Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-29

non was accidentally shot in the breast
by her brother.
John Lee, for many years cserk n
the Leland Hotel Office at Asnlanu, "as
found frozen to death near Ashland.
George Mentes' 5-year-old son, at Lo'
gansyille, died as the result OF MS cioth-
ing catching fire while his parents were
away from home.
The Paine Lumber Company's dry Kun
at Oshkosh burned, with large stock OF
lumber. The loss is $4,000, Win an
insurance of $4,000.
or 1868 school children in Milwaukee e
examined during the past year. o.Voo
had defective vision and l,4lI were al
ficted with eye troubles.
Katie keenan, of Fox River, VINO IS
employed at the home of Attorney refer
Fisher in Kenosha, was terribly inJureu
by a Kerosene explosion.
The contract for the building OF a
bridge near Tesch Mills has been let Dy
the county board to the milwaukee,
Bridge Company for $1,000.
The searchers found the remains OF
William See. the hunter who disappear
ed. They discovered his body near mo.
He had been shot through the head
Frank Gursky of Junction City suffered
the fracture of every finger on his leIt
hand while at work laying track for Al
derson & Langley near Star Lake. Five
rails fell upon his hand.
At GAINESVILLE Mrs. Ella Gibbs was
found guilty of assault and battery ana
was fined 81 and costs. She was arrest
ed on complaint of FL. d. Emery, who
charged that she threw hot water on him.
Y. e. Eorst, station agent for the CHI
cago and Northwestern road at Combined
Locks, and an amount of money various
ly estimated at from 500 to 500 are
missing from their accustomed place IN
the depot.
Joseph Timbert and Patrick Kane, two
woodsmen, were seriously injured while
decking logs at Marinette. The skid
broke and about fifteen big logs came
down on them Their escape from death
was miraculous.
At Weyauwega George Washington
Taggart, ST., committed suicide by hang
ing himself in the barn with a halter. Mr..
Taggart was in his eighty seventh year
and had become quite deaf and was al
most blind. His wife died last year,
aged 81 years.
The building forming part of the ex-
tensive plant of the Paine Lumber Com
pany, and known as the dry kiln, al
though it was not by any means confined
to dry kiln purposes, was. totally destroy
ed by fire at Oshkosh. The loss is placed
at $4,000; the insurance is $4,000. The
structure will be rebuilt Immediately.
Frank Wardwell of Milwaukee says
that he and his five brothers are the law
full heirs to an estate at Chamberg in
France, the value of which is not less
than $12, 100000. Mr.. Wardwell has just
heard from one of his neDhews, who is
now in Paris preparing to enter suit for
the estate on behalf of the American
heirs.
The National Industrial Company, with
a capitalization Of $3,000,000, has been
organized in Milwaukee and a controlling
interest in the new enterprise is repre-
sented by local capital. The officers Of
the new company are e. w. Perry, pres
ident; Harry w. Perry, secretary; Ed
ward F.. Brown, treasurer; Charles
Quarles, attorney.
The finding of human bones and teeth
in the ruins of the log cabin of Fred
Klockl, which was destroyed by fire near
Marshteld, causes the officers to suspect
Frank Schwartz knows something about
the matter. Klockl and his wife disap-
peared on the night of the fire. They
had decided their farm to Schwartz on
condition he provide for them for life.
Within month they had complained he
was starving them.
The loss sustained by George Petry in
the fire that destroyed his general store
and residence in Dotyvile was $1,000.
He carried an Insurance of $4,000 Mr..
Petry was on his way home from Mil
waukee when the fire started. the store
being in charge Of his sister, Miss Clara
Petry The origin of the fire is a mys-
terry. Mr.. Petry is postmaster Of Doty-
vile and all the mail and supplies in that
department Of his store were burned.
Otto Soupe, aged Is years, has con-
fessed to robbng a grocery store kept by
Oberst Brothers in La Crosse fifteen
times. The thefts were noticed soflie time
ago, but every means tried failed to land
the burglar. One night a man slept
IN the store to see if he could not catch
the thief and the marauder came in and
lugged off his booty without even awak-
ening the detective. Officer Horschak
noticed a bunch of bananas moving sus-
piciously in the window as he was PASS
ing and stopped to investigate The re-
suit was the arrest Of Soupe.
John Schauer of New Franklin was
found dead in the woods near Amberg.
He had been hunting for deer and had
not met with success He decided to set
his gun on runway for deer and try
his luck that way. In the evening he
took lantern and went out to see if he
had bagged anything. He did not know
the woods and lost his way. In the dark