Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-05-10

and her dead infant triplets were buried
in single grave at Milwaukee.
W. II. Davis, a contracting carpenter
| of Oshkosh, committed suicide With a
shotgun. He was 40 years old. He left
! a family.
Fire destroyed the livery barn of the
BOSNIAN House at Horizon. The resi-
dence of Herman Muth was also nearly
| destroyed.
Otto, the 13-year-old son of Ferdinand
Fredricks, was instantly killed at ELM
| Grove while attempting to board a NOV
| ing freight train.
| The Mineral Point brewery was de-
| stroyed by fire. The cause is unknown.
The loss is about $4,000, with $4,000
insurance. 1t was owned by H. Bruning.
Michael Doherty, gateman for the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway Com
pany, was seriously if not fatally injured
at kenosha by falling head first from
signal tower.
Word has been received of the death
by drowning in Manila bay, March 2, of
Private William j. Callahan, Troop D,
First United States cavalry, son of John
Callahan of Erin.
AS William f. Ramp was shoveling
coal dust out of a wagon in the Cox
brothers Company yards in Milwaukee
he got under the huge coal hopper and
was suffocated by the dust.
The drug store of Leonard e. Hanson
of Osseo burned while his aged father
was being taken to Jail by Sheriff En-
nell of Whitehall upon a charge of as
sauIt and battery, entered by the son.
Joseph Hirschberger, a 16-year-old Ke-
nosha boy. was sentenced to the State
reformatory for a term not to exceed
one year nor less than six months. He
was charged with the theft of a bicycle.
Herman Heese, murderer of Helmuth
Bergman, committed suicide by hang
ing in the county Jail at Milwaukee. He
used a long towel, tying it around his
neck and fastening it to the upper bunk
of his cell.
The st. Mary's parsonage, the home Of
Rev. Dean William White, was Destroy
ed by fire at La Crosse. His niece, Ma
mic White, was overcome by gas and
smoke and only rescued by iremen
plunging through the flames.
When Mr.. and Mrs. August Post of
Brodhead awoke the other morning they
found their 1-year-old boy dead between
them. The little child had been in good
health when his parents retired. The
cause of the sudden death is not known.
John Smith of Dudley had both legs
cut off in his fathers mill at that place
and died in the afternoon from his in
juries. In STOPPING over to pick up
stick he accidentally pushed lever
which started the saw and he was pulled
to it by Il chain.
A combine is said to have been formed
by the Retail Merchants Association Of
GAINESVILLE to ship all their freight over
the Milwaukee road. During the last
month the Northwestern has taken many
families from GAINESVILLE and sent them
to Fond du Lac.
frankie Bittner, the G-year-old son of
Aid Frank Bittner, who was wounded
in the abdomen by the explosion of
dynamite cartridge with which he was
playing and hit with a hammer, died at
Prairie du CHEN. The little fellow suf-
fered intense pain until the end came.
At Gratiot five buildings were destroy
ed and several others damaged by fire.
The loss is estimated at Sl5,OOO. Among
the property losses are Ganshirt Broth
ers. furniture and harness store; kate
Troy. millinery; Brannan Il Kerwan,
meat market; John Marriott, drug store:
Masonic lodge, G.. NJ. Lund, general
store; J. p. McCully, saloon; Collins &
Son, hardware.
The golden wedding anniversary of Mr..
and Mrs Ullrch Leger at Gilmore was
rudely broken up by the death of Mrs.
Leger Two hundred guests had assem-
bled to assist in celebrating the event.
The aged couple were passing into the
dining room, receiving the congratula-
tons Of guests, when the excitement
proved too much for Mrs. Leger, and she
was stricken by paralysis, expiring two
hours later.
Relatives of C. ]. Worth. proprietor of
a general store in Wheatland, have re-
ceived a telegram stating that he had
been found dead on the street III Du-
buque. Iowa. Mr.. Worth left Wheatland
to go to Chicago to purchase goods, and
since that time no word had been heard
from him. 1t is thought that he became
the victim of Chicago sharpers, who lur-
ed him to Dubuque, where he was rob-
bed and murdered. He had consldera-
bic sum of money with him when he lett
Kenosha.
The revelations of Supervisor OF AS
sesslnent Winter and his deputies, l..
Kleeber and F. H. \. Nye, to the effect
that they have unearthed over $1,000
600 worth of untaXed mortgages in La
Crosse County, has caused quite SUE
in the community. and the attempts TO
enforce. the tax will be fought by some
of the mortgage holders. They claim
that the new law taxing farm mortgages
is in fact double taxation, and they VIII
resist on that theory. 1t will increase
the revenue of the county $22,OOO.
w. H. Hamilton of WATERFOWL, \. Y,
an organizer of the United Brotherhood
of Paper Makers. who has been work
ing in Eau Claire and elsewhere in the
State, was arrested and placed in jail
there while on his way to the Omaha
station on a warrant charging conspiracy
to compel the Dells Paper and Pulp Com
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