Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-10-12

Theodore Machen, Chicago tailor who
has been home for a visit with his par
ents at Melnik, found two pearls worth
$500 in a stream near their home.
Pitcher Virgil Garvin of the Milwaukee
ball club was fined $50 for firing two
shots at colored bootblack who refused
to shine his shoes one day last July.
Walter King Heffelfnger, aged II, and
Miss Alice Giles, two years his senior,
both of Minneapolis, eloped to La Crosse
and were married. The couple went on
to New York.
A large block Of mica has been found
cine, and further exploration will be
made by capitalists which may develop
the property.
Edward Gardiner, formerly of Bara-
boo, and on the Madison division of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway, was
shot through the heart by an officer at
Phoenix, Ariz.
Henry Hendricks, a saloonkeeper of
Amberg, and Charles Currie were arrest
ed, charged with robbing Louis Thomp-
son of S115 year and half ago. Currie
was located in Shiocton.
Pearl Sanders of Baraboo, in charge
Of Ringing Bros elephants, was gored
by the tusk of one of the beasts and
probably will not recover. The accident
occurred at Tucson, Ariz.
John Bier, aged about 40 years, whose
home was believed to have been in Mil
waukee, died suddenly at Racine. He had
resided there for several months and
seemed to wish to live the life of her.
nit
Olive hutchinson, a young woman OF
Menomonie, nearly lost her life by taking
a teaspoonful of aconite instead Of pare
gOric which she intended taking. Ply
sicians worked over her for eighteen
hours.
There was bad accident at the Be
lott Electrical Company's plant the other
morning. A fywheel eight feet in diam
etcr and with a thrty-inch face, burst
and q portion of the power house was
wrecked
Paul Reichelsdorp, Il cheesemaker liv-
ing five miles east of Plymouth, is re-
covering from an alleged attempt to COM
nit suicide by taking dose of strych-
nine. He was found by his wife suffer
ing the greatest agony. Remorse, it is
said, prompted his desire to take his
life.
DR.. John Mays Conley and Miss Bea-
trce Roche were married at Oshkosh I'M
der unusual circumstances. DR.. Conley
was seriously i'll with typhoid fever Miss
Roche, to whom he was engaged to be
married, is a trained nurse. The we'd
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but she, desiring to minister to her be-
trothed, asked that the marriage cere-
mony be performed at once.
Theresa Greulich, the 1O-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. G. Greulich of
Appleton, sustained a severely broken
leg while playing with a number Of her
associates. Strangely coincidental with
the accident is the fact that the little
girl told her parents at the breakfast ta-
BILE the previous morning of a dream she
had during the night in which she fell
from a fence and broke her leg. The Ac-
cident was in reality precise reiteration
of the dream, even to the place on the
fence where it occurred.
Workmen on a sewer in the business
part of La Crosse dug up the skeletons of
man and a woman about six feet below
the surface. DR.. Tillman made an exam
ination of the remains, which showed
that they had not been buried any great
length of time. Some years ago, it is
said, an old couple disappeared from the
city, leaving no trace behind. 1t was
then thought that they had met with
foul play, but the case was not investi-
gated. The couple resided near the Hell
leman ice house, close to where the dis
covery was made,
Philip Schmidt residing three miles
from Glidden, notified the officers that his
daughter, Elizabeth, had been found dead
in bed. At the inquest, which followed,
it was discovered that the child had been
i'll for several days. The verdict of the
jury was that the child had died of nat
ural causes, but found that her life could
have been prolonged and possibly saved
if medical aid had been summoned. The
jury censured her parent for cruel and
inhuman treatment and recommended
that the remaining children, five in num-
ber be taken from him and cared for
in the proper institutions.
Two highwaymen are reaping a great
surrounding towns are in a state of ter
ror Burglaries and holdups are nightly
occurrences. The postoffice at Colby
was broken into and money, stamps and
notes taken from the safe, which was
blown open with dynamite. The store of
w. G. Pradt was also robbed. At Dor
chester four store buildings were broken
into in one night. At Abbotsford two
citizens were held up and robbed. A
bicyclist, on his way to Colby, was sand
bagged and made to give up all the money
he had. Stores at Unity and Spencer
have also been visited by the robbers.
A. terrible wreck on the Wisconsin
Central Railroad near Mellen was mar
rowly averted. Passenger train No. 1O3
was behind time and was running at
high rate of speed. About twenty feet
of the bridge at Penokee was washed
out by the high water a short time be-
fore the train was due to cross. Frank
Cramer and E. Cameron came to the
bridge a moment before the train came
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