Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-30

Is. d. SCalldfQ general meECuaHulSe
store at Altoona burned. The damage
is estimated at $4,000; covered by in
surance
Joseph Busert at WATERFOWL, filled his
mouth with powder and then placed
! fuse between his lips and lit it. His
head was blown off.
August Hagen of Lafayette township
reports that while he and his family were
away at a party thieves broke into his
house and took $50 and lady's gold
watch.
Louise Schroeder, who was sent to pris-
Oh June 1G 1894 from Manitowoc Coun-
ty for poisoning her husband, died IN
Waupun. She was serving a fourteen
year sentence.
Paul Sabo of Racine has received dis
patch informing him that his nephew,
Steve BoIock, and his comrade, Andrew
Russie. were drowned while fishing IN a
small lake near Muskegon, Mich.
The vestry of the Stevens Point Epis-
coDal Church extended unanimous call
to Rev DR.. Jenner, archdeacon OF Ash
land, to succeed Bishop Weller Of Fond
du Lac as rector Of the local church.
Frederick Bingham, laborer, aged 50
years, shot himself dead at Withee. "A
justice who was issuing peace warrant
for his arrest heard the shot and found
him dead. A jury returned a verdict of
suicide.
A man named Anton Spindler, Ger
man, was found dead in 4 barn at Marsh
field. He was a chimney sweep, about
SO years Of age. Nothing is known OF his
relatives. Death was caused by heart
disease.
In Ashland Col John II. knight has
commenced suit against ]. S. Stearns of
the Stearns Lumber Company for $780,
O00, making a demand for portion of
the profits from saving Bad River Indian
reservation timber.
Henry Schlichting, ST., one of the old
est and most prominent merchants of
Sheboygan Falls, died after an illness Of
eight weeks. He was 66 years old and
was native of Mecklenberg Schwerin,
Germany He came to Wisconsin in
1858.
Frank Littlefield, aged %, a mill Ia
borer in the yards of the Brown Bros.
Lumber Company at Rhinelander, receiV-
ed notice from an aunt living in Waus-
hara County that by the death of
grandmother living near Berlin he had
inherited $4,000
James Carruthers, former we'll
known hotel man of Milwaukee, COM
mitted suicide by jumping into the river.
Mr.. Carruthers was proprietor of the
Kirby House for many years. Despon-
dency is said to have been the cause.
He was 46 years old.
The other day Mrs. Kern, a young
Marinette widow, awoke from a sleep
which had lasted forty hours. All efforts
to arouse the sleeping woman had proved
futile until a physician succeeded in
awaking her. She does not feel any the
worse for her strange experience.
The strike in the lumber yards at
Rhinelander has been settled, the men re-
ceiving the increase of Is cents day
asked for. AS the lumber after it leaves
the saw and goes to the yard is handled
by the thousand, the contractor and not
the mill firm suffers by the strike.
A four-foot boiler in the bathroom of
J. S. L. Wink's barber shop at Lodi ex-
ploded. The boiler was in the basement
and tore through two floors, badly wreck
The ground floor was occupied by the
Man1iville Furniture Company which
sustained considerable loss.
Thomas j. Smith, an old resident of
Stevens Point, was fatally injured while
trying 70 cross the Wisconsin Central
tracks near his home. He was going be-
tween two cars when a switch engine
showed one end of the train on to him,
crushing several of his ribs, his right an
kle was broken and he was otherwise
bruised.
At Oshkosh in the Circuit Court Paul
reynolds, the partner of Curtis Pulliam
of Milwaukee N the Percy store robbery,
was sentenced to prison for three years.
This is Identical with the sentence Pull
liam received. Frank Mondl, convicted
of stealing wire from the Winnebago
Traction Company, was sent to Waupun
for one, year.
Ben Simon, foreman Of the Racine
Boat Manufacturing Company, is in
critical condition. While at work in the
wood department his clothing caught in
the shafting causing him to be whirled
around a dozen times. His right arm
was broken in FIVE places, his right leg
badly crushed He was terribly bruised
and internally injured. He managed to
catch hold of piece of wood nailed to
the ceiling and struggled for several min
utes before the accident was discovered
and the machinery stopped.
Walter Ketchen, 7-year-old boy, was
accidentally shot by his brother, aged Ia,
while the boys were playing in the vicin-
ity of the family home, about two miles
southeast Of Fond du Lac The older
boy had secured rife, and not knowing
that it was loaded, he snapped the trig-
ger. The weapon was discharged and the
bullet entered Walters face just below
the left eye, apparently lodging near the
throat. No blood vessels Were severed,
and the physicians say there is no reason