Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-01-24
Smallpox has broken out At Coleman

Chrllng Club will be held the week of
Feb. 16, -
Fred Miller committed suicide by
shootng himself in the forehead while
IN his room at GAINESVILLE.
The citizens of Chetek voted to CON
struct $4,000 school building to replace
the one recently destroyed by fire.
George Holm5erg, son of a Swedish
Methodist minister at Cumberland, has
gone insane from smoking cigarettes.
Mrs. Anna Printz. wife of n. D.
Printz, farmer residing near Shamrock.
took a dose of paris green and died.
The Wisconsin Manufacturers Asso-
citation was organized at Milwaukee, with
Frank Bull of Racine as president.
Dr. Il. +. Towne died at Brodhead at
the age OF rs years. He was born in
Vermont and came to Wisconsin in 1913.
The new 100000 hotel project at La
Crosse is about sure thing. Ninety
thousand dollars of the 100000 has been
subscribed
The La Crosse Council by a close vote
terminated stormy session by defeating
an ordinance providing for several miles
OF pavement to cost about $4,000
The Farmers Bank of Browntown
with subscribed capital of $31, 100 and
an authorized capital of $4,000, was
chartered by State Treasurer Kempf
The board of trustees of Monticello
have under consideration the granting
of franchise to P. H. Staedtler, for
merly of Milwaukee, for the establish
ment of an electric light plant.
The official board of the Methodist
Episcopal Church of Sheboygan voted
unanimously for a new church, to cost
$4,000, provided sufficient bona fide SUBJ
scriptions be secured to warrant the ulti-
mate success of the enterprise.
Robbers entered the Mazomanie post
office, placed a dynamite fuse in the
crack of the door of the safe and blew off
the combination. The door was then
easily opened, and $50 in money and
stamps was taken from the strong box.
Passenger train No. s was derailed
at the north switch at Three Lakes, the
tank of the engine and two coaches be-
ing off the track The accident was
caused by an extra logging train having
chain dragging which caught in the
switch, throwing it open.
A small dark woman with a little
baby, came to Eagle to pay Whitman
for the rig the alleged burglars used in
trying to escape. When interviewed she
would not give any information concern
ing her home or name. She is believed
to be the wife of one of the captured
burglars.
Postmaster w. B. Tscharner Of La
Crosse is issuing circulars to all the
postmasters of the State calling for a
meeting at which they are to organize a
Wisconsin Postmasters' Association. 1t
is not yet decided where the first meet
ing will be held. but it will probably be
Milwaukee.
Fred Weiser an employe of the Wis
consin river paper mill at Stevens Point,
was hurt and died in three hours. While
putting on a belt his clothing was caught
hurting him around the pulley and pulling
out his left arm above the elbow, besides
breaking both legs. He was about 30
years Of age.
At West Superior the jury in the trial
of Jake Gustafson, after being out forty
hours, returned verdict of murder in
the second degree and recommended that
he receive the limit of imprisonment
which is twenty-five years. Gustatson
killed his friend, Isaac Niska, in drunk
en- quarrel over % cents.
A rig containing three lads, Edward,
William and Ernest Schultz, was struck
at the Madison street crossing OF the
Milwaukee road in Waukesha by the
stone train The boys had started to
cross the tracks before they saw the
train. The vehicle was demolished and
the horse injured, but the boys escaped
injury.
As result of the failure of the de-
mand by the merchants committee upon
the grocers' association that the latter
reduce prices on staples in order to draw
the farmers to Eau Claire, it is now pro-
posed by merchants to subscribe $4,000
to put in a package grocery house with
Chicago man as manager and to fight the
local grocers' organization by undesall-
ing them.
James Sanderson of Chicago, an eng1-
neer on the Northwestern Railway, in
charge of wrecking tram, NARROWLY es-
caned death at the village of Salem. San
derson was in charge OF large crane 10
clear away the wreck Of q freight car.
While the crane was III action the KING
hin slipped out and the big crane topped
over. The engineer attempted to throw
the belt. but failed and the iron from
tho broken crane struck one of the boil
ers of the engine and caused an explosion.
Sanderson was terribly burned.
Miss Emma Briggs, cashier for W:
Simon & Co. of Neenah, was robbed OF
drafts. money orders and other papers
valued at $4,000 on a train between Nee
nah and Oshkosh. The THEFT was SO
claverlv accomplished that the young
woman did not discover her loss until she
reached the bank in Oshkosh where "he
was to deposit the papers. The drafts
were in an envelope which she had placed
in 4 bag suspended from her belt. put
when or how the robbery was accom-
pEshed she has not the slightest idea.
Charles Laravire, aged 30 years. was
found dead on an island i'll the Missis-
sippi river opposite Lynxville. He had
heen missing from his home since he and
two brothers. who had been to LynNyllle,