Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-08-05

son Of Milwaukee.
The 4-year-old daughter of J. Fries OF
] Lone Rock fell into burning brush
heap and was burned to death.
Louis Vanalstine fell from boat and
was drowned at New London. His COM
panions were unable to save him.
Thieves stole fourteen Panama hats
| at Brighton beach, near Appleton. lne
hats ranged in value from So to $2o.
Herman Will. a demented German at
Ladysmith, placed his left hand on a
block and deliberately cut it OH wien an
! ak.
Three La Crosse boys, Leo Mueller.
Fred Beisel and Walter Heizerg, have
been admitted to the naval academy at
Annapolis.
/ BY the breaking of wheel mango
on a west-bound extra 500 line Ireight'
three miles east of Ladysmith, SIX cars
of steel were ditched.
Harry HOLSTER, son of Madison
| druggist, committed suicide IN Denver De
cause the father had refused him ald
after a long debauch.
| William, the 15-year-old son or FRED
Kositze, an employe of the Patten IA
per Company in Appleton, was killed py
being caught in a belt.
At Superior Judge HALEY sentenced
Frank Hitter and Walter Howard TO
ninety days each in the county JAN TOT
killing deer out Of season.
| Henry Cass, a boy Of 16, was sentenc-
ed to one year in the Green Bay reform
atory by Judge Silverthorn of Wausau,
for burglarizing the office of livery sta
BILE.
| August Tesch, farmer of Grand
| Chute, was held up by two highwaymen
near Appleton, while on his way nome
from Appleton, and relieved of Sllo and
| a watch.
Mathew Broch, farmer of Kenosha
County, while driving over railroad
near Berryville. was struck by north
! bound passenger train, receiving injuries
| which may prove fatal.
The assembly opened at Battle Island,
twenty miles below La Crosse, On the
Mississippi, is to commemorate perhaps
the most noted battle with the Indians
ever fought by the Americans.
County Agent Charles II. Gonnermann
| Of Kenosha was called to Powers lake to
attend a young woman dying from the
result of an operation performed in Chi
cago. She declined to give her name.
Bertha Walvig of Beloit, aged 10
years has been sentenced to the girls,
| industrial school in Milwaukee until she
| shall be 81 years of age. The girl ac-
knowledged that she forged several
checks.
Bids for the purchase of the 100000
4 per cent high school bonds were opened
in Appleton n w. Harris & Co. of
Chicago were the highest bidders, offering
premium of 81, 100, and the bonds were
accordingly sold to them.
Mrs. Catherine Warren of Baraboo,
aged 76, arose in her sleep and walked
| off a secondstory porch, sustaining III
| juries that caused her death. Her hus-
band, the late ex-Mayor Warren, was
one of the early settlers of Baraboo.
| Sheriff Ackley in Chippewa Falls sold
| the farm of Mrs Mary A. Mohr, on fore
closure This is the farm upon which
Mrs Mohr is said to have given more
| than dozen conflicting mortgages IN the
| last two years, to various people IN that
section.
In Superior Charles johnson, colored,
| was shot in the thigh and right leg by
William Thompson also colored. 1t Is
said that Johnson had accused Thompson
of meddling in his family affairs. Thomp-
| son is in Jail, while Johnson is in the hos
pital. He will recover.
Henry Essler of Newcastle, 106 years
old, is cutting his third set of teeth He
reads without glasses and is as hale as
most men of so years old. He served in
| the Mexican war, was with Fremont in
his trip across the continent in 1849 and
| fought in the Civil War.
An employee of the Ashland Gas Com
| pany lit match to discover a leak in
the gas pipe. An explosion followed and
| the flames soon burst out. The Mattson
building, occupied by Grand & Maxi,
! jewelers., was damaged. The shoe stock
| of the Schiller Company, valued at $4,000
and insured for $4,000, suffered most.
Mrs. John Fasse, wife of farmer at
Sheboygan Falls, committed suicide by
cutting her throat. Mrs. Fasse, who was
| the mother of five children, has been in
sane for some time, and required con-
slant attendance. The other night she
escaped from the house, but was found
near the residence of Congressman
Weisse Early in the morning she again
made her escape, and succeeded in get
| ting hold of the knife with which she cut
| her throat.
Hiram Schnebly, - years old, promi-
nent in politics and owner of large -four
| ing mill interests, was killed at Green
| Lake by train on the Chicago and
| Northwestern Railroad. He is survived by
widow and one daughter, Mrs. Albert
! r.. Stillman of Fond du Lac. Fifty years
ago Hiram Schnebly went to Wisconsin
| from Ohio. He established mills which
had become known throughout the North,
west. He has held various offices under
the Republican administration, retiring