries.
| At Marshfield. William Getting,
horse trainer, had one foot crushed while
| climbing between the cars of moving
train. Amputation was necessary.
The free rural mail delivery from Mar
| shall has gone into effect. -Four carriers
| have been appointed, who will distribute
| the mail over large territory. This de-
livery will do away with three postoftices
aud two mail routes.
Fire at II o'clock on recent night
burned Larson Melby & Co.'S, Stein d
| Cleasby's and F. Smiths general stores
at White Hall. Loss $4,000, insurance
about $4,000 The fire is supposed to
have been of incendiary origin.
| A 14-year-old son of Jasper Olson of
De Forest died from the effects Of kick
from a horse He was leading the ami
| NAL to water, and on the way to the we'll
| the animal kicked him in the face and
stomach, inflicting internal injuries.
The safe in the meat market of Boehm
| & Berg of WATERFOWL was cracked by
| burglars and about $50 in cash and $50
| worth OF checks, insurance and other pa
| pers were taken The robbery is sup
posed to have been the work of tramps.
The entire family of W. III. Drake, a
well-known florist of kenosha, was pol
soned by eating corned beef. The beef
was served for dinner and shortly after
/ ward five members of the family We're
/ taken with violent fits of vomiting, which
/ continued for several hours.
AS M.s A. Wright was passing through
| a field near Sandusky she was attacked
/ by vicious raIA and thrown to the earth.
/ Her body was so MANNED by the animals
| horns and feet before Mrs. Wright's cries
| attracted the attention Of some laborers,
| who went to her assistance, that she died
a few hours after the attack. The animal
| has been killed.
Superintendent W. II. Holcomb of the
| Fox River Valley Electric line was the
1 victim of what appeared to be an at
| tempted shooting, while hunting snipe
along the Lake Winnebago shore. He
/ was standing near a tree on the shore,
| when charge of shot landed in the tree
| just above his head and was followed by
a bullet, which lodged in unpleasant prox-
unity to his head. Mr.. Holcomb saw
someone moving in the bushes, but the
men slipped away without being identi-
/ fed.
The army worm has struck the farms in
Kenosha County and, according to the
| story Of farmers living near the city, all
the late crops have been destroyed by the
ravages of the worm. The millet has es-
/ pecially been effected and the farmers
state that the entire crop is killed. There
seems to be no way for the farmers to
| fight the worms and in many cases, as
| soon as it was discovered that the pests
had entered the fields, the millet was
plowed under and the fields sown with
grass.
/ BY a decision of the State Supreme
| Court NINA Blessing Ludington, widow
of Harrison Ludington, Jr., is given a
one-sixth interest in the estate of Harri-
son Ludington, former Governor of Wis
consin, which is valued at 81 100000. The
decree reverses the decision of Judge
johnson Of the Circuit Court Of Milwau-
kee County, who ruled that Harrison
| Ludington, Jr., had only life interest in
his fathers estate, on which ruling the
wife Of the junior Ludington would have
no intere st in the estate.
Ted Armstrong, whose real name APP
pears to be Cecil Cavendish, young man
| of Oshkosh, will soon come into an in
come of $50, 600 a year from an estate in
Southern England. Cavendish was born
| in Australia and afterwards lived in
South Africa, coming to this country in
1898. HIS parents are dead and although
he has 8 regular allowance from Eng
1 land he adopted the profession of con-
| cert hall singer and travelled all over the
country until he fell and broke one hip,
making i'm a cripple. year ago he
settled in Oshkosh.
Two m.n were killed and one badly in
jured on !, Northern Pacific logging train,
as it was crossing Pokegama bridge,
about ter miles out from West Superior.
The dead are: Tom Jordan, Lawrence
Gavin, llborers. Both were employed
in Coopess & Titles lumber camp. The
men were riding on some flats in the mid
die of tie logging train, which broke
apart, near the back end. At the bridge
the train slowed down and the back sec
/ ton Of tie divided train smashed against
the forward cars. The three men were
thrown OF and fell heavily to the bridge.
Jordans neck was broken and Gavin's
skull crus he'd and both legs cut off.
Andrew Johnson, aged % years, pop
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