Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-03-22

John Fredenckson, resident of BOYD,
| had his back broken while loading logs
at mill.
George Nelson Yucker committed sui
! eide at Burlington by shooting himself
| in the right temple.
The Michigan Miller's Mutual Fire In
| surance Company has been licensed to do
| business in Wisconsin.
Gunder Gunderson of Chimney Rock
| fell in his water tank and was drowned
He was about 60 years old.
William McQuade, switchman, was
killed by a logging train at Spooner. He
| leaves wife, who lives at East st. Paul
Plans and specifications for the new
gas plant to be built at Racine by the
Racine Gaslight Company are complet-
| ed.
Considerable dissatisfaction is express
| ed by the land owners whose land is to
be condemned and appraised for mill
tary purposes.
| Nels Ellingston was burned to death in
| the Rio lookup. He had been confined
| for drunkenness the night before. The
calaboose was destroyed by fire, the or
| igin of which is unknown.
| Mrs. William Wilson, wife of the prin-
cipal Of the Fond du Lac high school,
and Mrs. o. A. Piggott were overcome
| by coal gas at the residence of Mrs.
| Piggott and nearly suffocated.
| The consolidation of the cities of enC-
tralia and Grand Rapids carried by a
| large vote. The new municipality has
population of 5000, to be called Grand
| ba Of ho WAS
celebrated by jubilee and with fire
works.
| Frank J. Pishion, formerly bookkeeper
and assistant steward at the Northern
State hospital for the insane, pleaded
guilty to embezzlement in the municipal
| court at Oshkosh and was fined $50 and
costs. FASHIONS defalcation was in the
neighborhood Of $4,000 and extended
over several years. 1t has allNbeen made
| up.
Rural free delivery will be established
April at Oconomowoc. The length Of
| the route is twenty-seven miles; area
covered, 46 square miles; population serv-
ed, SIS; the carrier, A. G. Lyman. Also
| at Prairie du Sac, length of route, 26
miles, area covered, 80 square miles;
| population served, 675; carrier, N. G..
| Keller.
Lewis Wandell of Kaukauna is soon to
become rich man through the death Of
| an uncle, who died intestate some time
ago in New York, leaving fortune OF
from $1O,O0O,OOO to $12 100000. One ac-
| count places it as high as $2O,OOO,OOO.
| Mr.. Wandell is a well-known engineer OF
| the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
! Company.
A reunion of both the old soldiers Of
the civil war and the veterans of the
| Spanish American war is the scheme now
proposed by the committees in charge OF
the arrangements for the State g. A. r.
encampment to be held in West Superior
next June. Steps have already been
taken toward that end and it seems that
the plan will be a success.
Beloit has frebug, whom the police
would like to apprehend. -Four times a
barn on Fourth street has been set on
FIRE. The last attempt to burn the barn
| was made while the fire department was
I looking after small fire in the other end
of the town. AS in all the previous cases,
| the fire was put out before any damage
was done. No motive can be assigned
| for the incendiary act.
| The body of Buel Davis, son Of the
former superintendent of schools of Osh-
kosh, Winona and Topeka, was found
in the Fox river. The young man left
home and the next day his parents re-
ceived letter telling them that he fear
| ed that his mind was breaking down un-
der study and that he chose suicide in
preference to insanity. Young Davis was
II years old and exceedingly sensitive
He attended the normal school at Osh-
kosh and had been ordered to appear be-
fore the president to explain why he had
dropped two studies.
| Paul Szukalski, a wealthy and promi-
| nent farmer of Newton, was killed while
| returning from church. Mr.. SzukalsA
| and his wife had attended church in Man
itowoc and were driving home i'll cut
| ter when the accident occurred. AS the
| horse was part way up the approach to
| the bridge near Newton his breath fail
| ed and he fell over the 12-foot embank-
| ment into the valley below, pulling the
cutter with him. Mr.. and Mrs. Szukal-
| ski were thrown to the ground and Mr..
| Szukalski's neck was broken. Mrs. Szu-
| kalski sustained serious internal injuries.
| The establishment of the Manitowoc
public library, SO long a cherished desire
and for which the people of that city
have been working SO earnestly for sew
eral years, is at last an accomplished
! fact. The reading rooms have been open
| ed to the public. Miss l.. e. Stearns, or
ganizer for the Wisconsin Free Library
| Commission, with appropriate remarks,
| introduced the new but welcome inhabit-
ant to the people, of whom there was
a large number in and about the build
| ing. The library starts out with 5000
volumes, which number will be constantly
| increased as the funds allow.
John Anderson, a woodsman confined
| in the county Jail at Marinette for drunk
enness, made three attempts to hang him
self. They all proved unsuccessful owing
to his fellow prisoners, who cut him
down each time. The first attempt was
made with a handkerchief. He tied it to
the bars of his cage and then pulled his
legs up under himself. He was cut down
in time by fellow prisoner. The second
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