Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-19

rOAl0S over UiAu.
Al La Crosse FIRE destroyed Theodore
Nader and Lawrence Stelpfug's proper
ty. The loss is $1,000.
Kite Sweeney, who is employed at the
Young House in Brodhead, attempted SUI
eide by taking ammonia.
Eastern capitalists have applied to the
Racine Council for franchise for pup
lie heating plant to cost $3OO,OOO.
r. S. Sargent of Waupun lost his right
hand above the wrist by the accidental
discharge of his gun while hunting.
Christ Jessen of Oshkosh was robbed
by two men at Neenah. He had $lO IN
his pocket which the assailants secured.
A plan has been put on foot by teach
ers in the Superior normal school TOT
making a summer resort for teachers az
Spooner Lake.
Business men in the Wisconsin river
valley are going to expend $5,OoO,OoO IN
developing the water power in the WIS
consin river valley.
Albert Mocco, a knot-sawyer, cut or
the four fingers on the right hand at the
Bird & Wells Lumber Company's shin
gle mill at Wausaukee.
Albert Wenker, young man living
eight miles west Of Ironton, was horribly
mangled while at work in a sawmlll. Ills
recovery is very doubtful.
George Beck Of Rice Lake, who came
to Baraboo to join Ringling's circus,
while jumping off a train fell under the
wheels, and one leg was cut off.
At WATERFOWL the 10-year-old son of A.
A. Hardy had both arms amputated, the
result of jumjing from a moving freight
train and falling under the wheels.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adrian Schoenmacher,
clippers from Amsterdam, Holland, are
with relatives near Appleton. The bride
is an heiress and her husband was the
family coachman.
A man named Finnegan, who went to-
Ashland from Sheboygan to work on
dock improvements made by the North1
western Railway, was accidentally kllledt
The boom of a derrick fell and crushed
him.
At La Crosse Pat Brogan pleaded gull
ty before Judge Brindley to a charge OF
larceny. He was sentenced to one year
and half at Waupun. He has just
completed jail sentence for similar
Offense.
Nicholas Biersticker of Little Chute,
employed at the paper mill at Kimberley.
fell from q staging and, striking his head
on a cement floor, suffered conclusion or
the brain, from which there is little hope
of recovery.
Charles Nelson, 10 years old, confess
ed to Chief of Police Schumacher that
he had committed numerous burglaries re-
Ivy fv, Pac 70 said also th1f he
escaped from the reform school at Wau--
kesha eight years ago.
Mrs. Elizabeth Botsford, while being
removed in hack from Racine to the
home of a friend, a few miles from there,
died. Mrs. Botsford was So years of
age and had been ill for some time. She
was the widow of James Botsford, for
merly a well-known newspaper man Of
Racine.
G. N. Hawley, one of the leading bust
ness men of La Crosse, had a narrow es--
cape from death. He had kindled the
fire in the furnace at his residence, using
kerosene, thinking that the fire was en-.
tirely out. An explosion followed and he
was badly burned about the face and
neck and hands. {
Lena Hougen, a domestic, was adjudg-
ed insane at La Crosse. She is pursued
by a hallucination that some friend has
willed to her sever pieces of valuable
property about tow She went to sew
eral persons and demanded that the prop
erty be turned over to her, or she be paid
its value in money.
Justice Kleeber Of La Crosse places
the value Of human nose at 500. Such.
was the verdict rendered by him IN the
damage case of Gollinick VS.. Wolfe ms
which the plaintiff sued for $500, as dam
age resulting from Wolfe's breaking his
nose. Wolfe claimed justification as Col
linick laughed at Mrs. Wolfe every time
he saw her.
George Bohen of Trempealeau shot at
supposed horse thieves several nights ago
who made their escape to the Minnesota
side of the river, leaving traces Of blood.
Word was later received of the death
from a gunshot wound Of a young man
residing across the river, and the two in
cidents give rise to the theory that Bohen
severely wounded his man.
Ole Haugen, an employe Of the North
western Lumber Company in Stanley, re-
ceived injuries in the lumber yard which
will undoubtedly prove fatal. He was
near a large pile of lumber when it sud
denly collapsed. Haugen was struck to-
the ground and when extricated he was in
an unconscious condition. Both legs are
crushed at the ankle and physicians think
internal injuries will prove fatal.
Mrs. w. J. Cameron of La Crosse, who.
was examined as to her sanity some days,
ago upon the application Of her father,
Ole Sandbo, will bring suit against him
for damages to her reputation and social
and general position in life to the amount
of 81 ,000 She will also bring suit to
recover the value of the chickens which
she alleges We're stolen and which it is
claimed were taken at the instigation of
her husband. The value of these she
places at $50, and she says she intends to
get it. She was charged with threaten
ing to shoot her parents when examined
as to her sanity.
Joseph Shimon Of Menchalville was
brought to Manitowoc in a terribly man