Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-02
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Much valuable property has been de-
stroyed by forest fires.
Thomas Low and son Guy of Babcock
have returned from the Klondike.
| At Racine Soren Show, teamster,
was badly injured in runaway.
| A severe electrical storm passed over
Abbotsford, doing considerable damage.
Oshkosh milk dealers have combined to
| raise the price of milk to cents quart
Harry Brown, aged 80 years, was in
| stantly killed by freight train at Brook
| Ign.
A movement has been started at Stur-
| geon Bay to change the name Of the city
| to Otumba
G. Bacon has brought suit against the
| city of Amigo for $500 for alleged per-
sonal injuries.
| John Hines, woodsman from Stevens
Point, was struck by train at Nash
and killed.
r. G. Field of Osseo shipped train
| load of young stock to Omaha, about
| 1000 head
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has begun work on its new wire
| between Houghton and Chicago.
Ell. L. Smith, cashier of a bank at
Durand, is now considering the question
of establishing bank at Osseo. Mr..
Martlett of Stanley is also planning to
establish bank
While on his way home from town
shortly after midnight, Bonner jenkins,
who lived a mile south Of Cambria, was
run down by a west-bound fast freight
and instantly killed.
Edmund, the S-year-old son of John
Butz, while trying to get on the cars at
the lake front at ManitoWoc, fell under
the wheels and had both of his legs cut
off below the knees.
Articles of incorporation of the Elk
hart Lake Park Company have been filed.
The capital stock is $4,000. The COM
pany owns large tract Of land on the
west shore of Elkhart lake.
A short-change man, who worked
score of business men in Menasha and
Neenah the past few days, was sent to
the county Jail for thirty days. He gave
his name as George Higgins.
The Kimberly & Clark Company Of
Neenah has made arrangements for the
cutting of pulpwood on the Menominee
this year for the company's mill at Nj
agara, better known as Quinnesec Falls.
While towing logs near the boom COM
pany's breakwater at Marinette, the tug
Ernia churned up the body of q man. The
remains were badly decomposed and I'M
recognizable There is much speculation
in regard to the identity of the man
found.
The dead body of Gerhardt Nichols,
15-year-old boy, was found in a swamp
near Trempealeau mountain. Nichols
had been missing for two days. He had
been hunting and was killed by the ac-
cidental discharge of his gun while get
ting out of a boat.
julius Behnke Of White Lake, aged
about 70 years, broke his neck while re-
turning home from church. Just before
reaching home, boys along the roadside
attempted to "cat on" for a ride and
as they took hold of the back seat it
came off and the old man was precipitat-
ed to the ground.
Frank Mueller of Freedom, who was
thought to have been killed nineteen
years ago in an accident in Chicago, re-
turned to his fathers home recently with
wife and family. His aged mother
was Frustrated by the sudden return Of
her son. Mueller has accumulated val
liable property in Ohio.
Fire broke out near the La Crosse
County insane asylum at West Salem.
For time the asylum was threatened
and the result was wild panic among
the inmates of the institution. People
went out from the village and after some
desperate work the flames were extin-
guished and the asylum saved.
A disastrous fire occurred on the farm
of Ernest Smith, a half mile north Of
the Racine county line. His barn, hay
stacks, farm machinery, carriages and
other property were totally destroyed.
The loss was between So, 500 and S. 900,
with a partial insurance. The fire was
caused by children playing with matches.
The Milwaukee Electric Railway and
Light Company scored a victory in the
recent troubles which stirred UP Racine.
August Hyman, one of the men brought
by the company to eject people who re-
fused to drop fares in boxes, was tried
before Judge David Flett Of the Munich
pal court, on the charge of assaulting
Louis Wishman. a citizen who refused to
obey the rules Of the company and was
put off the cars. The court decided that
sufficient force had not been used to con-
stitute case Of assault, and the accused
was discharged.
Prof. Alfred Holtz, formerly of Mil
waukee, now instructor in music of the
Deutscher verein, and Charles A. Bartz,
prominent contractor, had narrow es-
cape from almost instantaneous and a
horrible death. They were returning to
La Crosse in a carriage from the coun-
try about dark, when locomotive pull
ing freight train on the Chicago. Bur-
lington and Quincy road plunged into the
carriage. The vehicle was wrecked and
the occupants escaped quite miraculously
without the slightest scratch. Both were
thrown some distance.
The convention held at Racine under
the auspices of the State and Lnte:atate
Good Roads and Public Improvement AS
ISOLATION was a success. There were
o,nr E00 vicitnYS nr,Sant from RacinA and