Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-08-10

IlSntnlnT.
Arthur Lovenson, an 11-months-old
child residing in Mount Pleasant, died
from the effects of drinking fly poison.
frankie CASTILLO and Berten Rogers,
both II years of age, the sons of wealthy
residents of Racine, were drowned in the
Root river.
Mrs. Martin Cherek, of Amigo, was
killed by lightning while holding her
baby in her arms The child was not
even shocked
Fire did $1,000 damage to the Iiel
block at Beloit. The upper floor con-
sisted of flats and Charles Rouse had
saloon and billiard hall on the ground
floor
Negotiations have just ended for the
purchase of the entire capital stock OF
| the Chicago brass works of kenosha by
the American Brass Company. The ke-
nosha plant will be enlarged.
Lightning wrecked two barns owned
by Anton La Plante near Ladysmith.
The buildings and their contents, includ-
ing twenty-eight tons of hay, wagons,
machinery, etc, were destroyed.
Emma L. Mantell, alias Emma Ora
ham, a domestic at the Lakeside Hotel,
Delavan Lake, was found dead. The
woman was from Chicago. A coroners
| jury found she died from natural causes.
While Main street at Rice Lake was
thronged with pedestrians, II. A. Sapp
| shot and mortally wounded w. III. Coffin.
| There had been a feud between the two
men, both of whom are prominent cltl-
ZenS.
| Mrs. Armon Armonson and her GRIP
pied son, 8 years old, persisted in fire
| which consumed their home near New
| Glarus. Other members of the family
and some visitors escaped with slight in
| juries.
Joseph Hummer, an employee of the
| Wisconsin River paper mill below Ste
vens Point, was almost instantly killed
| by getting caught in the rolls. His head
was smashed. He was about IL years
of age.
During an electrical storm the barn OF
| Frank Whitrock, an extensive melon
farmer, near Grand Rapids, was struck
by lightning and the contents, including
horses and cattle, were completely de-
| stroyed.
az "leuNOou nay ItlIIHS, dScu O, az
| cidentally shot his sister, who is three
years his Junior The bullet went
| through one of her hands, penetrated her
| cheek and lodged in her neck. The missile
| has been extracted.
Harry Hendricks, William Clark and
| James Longton, held for n burglary at
| Thore, escaped from the county jail at
| Neilsville by cutting the paddock to a
| steel cage with hack saw and prying
| the window bars open.
The postotce at Sofa was robbed by
three men, They obtained scarcely any
| thing for their trouble. The robbers
stole horses and two of the men have
| been seen west of there. The third one
| rode toward Scandinavia
Testimony given at the coroner's in
| quest on the death Of Charles Edward
| Penick the banker of Charlton, Iowa,
| which was held at Racine, showed that
| the drowning was accidental and not Il
| case Of suicide, as was believed by many
When the Burlington passenger train
| left the La Crosse depot the other morn
| ing the engineer was Mortified to see
| what appeared to be the body of Il small
| child on the track. The train went over
| it, and dispatch was sent in from the
next station. Doctors rushed to the
| scene only to find the mangled remains
of a large wax doh. 1t had been drop
ped there by girl on an evening train.
August Braucr, HORSEPOWER of RAJ
| cine, has the distinction Of having been
struck by two passenger trains running
| at a high rate of speed, being thrown Il
| long distance and coming out alive. The
| first time was six weeks ago and he did
| not receive n ratch. The second CXpe-
| rience was more recent He was picked
up for dead, but in a moment opened his
| eyes and smiled. His left leg was brok-
en-, ankle sprained and he is cut and in
jurcd internally, but will live.
| 1t is now definitely decided that the
| double tracking of the NorthwCs stern sys-
tenn from Fond du Lac to ApplettA juno
ton will not be completed this summer.
| SO much other work has been found nee
| cssary in connection with the new yards
and other improvements, the change OF
| grade and rebalasting of track in the Vi
cinty, that it has been decided that the
double track will be extended this year
only from Fond du Lac to the cutoff
|
| ed next season, however.
The entire plant of the Wnnebago
| Traction Company, including the Oshkosh
! Electric Street Railway system Of sew
cntccn miles, the mternrban line of thr-
teen miles, connecting the Oshkosh and
| Neenah Electric park, and Park line of
four miles and other property, is yirtu-
| ally sold to the Milwaukee, Electric Rail-
! way and Light Company. The sale Of
the system is important in that it con-
| stitutes an important link in the propos-
ed electric railway system from Chicago
! to Green Bay, a distance of 1913 miles,
of which lines aggregating LOG miles are
now in operation.
Thomas Whelan, who owns an eighty
acre farm on the south side of Holy Hill,
| Washington County, reports that while
repairing the interior of his lime kiln
| he noticed gold in some stones that were
| loose on the floor. Whelan, who is an
old forty miner and knows gold when he