Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-01-15


| logs. He leaves wife and one child.
Waverly lodge, Masons, Is consider
ing the erection of Masonic temple III
Appleton. The cost may reach $4,000.
| Fast mail train No. 81 was wrecked
near Lyndon The wreck was caused
| by the breaking of drive wheel. No
body was hurt.
A new postofiice has been established
in the southern portion of Polk County
to be called Anderson, with Canute An
derson as postmaster.
School opened in the new school house
recently constructed in Chetek to replace
the one destroyed by fire last year. The
new editice cost $4,000.
p. j. Welsh Of Lodi who reported that
his safe was robbed OF 81 600, is in Jail
at Madison, being unable to furnish ST.
| 600 bond that he will not leave the State
The school building at Twelve Corners
| in the town of Center, was destroyed by
| fire, together with all the books and fix
lures. The fire is supposed to have been
Of incendiary origin.
The third annual report of the State
Inheritance tax collection Of Outagamie
County shows the total amount Of prop
erty taxable under this law in the county
is estimated ut about $122, 900.
The big Corlss engine at the mill of
the Patten Paper Company In Appleton
was smashed, entailing loss OF $4,000
and making necessary shutdown for
several days. The accident was caused
by the condenser becoming disarranged.
The winter term Of school opened in
Cumberlands handsome new school
house, just completed ut cost of $50
600 The building contains twenty class
and recitation rooms, library, gymnasium.
baths and auditorium, is electric lighted
and steam heated.
A disastrous fire started at the Il. r.
Baker farm, near sSpooner, by the explo-
sion Of Il gasoline engine. Daniel Melby,
foreman on the farm, who was working
near the engine, was seriously burned,
while the fire destroyed the large gran.
airy, entailing loss of $4,000, with no
insurance.
The Racine Water Company has pro-
posed that il the city of Racine will
agree to refrain from using automatic
flushing tanks and to refrain from vast
ing water that the company will dismiss
all pending suits against it, each party
to bear it's own costs. The proposition
was accepted.
A Northwestern train at Appleton
Junction was stopped by the cries of a
man outside on the car platform. The
conductor pulled the rope and stopped
the train when the man, whose name is
unknown, came into the car got pair
Of rub II
urely left the train.
George Galster and Robert Richards,
both under Is years of age, held up Nels
Nelson in charge Of the La Crosse Gas
and Electric Company's factory Office
Nelson sounded the police call before
the robbers could get any booty. They
were pursued, arrested and were sent
to the reformatory at Waukesha
Or. A. IT, I4evings of Milwaukee, as
sisted by Drs. Beveridge Ryan and
Richie of Appleton, performed remark
able operation ON the S-year-old child OF
III. A. Paulson of Appleton for congen-
ital dislocation of the hip, by the Lorenz,
method Of bloodess surgery. For the
first time has such an operation been sue
cessfuly done upon patient as old as .
years.
Fire in the basement OF Pettibone's
department store dressmaking depart
ment in Appleton almost caused panic
among fifty girls employed there. The
fire started in the basement below and
was of small consequence, but worked
through the floor and started among
some boxes and papers piled up in Il
corner The telephone girls of tile Wis
consin company, in an upper floor, brave
" stuck to their posts through all. No
one was hurt and the damage was small.
The first large fire in Whitewater i'll
eight wears occurred the other night,
when the tobacco warehouse was de-
stroyed. Several hundred eases OF tobac-
60, valued at SIT 900, belonging to {. A.
Culton OF Edgerton, were destroyed and
there was no insurance. The loss on
the building was $4,000, with Insurance
of $500 1t was owned by Mayor
Kestol The fire was caused by spon-
taneous combustion and will throw fifty
people. mostly women and girls, out of
employment.
Captain Frederick Pabst of Milwau-
kee, whose funeral was held the other
dav. was noted for large gifts. but his
wife and four children He had been
told that he could not survive another
Christmas, so calling his wife and four
children-Col Gustave G., Frederick,
.Jr.. Mrs. w. II. Goodrich and Mrs.
Henry Soehmlein of Germany--to his
side, he made each Il present Of $1,000
900 worth of stock in his brewery. The
value OF the estate is believed to be in
the neighborhood Of Sl2O00,00O. ii
carried S165, 900 in life insurance.
By the heroism of Motorman Louis
| Happel. who remained at his post in the
face OF threatened death. thirty-fve pas
| sengers on north side street car i'll La
Crosse were saved, when a flying Bur
lington switch engine crashed into 1t at
the crossing, fifty feet north of the La
| Crosse river bridge. While the motor
man saw the approaching engine in time
| 10 reverse the current. the wheels slipped
on the ley tracks, the car reaching the
| crossing just as the engine shot over the
| tracks. Though he had time to jump to