Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-03-08

water works this year.
Fire destroyed seven cottages in Pigs
vile, suburb of Milwaukee. The loss IS
about 1000, partly covered by Insurance.
| The Nichols House at Albany burned
| to the ground, together with all its con-
tents. The loss is $4,000, with but NOM
mai insurance.
| John Il. Wright, superintendent OF the
mineral department in the land office ut
| Washington under Cleveland, died. The
! interment took place at Baraboo.
| Mrs. Nancy Newberry, aged 50 years,
/ died at Wheatland. She was one of the
| first settlers of Wisconsin and lived IN
the same house for the past sixty years.
| The 3-year-old son of John Bremen, re-
siding near Ellsworth, fell into pan OF
| boiling water and was fatally scalded.
| The child died after many hours of suf-
| fering.
Twenty tramps, who were given per-
mission to sleep in a large empty store
in Racine, were found almost dead from
the fumes of coal gas, which had accum-
ulated during the night
The body of John c. Hanover, which
had been buried eleven years, was ex-
L
On opening the casket the body appeared
! to be in a perfect state of preservation,
excepting that it had become somewhat
darker.
| Fred Anderson, farmer residing two
and one-half miles west of Abbotsford,
and who had been working on the extra
crew shoveling snow in the Wisconsin
| Central yards, was struck and instantly
1 iii NV hocl
/ while he was at work.
/ Mrs. Catherine Piersch of Dacoda was
| seriously burned by the explosion of a
can of kerosene with which she had built
the fire. She had placed the can in front
1 of the stove and either through heat or
| a spark of fire it exploded. 1t is thought
that she will recover.
The fight over the possession of the
| Bayfield, and Western Railway seems to
be at an end. HI. Whgham and HI. Laub
of Chicago, capitalists, together with DR.
Rice of Milwaukee, have secured COM
plete possession of the road. Extensive
| improvements are planned.
Henry A. Heath died at Milwaukee.
He belonged to the firm of Bodden q
| Heath, wholesalers. He was 30 years OF
age, member of Company G, 18th Hi
nois infantry, during the civil war, and
since then a successful business man,
with very wide circle of friends.
Allie J. Wilson, oldest son of the late
| Station Agent Wilson of Sparta, had not
| been heard of by his relatives and friends
! for number of years. A letter just re-
ceived from him from the Philippines an
nounces that he is alive and well and
member of the Thirty-fourth infantry.
Ex-Mayor Dewolf, Robert D. Wynn,
Del Buel Of Waukegan and w. Il. Dim
mick of Chicago have been in kenosha
making arrangements for the presenta-
ton of an ordinance to the City Coun-
Gil providing for the granting of a fran
| cEise to build an electric railway between
Kenosha city and Waukegan.
Adam Apple, Ole Hanson and j. J. ia
| cobson of Norway, and John Flynn'
Louis Caesar and James Malta of Mus
kego have been appointed committees in
the Muskego Lake Drainage fight to In
| stitute proceedings for the creation of a
/ drainage district to comprise lands In
Waukesha and Racine counties.
John Campbell, working for the Chi
cago and Northwestern Hallway Com
! pany as Waterman at the crossing OF
| Thirteenth and South Water streets,
| ManitoVoc, man of about ~ years oI
| age, mysteriously disappeared the other
day and nothing has been seen or hearo
Of him since. For several days ne had
been acting strangely, and became morose
and melancholy. 1t is thought his NINA
| has become unbalanced
The Il. II. Pease Manufacturing Com
/ pany at Racine, one of the largest ran
ming mill and elevator factories In the
! State has made an assignment TO y. II.
Adams, secretary of the concern, Tor the
benefit Of its creditors. One OF the ON
GERS stated that the assignment was not
made because of the actual insolvency
Of the assignors, but for the purpose OF
retiring the company Indebtedness and
withdrawing from business in that city,
or accomplishing reorganization upon
Il new and more extended basis. i
Fire in the big department store of the
Beaver Dam Lumber Company at Cum
berland materially damaged the entire
building, including the opera hall and
Masonic hail. located on the second Hoor.
| A stock of over $4,000 worth of general
merchandise was damaged very heavily.
The building was insured for S3,Ooo ana
the stock for $4,000, which will cover
the loss. Ex-Mayor Hunter fell down
flight of stairs and was seriously injured
and Manager WATERMAN was overcome
with smoke and carried home insenslbie.
Clifford Ellis sor. of A. g. Ellis,
druggist of Brooklyn, died, aged Il years.
| Mr.. Ellis attended, an entertainment IN
Evansville and boarded the midnight fast
mail train for home. As this train does
not stop at Brooklyn, he jumped just be-
fore he reached that place. In jumping
he struck nli!e post, and lay uncon-
| scious for ab,ut two hours farmer
found him aud took him home. Physi-
clans were called and found both limbs
were broken above the knees, one knee
was badly mangled, his face was dread
fully cut, besides other injuries.
/ Beloit celebrated the other day the final
! payment of city debt which for forty
years has hung over the community, and
/ during which time it has levied annually
for tho rayn1pnf of This debt more taxes