Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-06
At a special election it was decided to


George Smith. who was severely in
jured at Arena by being kicked in the
breast by a horse, is dead.
Henry Smith of Milwaukee has been
| nominated for Congress by the Demo-
Gratis of the Fifth District.
William Potter, an old resident of
Crandon, who has been in bad health for
some time, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself with his rifle.
Henry VAIL, yard foreman of the Mil
waukee Railway at Eau Claire, was
badly hurt and his collar bone is broken
Berthold J. Husting. better known as
Pete" pitcher of the Philadelphia Amer
lean League baseball team, and Miss Ag-
mes Sternberger were married at May
vile.
At the Worlds Fair August Schiller,
residing on a farm one-half mile from
Glidden, was awarded diploma and
medal for raising the best rye in the
world.
II. +. Erickson of Stanley was award
ed a gold medal at the Highland Park
College of Pharmacy at Des Moines,
Iowa, for efficient work in the graduate
course.
f. D. Bayless has purchased the Law
Ter parked homestead at Prairie du
CHEN, and will establish sanitarium.
Mr. Bayless was formerly State Sena-
tor from Elkader
Mrs. Gertrude Mics, aged "a years,
dropped dead at 1909 St. Claire street,
Sheboygan. Coroner Goodel found death
due to apOpleXy. She made her home
with her daughter.
Frank Kietch, saloonkeeper living at
Keil, was seriously injured by being
thrown from 4 buggy near New Holstein.
His ankle was dis!ocated and the leg
broken below the knee.
An old-time tramp, commonly known as
Jack O'Brien, was killed Icy Milwaukee
passenger train near Lansing. He was
sitting on bridge when the train hit him,
killing him almost instantly.
The long drouth in Portage, Adams,
Wood and Waushara counties is proving
severe and potatoes, corn and vegetation
generally are suffering. The hot winds
are even worse on crops than the drouth.
George Wolf, wife murderer of Chip
peHa Falls, was taken to Shell Lake ard
on a plea of guilty of murder in the first
degree was sentenced by Judge Ninje to
imprisonment at Waupun for life. He
arose in court and told the story of the
mlrder, detailing how he dug his wife's
grave in a lonely spot before he killed
her. He said jealousy drove him to the
crime.
Enraged because they shot his dog, it
is alleged NJ A. Erickson of Dresbach,
Minn. attacked Tracy Burke, son of T..
Il. Burke of the Withee. Burke x Barri-
son Bank of La Crosse, and ROLAND
GODDARD, son of La Crosse millionaire
lumberman, who were camping near the
village. IL. the fight which followed Burke
was pounded in a ing tf'll manner and
Goddard was stabbed in the thigh and
seriously wounded.
An X-ray examination at w. c. Fuchs
laboratory i'll Chicago has disclosed the
fact that J. G. Robertson Of Cooksvllle
did not swallow his false teeth, as he had
supposed. This discovery has greatly re-
lieyed Mr.. RObertSon'S mind, and, incl
dentally, an acute stomach trouble from
which he had suffered since the dlsap-
pearance of the teeth, but the mystery
as to the whereabouts OF the useful ar
ticle is deepened. Robertson lost his teeth
while asleep and the belief that he had
swallowed them so preyed upon him that
he made the trip to Chicago to have them
removed if they proved to be in his stom-
ach.
The man arrested at the Monroe Coun-
ty fair on suspicion of being the leader
of the horse thieves who have been OPP
Grating in Wisconsin. Minnesota and
Iowa for several months, has been identi-
fed as Pat Ryan, one of the most EotO-
rious horse thieves in the West. Ryan
was sent to the State penitentlary from
La Crosse County a number of years ago
for hose stealing, was twice convicted
in Crawford County and committed to
Waup1in prison for similar offense. lie
also figured in a Jail breaking episode at
Prairie du CHEN, where the sherff's Sis
ter, who endeavored to prevent his escape,
was severely beaten.
Hen.y Deter short time ago received
a letter ordering him, under penalty, to
leave $500 at a designated spot in pas
ture owned by him in the town of Cas-
tie I3ock, where he had something like
a hundred head of cattle. The letter
threaten that if he did not comply with
the demand his stock would be poisoned
and himself and family murdered. Joe
Hriebes of Castle Rock also received a
letter making several threats IN case he
refused to leave 500 in a bottle on GER
tain stump designated by the writer.
Deter has set trap, and in the mean
time eoes around heavily armed. lie has
received another letter, telling him to take
away his watchers, showing that if it IS
not a hoax the writer is on his guard and
may adopt other tactics.
After an absence of thirty-seven years
from. his wife George a. Thurston,
veteran of the Civil War. remarked the
woman, who. conceiving him to have
boon killed, had married again and was
widow. When the Civil War broke out
Mr.. AID Mrs Thurston were living IN
Canton, Ohio. At the close Of the war
Mr.. Thurston was not with the troops
that returned to Ohio and Mrs. Ihurston,
after Iour years of supposed WldoWhood,
married John Smith of La Crosse, with
whom she moved to this State, where she
has since been living. Quite by chance
few days ago Mr.. Thurston passed
| n Crocco saw and recognized