Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-01-11

| Mrs. Frank Grimmer was held I'D at
Chippewa Falls and robbed of a gold
ring and So. The robber escaped.
Rudolph Schroeder, a well-known
young man of Wrightstown, was killed
while at work in lumber camp at Wells.
| Mich.
At Mequon Otto Norbuck, aged 80. I'M
married, was accidentally shot and killed
while cleaning his gun in preparation for
a hunting trip.
Mrs. Il. Juneau, a widow living at the
| Cary mine, Hurley, was found dead in
her bed. Death was evidently caused by
heart disease.
| The S-year-old daughter of John W.
| Rhodes of West Superior was shot and
killed by her older brother. The affair
was entirely accidental.
The sawmill of Isaac Rund of Pound
was totally destroyed by fire, causing a
loss of $4,000, with no insurance. The
fire was of incendiary origin.
Elmer Bonnie was killed in a saloon
| fight in j. B. Gouelett's place at Rhine
| lander. The authorities are endeavoring
to locate the man who fired the shot.
While hunting in the woods at Ne
koosa with other boys Guy Gorstein, aged
| IS years, accidentally shot and fatally
wounded himself. The whole charge of
shot entered his abdomen.
With the price of lumber higher than
IN previous years, there seems to be lit
| tie demand for woodsmen this winter.
Lumberjacks and teams are waiting for
an opportunity to go into the woods.
| Judge Bum of the federal court at
| Madison has entered a decree directing
| the public sale in about a month of all
| the property, real and personal, Of the
| Superior Consolidated Land Company,
valued at 100000.
The 2-year-old child of Herman Witt
died at Sturgeon Bay from the effects
of scalding. While the mother was out
hanging up clothes the little one pulled
the plug out of the patent washing ma
chine. The scalding water poured over
the head, face and chest of the child, who
was parboiled and died in awful agony.
| Sheriff Johnson arrested a man by the
name of Elengreen, who resided with
Mr.. Gronquist near Deer Lake, and took
| him to Balsam Lake to be examined as
| to his sanity, as later he proved to be
| violently insane. He had one of his spells
| late in the afternoon. He secured a small
| piece of maple stove wood and cut his
| throat from ear to ear and died a few
moments later.
George Priest, formerly of Prairie du
| Chen, met with a terrible accident at
| Vinton, Iowa. He was a brakeman on
the way freight on the main line of the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Nowlern
Railway and while at work in the yards
at Vinton slipped on the ice, falling I'M
der a moving car, which passed over both
| legs, practically severing the left from
| the body. He was taken to Cedar Rap
ids, where both legs are to be ampu-
| tated.
| Charles Hockenbrock, son of Aid. John
Hockenbrock of Chippewa Falls, who
suddenly disappeared from his home
| eight years ago at the age of IA years,
returned to his home while the family
| were seated at the supper table the other
night. He had been given up for dead,
no word having been received from him
| since his departure. For the past three
| years he has been serving as a private
| in Company II, Twenty-third United
States infantry, in the Philippine Islands.
| Frank Rause is a man. OF that the
postal authorities and Milwaukee police
are satisfied. His golden hair is part
of the effects which he uses in his bust
ness" as Rause said himself. He still
maintains his innocence of the crime
| charged against him and holds to his as
| sertion that all he knew of the jewelry
or woman was that the latter hired him
to go to the former. The postal authori-
ties are at work trying to locate Rause,
or Mrs. Saunders" while the game was
being worked at Randolph.
The GOODNESS of a priest saved st.
James Roman Catholic Church in Keno
sha from destruction by fire and prevent
ed a panic while mass was being cele-
brated The church was crowded. When
| the priest was at the main altar the dec
oratons in front of st. Joseph's altar
caught fire and began to burn. Many Of
the congregation started on a run for the
door. but the priest signale1 the choir to
continue the music, and he proceeded
with the mass, many of the people kneel-
ing at his example. a number Of men
near the front of the church rushed into
the chancel and extinguished the flames.
The altar was badly damaged ans the
large arch in front of it was destroyed.
The town of Franklin is under water
| because OF an afteSldn wen on tIle la liz
of L. Busch The season has been an
unusually dry one and the residents were
praying for rain there Water was so
scarce that Busch started to drill an ar
tesain we'll and had bored down 231 feet
| before any result was obtained. Then
gusher spouted a column of water thirty
feet high and six inches thick, and 1t has
been running without cessation ever
since. The whole surrounding country
has become a lake and all the farms IN
the neighborhood are under water.
The first steps to test the validity of
the ice tax law passed by the last Wis
consin Legislature were taken in Raclne'
when Henry Rossmiller of Burlington,
superintendent of the Knickerbocker Ice
Company of Chicago, was arrested on
| complaint of Chief of Police Fred Pts
ter on a charge of having cut car load
of ice from Browns lake and shipped it
to the Hagel Ice Company of Chicago.
The ice companies claim that the law is