Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-09-07


| Wisconsin fair at Mineral Point valua-
Bile horse, belonging to William James
! of Linden, broke its leg aud had to be
| shot
The heavy rain saved the potato crop
| around La Crosse from almost complete
failure and small fall in price Is the
result Other crops, not harvested, are
| also benefited
Martin Krolski, of Milwaukee, was
caught under an avalanche of earth i'll a
sandpit, and while his two sons frantic
ally shoveled to rescue him from the liy-
ing tomb he died.
AIessrs Schmidt & Benson, of Troy,
n Y, have leased the old Palica Trunk
Company buildings and will establish a
mattress factory in Racine. 1t is ex-
pected that seventy-fye men will be EN-
ploYed.
On account of the severe drought last
month, the cucumber crop, which has
| yielded to the farmers in Palmyra from
| $4,000 to $4,000 for the season will, it
| is estimated, be less than one-third of a
crop.
While playing among the cinders of the
former Wieckert company site in Apple
ton, Harry PEBBLES found the gold watch
of the late Robert Pasch, who was in
stantly killed in the boiler explosion a:
the plant, just two years ago.
Ernest Kleiber, 1G years old, had a
narrow escape from death at Marinette.
A shotgun he was carrying while out
hunting was accidentally discharged and
tore off his left hand completely, with
| ho of +1,o +buYp on1 of
his breast near the heart.
While working in the Rice Lake Manu-
| featuring Company's plant John Shelrude
| was dangerously if not mortally injured.
| The governor belt ran off so that no con-
troll was had over the engine and pulley
burst, striking Shelrude in the right side,
| breaking his hip and several ribs.
Secretary r. F. Roberts of the Keno
| sha Old Settlers Club has given out his
annual report of the deaths among the
old settlers OF the county during the past
year. The report shows that during the
| year ffty-two of the early settlers, who
! came to kenosha before 1850, had died.
William Langdon, a lineman connected
| with the telegraph department of the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy road living
| at Alma, died at one of the La Crosse
| hospitals after living twelve hours with
| both legs broken, his skull fractured and
| other serious injuries, the result of his
handcar being struck by wild engine
near Stockholm.
Joseph Hill, Kenosha machinist, who
| has been for years experimenting on an
| engine suitable for automobiles, has at
| last been successful. He has produced a
wonderful contrivance and a great i'm
| provement over the present style. A
newly designed valve does away with
| the link motion, making it possible to re-
| verse when running at the highest rate
| Of speed.
A genuine mining craze has broken out
| in New Richmond, following on the heels
| Of the development of the Cakes gold
| discovery. S. 2. Hemmingson, who lives
| on a farm two and a half miles west Of
| town, has found silver, samples Of which
assay as high as $50 per ton down to
| $34 so and SIG. Indications of gold and
| copper were found, but the rock was only
tested for silver.
| Two freight trains came together on
| the Omaha tracks north of Cumberland,
I demolishing an engine, caboose and sew
eral box cars. The north-bound way
| freight stopped at Lauresen's spur and
| left the caboose and a few box cars
standing on the main line. A north-bound
special came along at a high rate Of speed
| and crashed into the way freight, tee
scoping the caboose and box cars and
| smashing the engine on the freight. The
trainmen on the special jumped ia time
| to save their lives.
Four masked men entered the home of
| August LANCE near hiibourn at ) o clock
| the other morning and after ranSacklng
| the house and finding no valuabtes they
| entered the bedroom of the aged couple
| and at the point Of a revolver demanded
| their money. Mrs. LANCE escaped through
| the window and began to scream for
| help This frightened the wound-be rob-
! bers, and after beating the old man until
| he was unconscious they escaped in
carriage, which was in waiting. Although
! badly hurt, Mr. LANCE will probably re-
| cover.
William Kip, a steamttter in the en-
| Dlnv of the Diamond Match Company,
was found dead in his bed. The authori-
| ties are not inclined to the belief that it
was a case of suicide, but an inyestiga-
| ti0n was deemed necessary and coro-
nar's jury was impanelcd by Gust Bau-
man kip retired at an early hour the
J previous evening, his wife remaining
| downstairs. When the storm came up
about II p. m his wife called up the
stairway, asking that her husband close
| the windows to keep out the rain. Get
ting no reply, she went upstairs and
| fo,vpI hnr buch and dead
| Herbert e. Thompson, or as he is bet
ter known, Bert" Thompson, the Chi
cago bicycle salesman, who was arrested
In Kenosha some time ago Oh a charge
of cmbezzling some 5000 of the funds of
the Meiselbach Typewriter Company,
will spend several years in the Green
! Bay reformatory as a punishment for
his crime. The young man appeared be-
fore Judge r. S. Slosson of the County
| Court and entered a plea of guilty to the
charge against him. He stated that the
money taken had been lost in gambling.
| The judge imposed an indeterminate SEN