Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-06-07
Chippewa Falls has purchased n road
roller to cost So 800

Richard Schultz of Milford had his face
badly injured while blasting stone. He
will recover, but will lose the sight of
one eye.
James Dougherty of Beloit, a young
man formerly clerk at the Clark Hotel,
who has recently been railroading, had
both legs cut off by slipping under the
cars at Rockton
The forty-ffth class to leave Lawrence
University at Appleton will graduate on
Thursday, June % The class this year
numbers twenty-eight, the largest in the
history of the school.
Charles Noll, member of the William
Noll Hardware Company, died at Marsh
field from blood poisoning as the result
of an oil can accidentally falling on his
head and cutting him two weeks before
A cylinder head in the Chippewa Lum-
Der Company's mill at Chippewa Falls
flew out while the mill was in operation
Much damage was done to the machin-
cry, but the employees escaped without
injury.
Fire destroyed three large barns on the
farm of Wilson Lane in the town of Hair
mony, and besides the three structures
large quantity of grain, as well as
twenty-five small hogs. Loss $4,000
partially insured.
Bert Reid and II. G. Chester of Chip
pewa Falls sold 14,OOO acres of land in
the town of Rusk to the Rusk Land Com
pany of Eau Claire for S. per acre. The
company was organized with capital OF
$4,000 to buy the land.
Miss Stella Rammel and Miss Libbie
Crane of Baraboo accidentally fell from
boat into Mirror lake and the former,
feeling cramps, bade her friend good-by.
With a great effort Miss Crane dragged
her companion to shore and saved her
life
Lightning struck the station of the
Milwaukee road at Gratiot, consuming
the building, together with three ware
houses near by. The loss to the COM
pany was comparatively light, as there
was but little in the warehouses at the
time.
Thomas G. Chamberlain, Phi. D., Ill.
D., head professor of geology at the Chi
cago University and a graduate of Beloit
College, has been chosen to deliver the
commencement grafton at Beloit Prof.
Chamberlain was member of the GO
class.
an ordinance prohibiting the operation of
all nickel-in- the-slot machines and other
machines of a gambling nature. This
action is the result of recent petitions
Of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union.
The hill engine of the Wisconsin Cen
trail road in charge of Engineer Thomas
Gilbert and Fireman Strehmel collided
x-itl, ~ nh Of
Engineer Robert Beck and Fireman Ed
Trechel, near the Western avenue bridge
in Fond du Lac When the collision oc-
Cured the engineers and fremen jumped
into the river and escaped uninjured.,
The engines were badly damaged.
The fumigation of a house after small
poX came near being the cause of a con-
fagration at Wausaukee. Sulphur was
burned in the house and during the time
of the fumigation the house caught fire
and was totally destroyed, causing loss.
of $1,000. Sparks from the dwelling set
fire to the Wausaukee Hotel adjoining,
and endangered other parts of the town,
but the flames were finally subdued.
When Mr.. and Mrs. Chester D. Noon
arrive at Eau Claire from their wedding
tour, a college romance will have been
brought to a close. Mr.. Moon, who is a
well-knoWn lumberman, was married the
other afternoon at Andover, Mass, to
Miss Edith Mae Bucklin of New London,
n. H The bride and groom both gradu-
ated from Phillips Academy in 1895,
and during their college attendance they
had become warm friends.
Myrtle Knight, the 1O-year-old daugh--
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. William Knight of
Winthrop Harbor met death by being
impaled on a sharp stick at a bazaar held.
for the purpose of raising money for the
Fresh Air fund, a Chicago charity. While.
the children were playing about the tent:
she climbed up on a small stump to get
hold of limb. The limb was broken
and she fell back to the ground, striking
the pointed end of the stump.
Bert Peterson of Milwaukee wagered q
companion $40 that he could enter field
on farm north of Racine, where there
was a ferocious bull, and bring the beast
under subsection by hypnotizing it. The,
animal chased Peterson, but he dodg-
ed for time and made efforts to con-
troll the animal. The bull finally caught
him and tossed him upon q rail fence.
Two ribs were fractured, his shoulder
was injured and his face was cut.
Mayor Joseph Boschert of La Crosse,
who is president of the La Crosse and
Eastern Electric Railway Company, was
attacked by a dozen women while on a
south side street where surveyors are at
work laying out the proposed road. Prop
erty owners on that street sent remon-
strances to the Council against allowing
the road on that thoroughfare, on the
grounds that the Burlington road already
has two tracks which, with the electric
road, would occupy the entire street Mr..
Boschert was not injured seriously, as
fists were the only weapons displayed
Orders for the annual encampment Of
the Wisconsin National Guard at the
State military reservation near Camp.
Douglas have been issued by the adju-
tant general. The different troops will
go into camp as follows: First regiment
and Battery A, Aug. 2 to 9 inclusive;
Second regiment and Troop A, Aug. 9 to
16 inruSiva. Third ra1;poapt opd 'TaDth