Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-06-16

into the river during a fit.
The Northwestern Scandnaviam Sing
eTs Association will hold it's biennial
saengerfest in Ia Crosse July 6, { and s.
1906.
There IS likelihood that the Fore
paugh-Sells Eiothers circus may make
their winter quarters in Appleton in the
future.
William Springer, aged 81 years the
only support of his widowed mother in
Appleton, drowned in Fox river while
boating.
Ira 5. Meyer, the GAINESVILLE bigamist,
has been sentenced to the penitentiary
at Fort Madison for term of two years
and five months
An 1S-months-old son of John Smith
OF Eau Claire, while playing in the yard,
was attacked and killed by large black
Allnorca rooster.
\ two-pound carp was caught by
Henry Gutsch in a miniature lake OF the
main business street of Sheboygan, in
hole in the wood paving.
Mrs. r. M. Findeisen, an old and high
ly respected citizen of Campbellsport, for
over fifty years, died suddenly. The
shock killed her husband.
l.. Johnson of Elroy, about 80 years
old, purposely, it is said, rolled off
high rock and fell about seyenty-tiye
feet, sustaining injuries from which he
died. No cause is known for the act.
Seventy-fve farmers in Yorkville and
Raymond townships are in a wrangle
over the opening of d canal ten miles
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improve and redeem 5000 acres of land.
The wholesale grocery of c.. n. Graz
mer Il Co. in Washburn was entered by
burglars and the large safe was blown
up. -Four charges of nitroglycerine were
used, but little money and valuables
were secured.
Mrs. George Sheldon Smile, the art
list, recently of Kenosha, was carried
over a precipice by her horses running
away near Central, Colo. She fell 2OU
feet, and while badly bruised, it is said
she will recover.
A pocketbook containing $4,000 in Sc
| curities belonging to George +. Bentley
| of Elkhorn, which was stolen from him
at the Modern Woodmen's picnic, has
been found in saloon in beloit, but
$3.50 in cash is missing.
By the death of Walter S. Davis in La
Crosse his wife of forty-eight hours, for
merly compelled to work for her living,
| becomes the heiress to a third interest
| in the Davis estate, which is Estimated
at several hundred thousand dollars.
The 4-year-old girl of ] ohm Berg, lw-
| ing on a farm two miles from Three
Lakes, burned to DEATH while the mother
was working in the garden. The child
| climbed on to chair and got some
matches from the cupboard and set her
clothing on fire.
G. H Blaisdell, a Chippewa Falls
street car conductor, grabbed Mrs. H.
| Smiths child from baby carriage which
was on the track before a speeding Oma-
| ha passenger train, and an instant later
| the carriage was demolished. The meth
| er, seeing the danger, tainted.
| A charge of abandonment has been
preferred against Stanislaus Wroblaska
| of Menasha, who is said to be now work
i ing in South Bend, Ind. FoIr years ago
| Wroblaska married Rosa Sukolofski.
| Wroblaska was a widower with three
| children, and after having secured the
wife's property amounting to $500 he
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| three children as we'll as one by his sec
| ond marriage, to the wife.
Florence Bellinger, 81 years old, and
| her mother, Mrs. Anna Meyer, were
| found dead at their home in the rear of
| sos Jackson street, Milwaukee. Death
rs supposed to have resulted from drink
ing from the contents of bottle sup
| posed to contain brandy. The girl died
| several hours before her mother. A note
was found on the table beside the led
| of Mrs. Meyer, which reads: Sell every
| thing and give the dead a decent burial.
In the purse is $29.56.
Lightning struck the German Lutheran
| church in Chippewa Falls during SER
vices. In the excitement that followed
many women tainted. The rain flooded
| Duncan creek, carrying away the large
! dam at Boomer. Property is damaged
thousands of dollars A terrific hail and
wind storm passed over Abbottsford.
| Fruit and gardens We're destroyed and
many barns and dwellings, were blown
| down. About half of the village OF Cur
| tiss was wrecked by the wind. Fifty
| thousand dollars of damage was done in
GAINESVILLE and Rock county by severe
| wind, rain and hail storm which APP
preached a cloudburst. Reports from
the country are that whole fields of beets
and tobacco are ruined and corn is badly
| damaged.
Cameron dam on Thornapple river,
over which the DietZ controversy with
the Chippewa Logging and Boom Com
pany hinges, went out, and with it the
destruction of many wagon bridges, ac-
| cording to advices from Chetek. Several
towns in the county have been cat off.
Only one steel bridge in the vicinity
| remained in it's place. Durand and vi
cinity have been having the worst flood
since 1854 The Chippewa river has risen
| thirteen feet. Business men worked all
| night trying to save their goods.
| 7 yv-ora liant rrDinp all night