Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-10

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been given clean bill of health by the
authorities.
Mrs Edward Williams attempted sui
eide at Marinette by taking morphine
Her deed was due to dependency over
domestic troubles.
Captain G. E. Rogers of Hayward,
prominent lumberman and member
during the rebellion of the famous Iron
brigade, died in Eau Claire, aged 81
years.
The filing of petition for administra-
ton on the estate of George Kimball
of Kenosha, who died in 1868, blocks sale
of gas works, much Of the stock belonging
to the deceased.
Black diphtheria has made its happear-
ance in one home in Fond du Lac, where
four cases have been reported to the
health officer. Proper quarantine meas
ures have been taken.
G. X. Dennis, an elderly widower of
Eau Claire, who eloped recently with
Maria Dickinson, aged 16 years, was
found by the girls father at Durand and
arrested on a charge of abduction.
Fred Goehruny, Glidden butcher, took.
trip to the southwest part of the State
to buy stock for his market. Between
Stanley and Chippewa Falls he was re-
lieyed of $500 by some one on the train
A report from the town of Neenah says
that an elderly man named Godfrled
Kirchberg was found drowned in
slough. 1t was apparently case of sui
eide. He had quarreled with his family.
He was Is years of age.
fr;a @ho al inh hob ifan of
Jefferson, died at the age Of 90. She
came from Germany nearly fifty years
ago. DIR. J. l.. Kearney, secretary of
the Jefferson County Agricultural Soci-
ETY., is also dead Of Bright's disease.
Thousands of bass. pckerel, pike and
suckers have been killed in the Menomi-
nee river by the blasting which is going
on. The crews of vessels at the mouth
of the river have scooped up the fish ia
baskets full.
Forest fires are raging in the eastern
part of Jackson County, and thousands
of acres of BURBERRY lands are being
burned over Considerable damage to
young timber has already occurred. The
area burned already is over $4,000 acres.
Miss NIyra Griffith, cloak model in
one of the Milwaukee department stores,
fell in front of car on Grand avenue
in a faint. The next instant an unknown
man seized her by the feet and pulled her
off the rails. The veil the girl wore was
caught by the fange of the wheel and
torn from her face.
Mrs. j. Johnson, residing three miles
from Arkdale, was burned to death. She
was addicted to smoking and was blind
ic flln
fire from her pipe. When found by one
of the neighbors she was lying out doors
dead with her clothing entirely burned
off and the house in flames.
At Junction City Mrs. Marie Hook and
Sadie Hill, her granddaughter, We're
burned to crisp. 1t is supposed Sadie
was burning brush in the yard and her
clothing caught fire. and in attempting to
extinguish the flames Mrs. Hooks cloth
ing also caught Both were found dead
by Mrs. John Hook when she came home,
A jury in Judge Balls court in Chicago
rendered a verdict giving $4,000 dam
ages to Mrs. Fanny Story of Brooklyn,
for injuries received by her May Z, 1891,
in a wreck at Tuscarawas station on the
Pittsburg Cincinnati, Chicago and st.
Louis Railroad At the former trial a
verdict of $4,000 was rendered. Mo-
ton was made for Il new trial.
Walter n. Lessleyoung, aged q years,
was thrown from a carriage at Fond du
Lac. He was thrown head first against
an electric car pole and his head crushed.
lie was taken to st. Agnes hospital,
where he died in a few minutes. His
companion, Fred Perrine, was thrown
from the carriage at the same time, but
escaped uninjured.
Brimley was the scene Of a shocking
tragedy. Deputy Sheriff John Mclean
and James Thompson. both of Brimley,
got into an alteration and Mclean was
shot by Thompson and instantly killed.
The trouble arose over the attempt of Nc
Lean to obtain possession of house that
Thompson occupied under lease from
Eli Neversorry and that Mclean had
recently purchased
A crew of fifty log drivers left Toma-
hawk for Plum Creek and st. Germain
river to drive 2500O,OOO feet of bgs
through to Rhnelander. The logsf are
owned by DAILY & O'Day and the United
States Lumber Company The drive viii
last forty-ive days. The drive on the
main Spirit river is just hung up on ac-
company owns some 100000 feet Of
logs.
A somewhat peculiar case came up i'm
the municipal court at Manitowoc Thos.
Ryan, who halls from Michigan, was ar
rested on a warrant charging him with
stealing q, ton of scrap iron from the
Bradley steamship line and concealing it
in his house He pleaded not guilty. The
evidence showed that Ryan stole the iron
secretly during the night time and con
cealed it in his house, piling the whole
ton Of iron in his parlor He kept iS
there until the other day he sold it to IA
junk dealer. Ryan was found guilty and
sentenced to sixty days in the county jail
John Bohnan, an employe of the Allen
tannery at Kenosha. had remarkable
escape from being killed. While he was
attempting to put belt on large fly
wheel in the boiler room he was caught
in the belt and before the engine could
be stopped he was carried round the shaft