Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-11-29

John Goulette was found guilty OF the
murder of Elmer Bonnie, aged 10, at
Rhinelander.
Hugh Ray, an employee of the furniture
factory of Algona, had the fingers of his
left hand cut off by saw.
John Grodsman, while boring for wat
or in his yard at Marinette struck gas
at a depth of eighteen feet.
Il. j. Scheibel was elected chief of po-
lice at Beloit, to succeed Sheriff-elect
George NJ. Appleton, resigned.
Miss Rilla Chisholm, who completes
the course at the Whitewater normal
school this term, has just been informed
that considerable property has been left
her in England.
The faculty of Beloit College has de-
cided not to expel the sophomores who
participated in the recent class riot on
condition that they pay all damages,
amounting to $75.
Traffic into La Crosse was delayed
several hours by a freight wreck on the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul road at
Rockland. Engineer Max Rudloff of
Portage was instantly killed.
H. E. Cover, a tall, lank countryman
hailing from Wisconsin, was bunkoed
out of 1923 in cash and certificate of
deposit for $4,000 at Spokane, Wash, in
a game of cards he did not understand.
Not only has the year 1909 been pro-
ductive of the largest tobacco crop in
the history of the State of Wisconsin, but
never before in the annals of the State
| has the crop been SO completely cleaned
up at SO early date as in this year.
High water in the Chippewa river has
shut down the Eau Claire paper mill,
leaving over 300 men idle and doing con-
| siderable damage in the f1ume. The stop
ping of the water wheels has also Grip
pied the electric plant which lights the
| city.
| The vegetable warehouse of the Hud-
son Produce Company, with contents,
was destroyed by fire at Hudson. The
loss on building was $4,000, insurance
1900. In the warehouse were $1,000
worth of vegetables, mostly onions, onion
sets and potatoes.
Mrs. William Pohlman, aged IS years,
died at her home in Campbellsport of
| paralysis. The death of Mrs. Pohlman
recalls the tragedy enacted by her son,
Fred Pohlman, July 6, 1901, when he
shot Miss Ida Guenther upon her re-
fusal to marry him.
| Charles Ortell, a farmer, was killed
in runaway while on the way from
Racine to his home near Franksville. His
body, with neck and one leg broken, was
found at the foot of an embankment by
neighbors attracted to the spot by the
neighing of a horse.
| Edward Baumstark narrowly escaped
| bleeding to death at Racine. He fell
while coming down stairs and cut his arm
open on pitcher which he was carrying
and which broke in the fall. When
| found he was almost dead from loss Of
blood. He will recover.
Henry McGill, brother of District At
torney McGill of Ladysmith, while hunt
ing was mistaken for Il deer by another
hunter and a bullet fred at him grazed
his chest, burning a mark across it and
tearing his hunting license, which was
in an inside pocket, to pieces.
Thomas p Hardy, young Racine at
torney. has brought suit for divorce from
| Marjorie Hardy, who at the time of her
marriage FIVE years ago was one of the
society bellies of the city. The divorce
is sought on the ground of desertion, the
wife having gone to live with her father,
J. T. Van Pelt of Denver, Colo, a year
| ago.
John Linsnannen, a prominent farmer
in the town of Caledonia, had a narrow
escape from being electrocuted. He was
driving to Racine and in attempting to
cross the tracks of the Milwaukee, Ra-
cine and Kenosha Electric Railway, Il
live wire which had been broken down,
| "a bic hnrcoc in tho forehead
killing it instantly. The wire passed with
in an inch of Linsnannen's head, and
swinging back over his head, knocked off
his hat.
| Word has been received in Racine
that Frank Moore, an engineer on the
Mexican Central Railroad, is in prison
in the City of Mexico. Edward w.
King told of the arrest of Moore and
three Americans by the Mexican author
tiles H. G.. Morrison, a friend of Moore
and the others, got into quarrel with
one of the Mexican coal passers and ac-
cidentally killed him. The Americans
were arrested and thrown into prison.
They have been terribly treated while
| imprisoned and had no opportunity to
have their case tried. The friends OF
| Moore are making every effort to have
| him released
| Excitement is running high over
shooting ARRAY five miles northeast OF
Baldwin Jens, the 14year-old son OF
| Mrs. Elsie Nelson, it is alleged, delib-
erately shot the 7-year-old son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Ecker in the head with
a shotgun, killing him instantly. The
boys had planned to go hunting together,
but Mrs Ecker refused to let her boy go,
as she did not wish him to associate
with the Nelson lad as she regarded him
as a bad character. So the Nelson boy
went alone, but when he returned he
| went into Ecker's yar| and the Ecker