Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-09
State Items of Interest.

BERTHE Cooper, who was accidentally
shot while hunting died at Baraboo, aged
H.
While hunting rabbits Albert Cooper
of Baraboo was accidentally shot by a
companion.
About fifty cottages are to be built in
Pleasant Prairie for the workmen in the
Rand & Laffiin powder mills.
Charles Holzheuter living near Menom-
inee, was killed by falling tree. He was
30 years Of age and married.
Mrs. Charles Maynard, aged So, wife of
a farmer near Eau Claire, committed sui
eide by hanging herself in the barn.
The Landig kidnapping case came to an
end in the Circuit Court at Oshkosh when
Judge Burnell ordered the return of the
kidnapped boy to his father.
Charles Peterson of Grantsburg lost his
team of horses in St. Croix river while
driving from Donovan & Stacks lumber
camps near Bruno, MINI.
At Fond du Lac George Wagner, the
13-year-old son of William Wagner, a
farmer, accidentally shot and instantly
killed his 2-year-old brother.
The marriage of Charles A. Fuller of
Elroy to Miss Anna Onsager of Debello
has just been made public, the event hav-
ing taken place Jan. IA at Hillsboro.
Two Milwaukee companies have refus-
ed to enter the bridge and iron trust. They
are the Milwaukee Bridge and Iron Com
pany and the Wisconsin Bridge and Iron
Company.
Jacob Feirer, for many years a section
foreman of the Chicago st. Paul, Mime
apols and Omaha road, was run over by
a locomotive near the Omaha station at
Eau Claire, and instantly killed
A shooting ARRAY occurred in resort at
Racine conducted by colored women.
William Kennedy, formerly of Milwau
kee, was shot in the left shoulder. Lucy
Mason is charged with doing the shooting.
At meeting of the Baraboo Council
resolution was adopted instructing the
city attorney to take such action as may
be necessary for the FORGETTING of the
franchise of the Baraboo Water Works
Company.
Louis Joerndt, who recently met with
an accident in Kenosha, having his arm
shot off by the premature discharge of
gun, died of lockjaw. He never recovered
from the shock of the accident and the
arm was not amputated.
Joseph Reiter of the town of Seymour
was thrown from wagon by runaway
team. His skull was fractured in two
places and he suffered a compound frac-
ture of his left arm. His nose was brok-
en- and his right arm dislocated.
The Rev. G. Hammond has resigned as
pastor of the Congregational Church at
Brodhead. This leaves two churches
without pastors, as the Rev. J. J. Kelt,
who went from Milwaukee to the Baptist
Church there last August, left suddenly
for Sheboygan.
Judge Wyman in Circuit Court at La
Crosse has granted a divorce to Mrs. De-
liza Lehr from her husband, Rev. ]. L.
Lehr, on the ground of cruel and inhu-
man treatment. Rev. Lehr is a travelling
evangelist, quite well known throughout
western Wisconsin.
Farmers report the losses in their eel
lars from freezing during the long cold
spell more disastrous thSn first supposed
1t is estimated that 20 per cent are froz-
en-. As farmers were holding their po-
tatoes generally the loss will be very
great.
Another attempt to hold up the o'clock
car on the Milwaukee, Racine and Ke-
nosha electric lines near Racine was frus-
trated by family at Villa street and De-
Koyen avenue, who noticed two men with
dark lanterns and masks hanging about
They were chased by men armed with
guns and rot away.