Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-10-04

= uluer logging tram at 1rma.
Isaac Shorts of Wonewoc was badly in
jured by falling from a moving train en-
the Chicago and Omaha Railway near
Eroy.
Leon Ransome, the 13-year-old son of
Frank Ransome Of Hancock, was badly
injured by receiving bullet in the back
of the head The shot was accidentally
fired by a cousin.
Fire was discovered in the sawmill Of
the Eland Traffic Company, which was
entirely destroyed. Fortunately there
was no wind and the fire was easily held
IN the building in which it started.
Superintendent Mike Miller of the Ash
land and Syskiwitt Railroad was found
murdered at Nash, and two women have
been arrested for the crime. Jealousy is
supposed to have been the motive for the
tragedy.
| Mrs. Mary Horning, convicted Of a
systematic course of robbery of several
people for whom she had worked, faint
! ed IN court at Madison, when Judge Dom
oVan imposed a sentence of $50 fine and
costs or two months in Jail.
| The first tobacco crop harvested in
Irempealeau County is now in the sheds.
The land put to this use this year was
largely an experiment, but the result has
! been so satisfactory that large acreage
will be used for this crop next year.
| Two of the members Of the when
knighthood Was in Flower" company,
III which Miss Fife Ellsler is starring,
! Charles f. Gibney and Miss Geraldine
! Malone, were married in Fond du Lac.
They met three weeks ago and were en-
gagged week later.
| August Weigand, a depper and we'll
dressed Milwaukee young man, was SEN
fenced at Laporte, Ind, to a term of five
years in the Indiana prison for horse
stealing. Weigand pleaded guilty to es-
cape being taken to Milwaukee, where he
is wanted for a similar crime.
William Schmidt, who was sent to
Jail at Kenosha because he refused to
pay suit money demanded by his wife,
who was seeking a divorce, was released
after Mrs. Schmidt had called at the
county Jail and paid the fine against her
husband. Later a reconciliation was eff
fected.
NJ. NJ. Shaw, while cleaning out an old
house in Fond du Lac, discovered in an
old packing box in the garnet human
skull, the bones of the legs and arms and
few smaller bones. There were several
marks on the skull In the box was
found bottle which had once contained
poison.
When Frank Nelson, Waterman on the
steamer City of Paris in West Superior
harbor, read an account of the murder
of Mrs. Pulitzer of New York and saw
her picture in the paper, he exclaimed:
THAT is sister Annie" and realized that
it was his sister who had been the victim
of gruesome tragedy.
Proof accepted as conclusive that the
rObberies of fair week at ManitoWoc We're
the work Of amateur talent was discov
cred when Otto Rad found secreted in
tin can under the w. G. warehouse two
gold watches, later identified as the prop
erty Of Joseph Villas and Sam Hall,
whose homes were among the numeber
entered.
A carload Of live poultry was shipped
from Marshtield to the Eastern markets.
Two men went with the chickens and will
be kept busy gathering the several thou
sand eggs each day, and packing them in
cases for shipment. The eggs during the
trip east pay large share of the freight
bill. The car contained 5000 spring
chickens and hens.
J. 2. Smick, who was arrested by the
chief of police at Oshkosh for driving
his steam roller over some asphalt pave
ment, when told not to, was taken to
Jail in the steam roller, as steam was
up and he was unable to leave it on the
street When the city hall was reached
fireman was procured to watch the engine
while the prisoner was taken to court and
fined So.
Stunned and unconscious, wrapped in
folds of broken live trolley wires, Ar
thur Schultz, the 15-year-old son Of Aid.
Schultz. lay for half an hour in the
street at La Crosse in the presence Of
terror-strcken and helpless crowd until
messenger went to the power house and
turned off the current. No one dared
touch the victim for fear of death from
shock. Young Schultz will recover.
Through a purchase just made by the
Edward Hines Lumber Company Of Chi
cago the big fleet of lumber-carrying YES
sells of that firm will find steady work
next season. The Northern Wisconsin
Lumber Company's plant at Hayward
has been purchased by the Chicago con-
Germ, together with 100000 feet Of tim
Der. To this the Hines company Las
added 3OO,000,O00 feet standing in ter
ritory adjacent to the Hayward mill, and
shipping will commence next season.
Mrs. John Kalinowski, residing in Ke-
nosha. may die as result of saving her
child from being burned to death. While
the mother was in another room the
child's clothes were set afire by IN oil
stove and when the mother returned she
picked up the child in her arms. The
child's clothes were extinguished, but
those of the mother were set ablaze
instead. The husband, who was in the
front part of the house, rushed to his
wife's rescue, but she was badly burned
before the flames were put out.
The Supreme Court denied the motion
for a rehearing in the case of the lii
nois Steel Company against Alex Bud
zisz one of the squatters on Jones Isl
and, in which the decision was in favor
of the company. This case involved the
title to property worth millions Of dol