Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-10-26

/ The body of John De Brau, woods
s man, was found in the woods near Rhine
lander. Death resulted from an epileptic
| fit.
Merle Stamper and William Hessian,
aged 13 and IA, of GAINESVILLE were SEN
fenced to the reform school at Wauke-
| sha.
Bert Mclaughlin of Ashland and p.
Gerhart of Glidden have been elected
deputy game wardens for Ashland Coun-
/ ty.
| The board Of directors of the Wiscon-
sin Cheesemakers' Association has decid-
ed to hold the next annual meeting in
| Madison. Feb. Z.
| Botsford Bros store at Altoona was
! burglarized and quantity Of jewelry,
cutlery and few dollars in cash taken.
| The amount stolen is valued at 500.
| Higgins and Sexton of East st. Louis
were out fishing at Lake Wood. They
caught big fish and both men jumped
to the side of the boat. Higgins was
| drowned.
The 16-months-old child of Mr. and
Mrs. John Eels of Ladoga fell in the els
tern at their home and was drowned. The
accident was not discovered until some
time afterwards.
| Capt Andrew fainter of Menominee,
/ vice-president of the firm of Knapp,
Stout s. Co., and a millionaire lumber
man, died from an attack of pneumonia.
He was 70 years old.
Mary Hart, daughter of the pastor Of
the Free Methodist Church of Richland
| Center, was kicked in the face by fam
| lily horse, and her jawbone broken, caus-
ing a very serious hurt.
Henry Schumacher, the 9-year-old son
of John Schumacher, had his left leg
terribly crushed and mangled by stepping
into the hopper of a corn shelter at Ayres
Touring mill at Burlington.
| A telegram was received from Ken
lucky by James Callard Of Kenosha an
nouncing the death of Norton johnson,
his grandson. The boy was 10 months
old, and died from dose of poison which
he drank from bottle.
/ The large barn owned by Robert Will
son at Okee was consumed by fire. The
loss also included 1000 bushels of oats,
300 bushels of corn, 40 tons of hay and
a large amount of farm machinery. The
loss is $1,000, with some insurance.
| The threshing machine engine on the
farm of f. Arps, near New Holstein,
blew up, doing great damage. The fire
man was badly injured The whole
threshing outfit, large barn and other
| buildings were burned, and the loss is
| very heavy.
Seven laborers employed on construc-
ton work of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
| st. Paul road were taken violently i'll at
| their boarding house in La Crosse. They
are supposed to have been poisoned by
adulterated food. The authorities are
looking into the matter.
A south-bound Wisconsin Central pas
senger train collided with freight train
| at Oshkosh. The train crews saw the
danger in time to jump and all escaped.
| The engines and number of cars were
wrecked, and the track was torn up, sus-
pending traffic for hours.
A large swamp, which almost sur
rounds Rhinelander, is to be converted
| into lake two and one-half miles long,
one mile wide and fourteen feet deep.
Title to the land has been secured and
| the work will be completed next sum-
mr.. The expense will be about $4,000
| G. III. Cart and family have left Bara-
| boo for Texas in a small boat. They will
| go down the Baraboo, Wisconsin and
Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. Some
years ago they made the trip in the same
manner and found it SO pleasant that the
journey will be repeated. From New
| Orleans they will go by rail to their des-
| tination.
A jury in Circuit Court at Juneau al
| lowed Miss Lydia Horn $215 damages
| in her action for malicious prosecution
| against Anton Nagler, a town of Elba
farmer. Miss Horn worked as servant
girl in the Nagler family and left their
employ last December. Mr.. Nagler
charged the girl, who is II years old,
with stealing 10 cents.
Joseph Punchok, the 9-year-old son Of
August Punchok, fell from the canal wall
of the Outagamie water power at Kau-
| kauna, distance Of twenty feet, to the
| river bottom, striking on his head on
| the solid stone. A hole, about an inch
| in size, was broken through his skull, in
/ f1cting what is likely to prove a fatal
| injury.
A serious wreck occurred on tracks Of
| the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
| in Kenosha when a through freight
| crashed into a number of cars standing
on a sidetrack in the yards. Two cars
were completely demolished and the en-
CINE on the through freight was badly
damaged. The loss is estimated at $2,-
600.
Anton Macholl. young man % years
of age, who resides twelve miles west
| of Berlin, expired very suddenly while
| driving into town to attend church. He
/ was alone in carriage, and was coming
! along the main road. At point two
miles west of town he was seen to throw
up his hands and then fall back into the
seat. This startled the horse, which be-
/ gan to run. The team following drove
up and caught the runaway and the occu-
! pants turned to Macholl. He was car
| ried to a neighboring farm house, but it
was found that he was dead.
Two engines and seven or eight cars
/ were wrecked id the Milwaukee roads
| yards at Sparta. A west-bound freight
| had sidetracked. awaiting an east-bound
train. It was too long for the switch and
| tho ahooSa was left over tanning the