Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-02
The committee having charge of the

severed his left hand at the wrist by a
glancing blow from an ak.
Burt Moore, a resident of Glidden, was
struck by a Wisconsin Central freight
train while attempting to cross the track,
and died fifteen minutes later.
The inemen Of the Wisconsin Tele-
phone Company in Green Bay~went out
on a sympathetic strike. The strike is
in support of the striking linemen at Mil
waukee.
The sawmill of Mathews Brothers at
State Line was destroyed by fire recently
1t was single rotary mill and was Built
by Rudolph Otto, of Amigo, over fifty
years ago.
At a Sheboygan council meeting Alder
man Feistel introduced an ordinance re-
I firing fremen physically disabled after
twenty years service and putting them
on half pay.
DR.. L. NJ. Gregory, of Stevens Point,
one of the leading physicians of the State,
died very unexpectedly at the home of his
daughter at Crystal Falls, Mich, where
he was visiting.
Many valuable horses have been stolen
north of La Crosse by band of organ
lied robbers. Sheriffs in Minnesota and
Wisconsin will combine and scour the
country for the thieves.
City Treasurer O'Leary, of Marinette,
has received from the State Treasurer a
check for $15, 700. 1t is the money loaned
by the State to the city for the purpose
of building the new armory.
DR.. David w. Rowland, one of the
most prominent veterinary surgeons in
the State and Alderman in Oshkosh, died
from cerebro-meningitis, resulting from
a kick sustained by horse.
new Episcopal church is to be erected
in Oshkosh this fall. The church will be
of the high church order, as Bishop Wei
Ter, of Fond du Lac, has been selected as
the temporary rector Of the congregation.
A number of Kenosha society women,
while out driving, became frightened,
and, thinking an accident was inevitable,
they jumped from their carriage to avoid
injury. Several were thrown to the
ground and sustained slight injuries.
Mayor Pfennig has received notice
from the Secretary of the Navy that the
invitati of Kenosha to the commission
in charge of the selection of site for the
naval training station has been received
and that the commission will visit the
city.
Night Operator Parker, at Saxon, was
held up at the point of revolver by
lone robber at midnight and was COM
PEELED to open the safe and give up about
500. The only witness was the station
helper, who was separated from SO Of his
earnings.
The Milwaukee police received tele
phone message from LibertyVille, H.,
stating that a man upon whose person
were found two letters addressed to Stan
islaus Bosiacki, $50 Third avenue, Mil
waukee, had been run over and killed by
a freight train there.
Stella Murphy, the 1O-year-old daugh-
ter of Robert Murphy, living in Menomt-
nee, was badly burned. With a number
Of other little girls she was playing with
jack o-lanterns made out of pasteboard
boxes. The lighted candle in the box set
fire to her dress and she was soon all
ablaze.
The 4-year-old son of Oscar Marshall,
a farmer living near Galesville, had a
narrow escape from a horrible death.
The child had gone to sleep in the field
where the father was cutting wheat with
a harvester. He was caught in the sharp
blades and one arm was almost severed
from the body.
At bridge about two miles west of
Pembine, two local freight trains had a
head-end collision on a curve. William
Raymond and William Johnson, engin-
| GERS, and Albert Anderson, fireman, were
| killed, and Joseph Fallbrecht, fireman,
| slightly injured All the killed were mar
ried and leave families.
Word has reached Racine that Mrs.
Edna Clara Stassforth, formerly of that
city. has been granted a divorce from
her husband at Los Angeles, Cal. Ac-
cording to the testimony GA. Stass-
forth, the husband treated his wife cru
| ely. Although worth over $4,000, it
was alleged that he did not give his wife
enough to eat nor provide sufficient cloth
| ing.
| The newly elected Mayor of Kenosha
| has been threatened with death. Dur
ing the last few days he has received a
number of letters supposed to have been
written by an Italian, demanding that he
vacate the office Of Mayor or prepare to
| die. The letters state that the death Of
| the Mayor has been planned and that a
man has been selected to kill him, and
the writer of the letters, which are not
signed, claims to be the man elected.
| High wind and choppy sea caused a
panic among 100 passengers on the Barry
| Line steamer f. & z. NJ. No. l, which
| left Milwaukee for Chicago. Men and
women rushed about frantically, strug-
Cling for life preservers, believing the yes
| sci was going to the bottom. Several
women tainted and for time pandemo-
MUM reigned aboard the boat. Captain
Thomas Barry finally decided when the
vessel was opposite Racine to put about
and run back to Milwaukee, where the
| passengers were landed.
A castor oil mill-the only one in the
| States to be built in Oshkosh by the
Diamond Sticky Fly Paper Company. A
mill with machinery to cost $4,000 to
$4,000 is to be erected at once on the