Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-03-01


A fire in Charles Albers furnishing
goods and fur store in Eau Claire caus-
ed damage of $4,000.
Villas Follett of Coloma has announced
to the business men that he will open
bank in that village about June 1.
Hugh Monroe. aged ~ years, of Ike
nosha, died suddenly in the railway sta
ton while waiting for a train for Racine.
Death was due to heart disease.
La Crosse is without a legally qualified
justice of the peace owing to the failure
of officials to file the necessary bonds, and
the fact may void all their decisions.
Frank Clark of Washington, D. c.,
student at Racine College, was badly in
jured by the caving in of the bank while
walking along the shore of Lake Michi-
gan.
Fire destroyed the residence Of Henry
Nurzer in Mishicott, causing a loss of
$1,000, partially covered by insurance. A
defective chimney is supposed to have
been the cause.
Clayton Marsh, a Marinette young
man. was killed in a camp near Pembine.
A falling log struck him on the head,
fracturing his skull, and death resulted
almost instantly.
Miss Jessie Kirscher of Menomonie
had one of her eyes taken out and will
probably lose the other. Some time ago
she picked a pimple on her, eyelid with
a pin and inflammation set in
Byron Neff, manager of the Blair
apiary, in the town of Menasha, who
was run over by a Wisconsin Central
freight train just west of Neenah died
from the effects of his injuries.
The plant of the Marshfeld Tissue Pa
per Company has been purchased by the
Wausau Paper Mills Company and the
latter will move the machinery to Bro
kaw, where its mills are located.
The preliminary hearing of Mrs Anna
McGill, charged with setting fire to the
Marshtield Bedding Companys plant,
has been concluded and Mrs. McGill was
bound over to the May term of the Cir
cult Court
Capt c. II. Russell of Berlin. past de-
partment commander or the G. A. r., has
been appointed to succeed Col. e. III.
Gray as State pension agent in the Office
of the Adjutant General. The salary
is $115 per month
While Henry OFT, an empIoye of the
Kroner Hardware Company at La
Crosse, was returning from work he was
assaulted and severely injured by band
of masked men. He was robbed of
small amount of money.
C. H. Allen of Crevitz, a cruiser for
the Oconto Lumber Company, who came
from MAMMA, Mich, tells of an encoun-
ter he had with five wolves while alone
in the woods. He says the wolves made
for him and came to within ten PAGES.
He made for the leaders of the pack and
after a brief struggle in which he used
his ak to good effect the creatures ran
from him.
Fond du Lac was shaken by an explo-
sion the other evening. A moment later
an alarm of fire was sounded from the
Winnebago Furniture Company's plant.
1t was found that the boiler at the plant
had blown up and that the engine room
and frame building adjoining were COM
plete wrecks. The explosion started
blaze which was soon eXtinguished by
the fremen.
The boy who was drowned while skat-
ing near the Duluth ship entry has been
found to be Walter Beese of West Supe-
rior. The fact that the Beese boy left
home to go skating in that neighborhood,
and has not yet returned, makes it almost
a certainty that he is the drowned lad.
The boy broke through the thin ice on the
outside of the entry, and although sew
eral hundred people saw the accident, no
one could help him.
Fred Westover. a young man Of 20
years, was instantly killed at Nekoosa.
He was employed as third hand on No.
3 machine by the NekooSa Paper Com
pany In handing the paper to the back
tender he leaned over a little too far and
was caught between the two rolls of pa
per- which were both running from him,
with about two inches space between
them. and his skull was crushed to a
pulp, causing instant death.
A mysterious kidnapping story comes
from Pembine and Niagara. a woman
by the name of Mrs. ]. Meyers drove to
Niagara, secured her 11-year-old boy and
then drove back to Anderson's Spur, near
Pembine. There she tagged the noon
passenger train. left the carriage and got
aboard the train for Chicago. Her hus-
band is a well-known employe of the
Kimberly-Clark Company. The boy was
home alone while the father was away
at work The woman was away with
the lad before Mr.. Meyers knew the boy
was missing.
The State law taxing inheritances was
held to be unconstitutional and invalid
by the Supreme Court in the appeal IF
the heirs of the late John Black of Mil
waukee. The court holds that the pro-
vision of the law as to the classification
is an unjust discrimination between heirs
of the same class, treating persons I'M
der the same circumstances and condl-
tons so differently as to constitute arbl-
trary discrimination and classification.
NJ. L. Hudson and Frank Early, lun-
bermen. the former of Ashland and the
latter of Crystal Falls, had a thrilling
experience in the pine forest south OF
West Superior. They came upon a wire
stretched across a trail and attached to
two double-barreled shotguns, one on
either side The hammer of one gun was
l.