Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-23

from corn planter.
Theodore Nelson, laborer in the town
OF Troy, committed suicide. He was y
years of age and his home was at Mar
| tell.
Ben Wood. youne farmer of Baker
vile, was drowned i'll the Yellow river
while trying to rescus boy from the
water.
| The boys of the senior class of the
Madison high school decided to wear shirt
waists at the graduation exercises to be
held in June.
State Superintendent of Schools l.. II.
! Harvey will deliver the baccalaureate
address to the graduating class at the
Oshkosh normal school,
G. B. Goelcher of Cresco, Iowa, will
establish a sheep ranch near Ladysmith,
and has shipped 700 head of sheep and
| goats from his Western ranch.
The Eureka Canning Company has
been formed with $4,000 capital. II. l..
| Sweet of Oshkosh and DR.. L. e. Locke
of Eureka are the incorporators.
Because he did not feel we'll John Men
| gel, clerk for J. G. Frank & Co., at
Jackson, hung himself. He was 80 years
old and Widower, but had no children.
James w. Wilson, the only prisoner in
| the Sank County Jail, escaped the other
| night The doors were locked and win
dows secured, making his escape a mys-
| terry.
The Eastern Wisconsin Telephone
| Company has recently taken charge Of
the local line and installed a complete
new system in Chiffon. Over fifty phones
are in operation.
While driving out of his barnyapd John
Minahan, residing some two miles north
west of Chiffon, was accidentally thrown
from the wagon, fracturing his sk I'LL and
killing him instantly.
Carl e. l.. Lipman of Beloit, aged 16,
| has completed an automobile. The mo
| tormobile," as he calls it, has been con-
structed by its young inventor since the
middle of January at odd times out Of
school.
A girl, aged 16 years, employed in the
family of w. G. Bartholt, three miles
west of Burlington, shot and killed
mad dog, which was in the act Of attack
| ing the children which had been left in
| her care.
An immense tobacco deal has been
closed at Madison, whereby Philadel-
| phia firm purchases 10000 cases of last
years crop Of Wisconsin tobacco, paying
therefor $35O,000. The shipment will
amount to about 2GO car loads.
| E. J. Cassidy, a crockery salesman,
committed suicide by cutting his throat
in his room at the Hotel Julien in La
Crosse, and then tried to cremate his
body by setting fire to the bedslothes.
The smoke led to the discovery
Nelson G.. Dudley, who has been en-
ployed as engineer at the Rock River
| Cotton Company's works in Janesyille,
| is missing, leaving a bride of few
weeks in GAINESVILLE. Several valuable
wedding presents disappeared with him.
At meet of the Glenwood Gun Club,
Percy Jones, aged II, was shot in the
arm and shoulder by the accidental dis
chrage of a gun in the hands Of Prof.
Thiel, assistant principal Of the high
school. No serious results are antict-
! pated.
A man by the name Of George Car
roll was found on the railroad tack at
Phillips. He had his right arm run over,
! and other injuries about the head. 1t is
thought that he was trying to steal a
ride on the passenger train and fell under
the car.
The Eastern Wisconsin Firemen's AS
ISOLATION, organized about six months ago
and comprising membership of voun-
teer companies from Sheboygan, Calu-
met, Washington and OZaukee counties,
will hold its first annual tournament in
| Plymouth on July 20.
The 6-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. August Brasah of Racine was ter
| ribly scalded about the head and Shout
| ders by boiling coffee thrown on her by
| her father. Brasah was placed under ar
rest. The father became angry with his
wife while at supper and began throw
| ing dishes at her. Her brother, who was
at the table, interfered, and the wife
| picked up her little daughter and started
to leave the house. There was a pot Of
| boiling coffee on the stove and Brasah
picked it up and hurled it at the woman.
The contents of the pot went all over
the child's head and shoulders, burning
her in an awful manner.
At noon Wednesday the longest session
of the Legislature in Wisconsin history
-126 days-was closed. A dozen bills
are still left in Gov. La Follette's hands,
among them the ice tax bill and the
measure creating the county of Gates
out of the northern part of Chippewa
County, on both of which several of the
members anticipate vetoes. -Four vetoes
marked the last day of the session, the
Governor returning without approval the
bill requiring compulsory vaccination,
that exempting beet sugar factories from
taxation, the bill providing an additional
employee for the railroad commissioner
and the one extending the time for pay
ment of taxes in Milwaukee.
Arthur Barring Gould, a member of the
noted English family, recently passed
secretly through Chicago on his way to
Canada with his two sons, whom he took
by stealth from his divorced wife in Osh-
| kosh. Detectives are now searching for