Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-06-22
Hudson is to have a new city hall.

nosha, aged 80 years.
Compositors on the La Crosse Chroni-
Gle went out on strike, alleging obJec-
tons to the method of paying.
A Lake Geneva passenger train Instant
" killed Charles Coon at Dundee. He
was formerly in business at Elgin, III.
Alderman Ernest FRANKIE of Kenosha
was married in Chicago to Miss Eva Ke-
man. He is So years old and his bride is
"a
A life insurance company is being or
ganized at Berlin on the annuity plan, to
be known as the American Annuity AS
surance Association.
At Valley junction, NJ A Thompson,
section hand on the Omaha road, was run
over by hand car. He was injured in
ternally and one leg badly bruised.
The plant of the Falk Manufa turing
Company in the Menominee valley was
destroyed by fire. The loss is $50, 900 and
total. How the fire started IS unknown,
but it had been burning for some time
before discovered.
Samuel Painter committed suicide at
Bailey's Harbor by throwing himself over
rocky cliff into the lake Disappoint-
for the act. He was a business man, 35
! years Of age, and member of the Odd
Fellows.
Frederick s. Perkins, the noted arch
aeologist, artist and collector, died at his
home in Burlington. Mr.. Perkins many
years ago became interested in the col
collection Of copper implements of which
Wisconsin has proved a fruitful ground.
This eventually became his life work, and
for it he sacrificed health and money.
The large exhibition building ON the fair
grounds at Sheboygan was destroyed by
fire, causing loss of $1,000. The struc-
ture stood some distance from any other
buildings and there had been no one ON
the premises. The origin Of the blaze is
| mystery. 1t was probably started by
tramps who might have slept in the build
ing. The fair grounds, which have al
ways been known as the driving park,
were purchased by Henry Steele some
time ago, who had no insurance ON the
structure.
William Berger died at Sheboygan, the
result of injuries received at the Nc.
coal docks of the C. Reiss Coal Company
about two hours prior to his death. The
steamer Inter Ocean was being unlOaded
and Berger was engaged in unloading cars
on the tramway and is thought to have
lost his balance, falling thirty feet to the
deck of the steamer, which was getting
| ready to clear. He was taken to st. Mich
oas hospital in an almost unconscious con-
dition, where it was found that both arms
| and legs were broken, his skull fractured
| and his face badly battered.
A runaway occurred north Of Kenosha,
in which seven people were more or less
seriously injured. Ex-Chief of Police @.
E. Stemm, together with his wife and two
children, his sister, Mrs. w. A. Gerkin Of
Bloomington, ILL.,, his niece, Mrs. Paul +.
BEECH, and her son Otto, had started out
in the country to visit some friends. When
a short distance from the city they met an
electric car on the Milwaukee, Racine and
kenOSha road and the horses becoming
frightened, the carriage was upset and the
entire party thrown into the ditch. The
| horses leaped into the ditch and pulled the
| buggy over the women and children. Ev-
cry occupant of the carriage was injured.
Peter McNee, a wealthy Rock County
| farmer, committed suicide at his farm
| near GAINESVILLE by hanging himself with
a rope halter in corncrib. McNee had
written a letter to w. G. Goodrich, a
neighbor, notifying him that he was to
end his life. Goodrich at once fastened
to McNee's farm and found McNee in bed
with revolver, which he took from him.
Next morning Goodrich, thinking all was
well, let McNee go to the barn to work.
Ten minutes later his daughter found his
dangling body. McNee jumped from
buggy wheel, the fall injuring his neck,
and it is thought that he was mentally
deranged.
A Duluth limited train had narrow es-
| cape near Elroy, in which the lives Of
| many passengers were at stake. The
train was brought to a sudden standstill
by Engineer Sullivan-so suddenly in fact,
that it threw all of the passengers out Of
their seats. 1t was found that there had
been washout ON the track and that the
engineer had discovered it in time to put
on the emergency brakes and stop the
train just about eight feet on the safe side
of the washout, or the train would have
been wrecked. 1t was going at the rate
of fifty miles an hour when the danger
| was discovered. The passengers made up
purse Of 500 for the engineer and he has
received word from the railroad COM
pany's offices that he will get a reward Of
| 5000 and a vacation Of sixteen days with
| pay.
An alteration between James Lowe
| and his wife eliminated in sensational
! tragedy at Neillsville. Mrs. Lowe was
| packing her trunk preparatory to leaving
| her husband, when Lowe shot her through
| the head and cut her throat. He then shot
| himself in the head. Mrs. loves wounds
are fatal, but Lowe is expected to recover.
Judge Slosson has given a decision in
| the Reiter estate contests at KenOSha.
| This suit has been in the probate court for
more than twenty years. John Reiter Of
| Salem left an estate valued at $1,000.
| John Reiter, Jr., a son, could not be found,
| and the other heirs refused to submit to
| statement until he was located. So the
| case WAS continued and one indge nassed