Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-25

door of the G.. O. D. store at Stevens
Point. They crawled through the open
ing and stole goods to the value of S7S.
Fred Johnson, who pleaded guilty at
Beloit to grand larceny and was sent to
prison for a year, is a kleptomaniac. He
told the judge he could not resist taking
things
Oscar Black fell between a moving
train and the depot platform at Baraboo
and had a narrow escape from death.
One leg was cut off and he was otherwise
injured.
Frank Felix, young man about "a
years old, employed as brakeman on the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway, was
crushed to death at Oostburg while coup
ling cars.
The Butternut lake summer resort, con-
Quoted the last two years by S. j. Reign
of. Milwaukee, has been leased for the
coming year by Messrs. Yankee and
Shienebeck
Carver Johnston, aged Z years, son of
I'll. NJ. Johnston, Glenwoods most promi-
nent merchant, is dead as the result Of
taking a few swallows from a bottle Of
earache medicine.
A woman bandit has appeared in South
Milwaukee. She held up and robbed an
other woman in her own home and then
escaped. The assailant was a woman
about 45 years old.
1t is reported that the Ann Arbor road
has purchased the Wisconsin and Michi-
gan road from the creditors and will use
it as a connection with the $500" to give
it direct interchangeable.
Edward Brunn, a painter residing at
Wells, made a desperate attempt to end
his life by hanging, but was cut down
before life was extinct He will be tried
for attempting to commit suicide.
The large stock barn on the farm of
John Holmes, west Of Kenosha, was
burned. The loss will amount to over
$1,000, with no insurance. 1t is reported
that the fire was of incendiary origin.
Julius Klatt, Pewaukee farmer, was
found dead in his field, shot through the
abdomen by shotgun which was found
on the opposite side of the fence. It is
supposed that the gun was accidentally
discharged.
A large proportion of the corn and po-
tato crops of Outagamie County have
been ruined by the rains. Corn is in
many localities sprouting in the shock,
and undug potatoes rotted in the ground
throughout all the lowlands
With no idea of where he has been, Gus
Schilling, who mysteriously disappeared
several days ago, returned to his home
in Kenosha minus his money. It is
thought ScEilling was drugged and taken
from the city. His mind is a perfect
blank.
A telegram was received at Menasha
announcing the death by accident of
Richard Triling a former Menasha boy,
and which occurred near Butte, Mont.
Trilling and other young men were
camping and he was accidentally shot
dead by one of his companions. He was
25 years old.
That the fire which visited Kellners-
vile did not wipe out the whole village
was due entirely to heroic work done by
the villagers The fire started in the barn
of Frank Vanish and although nearly
every house in the village was scorched,
the combined efforts of four threshing
machine crews and citizens saved them.
Every we'll in the vicinity was emptied.
E. M. Leon, clothing salesman, was
found unconscious in a room at the Plan
kinton House, Milwaukee. It was found
that he had taken poison with suicidal in
tent He was taken to the emergency
hospital, where he died. Leon was 81
years DID, He left letters which said
that business reverses led him to take
his own life Mrs. Leon said that they
were happy and that she had no idea that
her husband was respondent, but that he
had lost a fortune of 100000 left him
by his parents in a business venture in
Columbus, Ohio.
George Murray, a 16-year-old boy en-
ployed at the Chippewa copper mine,
West Superior, is under arrest, charged
with shooting Arthur Thomas, superin-
tendent of the mine. He confesses that
he probably fred the bullet which Killed
Mr. Thomas The small 25-2O eallber
bullet found in the body identified the
gun used by Murray. He. was hunting
at the same time and says that he snot
at what he supposed was deer and near
the spot where the body was found. He
saw something the color of a deer, a
brown jacket worn by Mr.. Thomas, and
fred twice. He looked around to find
deer. but concluded he had missed his
aim.
Four young boys narrowly escaped
drowning at Grand Rapids. They were
the sons Of DR.. Booman, +. b. kellner,
F. >Palmatier of Grand Rapids and Eu-
gene Taylor Of Spring Greek. They were
naddling across the river, but the current
was too strong for them and carried them
down stream. The boat stuck on rock
at the head of the dam. Two ropes were
thrown to them and fastened to the boat
but the parties on shore pulled in oppo-
site directions and the current capslzed
the boat. throwing the occupants into the
water, where they struggled desperately
against the current Taylor was unable
TO swim and was just going over l2-foot
fall when Henry Ebert. an employe OF
the Twin City Electric Company reacn-
cd out from projecting point ana graz
bed the lad. The others were rescueu.
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