Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-06
Patrick ]. Shannon, aged AZ, is dead a,


their golden wedding at Racine.
Mr. and Mrs. John Luce celebrated
their golden wedding at Fairfield.
William Yer Bryck. a well-known por
trait painter, died at Milwaukee, aged rs
years.
Emil Anderson, aged 8 years, son of
August Anderson of Hudson, drowned in
Willow river while in swimming.
DIR. Charles E. Sisson of West Salem
has been appointed assistant physician
at the Mendoza hospital for the insane.
John Gueth, residing three miles from
Reedsville, was instantly killed by falling
from scaffoldng on which he was work
ing. He was p years old and leaves
wife and one child.
The body of William Borkenhagen,
Kenosha man who was drowned in Hook
er lake, has been recovered. A coroner's
inquest was held, which resulted in
verdict Of accidental death.
Charles Kossmann, boy 8 years old,
who was in bathing in the river at She
boygan with his brother, was drowned.
The boy dived off a stump and never
came to the surface of the water.
Robert Mayeski, the young man arrest
ed at Kenosha on a charge of stealing
jewelry from a guest at the sanitarium.
was brought up before Judge Slosson and
sentenced to an indeterminate term in the
reformatory.
Someone entered the home Of George
W. Taylor at Marinette, secretary of the
State Board of Immigration, in the ao-
sence of the family, and did considerable
damage with an ak. Valuable bric-a-brac
and furniture were hacked and chopped.
j. E. Congdon, secretary of the Bara-
boo Y. M. c.. A., has accepted the sec
retaryship of the institution at Camden,
n. J. The Y M. G. A. there is under the
control of the Pennsylvania Railroad and
is very large. Mr.. Congdon gets fine
increase in salary.
At Beaver Dam, John Bearder was
very seriously injured while engaged in
saving wood with a circular saw. Sew
eral men went to shift the saw while the
saw was still in notion although the belt
was off. Mr.. Bearder was lifting his end
of the frame and came in contact with
the saw so as to split his leg from the
knee to the thigh and cutting away part
of the bone.
A special meeting of the Kenosha City
Council was held for the purpose of com
pleting the work of refunding the city
debt of $4,000. The work of refund
ing the debt has been taken up by z. G.
Simmons and over forty bids were rece1v-
ed for the new bonds. 1t is expected that
the debt will be refunded at 31a per
cent rate. The change will result in a
saving to the city Of over $4,000 year.
II
dry goods house, week ago received
silver dollar in payment for goods that
brought him $1,000. The coin is dated
1904 and very valuable, there being only
few of that denomination in existence.
Altman sent the coin to Chicago, experts
pronounced it genuine and it was sold for
$1,000. The party who gave the dollar
for goods is not known
The will of John R. Bennett has been
admitted to probate at GAINESVILLE. He
left his gold watch and chain, a gold
headed cane and a third interest in his
law library to his nephew, Emmett D.
MCGOWAN, and the rest of the estate, real
and personal, to his adopted daughters,
the Misses Minnie and Kittie Bennett,
share and share alike. The two women
are executives of the estate without
bonds.
George S. Perrin has been pardoned by
Gov. Scofeld. This pardon was obtained
through the efforts of James Cavanagh,
Fred Gottfredson and John HILTON, who
have been working for some time to Sc
cure this end. Mr. Perrin is the last Of
the men to be released from prison Of
those who were sentenced some years ago
for burning the Chicago bedding factory
and conspiring to defraud the insurance
companies.
The convention Of the League of Wis
consin Municipalities opened in Fond du
Lac with an attendance of fifty mayors
and city officials. Mayor Hoskins deliv-
cred the address of welcome, which was
responded to by President G. e. Whelan,
former Mayor of Madison. John D. But
Ter of Milwaukee, president of the NUM-
cpal league of that city, spoke on THE
Model Charter and It's Relation to Wis
consn Cities.
Laddie Coma, young man IL years
of age, about month ago discovered that
the sight Of one eye was failing, but be-
fore anything could be done the sight Of
that eye was entirely gone. DESTROYS Of
retaining the sight of the other eye, he
although everything was done, the news
has just reached his parents at Two Riv-
ers that the sight of the remaining eye
is also gone.
Mrs. Charles Richmond was run down
by bicycle scorcher at Racine and was
seriously injured. Her left arm was frac-
tured, leg was badly bruised and it is
thought she was internally injured. She
was walking along when a wheelman
came suddenly upon her and knocked her
down, the force of the blow sending her
many feet away. The wheelman was
also thrown from his wheel, but did not
stop to find out how badly she was in
jured or to ask any questions.
Under the Orion insurance tax law the
stock life insurance companies doing busi-
ness in Wisconsin will have to pay total
of $167, 39619 additional taxes in this