Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-02-15
The President has nominated Charles
Lewiston to be United States marshal for

Insane asylum and poor farm. M
Postmaster Frank Seayer of SimcSs
lost his right arm in an accident recently.
A heavy machine fell upon it.
The wells at the Marathon County poor
farm have run dry and the institution is
threatened with water famine.
William Brandt, while cutting wood
about five miles from Reedsville, cut his
foot, nearly severing the great toe.
Edward johnson, Racine painter. AZ
years of age, was killed by Northwest
ern freight train. He was unmarried.
At Elkhorn the residence of John FL.
Lauderdale was destroyed by fire. A part
of the furniture was saved. The loss is
$500.
Mrs Myria Grinnell of Beloit, well
known in w. r. c., has started for New
York, where she will join party of tour
lists for a trip to Egypt.
The Manitowoc Picking Company has
been Incorporated with the following OFF,
GERS: President, DIR. H. T.. Banzhaf; Sec
rotary and treasurer, Oscar A. Alter.
Hog cholera is prevalent about Hope in
the town of Cottage Grove. Messrs. Rat
man and Bechtel report having lost thirty
head, and new cases are reported every
day.
William Myro, a prominent farmer llv-
ing at Cataract, was killed by the burst
ing of fiywheel on a setting machine.
Fragments struck Myro, tearing off leg
and arm.
Arthur Young, who was badly burned
at the Racine Malleable and Wrought
Iron Company factory over year ago,
has commenced suit for $4,000 damages
at Racine.
The will of the late Rudolph Nune-
macher of Milwaukee was fled for pro-
bate. A valuable collection of curios,
valued at $4,000, is given to the public
museum of that city.
A patent issued to Phelps Bishop Of the
town of Paris and signed by President
Tyler, was filed with the register of deeds
at Kenosha. This patent was one of the
first given to cover any land in Kenosha
County.
The Revere House, the oldest in Osh-
lsosh, threestory brick fifty-room struc-
ture, was wrecked and Quilted by fire.
The loss on building is 900, with in
surance of $4,000. Landlord H. Thence
loses $1,000, with $500 insurance.
The general merchandise store Of Chas.
Tice at Corrill was broken into and rob-
bed. The safe was blown open and the
contents taken. The thieves secured
about $500. The postoffice is in the build
ing with the store and the thieves stole
several dollars worth of stamps. No
clue as to who did the work has been
secured.
Il. L. Rogers, veteran of the civil
war and one of the Oldest and best-known
commercial travellers of La Crosse, was
drowned in the Mississippi opposite that
city. Just how it occurred no one knows,
but it is supposed he was driving on the
ice with a single horse and cutter, and
it is thought that in driving up on to the
shore he mistook the road and drove off
into an open place. His cries for help
We're heard and prompt response was
made. But he had already been drawn
under the ice when the people arrived
OH the scene.
While Wisconsin Central freight train
was pulling into Abbotsford from the
south the yardmen sent it into the wrong
track, on which was train and crew.
asleep in the caboose when the engine
struck it, telescoping the caboose from
one end to the other. How the men es-
capped with their lives is almost miracu-
lous. The two brakemen are very badly
burned and the conductor badly cut with
flying splinters. The engine, one of the
large ones, was derailed and ran through
a section Of the platform into the ditch,
and is badly damaged, but the engineer
and fireman escaped with slight injuries.
Alexander Wertenen, the Kenosha tan
merry employe who suddenly turned black,
is gradually regaining his natural color.
DIR. Pugm, who was called to attend him,
thinks his change of color was due to
chemical action. Recently Wertenen was
suffering with sprained wrists. A fomen-
tation of lead lotion was prescribed,
which Wertenen used freely. Then he
returned to his work in the tannery. In
the work in which he is employed num-
Der of chemicals are used. 1t is likely
that some of the lead lotion was absorbed
in it, and being expelled by perspiration,
united with the other chemicals used in
his work, forming the black pigment in
the pores of his skin.
MOHFOe county Is eNclCeu over WIFI
looks like sensational murder. Late
in October last James Lewellin, farmer
of Waterloo, went to Wilton to buy
dairy farm. He had in his possession
several hundred dollars. He went to a
hotel, got into game of cards and either
lost the money or was swindled out of it.
Later he was found in his room with a
bullet hole through his head and heart.
The coroner returned verdict Of sui
eide, but the family was not satisfied with
the verdict. Detectives spent some weeks
looking into the case, and now charge
murder. The keeper of the hotel is Dan
iel Trump. The detectives claim to be
able to name the murderer.
Judge Helms rendered decision in the
Evans life insurance case at Chippewa
Falls. He decided in favor Of Mrs. VIM.
Evans, widow of William Evans. Will
liam Evans had life policy in the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen amount
ing to 81 500, made out in favor of his
mother. He married Anna Bloomhart in
1896 and had the policy transferred and