Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-27

Rev. Olympia Brown-W Willis Of Racine
| as president.
Henry Carlson of GAINESVILLE was held
up on his way to the Northwestern depot
| at Sparta and robbed of $25. He vas
badly battered up.
Beloit College has engaged Abram Ray
Tyler of Brooklyn, n. Y, to be choir
| master and head of the musical depart
| ment of the college.
Chester Winans, a young man of Alb
| rams had his thumb nearly chewed off
| by horse that had been bitten by a dog
suffering from the rabies.
Dwight Wales 60 years of age, one Of
| the most prominent farmers in the town
of North Geneva, was gored to death by
an Infatuated bull on his farm.
! Outside capitalists are figuring with
President Agen of the One Hundred
Thousand Club for the erection of big
| packing plant in West Superior.
Contracts have been let for the cree
ton of the Pabst Hotel and Theater in
Kenosha, which is to be built by the
Pabst Brewing Company Of Milwaukee.
The building will cost more than 100000.
Charles Lange, farmer residing three
miles west Of Racine, suffered loss Of
$4,000 by fire His home was entirely
consumed and the members of his family
narrowly escaped being burned to death.
John Hoalz, a business man of Marsh
| field, has been lost in the swamp lands
| in the northern part of the Stats for sew
eral days. He separated from the other
| members of hunting party and never re-
| turned.
Frank Uher, who attempted to COM
NIT suicide at Prairie du Chen, was
| brought before Judge Curran and adjudg-
| ed insane. He was a prominent business
man and became respondent over i'll
| health.
1t is rumored, and apparently on good
| authority, that the $500 Line" will ex-
tend its road north from Frederic to con-
meet with a logging raj. DAD in the south
ern part of Douglas C0uny, which runs
| into Superior.
Frank Ramthun, aged q years, who
resides near OsceOla. accidentally shot
himself while exhibiting hammerless
revolver. Death followed almost instan-
| taneously. The shot entered the right
| side of the head
Articles of incorporation have been pre-
| pared for the Stanley Mining and Invest
ment Company, organized for the pur-
| pose of developing the Merritt ore fields
| north of Stevens Point. The capital stock
is placed at $25OOOO.
Mrs. Clara Brinkman has brought suit
| for divorce against Harry Brinkman, a
! well-knOwn business man of RaeiQe. Mrs.
| Brinllman alleges that her husband has
| been cruel and inhuman toward her and
has not supported her.
Johnny McCloud, aged 10, of Vinegar
Hall, accidentally knocked a bottle Of
| powder over on the stove and it exploded,
wrecking the top of the stove and de-
stroying the sight of one eye completely
| and injuring the other.
Miss Selma Engebretson and Seger
Gryttenholm of La Crosse, who disap-
peared some time ago, did not elope, as
was reported at the time. The young
lady was visiting relatives and this led to
| the report being circulated.
The G. A. Potter department store and
| postoffice in Pittsville was entered by
| burglars, the door of the safe blown off
| with dynamite. Postage stamps to the
| amount Of 5000, also several dollars
worth of pennies, were secured. No other
| goods are missing.
While threshing was being done at
| the farm of Albert Hawkins, in the town
| of Winfield, a spark from the engine set
| fire to the stacks. The blaze made such
rapid Roadway that it was impossible to
| save the separator. One of the horses
was also severely burned.
A young man giving Alfred Lowell as
L: +I1
| showing La Crosse to be his destination
was picked up along the track of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul road near
Peterson so badly injured that he died a
| short time after. He fell from a train
and was run over.
James Johnson. an cX-mail carrier and
| janitor of DANA Hall of Racine, who dis
| appeared several weeks ago, has returned
to the city, only to find his wife nearly
| Frustrated and with her little children
| turned out into the street and dependent
upon charitable friends. The man is be-
lieved to have been deranged
AS an experiment, the Fenwood Lum-
Der Company last spring planted two
| acres of its farm near FenwOOd to tobac-
co and a crop of it has just been har-
vested amounting to about 10000 pounds.
! Sheds have been erected for the curing
process and an expert is now on the
| grounds to see that the crop is properly
| cured after which the value can be de-
termined.
4 skeleton of a man about 6 feet tall
was found by workmen while digging a
trench for the water works mains at
Chippewa Falls. The case in which the
body had been buried was all decompoS-
ed, but the bones were in good state of
| preservation, although they show age. 1t
is estimated that the skeleton, which lay
face downward, has been there for hun
dred years.
A rope holding a swinging scaffold up
on which two painters, Harry Hunt and
George Ermatinger. were at work at the
South Side Manufacturing Company
mill in Chippewa Falls broke. Ermatin-
ger fell thirty-five feet to the roof Of the
| boiler room and narrowly escaped beng
fatally injured. His arm was broken.
Hunt grabbed hook and hung on until
employees pulled him through window.
The City Council of Sheboygan passed