Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-07-05
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accident at the M. and NJ. paper mil
at Marinette. Surgeons hope to save
most of the injured fingers.
St. Mary's church, Neillsville, struck
by lightning, was destroyed with the
organ and contents, and the home OF
Father Peter F. Weber nearby was
damaged by the flames which spread
from the burning church. The loss is
about $4,000, partially covered by in.
surance. The building will be rebuilt
Docks at Ashland have received
$4,000 tons of coal since navigation
opened compared to 46,100 tons fol-
the period of April, May and June OF
last season, according to the records
OF Port Collector G.. M. Burnham
Only one cargo of hard coal has been
received at this port.
Lyle Lang, Marinette, has been
nominated by Congressman George J.
Schneider for appointment to the
United States Naval academy at An
napolis. Lang is chemist, employed
in paper mill at Marinette. Two
other candidates failed to meet the
requirements.
Fifteen hundred cases of strawber-
RES were recently shipper from War
rens, Monroe county. Daily shipments
are increasing and it is anticipated
that 1000 cases of Is quarts will be
the record shipment a day for the
season. Prices vary from $125 to
$2.25 per case. The berries are of the
finest quality and very lage.
Twenty-four ore carriers left the
harbor at Superior for lower lake
ports within "a hours. The cargoes
totaled 100000 tons. The only other
boats to leave in this period were the
E. E. Loomis, Duluth, which left with
package freight, and the Dalrymple.
which left with grain. In the same
period % boats arrived light for ore
and grain.
Donald H. Knoll, 10, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Knoll, Wisconsin Rapids,
ran a silver into his foot while play
ing ball. After pulling it out it was
thought that no further trouble would
result; but few days later the boy
was in such pains that the doctor adj
yised removing him to a hospital The
case was pronounced lockjaw, and the
boy died few days later.
At the dispersal sale of the famous
IIn1ctniY1 hnrd cd ~ Io1
Packing Co., a full-blooded bull
brought $1,525, being sold to the
Iowana Farms of Davenport, through
the Holstein sales association at Wa
tertown. Other animals Ia the herd
averaged more than 5000 each in the
sale, spirited bidding for this fine
herd coming from buyers haling from
New York, Pennsylvania, Iowa, ILL
nois and Indiana as well as Wiscon.
sin.
Two hours after they had been
thrown out of a car in which their
father, A. L. Peich, was seriously in
jured, the two Peich boys picked up
by Clarence Owens in another car,
figured in another accident when
Owens collided with car belonging
to Archie Pye. In the first accident,
the car driven by Peich skidded on a
gravel road north of Clinton and
jumped dry creek bed before it
landed, bottom up, with Peich and
Gus Carlson pinned underneath Peich
was unconscious when taken from the
lwreckage. Physicians say ne will re
cover.
A fatal accident was averted
through the presence of mind of Mrs.
Gustave Stanke, Tomah, who was
struck by an auto and dragged rs
feet. Had not Mrs Stanke hung on
with almost superhuman strength to
the bumper of the car which was
driven by Frank Fuchs, she would no
doubt have been STRUCK and fatally
injured by another car closely follow
ing. Mrs Stanke stepped from be-
tween line of cars parked in the
center Of the street when she was
struck The driver did not discover
what had happened until called to by
W. T.. Howes who was on the sidewalk
and noticed the woman clinging to
the bumper.
Reid Kemmett, 4-year-o1d son of
Henry Kemmett, Fontana, was acct
dentally drowned in Lake Geneva, it
was believed from evidence obtained
On account of a bruise on the boys
body, it was at first believed he might
have been struck by an auto and his
body thrown in the lake. Investiga-
ton by doctors, however, showed the
injury had been received when the
child fell from the bank into the lake
1t was also shown that the boy was
seen to cross the road to the lake but
20 minutes before his body was re-
covered Examination also showed
water in the boys lungs, which would
not have been the case had he been
killed before striking the water, doc
tors said.
Lester Goldepski, II, and Domnick
Cedosz, 16, escaped from the Wiscon-
sin industrial school for boys at Wau-
kesha, were arrested at Oshkosh at
the 500 line station, when they
stepped from northbound train One
of the boys lived at Fond du Lac prior
to being sentenced and they told the
police they spent a few days in that
city.
Jack Nelson, manager of the tele-
phone exchange at Viola and Reads