Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-05-03

| toeh LllleS west VI 0Hell Lake, was Killed
by being run over by a loaded wagon.
He leaves widow and seven children.
Albert Theama, a farmer living at
North Point, pulled Otto Borchart out Of
the lake. Borchart jumped in with the
evident intention of committing suicide
The 6-year-old son of Frank Bittner
of Prairie du Chen was shot in the alb
domen and a playmate, aged II, injured
about the face by the discharge of an old
rusty gun barrel which they had found
in back yard.
The strike in the Thilmany paper mill
at kaukauna, the largest tissue mill in
the world, has been settled This ends
the labor troubles in the Fox River val
| ley.
Anton Smith, farmer living several
miles above La Crosse, on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul road, was killed
by the fast mail train. Just how the
| accident happened will never be known,
but suicide theory is advanced
a farmers feud growing out of claims
OF Fred Schlabach to use a wagon road
! crossing a farm owned by the Williams
brothers, situated in Pine Creek valley,
eliminated in a fight in which Schlabach
received what may prove fatal injuries.
|. At Ogdensburg the 4-year-old child Of
Albert Steinbach was playing out in the
field with its father, who was burning
brush, when its dress caught fire and be-
fore it could be extinguished the cloth
ing had burned almost entirely from its
body.
Mornp-a1ao+
Dam was severely injured at his farm.
While showing how to run a roller he
fell and the roller passed over him.
Though his injuries will confne him for
some time yet he hopes to be able to
take his seat May &.
An unknown man was instantly killed
at Burlington by a Wisconsin Central
train. He was refused passage on the
through train because it did not stop
at his destination. He then walked
down the tracks, and it is thought he
was accidentally run over.
| The executive committee of the Inter
national Oratorical League at a meeting
held at Stevens Point decided that Am
brose G. Grace of Milwaukee had been
| guilty of plagiarism in his grafton upon
ond prize at the normal school contest at
| Superior.
| The, first death of the season from
| jumping the rope was recorded at La
| Crosse, the victim being little 9-year-old
Gretchen Henschel. She jumped hun
dred, as the little girls reckon it, and
then complained of a severe headache and
laid down in the house. She died in
| few minutes.
Because he had been discharged for
negligence to duties, Frank Roska, an
| Italian, drew a stiletto and fatally stab
| bed Edward Francis, a foreman of the
Belle City Malleable iron works in Ra-
| cine. Francis was stabbed in the back,
the assailant approaching him from be-
| hind Roska fled
Lille Smith pretty Chicago girl who
disappeared from that city several
months ago. was found by her mother in
Racine. She was engaged as a servant
| girl. 1t developed that when she left
home she followed a young Racine man
whom she loved She was taken home.
| Her parents are wealthy.
In three different ways Ella Murphy,
a negress, tried to end her life in the
| West Superior city jail, where she was
held awaiting a hearing. First she tried
| to cut her throat with a hatpin, but fail
| ed. Then she wrapped herself tight IN
| the bed clothing and set fire to it, trying
to burn up. The smell of smoke drew
the attention of the officers and the wom-
an received slight injuries. She then
| tried to hang herself with a hair ribbon,
but the officers heard her choking and
| cut her down in time.
The labor supply and demand in Wis
| consin run about equal, according to the
records of the free employment bureaus
| at Milwaukee and Superior, established
July /, 1901, under act of the last Leg
| islature. In a total of over 5000 each
of applications for employment and APP
plications for help filed with the bureaus
! during the forty-one weeks of their ex-
| istence, ending April 10. there were 6, 1S9
| applications for help. The positions filled
| numbered $40. there being 1.04O APP
plications for employment and 96S appIl-
cations for help untitled.
| The Supreme Court of Wisconsin gave
! a black eye to the many schemes to con-
meet Milwaukee and Chicago with an in
terurban electric railway in a decision
| affirming the decision of the lower court
granting an injunction to Mary Hale AL
| len against the Kenosha Street halfway
| Company. The substance of the decls-
| ion is that any owner of property aout-
| ting on the tracks of the company can
| have it restrained from operating or COM
| PEELED to remove its tracks and poles. The
court decided that the franchise was
| valueless because the grantees had failed
| to perform condition precedent to the
| obtaining of any rights under the IRAN
| chise in failing to file a guaranty COM
pany's bond approved by the Mayor OF
| the city before Aug. L, 1900. At the
| present time the road is ready for opera
ton. but with this decision of the court
| there is nothing left for the company to
do except to pull up the tracks or secure
| new franchise.
The S-year-old daughter Of Mr.. and
! Mrs. Thomas Pagan was burned to death
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