Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-01-04

LUMBER company at OleS0n was partly
destroyed by fire.
Gust Sellmer, while working in
gravel pit few miles from Peshtigo, had
both limbs broken, one in two places.
Robert Heiden, whose home is in Wat
ertown, was fatally injured in a corn
shredder accident on the John Garland
farm in Lowyile
Near Grantsburg farmers are planning
to raise peanuts and sweet potatoes on
their sand farms next season. Many of
the farmers are also going into the An
CORA goat business.
The Methodist Church was badly dam
aged by fire at Marshfeld The church
had been rebuilt and was to have been
dedicated the next Sunday. The loss is
protected by insurance
Ross Miller of Appleton was seriously
scalded while he was taking a bath at
the Lawrence University gymnasium. He
accidentally turned the hot water shower
and his shoulders and arms were badly
burned
Ned Frame young mechanic employ
ed by the Imperial Camera Company,
was sandbagged and robbed in the Eighth
street park at La Crosse by two men.
Seventeen dollars was secured by the
highwaymen.
Fire was discovered in the general
store of E. r. Franklin, Jr., at Eland
Junction. Prompt work by the local
bucket brigade soon had the fire under
control. The loss on the stock and build
ing will be $500.
Albert Gaertner, an empIOye of the
Adam Kroner Hardware Company in La
Crosse, took from a quart of bulk oysters
two pearls, the largest of which is as big
as a pea and which is probably worth
$500. The other is smaller.
Two men cremated and another fright
fully burned about the lower part Of
his body and the destruction of Iocomo-
tives and cars was the outcome of
rear-end collision of two south-bound spS'
cial freight trains on the Northweste:E
Railroad at Little Suamico.
In the extreme northern part of Bur
nett County the house of Guy Griffin
was destroyed by fire. He and his wife
walked barefooted across a lake on the
ice to the home of neighbor, where they
went for shelter. They were dressed
only in their night clothes, everything
else being burned. They arrived at the
friends house in a frozen condition and
almost exhausted.
In the Circuit Court at Oshkosh a YER
dict of $1,000 was returned in favor of
Charles Steinert against the Oshkosh
Electric Light and Power Company. The
suit was brought for $4,000 for dam
ages alleged to have been sustained by
=, la, %o1-1 hn1I Of
loose guywire of the defendant company,
which had become charged with cleo
tricity through dead wire' of the city,
which had sagged across a feed wire Of
the Winnebago Traction Company.
Conductor Tierney and his crew on the
south-bound fast freight on the Omaha,
had fierce fight with gang of hoboes
at WaScOtt The hOboes boarded the
train at Hawthorne and upon reaching
Wascott the conductor stopped to put the
tramps off. They resisted and at the
point of revolver made the conductor
give the signal to go ahead and haul
them to Spooner. Tierney wired ahead
to the officials and upon the arrival of the
train at Spooner had the entire gang ar
rested.
The people of Amberg will organize
a wolf hunt to get rid of a pack infest-
ing the region around that town, endan-
gering the lives of the school children.
Len and Willie Randall, little sons of
homesteader, had narrow escape the
other day. They were chased several
miles by the animals. They kept them
off with clubs until they reached home.
One of the boys was bitten. Wolves
throughout the northern woods are very
vicious this winter and frequently attack
human beings.
Another attempt at holdup in the
switch yards of the Chicago and North
western road at Appleton has occurred,
the victim being Frank Graf. MI Graf
was on his way home, and taking the
shortest route possible he crossed the
yards at Morrison street, when sudden
ly his assaiIant jumped out from between
some freight cars, striking him with
huge club. The blow, which was direct
ed at his head, missed him, striking Mr..
Graf on the shoulder and forearm, caus-
ing painful bruises. A lively fight be-
tween the two men enSued, Mr.. Graf
finally putting his assailant to rout.
In the Circuit Court at Oshkosh a YER
dict of $500 was awarded and paid to
G. w. Frederick of Fond du Lac for the
death of his 12-year-old son, B. O. Fred
| erick The verdict was against w. w.
| Neff, captain of the steamer Evelyn. ON
July %. 1900, the steamer was leased
by the Cotton Street Methodist Church
of Fond du Lac for a Sunday school eN-
| cursion. In the evening the Frederick
| boy walked off the side of the boat and
| was drowned. 1t was alleged that there
were not proper guards and ratings about
the side of the boat.
The arrest of an Oshkosh runaway cou-
ple by a deserted husband ended SEN
| sational elopement in Joplin, Mo-, and
| the injured husband congratulated his
wife and the man on their successful
elopement. Three weeks ago Mrs. John
| Bublitz deserted her husband, taking
with her their 4-year-old child and $1,000.
| She was accompanied by G. *. kimbaA.
| They went to Chicago, Denver and Jop-
| lin, where Mublitz located them. lie
swore out warrant for the arrest of