Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-02-15

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Thomas Roach received serious injuries
| in a runaway accident which happened
near Merrimac.
| Rev. f. H. York of Oshkosh has ac-
| cepted a call to the Church of the Re-
| deemer at Waterloo, Iowa.
| Mrs. Amanda Turner died suddenly at
her home near Cumberland. She was giv-
en- medicine and Immediately expired.
Frederick Walker, an employee in the
Dells paper and pulp mills at Eau Claire,
was caught by shaft and instantly kill
| ed
| Chris Hoverson. an old resident, was
| found dead about one mile from Rio, hav-
| ing doubtless frozen to Death while ON
his way home.
Gov. La Toilette has appointed Mrs.
Grace Darling Madden of Milwaukee a
member of the board of regents of the
| State university.
| John Schultz, employed in Groh Bros
meat market at Lake Mills, while hang
| ing meats in the smokehouse, fell, strik-
| ing on the back of his head, cracking his
skull
Howard Brotherson. 1 years old, while
| playing on the street in Racine, fell into
a bonfire and before he could be rescued
was frghtfully burned about the face,
hands and arms.
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
way Company will pay the State nearly
$4,000 more in taxes this year than last.
The total, being 4 per cent on the gross
earnings for 1901, is $5G4,S65
| While feeding some COWS on her hus-
I,,, 4,
Thompson was gored By vicious cow
and received injuries that will probably
| result in the loss of her eyesight.
Edward P. Hassnger for many years
prominent business man of Brodhead,
dropped dead in Hahh's clothing store.
He was 70 years of age and an old set
tier. Heart disease was the cause Of
+! death.
James Shafter. well-known resident.
was held up in Ashland on Il side street
and robbed of $374. Shafter resisted the
attempt of the highwaymen and was shot
through the hand. The highwaymen es-
capped.
James Churchill, II years old, Of the
town of Porter, was the victim of a ter
rible accident which cost him his life.
His death was caused 10y the accidental
discharge of a shotgun in the hands of a
companion named Monthree. The load
| struck him in the back Of the head, just
at the base of the brain. 1t plowed
through the brain, killing him Instantly
The boys were hunting rabbits and Mon
three carried his gun cooked. He stum~
bled and the gun went off.
Miss Frances Rel of Oak Park, Ill.,.
who is visiting with her aunt Mrs. John
Nelson, in the town OF Somers met with
ii frightful accident She was preparing
dinner on kerosene stove when it ex-
poded. The flames leaped up and struck
her in the face and large portion of
her hair was burned. Before aid could
reach the young woman the flames were
communicated to her clothing and her
dress was partly burned from her body.
Miss Reil will probably recover.
Margaret Brill the S-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Brill of Appleton,
was crushed to death ut Thirtieth street
and Cottage Grove avenue, Chicago. She
had been downtown with her mother and
relatives, with whom she had been Wis
| iting and was returning home on a cable
car. At Thirtieth street she left the car
and ran quickly around the rear end of
the train, not noticing the approach OF
| the wagon from the opposite direction.
She ran directly behind the horses, struck
| the whfietree and fell to the ground in
! front of Il wheel. Before she could rise
or the driver could stop the horses the
wheel had passed over her body causing
| almost instant death.
A story comes from Village Greek Of
| thn I'm Irop Of yT-Il1 a1t 4 pf
Pope took his fathers gun and went for
a rabbits hut. The boy found the cot
| tOntails rather scarce and wandered into
| the woods farther than he intended and
came across a wildcat The animal made
| for the boy, who Immediately poured
charge of lead into the animal and killed
| it. The lad in some uneXplainable man
ner then tangled his gun up with the
vines and grasses and broke it in two,
leaving him without weapon when the
wildcats mate came up to investigate.
The lad succeeded in soaring the intruder
away without any harm to himself, but
would have been in bad position had
the cat shown fight
Frank Heinz, the principal in the
shooting ARRAY at Arpin, was taken to
Grand Rapids. The shooting in which
William Moody was seriously if not IA
tally injured proves to be the culmna-
| ton of a series of rows which have been
in progress for several months between
| the Heinz and Moody families, who are
near neighbors. A 10-year-old daughter
of the Heinz family was out in the road
with her dog when the Moody girls came
! out and a row ensued in which, it is al
legged, nearly all members of both fami-
lies participated. When Frank Heinz, a
son, appeared on the scene and used a
revolver with serious results wounding
his father in the arm and probably IA
| tally injuring Moody.
William Bleiler, a farmer of the town
| ship Of Monroe was arrested on COM
| plant Of his wife, who alleges he attempt
| ed to shoot her, and fired FIVE times at
| her. Bleiler says he was practicing to
| kill screech owls.
William Schulz, who with sIedge
| hammer assaulted Edward Meyer assist
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