Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-07-27

Tue body Of an unidentified man was
found in the Tomahawk river
Fire at Salter's mill. Colby, destroyed
the shingle mill and a few logs.
La Crosse has 10064 school children,
gain of thirty three over last year.
Gibson's creamery, near Beloit, was
destroyed by fire. The loss is $4,000.
The Gates County board has voted to
bond the county for $4,000 for county
buildings.
The 1O-months-old daughter of Mrs
Martin Terney of Westport drowned in
It pail of. water
a movement is on foot to establish
brewery at Juneau. The promoters are
John Becker and eX-Sheriff Lehner.
Thieves broke into the store at Little
Prairie, which is owned by Joe Crawley,
and secured booty to the estimated
amount OF $3.50.
William Bishop, aged % brakeman on
the Omaha road, was drowned at Shell
lake while in swimming. Bishops home
was Calumet, Mich.
Alfred Lamb, a small boy of West
Salem, was drowned in the Vernon val
iVy MN ldSS- ne "duc out anu SOl Dc- d
yond his depth. He could not swim
Donald A. Cameron, aaprominent citi
zen of Eau Claire, was found dead in a
hotel at Sioux City, Iowa. 1t is believ-
ed death resulted from the intense heat
Edward Kannenberg an engineer at
Ives station, was boiled by hot water and
steam which was turned into a boiler he
was cleaning. He is alive, but fright
fully injured.
Developments in regard to the discov-
cry of natural gas at Marinette have
been promising, and a company is to be
formed to make n thorough investigation
A number of wells will be sunk.
Ole Newhousc, an old employee of the
Omaha Railroad Company at Millston,
was struck by the fast mail, while sitting
on the platform. He was instantly killed
his head being severed from his body.
AS result of habeas corpus proceed
ings Youman Mehls of Chippewa Falls
has surrendered his G-year-old son Will
liam to the Eau Claire attorney for the
boys mother, Mrs. Springer of st. Paul.
II. C. Hackney, president of the Wal
worth County Telephone Company, has
ers for a farmers township telephone sys-
TEN for the town and village of East
Troy.
While Fred Welsh, a farmer residing
a mile from Altoona, was hitching up a
team of horses they became unmanage-
able. He tried to stop them from run
ming away and they trampled him to
death.
I l., t.. I
was stealing an eaget from its nest on
a marsh near Horizon, he was attacked
by the mother eagle and was frightfully
beaten and clawed by the enraged par
cnt bird
Herman Burdt, late of the Third in
fantry, who lost an arm in the Philip
pine war, was to have been married to
Miss Schultz of Eau Claire but has dis
appeared. lie recently received $10S
pension money.
The village of Veefkind narrowly es
capped total destruction by fire. FLAMES
started in the yard of the Neefllind Man.
ufacturing Company, destroying over 49,
600 worth of finished stock and scorch-
ing the mill badly
The Big Lake Lumber Company's saw
HllI, located Two ana Il HAIL ullleS SOutLA
of Three Lakes, was burned to the
ground The loss is about $4,000, with
insurance for about one-ffth of the value.
The company will rebuild.
Frek lack, switchman in the Osh-
kosh yards of the Northwestern Railway,
received injuries from which he died Il
few hours later. The cars ran over both
legs and he did not long survive the am
putation which the doctors considered
necessary.
Michael, the 16-ycar-old son of Matthias
Steinmetz of the town of Polk, was
drowned in Little Cedar lake while in
bathing. The family had gone to Fed
cries summer resort to spend the day,
and the father, mother and sister watch
ed him battle.
The dead body of Frank Selner, a
homesteader, residing near Rhinelander,
was discovered by a farmer lying near
the Northwestern tracks. The mans
neck was broken and he had evidently
been thrown forty feet after being struck
by the Ashland limited.
John Finn, an employe of the Wiscon-
sin and Michigan Railway car Shops, was
fatally injured at Mariuette He was
Il
sledge hammer slipped off the handle and
struck him in the head, fracturing his
skull
Capt. Thompson, in charge of the La
Crosse harbor improvements, says the
$1,000 which was appropriated for the
La Crosse harbor will be more than
enough to complete the job. 1t is expect
ed that the harbor will have been com
pletcd within two months.
Frank Byrne, foreman of the construc-
ton crew of the Milwaukee road, while
working near Lake City, accidentally
took plunge from a high bluff down
sixty feet, bat will recover. He was
standing on a ledge when Il blast of pow
der went off behind him, hurting huge
rock in his direction. 1t struck him in
the shoulder, pushing him off down the
abyss.
Victor Maoney, aged 10 years, fell into
the Eau Pleine river ut kenosha and
would have drowned but for the presence