Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-06-14

| cases have been reported to the health
department that the most rigid quaran-
tine measures are being taken.
| Charles Lynch, supposed to be a Mil
| waukee lad, was killed by a Northwest
ern freight train two miles from Mequon.
| He was trying to steal a ride and fell I'M
der the wheels. The boy was 16 years
| old.
| Reginald McCusker, star half-back on
the championship football team which
represented the Oshkosh high school in
1899, died at st. Mary's Hospital there,
| where he was recently operated upon for
appendicitis.
Miss Amanda Hurd, the well-known
artist, died at Baraboo from heart fail
ure. She came from a family of noted
persons and had given her life to the
brush and easel.
The county board of supervisors has
accepted the new court house just COM
pleted for Gates County, at Ladysmith,
and a committee Of the board has been
appointed to arrange for grand open
ing ball to be given June IS.
The 15-year-old son of Peter Peterson,
residing three miles southwest of Dun
barton, accidentally shot himself with
22-caliber rifle. The bullet entered his
leg below the knee and passing down,
lodged in the bottom of his foot.
Rose Welack of Dousman was killed
by train. She was fishing with her
9-year-old brother from the railroad
bridge and did not see or hear the train
until it was too late. Her brother, how
ever, saw it just in time to save himself.
Frank Baer, employed as foreman of
the press room of the Courier Printing
Company of Fond du Lac, attempted sui
! eide by taking poison. He wrote a let
ter before he took the poison, in which he
babe goodby to his fellow workmen. No
motive for the deed can be learned.
The heirs of the late Leopold Mann of
Two Rivers have presented the city with
a fountain to be placed in front of the
Joseph Mann library as memorial of
the deceased. The conditions imposed by
the donors are that the location shall be
permanent and that the city shall supply
the water and light and keep it in re-
pair.
For the first time in forty-seven years,
Attorney James Freeman, who is among
the oldest members Of the Winnebago
County bar, and his brother, George Is.
Freeman, a California mine owner, met
in Oshkosh on a recent afternoon. The
last time they saw each other was when
both were young, and each had an event
full life before him.
The fight for the possession of Chester
Hazel Petersen, the 7-year-old son Of
Myrtle Petersen, deceased, which has
occupied the attention of the Circuit and
e g., II
months, has been settled. The relatives
recently met in Kenosha and decided
that the child should spend a portion Of
the time with the grandmother, Mrs. L.
Andrews of that city, and the remainder
with the father, Charles Petersen of Ra-
cine.
D. T. Daley, of Marinette, who has re-
turned from the Sturgeon River drive,
tells of a narrow escape of an Indian,
who was caught in a big jam and swept
down the river The Indian, known as
Doc" was at the top of the jam. Sud
denly the logs started to move. The
crew escaped for the shore, but Doc"
was carried down the river with the
twisting and whirling pines. He managed
to remain on top. He finally succeeded in
escaping and making the shore.
When the heavily loaded passenger
packet Dubuque of the Diamond 10 line
pulled away from the levee in La Crosse
she was caught in the swift current, and
before her powerful engines could be put
in operation crashed against the iron
wedge-shaped protection of the bridge
pier. Her side was badly damaged. I'm
mediately after the accident woman on
the boat became panic stricken, and it
took the combined efforts of the officers
and crew to prevent serious trouble.
W. B. Babcock of Oshkosh a music
dealer and Grand Army man, will be APP
pointed assistant superintendent of the
State reformatory at Green Bay to sue
ceed w. II. Thomas, resigned. Former
Deputy Warden NJ. Harvey, at present
of Chicago, will succeed Captain ]. II.
Flaherty, the Salvation Army man, as
deputy warden at the State penitentiary
at Waupun. The prison is at present
being managed by A. g. Nelson of the
State board of control. Mr.. McClaugnry
will leave Waupun for the East, where
it is understood he has an appointment
coming.
w. H. McNelty of Ladysmith has Just
returned from Hawkins. where some gold
discoveries were made recently. He pros
pected on his own land and found the
yellow metal in seemingly paying quanti-
ties near where Walsh and Higgins just
made their discovery.
Capt. s. A. Day of the steamer Chaun-
cey Lamb has been made the defendant
in a damage suit which has been insti-
tuted by John Melvin, a riverman, who
claims that Capt. Day committed an as
sault upon him, as a result of which he
is now confined in the st, Francis Hos
pital at La Crosse.