Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-19

La Vale is to have a new bank. Its
capital stock is $4,000. II. E. Paddock
is the president.
Nels Herried, a Galesville farmer, fell
off from load of hay and broke his neck.
He was the father of Gov. Herried Of
South Dakota.
A stock and hay barn on the Comstock
farm at the edge of Arcadia was struck
by lightning and totally destroyed. The
loss is $1,000.
A valuable horse belonging to ex-Sher-
if Comstock of GAINESVILLE ran away at
Beloit. 1t crashed into house and
crushed its skull.
A mail sack disappeared mysteriously
yesterday from the station of the Mil
waukee road at Random Lake. 1t is sup
posed that the sack was stolen.
Mr.. and Mrs. William w. Wills of
GAINESVILLE celebrated their golden we'd
ding. A surprise party was given them
by the local lodge of the G. A. X.
At Menomonie lightning struck the
house of Mrs. Edward Mauske, complete
~ wrecking the building. Five persons
who were in the house were unframed.
A north-bound train ran into herd Of
COWS lOuE ulleS uOFlu Oh Adhe,
killing three and cutting off the legs of
two more. The cattle belonged to James
Kessel.
The board of directors of the Madison
free library have selected as a site for
the Carnegie library what is known as
the Daley property on West Washington
avenue.
Herman o. Reidenbach, aged 80 years,
| and a member of a we'll known family
| in Kenosha has been missing since June
%, and it is feared that he has been
| murdered.
Mrs. Hans Olson of Cambridge and
Mrs. l. Shager of Wiota, sisters, who
have been separated for sixty-fve years,
held reunion at Jefferson. The sisters
separated in Norway in 1887.
The general store of Jacobson u
Brooks, at Pound, was broken into but
only about $3.50 in small change was
| taken. The work was not done by ex-
| perts, as the large safe was not meddled
with.
Corliss, formerly known as Western
| Union Junction is to become a transfer
| point for the Milwaukee road, and all
the freight formerly handled at Western
there.
R. A. McLery and William Brown
fell from barn, a height Of twenty feet,
at Palmyra Brown died. 1t is thought
that McLery will live. He had three RIBS
broken and was otherwise seriously
bruised.
Miss Mollie Richards, a young woman
Is years of age, is missing from her nome
in Kenosha, and the local police have
been unable to find any trace of her. The
young girls friends think she has met
with foul play.
William Nesetril, aged 20 years, fell
from the pier into the river at Racine,
and although several of his companions
were on the pier at the time, they became
so frightened that they were unable to
save their comrade.
| The 7O-foot steeple of the German
Evangelical Church at Menominee Falls
was blown down by the terrific wind
storm, accompanied by rain and hail The
| damage done the church and furniture
will probably amount to $1,000.
Rev. G. A. Gulixon, for the past nine
years pastor of the Trinity Church at
Beloit has resigned to accept call 6rom
the st. Luke's Norwegian Lutheran
Church of Chicago. He will be succeed
ed by Rev. j. E. Hegg of Whitehall.
Hans Raysen, employed as coachman
at the Waldheim santarium at Ocono-
mowoc, was taken with cramps while in
bathing in the lake, and he sank before
assistance could reach him. Raysen was
a Dane and had been in the country but
! a short time
James Rice, aged % years, at one time
connected with a Kenosha labor paper,
and the holder of the lightweight pugi
listic championship of Southern Wiscon-
sin, was run over by Northwestern
freight train and had both legs cut off.
His recovery is doubtful
The telegraph operators in the towers
Of the block system Of the Chicago and
Northwestern have been given a raise
in salary from $40 to $50 per month. The
telegraph operators at the stations have
been given a raise of So per month. The
advance went into effect on July i.
Because Mrs. J. Schwartz, a widow re-
siding in WATERFOWL, refused to marry
p H. Fender the latter shot the woman
twice and then took poison himself. Doc.
tors were Immediately summoned and
both persons will live. The exact cause
for the tragedy is not known, but it is
understood that Fender has been very.
anxious to marry Mrs. Schwartz and that
he was very jealous of her.
Charles f. Close, a La Crosse engi-
neer made a remarkable stop Of a rum
away team The team belonging to q
Minnesota farmer started down Mai3e
street at a gallop. Close, seeing it meant
possible death for the occupants, took q
running jump, alighting on one of the
horses and secured the .rejns which had
fallen from the wagon. The team was
stopped without damage.
As train No. / pulled into McGregor
the other night the engineer saw an OBJ
ject lying beside the track; the train was
stopped and upon investigation the crew
found the body of a man, beside which
| stood woman. She refused to utter a
| word. A hasty examination revealed two
large holes in the mans head, probably
inflicted by pick, and blood stains on
the woman's clothing. The man was car