Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-11
Diphtheria is raging at Fontana "
twelve cases several will probably prove

! The Berlin Electric Llght company
has decided to sell its plant to the CITY.
! The price is said to be $4,000.
! The infant daughter of William Peep
| was accidentally shot by revolver III
the hands of small boy at Unity.
Louise Schimmer, the 3-year-old daugh-
| ter of Mr.. and Mrs. H. Schimmer, was
| terribly mangled by vicious dog at ke-
nosha.
George H. Cameron, president Of the
| Campbell & Cameron Lumber Company,
Oshkosh, died from injuries received by
being run down by street car.
The saw, shingle and lath mill of Chas.
Atwood burned at Bloomer. The fire
started in the engine room. There was
no insurance The loss is $500.
William Fenske, prosperous farmer
of the town of Eagle Point, blew off the
top of his head with double barreled
shotgun. No motive is assigned for the
act.
Section Foreman Erick Erickson was
run over by switch engine in the Oma-
! ha yard at Elroy, aud had both legs cut
off. He was so badly injured that he
died.
Axel johnson of Yellow Lake went
duck hunting and as he pushed his boat
off the shore his gun was accidentally
discharged, the bullet entering his left
shoulder.
Farmers in the tow nof Salem report
that the town is threatened with a
scourge of hog cholera. Many droves of
stock hogs have already been affected
by the disease.
Jacob Gomber of West Bend has been
appointed by Supt. Harvey superinten-
dent of schools of Washington County,
succeeding r. NJ. Dure, who resigned to
resume teaching.
Mrs. Valentine RoIiller committed sui
eide by drowning at Two Rivers, taking
with her her 2-year-old daughter She
worried because her husband wanted to
take up farming.
Gottlieb F'leischmann, a leading farmer
living two miles north of Marshfeld, fell
distance Of twenty feet in his barn,
striking on his head. His neck was brok-
en- and he died almost Immediately.
Because his 15-year-old SON refused to
assist him in preparing supper Theodore
Wasserman, a Racine shoemaker, stab
penetrated the left lung, and the wound
may prove fatal.
The government officials have decided
that the Pintsch light placed on the Ra-
cine reef is not sufficiently elevated to
protect the light from the heavy seas and
work has been started to elevate the iron
work twenty feet.
The Richfeld Creamery Company,
Holcomb, Dobiatz & Schilling, proprie-
tors, has failed. The majority of the
creditors are farmers in that vicinity.
These number about seventy and the
amounts vary from SIS to $50 each,
making total of about $500.
Charles Sundene, a motorman on the
street railway, had a narrow escape FROM
death. A Northwestern freight train
struck the street car on which he was,
and took off the entire front. Sundene
was hurled with the wreckage some dis,
lance, but escaped serious injury
Sorrow is felt in all parts of Kenosha
on account of the death of Mrs. Edgar
Pennoyer, one Of the founders of the
Pennoyer sanitarium. The decedent was
70 years of age and was one of the best
known and wealthiest women in southern
Wisconsin. She came to Kenosha in the
early SOS.
News confirming the report of the MUIR
der by Boxers of Miss Rowena Bird Of
Milwaukee was received by mail from
Tien-tsin. The details come from a ma
tive Christian missionary. Miss Bird
was at Tai Ku, about twenty miles from
Williams, D. w. Clapp and wife and
Miss Susan Partridge were overpowered
and slain by mob of Cinnamon.
William Porter, retail oil dealer at
Beloit, was frightfully burned and dis
figured for life by an explosion in great
gasoline Oil tank. He had cleaned the
tank during the day, and in the evening
before reflling it from the car tank. he
lowered lantern into his tank to see
how things looked. While he peered
down the manhole there was an explo-
sion of gases. The building took fire, but
was saved.
Last July when Adolph NJ Meader, an
Appleton jeweler, was in Amigo, he
CHANGED to meet an Indian with some
choice venison; portion of which he pur-
chased. A short time after State Game
Warden Bissinger was informed of the
fact. A warrant was served on Mr..
Meader and he was taken to Amigo and
taken before Municipal Judge Martin,
who fined him $25 and costs, amounting
to $50.62.
The Northwestern road has. made an
other mysterious move in the vicinity of
the 142 acres in the southwestern part
of Fond du Lac, which was recently
transferred by M. Ell. Coleman to Her
| man Haas, but which is generally cred
tied with having Northwestern backing.
The company has unloaded fifteen car
loads Of block stone in the vicinity. The
speculation that the Northwestern pro-
poses to build supplementary railroad
shops is getting stronger
The town of Casco is worked up over
what gives evidence of being genuine
sensation. Mrs. Anna Zlab, 70 years old,
died and preparations were made for her
burial, after a physicians certificate had
been obtained. Later relatives became