Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-11-30

is assigned for the act.
During the river season officially clos
ed Nov. IS. 1,02S boats passed the La
decrease from last season.
Frank Kenny, while trying to climb on
a heavy lumber wagon driven by his faith
err at Chippewa Falls, fell under the
wheels. He will not recover.
Mrs. C. X. Adams, wife of the former
president of the University of Wiscon-
sin, has given the Madison Art Associa-
ton her jewels, valued at $4,000.
James Revets of HiIlsboro was drawn
into corn shredder while working on a
neighbours farm and his right arm was
torn off four inches below the elbow.
Mrs. William Schroeder and son were
instantly killed by the south-bound linn
tied on a railroad crossing near Unity
while driving home from wedding.
John Howard of Neillsville was struck
by a Northwestern gravel train and bad
ly injured. Part of one ear was cut off.
He was bruised and cut up badly and
was injured internally.
Henry Comrade, aged GO years, a we'll
TODD farmer of the town of Losel, com
mitted suicide by hanging himself. His
wife found his body hanging to a rafter
in the barn, cut it down and notified the
authorities. No reason for the suicide is
known.
At Ashland the east tramway of the
keystone Lumber Company caught fire
from a burning tug. -Four million feet
Of lumber burned. The steel tug Key
stone, the finest tug at the head of the
lakes, is destroyed. The total loss will
probably amount to $4,000.
Wojech SZul, who came to Washburn
from the Pennsylvania coal mining dis
trict a month ago and has been working
in the lumber woods, was killed by fall
ing from a logging train on the Wash
burn and Northwestern Railroad. Tween
ty-seyen cars passed over him.
w. X. Francis, alleged to have blown
the safe of the Blaire postoffice and es-
capped with $4OO, and who was arrested
at HiXton, was arraigned before United
States Court Commissioner y. Harrison
in La Crosse. He entered a plea of not
guilty and was placed under 81 900 bail.
A tragical death occurred at the home
of Olof Stermne in Moscow. There was
a party at Mr.. Stermnes home, and one
of the guests, Mrs. John Hegelsen, a
widow, in descending the stairs, slipped
and fell from the second step to the bot
tom. She got up without aid, walked to
the parlor, sat down, when she showed
signs of pain and was assisted to the
sofa. She tainted but was revived. She
suffered great agony for about twenty
minutes, then expired.
The village of Athens is stirred up over
the disappearance of a young man named
Herman Buenges, who has been missing
since Nov. s. He was working at one of
the logging camps of the Upham Manu-
featuring Company near that village, and
on the evening of the day mentioned was
returning to camp with the rest of the
crew, when he decided to take a short
cut through the woods. Leaving his fell
low workmen, who followed the road, he
started through the painless woods, and
that was the last that has been seen of
him. Searching parties have gone over
the surrounding country thoroughly since
then, but not a trace of him can be found.
On a recent morning the Menominee
River Lumber Company at Marinette
sawed its last log. There was flying Of
flags and the boom of dynamite to mark
the close of the lumber operations of a
concern that has sawed logs for nearly
fifty years on the Menominee. At 10
o'clock there was only one log at the
bottom of the sluiceway. The men stop
ped long enough to decorate it with flags
a., oil int
and given over to the saws, while dyna-
mite cartridges outside doomed the news.
A mill was located on the present site
in 1851 Jesse Spalding was interested
in the concern from its inception. The
mill has cut over billion feet of lum-
Der, valued at over $15,0G0,O0O, from
100000 acres of land.
Part of the warehouse erected this
summer by the GAINESVILLE Machinery
Company collapsed. No one was in the
building at the time. The building is on
the west end of the plant and is about
50X75 feet, and three stories above the
basement The rooms had just been COM
pleted and were filled with machinery.
The third floor gave way, and y it'll its
load crashed down through the second
to the basement all in q conglomerate
heap of building and machinery. Though
none of the walls caved in, it is thought
the west and south walls will have to be
taken out and rebuilt. The warehouse is
part of a So, 1000 improvement to the
plant. The fault is supposed to have
been in brick supports in basement,
which are crushed The loss is heavy.
Henning Beckus, son of Frank Beckus
of Beloit, was badly wounded by re-
volver in the hands of his chum, Charles
Janberg. The shooting occurred at the
home of Mr.. Beckus. The boys We're play
ing with a 22-caliber revolver and were
struggling in a friendly way for posses
sion of the pistol when it was discharg-
ed.
Miles Spurrier was shot by some I'M
known person while hunting in the woods
about two miles from Fern. 1t seems that
a party of four went out together Spur
rier had shot deer and stopped over it
when the fatal bullet entered his breast.
Physicians and surgeons were called
upon to use the Xray to locate bullet