Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-12-07

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| Reeseville Mercantile Company and blew
the door off the safe, securing about $40.
| Joseph Schauer, the S-year-old son OF
| Matthias Schauer. drowned while skat-
ing on pond in South Side park, Osh-
| kosh.
William Shilling of Bruce, married.
was killed by falling log in camp of
the Wells Lumber Company of Eau
| Claire.
Carl Emberton of Bloomer, aged II,
| died from the effects of an accidental
gunshot wound while getting ready to go
hunting.
Mrs. Harry p Lord, a young wife,
has gone violently insane at Niagara,
her insanity being due to the death of her
| little child.
The 9-year-Old son of Farrell Hopkins,
living near Manawa, dropped dead while
| playing with his brother The child had
not been sick day.
ID. w Cox of Fond du Lac has been
| appointed by Gov La Toilette surveyor
of Fond du Lac County in place of d. X.
| Fairbanks, deceased.
Arthur Murphy, one of the three young
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| Davis last July, was discharged by Judge
| Webb at Stevens Point
John Brown, a boy of 16 years, was
| found dead under heavy log in Lewis
valley, only a short distance from his
! home. He had been hunting.
Philip thinner, an engineer who lived
| in Milwaukee for fOrty-siX years and
built many notable buildings, was killed
by gas. He was 20 years old.
Conductor Schultz and Brakeman Fer
guson, who were stabbed by tramps at
Superior Junction, have recovered from
their injuries and are able to take their
runs.
The Wisconsin Beet Sugar Company's
plant at Menomonee Falls is shipping
from two TO three cars of sugar daily and
| about 400 tons of beets are being used
each day, the capacity being 600 tons.
A collision, wrecking two engines and
nine cars loaded with stock resulted
from an open switch at Summit on the
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. The
crews jumped and escaped uninjured.
AT Clear Lake, while working with
steam wood saw, James Floyd was in
stantly killed by the accidental break
ing of the saw. He was struck in the
chest by flying piece, which tore out his
heart.
j. Brunk of R6cine had his hand in
jurcd while hunting near Wind lake by
the premature explosion of a gun, due
to the trigger of his hammerless gun
catching on Il barb wire as he was crawl
ing through a fence.
Funds are being raised by private sub
ScrlptiOn for a gymnasium in the public
schools at Two Rivers. The idea is meet
ing with a great deal of encouragement,
and there is no doubt but what ample
funds will be forthcoming.
The Oshkosh Omro Interurban Electric
line is now graded from Oshkosh to the
Omro corporation limits. The weather
has been favorable for rapid work. The
ties are laid for about tWo-thirds Of the
distance 1t is hoped to have cars rum
ming by Jan. /.
Fire was discovered in the massive ele-
vator of Holbrook & Ballet at Appleton,
and despite the prompt and efficient ac-
ton of the fire department the building
was totally destroyed, aggregating loss
of about 5000, covered by insurance.
Fortunately there We're only about 90
600 bushels of grain, 500 bushels of po-
tatoes and $1,000 worth of clover seed
in the bins at the time.
Because he had constantly studied the
Bible for many months and could not
comprehend its teachings, Oscar Flickie,
a 17-year-old boy residing at De Soto,
attempted suicide by cutting his throat
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Flickie his father. says the boy showed
no symptoms of insanity, and tried sui
eide because he wanted to go to the spirit
world and investigate his theories.
Contracts have been signed insuring the
removal from Chicago to Stevens Point
| of Joseph Bachner, an expert watch
| builder, and the establishment of a fac
| tory for the manufacture of watches.
| A stock company has been organized with
| $4,000 capital, Mr.. Bachner being given
| one-half the stock as the value of his
machinery and dies. Watches will be
placed on the market before the first of
| February.
| An important sale of timber has been
| made in the town Of Muskego, the same
! including 1913 walnut logs from twenty
| six trees on the farm of l.. Ellertson. The
| purchasers, Cincinnati lumber COM
| pany will cut the trees down at their
own expense and ship them direct from
| Lake Beulah ON the Wisconsin Central
! Railroad, to Berlin, Germany, where the
logs will be worked up into veneerlng
and other marketable products.
Joseph Regner, a farmer residing near
| Phillips, and for 4 few weeks past an in
mate of the Milwaukee sanitarium IN
| Wauwatosa, hanged himself to a sapllng
in the woods in the rear of that lnstltu-
ton. Nicolas Ferdinand, a saloonkeeper
on the Blue Mound road, was hunting
with some friends in Wellauer's woods
near the sanitarium. Suddenly the dog,
| which had been after a rabbit, stopped in
| his mad chase to scent new and strange
smell and to see a strange figure. lie
harked until his masters were attracted
to the spot, where they saw Regner hang
| ing to sapling by rusty hay bale wire.
The parsonage of st. Joseph's Church