Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-03-14


church at Osseo. He was sc years Of
age.
A hundred loads of tobacco en- route
for La Crosse stuck in the mud aud then
were frozen in by the cold wave. They
had to be chopped out.
Transportation facilities have got to
be greatly improved or there is likely to
be pulp wood famine among the paper
mills of the Fox river valley
Miss Nora Humphrey, aged 10 years,
4 Student.-at the Stevens Point business
College, died of brain fever. The re-
mains were taken to her home at Wild
Rose.
\ large timber wolf that strayed into
the town of West Prairie made much
excitement on the street for short tune
1t worsted two dogs and finally escaped
to the woods again.
Charles Maxwell, an aged painter of
Oshkosh. was struck by train of the
Wisconsin Central road and received such
injuries that it is thought he will Gle.
He is 10 years of age.
Richard Wagner, clerk in Appleton.
alleges that while returning home ut
o'clock in the morning he was beaten in
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sum of money by two men.
In fit of temporary insanity, Eman-
uel Smith, aged so, committed suicide en-
his farm southwest of Cumberland. He
leaves a widow and daughter who is
confined in an insane asylum.
Mrs. Minnie Lark. aged so years, wife
of a prominent farmer, was burned to
death in her bed near La Crosse. The
bedding is thought to have caught fire
from a stove that was near by.
Joseph Derosia, a miner, IS years of
age, fell fifty feet and was fatally hurt
at the Germania mine in Hurley. He
was crossing raise in order to get some
necessary tools, when in some manner he
slipped and fell.
Receivers Of freight in Oshkosh ere
very indignant over an order issued by
the three railroads entering Oshkosh
which compels them to pay all freight
charges on the day the freight is received
or at the latest the day after.
Fifteen horses were cremated III a fire
in the livery stable of T. j. Zemer, Mil
waul1ee. Two employees had narrow es-
capcs from suffocation and the Nemer
children were driven from their home
above the stable without their clothing
The annual debate between the juniors
Of Stevens Point and Oshkosh normal
was won by Stevens Point, whose team
supported the negative of the quesron,
Resolved, That the United States gov
eminent should establish system OF
postal savings banks"
A number of loaded cartridges thrown
into the waste basket Of a school at
Fountain almost killed the janitor. He
threw the whole contents into the FUR
mace as was his custom, and the bullets
whizzed by him uncomfortably near. The
authorities will investigate.
While cutting wood on his farm near
Tamarac A. II. Fisher struck bunch
of trees that seemed to have natural
gas connection. Immediately they were
cut the gas Kissed out when the ak sunk
in. Out of curiosity he touched match
to them and they burned for some time.
| A freight train on the Burlington crash
ed into the rear of another freight train
at Stoddard In the caboose Conductor
| Hogue of Galesburg and his braHemcn
were sleeping The caboose was tele-
| scoped by a coal car. The men were
pushed to the rear end and imprisoned
in small space. The cars then took
fire. The brakemen were rescued, but
Hogue was seriously and perhaps fatally
injured.
At Gillett fire destroyed the store Of
n. G.. Bruse, general merchandise, own
ed by the local lodge of Woodmen, and
the buildings of l.. B. Stuelke, occupied
by the Bank of Gillett and by a drug
store. st. James Catholic Church, which
was next to these buildings, was also
| threatened The loss on \. G. Bruises
stock will amount to $1,000, insured for
s., 800; Woodmen building and outfit,
81, 200, insured for $1,4OO: j.. B.
Stuelkes building, 5000, covered by in
surance.
Two freight trains OF over the average
length were held in the Milwaukee yards
at La Crosse because no one knew with
out investigation just where they should
60. The way bills were burned by a
young boy who wished to play a r'ick
on brakeman. The brakeman got the
orders at one of the small yard station
called Camp 20. He laid them down
and left the room for a minute or so.
When he returned the bills We're burning
in the coal stove. 1t took no end Of tele-
graphing to straighten matters out.
Rare presence of mind on the part of
two little girls 10 and 4 years Of age,
saved their mother from a horrible death
by fire at Beloit Mrs. George McAllis-
ter went upstairs to lie down, became
faint and fell over on a lighted lamp,
which set her clothing on fire. The chill
dren heard her fall and ran up to see
what was the matter. They found their
mother wrapped in flames, but instead
of screaming the 1O-year-old child sent
the little one to the neighbors for help
and herself picked up quilt and threw
it over her mother, finally succeeding in
amothering the fire. Mas. McAllister's
face and hands were burned.
Fire broke out in the Michaelson shoe
store at Hudson and destroyed three
business buildings before being controll-
ed. Michalson's store and vacant store
adjoining is owned by James A. Trear,
who carried $500 insurance. Mr.. Michal-
sons shoe stock is a total loss. lie had
$1,000 insurance. Miss Watson carried
$500 insurance on millinery stock. The
building was owned by r. Z. Gatchell,