Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-05

the pioneer settlers of Monroe and at one
time State Senator from that district. is
dead.
Henry Smith Pritchett of Boston has
been chosen as president of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin to succeed Charles
Kendall Adams.
Gustave Husting, a brother of Pete
| dustlng, the crack American League
pitcher, sustained fracture of leg in
ball game at Mayville.
Fl. Fl. Rand of Wisconsin has been an
| pointed assistant superintendent of the
salary and allowance bureau of the Post
office Department in Washington.
Gen. Edward S. Bragg has started for
Havana to take uD his duties as consul
general. He was joined at Chicago by
his private secretary, Harry NJ Robbins
of Madison.
/ The Stevens Point Textile Starch and
Gum Company has been declared insol-
vent. The failure is said to be due to
the high price of potatoes during the
past few years.
Charles Jensen, aged 10 years, was
attacked by strange dog near his home
at Racine and terribly bitten. The dog
was driven off after a hard fight. Ply
sicans state that the boy will live.
Mrs. Frankie Willis, wife of w. H.
| Willis, a barber in Chicago, pleaded gull
ty at Racine to the charge of horse
stealing and was sentenced to serve two
years in the penitentiary at Waupun.
Charles A. Noyes, agent of the Mil
waukee road at Kilbourn, died of heart
! failure. Mr.. NOyes was one Of the old
est agents in the employ of the company,
having held the Kilbourn position since
! 1868
Fidel Kneifel of New Burgh Corners
is dead, the result of drinking pail and
a half of water. Kneifel, who was 80
years old, fell from barn some time ago
and afterward he displayed queer antics
at times.
A letter from Senator Quarles states
that there is now no doubt that Presi
dent Roosevelt and a portion of his cab
met, together with the Wisconsin con-
gressional delegation, will visit La Crosse
Sept. %.
At Osceola while Oscar Fisk's 6-year-
| old son and another boy aged II were
playing with a rifle, Fisk's boy was shot
through the stomach, the ball passing
clear through, and it is feared the boy
will die from the wound.
AT Hurley, in a fight between half a
dozen Finlanders, Jacob MENDOZA shot
and fatally wounded a man whose name
is unknown. MENDOZA fed to the woods,
but was captured and lodged in jail The
Firms came from Ironwood.
Alvey and Hobart Eimerman, brothers,
aged IA years and 8 years, were run
down by a Wells street electric car on
theWauwatosa line at Milwaukee and
instantly killed. The boys were crossing
the track on their way to a swim.
The Amigo Manufacturing Company's
saw mill and stave factory at Kent was
destroyed by fire. The origin of the fire
is unknown, but it is believed to have
caught from sparks which came from the
woods where farmers were burning
brush.
Albert Behling of Pound, while remov-
ing a double-bitted ak from the handle
was struck in the eye by a piece of iron
| from the ak. Blood poisoning set in
and he had to go to Milwaukee and have
the injured eye removed in order to save
the other one.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. J. Steuerwald of Che
|
ceiving the announcement of the death
of their daughter Alice. she being in
stantly killed by a fall. The young lady
was member of a theatrical company
playing in Albany.
| l.. B. Hastings, who has been agent
for the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
road in Neenah for several years, has
resigned his position and left for Suwa-
nee, Tenn, where he will enter the Uni
versity of the South and study for orders
in the Episcopal Church.
Laurence V. Frazier of Viola gradu-
ated from West Point Military Academy
with high honors. He ranked among
the first seven for his four years work.
AS a result of his good work he is entitled
to a position in the engineers corps with
a salary of 81, 800 per year.
John Lindahl. an employe of one of the
railroad construction camps near Chlppe-
wa Falls, while returning to the camp
fell from the Wisconsin Central kali
road bridge upon a pier, six feet down.
| This saved him from falling into the
river below and going over the falls.
Charles Mishank, employed as lumber
piler in the yards of George E. Wood at
Woodboro. waited until the mill whistles
blew at 6 o'clock on 4 recent night be-
fore he committed suicide by cutting his
throat from ear to ear. Some fellow
workmen in the yard saw the man fall to
the ground and when they reached his
side they found that he had ended his
life.
Charles Woodman, a young business
man of Niagara, went to Marinette on an
excursion alone He returned with Miss
Winnifred O'Connell of Marinette as his
bride. The young couple had been post
poning their wedding on account eff par
entail objection, but the groom, hFe
young Lochinvar, stole his BRIDE away
and went to Menominee, where the cere-
mony was performed by priest, and
they returned to the groom's home man
and wife.
Axy Walker, the 15-year-old girl who
mos drowned with her cOmDanlOn, Maude