Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-20

The coroner's verdict on the death Of
John Smith, who died in the Madison
police station, was suicide by taking
strychnine.
Miss Edith Hamacker a teacher in
the Stevens Point public school, has re-
ceived a scholarship in the Chicago Uni
yersity offered to a graduate of the Ste
vens Point normal school.
While two children of August Lenhardt
were playing with matches in their faith
er's barn at Sherry the barn was set on
fire and a 4-year-old boy was burned to
death. The other boy escaped.
Rev. Ebenezer Thompson, pastor of
Methodist churches in Wisconsin for fifty
years, died at his home in Glen Flora,
at the age of SO years. His wife, who
is the sole survivor of the family, is ex-
actly the same age.
While threshing on Charles Bender's
farm near Kirkland, sparks from the
engine started a fire which destroyed
all the grain stacks, the barn and other
buildings, together with the steam thresh-
er. The loss is $4,000.
John Rusach laborer, was found al
most dead from exhaustion floating in the
river near the mouth of Racine harbor
clingng to a rudely constructed raft He
| had marks of violence on his body and
| attempts at foul play are suspected.
| Postage stamps of various denomina-
tions valued at $172, which were stolen
from the safe in the postotice building
at Arena the other night, were found in
| the coal sheds of the ST Paul Railway at
! Mazomanie by an employee of that road
Judge Seaman of Milwaukee confirmed
the sale of the United States Flour Mill
| ing Company. The price was S3,0OO,OOO
! and the cost of the sale was 500, 52S. The
total Indebtedness was $S,147 800, with
100000 interest. There was a deticien-
cy Of So, 49,, 2o4.
August Nigbor, a well-known farmer,
residing six miles west of Berlin, was in
stantly killed by lightning while stacking
| hay. His son, who was working with
| him, was stunned and was unconscious
for several hours. The hay stack was
set on fire and entirely consumed.
Prof Rodney H. True, son of John
| NJ. True of Baraboo, is making some rap
| id strides in the field of botany, since
being employed by the United States gov
eminent For a long time attempts have
been made to procure green tea in the
curing process, where it is grown in
South Carolina, but no one was able to
| get the desired produce until discovered
| by Mr.. True.
Edward Kalina, 10 years old, was al
most killed by the explosion of a dyna-
mite cartridge he had picked up on
bluff east of Prairie du CHEN, where the
city water works reservoir is being built.
Carrying it home he laid it on a stump
and struck it with Il hammer. The eX-
ploson badly lacerated his groan and
nearly tore his left hand from his arm.
He will live.
A peculiar and very painful accident
| happened at Kaukauna to G. l.. Sanborn
of Minneapolis, Mimi, who was engaged
in covering the roof of the Kaukauna
mill with tar. Sanborn had just reach
ed the highest part of the roof with
bucket of hot tar when he slipped and
the contents of the vessel covered him
| from head to foot, burning the exposed
parts CT his body terribly.
Mrs. Isabella Compton Denninger, wife
of NJ. w. Denninger, an insurance adjust
err Of Kenosha, has received a check for
$50 900 as the result of a promise made
to her years ago by Andrew Frazier, the
California millionaire. At the time MI
| Frazier promised to give Mrs. Denninger
a gold mine which bore her name. The
mine was recently sold and the check was
| the amount received for it.
| The four iron tires of the wheels is the
only portion of buggy which remained
intact as the result Of an accidental eX-
| plosion of fifteen sticks of dynamite on
the farm of George Cough, near Apple
| ton. Mr.. Cough had purchased twenty
pieces of the explosive and placed six Of
them under stump, leaving the remain
der in the vehicle. The six pieces were
ignited and the stump blown up. A por-
| ton of the burning stump dropped into
the buggy, the conclusion exploding the
dynamite in the rig.
Clara Oehler, the 17-year-old daughter
of Mrs Anna RebenstOrff, committed
| suicide at her home in Oshkosh by taking
carbolic acid. According to Fred Rebens-
torff of Fond du Lac, who is visiting his
| mother the family were sitting III the Sit
| ting room when the girl went upstairs TO
| her ROOM She was not seen again until
| about 8 O'Clock when found lying on the
| bed. The cause for the girls act is SAID
to be the opposition of her family to her
keeping company with Bert Hunter.
The sale of the track and right of way
of the Chippewa River and MenomOnc
Railway, owned by the Chippewa Lum-
Der and Boom Company, was consum-
mated by the 500 line purchasing the first
thirteen miles and the Beldenville Lum-
Der Company the remainder, which con
| sists of sixteen miles of track and right
of way running north from Apollonia in
10 Sawyer County. The road will be OPP
Grated as a logging road for the next
| two years, after which it will be put into
shape for general traffic.
Much excitement has been caused by
| the discovery of a body of a man buried
on the farm of William Roth. near Beloit
The body was in rough box and was
dressed and had on boots. 1t is wonder
fully we'll preserved, but 1t has evidently
been buried for many years. Mr.. Roth
made the gruesome discovery while eX-
cavating for a foundation for building,
Old inhabitants recall that nearly thirty