Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-23

Asa Fletcher, elected sheriff of Eau
Claire County last fall, died after long
illness, of valvular lesion of the heart.
The Milwaukee road has removed the
telegraph instruments from its depot in
Omro. No cause is assigned for the re-
moval.
The treacherous Wisconsin river claim
ed another victim at Grand Rapids in the
person of little 3-year-old Genevieve
Ridgman.
Hilda Hanson, T-year-old daughter of
Helmar \. Hanson. fell off the pier at
the Bernard boat landing at Madison
and was drowned.
Burglars cracked the safes in the of
fees of \. Semple and Mackenzie s;
Westphal at Poynette. At the former
place $50 in cash was secured.
The clothing store of Treleven Broth
ers was totally destroyed by fire at ON
no. The loss is $1,000. Adjoining build
ings were saved with difficulty.
William and Frank Letter of Sparta
were taken to La Crosse and sentenced
to two years in the State prison at Wau-
pun for entering a hardware store.
Louis .Ewershitz, living on a farm two
miles from Eland. was instantly killed
blowing out stumps with dynamite, by
| the premature explosion of a charge.
A sneak thief entered the office in e.
| McIntyre's elevator at Waldo and took
$44 in change out of the safe, which was
open. There is no clue to the thief.
Prof W. P White, former instructor
of science in the Oshkosh high school,
| received the appointment of fellow in
physics at Cornell for the coming year.
Fred Smith, 17-year-old son of A. E.
| Smith of Onalaska, was instantly killed
| by Burlington freight train near Grand
| Crossing His head was crushed and
one arm pulled off
Martin w Odland of Madison has re
ceiyed the appointment of vice consul to
Denmark under Consul Ray Frazier and
will leave for that point in August. Mr..
Odland is an Instructor in the Madison
high school.
-Four cents. the plumber secured in
hold-up to which he was a party at Ri
pom, has sent Robert Zwiegen, a youth
of that city, to the Green Bay reforma-
tory of an indeterminate term of from
one to seven years.
BY the capsizing of their boat while
boating on the Wisconsin river at Prai
RE du Chen Frank Shell and Mabel
BiclSford were drowned. Frank I<endell
and Vivian Reynolds, who occupied the
boat with them, were rescued.
D. NJ D. Bird, who has medical
charge of the prisoners at the Marinette
County Jail, intends to prepare a bill for
presentation to the next Legislature pro-
viding for the establishment by the State
of an institution for chronic inebriates.
Another body was taken from the river
| at Manitowoc and identified as that of
Joseph Chapman, the missing shipkeeper
on the steamer Italia of the Corrigan
fleet, who disappeared Feb. %. Mr..
Chapman's home was at Cleveland, o.
Rev George S. Bryant died in Palmy
"a. He was born in Nottingham, Eng,
April 10, 1912. He came to Palmyra
in 1852 and preached for the Bible Chris
tian Society at Zion and Sugar Creek
for many years. Mrs. Bryant survives
him.
! A divorce was granted Mrs. Anna
Yonkers of La Crosse from Charles Yon-
kers. Some months ago Mrs. Yonkers
was bequeath ed 10000 by an aged man
whom she had cared for when he was
i'll on a Burlington train. Yonkers' moth
er, a wealthy widow, threatened to disin-
herit him unless the divorce was secured,
and Yonkers was forced to choose be-
tween his wife's $4,000 and his expecta-
tons from his mother, and the mother
prevailed.
After search of two years Mrs. Ger
trude Robinson of Kenosha, through the
aid of the Humane Society, has found
her child at the home of Mrs. Sarah
Weaver in Kansas City. Mrs. Robinson
had the child brought before the Circuit
Court on a writ of habeas corpus. The
| Robinsons were married in Indianapolis
in 1898, and the baby was born in May,
| 1900 The couple moved to kenosha.
In May, 1901, the couple visited Milwau-
kee, where the husband disappeared with
the infant. Judge Teasdale ordered Mrs.
| Weaver to retain possession of the child
until June 6, when he will decide who
shall have custody of the girl.
That portion of the State fish and
game law which purports to give war
dens the right to search cars and boats
for suspected contraband fish and game
is unconstitutional. That is the ruling
of the Winnebago County Court and by
inference of the State Supreme Court
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steamer of the same name, was arrested
for forcibly ejecting two game wardens
who attempted to search his steamer for
contraband fish. Lefeyer was discharg-
ed in the nisi prius court on the ruling
above noted. The case was appealed to
the Supreme Court and the appeal was
dismissed on the application of the At
torney General. This leaves the decis-
ion of the Oshkosh judge as the law in
the case.
A cold-blooded murder, in which Will
liam Stevens is alleged to have lost his
life at the hands of his stepson, Elmer
Cleveland, occurred the other night, the
result of a brawl on South Main street
in the negro settlement of Fond du Lac.
One of four shots from a 32-caliber re-
yolver did the fatal work, the one taking
effect in the forehead and three others
going wild Cleveland gave himself up
at the police station later and the body or
his dead stepfather was removed. Ac-
cordng to information given at the Ste
yens home, there was only one eye wit
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