Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-15
James Garner died at Beloit from the
effects Of drinking carbolic acid by mis-

george M. MONSTER complained to the
sheriff that his jewelry store In De For
est was looted by thieves and property
valued at $500 taken.
NJ. Gottfried, the retired millionaire
brewer of Chicago, who has lived on his
farm on the shores of Elkhart lake for
the last twelve years, is dead.
A tramp by the name of Charles Cur
It's, supposed to be from Waldo, died in
the hospital at Marshfeld, the result Of
injuries received in q row at Auburndale.
Albert Morawetz, aged SO years. and
a well-known Bohemian resident of Ra-
cine County, fell dead in his saloon.
Death was due to paralysis of the heart.
Thomas Scott of Topside was shot by
hunter who took him for bear. Scott's
shoulders and chest were punctured with
three bullets. It is thought he will live.
Victor Taylor, 10 years old, Of Rio,
was found dead in corn field, where he
had gone to attend to some traps set for
coons. Heart disease is supposed to have
been the cause of death.
Fast freight No. 289 on the Chicago
and Northwestern road crashed into one
of the cars of the Interurban Traction
Company at Neenah, injuring three of
the passengers and demolishing the car
Frederick Penninger forgot and used
both hands while cleaning as arc light at
the Calumet and Hecla power plant in
Calumet. The shock killed him. He was
~ years old and leaves his wife and u
daughter.
While working at the top of 5O-foot
pole in Appleton, George Kitzmiller, an
employe of the Wisconsin Traction, Heat,
Light and Power Company, came in con-
tact with a live wire and was instantly
killed by electrocution.
An unknown man, q stranger, who APP
peared to be a machinist, was picked up
in Kenosha near the harbor bridge He
said he feared he had been poisoned. He
was taken to the Commercial Hotel,
where he expired in great pain.
julius Fehrman's barn in Sun Prairie
township was destroyed by fire. Two
horses were burned and large amount
of hay and straw. The loss is ST 800,
partially covered by insurance. The orr
gin of the fire is unknown.
The Wisconsin potato crop is reported
to be exceedingly large and the railroads
are preparing to haul more than the usual
Embarrassing district of the State. In
some places the average yield is 200 bush
els to the acre and the present price at
wholesale range from % to % cents
bushel.
The State free employment bureau st
West Superior is now receiving orders
for boys for general homework. Many
housekeepers are discouraged over trying
to get girls to work for more than few
weeks at a time in one place and want to
try boys in their teens at the work. 1t
is believed that the plan will work we'll
if the boys will prove willing.
Harry Bausfeld, drug clerk, 21 years
of age, who died in Oshkosh Of typhoid
fever, informed his parents on his death
bed that he was the husband of Miss
Clara Yoos, whom he had secretly mar
ried last June The widow is employed
in a store and the couple had decided to
keep their wedding secret until they felt
able to commence keeping house.
Two sons of George Abrahamson of
Racine, armed with a rifle, went into the
country to shoot. In some manner the
weapon was accidentally discharged in
the hands of one brother, and bullet
struck the other brother in the back, in
flicting what Dr. f. J. Pope, the attend
ing physician, believes will prove fatal
wound The injured boy is II years old.
Peter Grant, farmer, in the town of
Grover, shot and killed his wife and
then committed suicide. No motive is
known for the crime. Mrs Grant was
sitting in the kitchen when her husband
entered the room carrying shotgun. lis
eyes looked wild and without a word of
warning he shot her through the heart.
He then went to the barn and sent
bullet into his brain. 1t is thought be
was insane.
The recent discovery of what appear
cd to be an inexhaustible deposit Of as
bestos in a tract of land in proximity to
Stevens Point will no doubt in the very
near future result in bringing that city
again into prominence as the market CEN
ter for another product. \ company is
now being formed to secure control of the
land on which the mineral is located, with
the view of developing the mine and Dlac-
ing the product on the market.
Bridget Brennan, aged IS, a wealthy
Baraboo spinster, died of blood poison
ing as the result of an attack by hogs
recently. With her apronful of apples
she was walking through an inclosure in
which was a drove of hogs. She was
followed by the animals and taking Up
a stick struck one of the hogs, making it
soueal badly. Several of the larger hogs
Immediately attacked her. knocking her
down, the animals set their fangs into
her flesh.
Peter Heilman, a Sturgeon Bay barber,
made a desperate effort to commit sui
eide. Standing before glass in his shop.
he placed the muzzle of a revolver to his
forehead and pulled the trigger, the bull
let coming out back of his ear. This hav-
ing foiled of its purpose, he cut his wrists
and throat with razor and. strange to
say, even this did not terminate his ex-
istence, he being found two hours after
the deed was done lying on the floor in
pool of blood. He left note saying,
II die for girl"
Within a short time the big bridge at
KiIbourn, on the line of the Milwaukee
road, one of the longest and highest in
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