Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-11-16


brated the hftieth anniversary of their
wedding in Milwaukee. Mr.. Layton came
here from England in 1S43, and amassed
a fortune.
Clarence Hicks, % years of age, was
Instantly killed at Springfield Crossing by
Fan east-bound freight. He was unmar-
ried and lived with his mother one mile
west of Elkhorn.
By a collision between two freight
trains on the Northwestern road in West
Bend two engines were nearly demoish-
ed and the loss to the company is esti-
mated at $4,000.
The Cheeseman formerly the Holmes
& SMITH sawmll in Wittenberg was de-
stroyed by fire. The lumber yard was
saved. The loss is estimated at $4,000,
with an insurance of $780,
J. w. Close, a farmer living near Chip
pewa Falls, fell from a building a dis
lance of thirty feet, striking the ground
on his back. He sustained internal in
juries which may prove fatal.
Two prisoners, William Pickett and
Edward Payson, broke Jail at Neillsville
by saving off one of the bars with a back
saw. Pickett was awaiting trial on a
charge of burglary and Payson on
charge of forgery.
a. 2. button, one of the pioneers of
southern Wisconsin, died in Racine. Mr..
button built the first piers and elevators
in Racine and in early years was promi-
nently identified with the grain handling
and shipping interests.
Two masked men entered the home Of
?. j. Gilmore, an aged farmer residing
four miles from Appleton. about 6 O'Clock
in the evening, pounded him into insensi-
bility and securing a bank certificate of
$500 and $86 in currency.
Miss Maud McLind, a welI-known So
prano soloist, now singing in st. Mary's
Catholic Church in Chicago, surprised
her La Crosse relatives and friends by
wiring that she married DR.. Charles
Wells of Des Moines, Iowa.
At party given by the Misses Loretta
and Etfie Cummins at La Crosse, Alice
Cummings dress sleeve caught fire from
a pumpkin jack-o'- lantern, and the flames
quickly enveloped her whole dress. w.
Henschel and other gentlemen there
finally put out the fire after she was bad
ly burned. The young gentlemen who
rescued her from an awful death were
burned about the hands.
Jesse Gray, a well-known engineer,
and Walter Heck, son of a fisherman,
hung for several hours to the upturned
keel of their duck boat out in the bay
off Marinette, in momentary expectation
of drowning They had been duck hunt
ing and the boat was capsized and they
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from shore. Henry Roe, fisherman,
finally heard their cries for help and res
cued them.
The will of Delephine Francois, the
Montrose man who committed suicide.
was filed in the Probate Court at Madi-
son. 1t is an unusual instrument, mas
much as it was drawn Sept. 4, the day
after his wife had applied for divorce,
and leaves the homestead, 120 acres, to
the woman. The whole estate is valued
at $4,000, $4,000 of which was in
money. The money he left to be divided
among his seven nephews.
John J. Dapper, a member of Mayor
Roses party atsShaWano, is missing, and
it is feared that he has persisted. Dap
per, who has been connected with the
AlIlWduhSe water department 1OI IA
teen years, went out in duck boat af-
ter ducks, and shortly after a heavy
storm swept over the lake. Two other
men who went out at the same time man
aged to get back to camp, but nothing
has been seen of Dapper. In the morn
ing his skiff and cartridge bags were
found
Riding on a bicycle with a dead man
on his back was the narrowing expert
ence of e. S. Wilson, a New London
man. Wilson is book agent, and while
en- his way to Hortonyile to canvass, one
mile out of the town, he met man
staggering along the road. The stranger
told him he was sick and Wilson invited
him to get on the wheel. Then he hur-
riedly sped to town for medical assist
ance. The sick man occupied the seat,
feet hanging free, with arms around Will
sons neck. The latter allowed his weight
to rest on the crossbar while pedaling.
Receiving no responsive action to his
command to dismount and failing to ex-
tricate himself from the mans grip when
town was reached, Wilson got off and
discovered TO his horror that the man
was dead. \ coroner's jury found death
was due to heart disease.
Daniel S. Holcomb who mysteriously
disappeared from his home in Baraboo
nearly year ago, has been found He is
now with his daughter, Mrs. l.. Pease,
in Chicago On Nov II last year Mr..
Holcomb went to Mr.. Kerfoot's summer
homes in Dellon to meet man from
whom he expected to purchase some cat
tie. While waiting for his man he went
to the Wisconsin river, few rods dis
tant, to fish. AS he failed to return after
several hours, search was made and from
indications along the river bank it was
supposed he fell into the river and
drowned. Later it was learned that he
crossed the river and boarded train
on the Milwaukee and st. Paul road, but
from there all trace of him was lost. Mr..
Hocomb has roamed about the country
for nearly year and can give no account
of himself from the time he left the her-
foot farm until he arrived in Chicago.
Carl Schwartz the abductOr of Emma