Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-09-11


slsslppi river wagon bridge at La Crosse
caught catfish weighing AZ pounds.
Thomas w. Finn, fagman on one
OF the gravel trains, was killed near
Iona by passenger train. 1t is thought
he went to sleep beside the track.
me postoffice and store of A. Alien
burg at Dancy was robbed Three s,ran-
gers seen in the village in the afternoon
are suspected and officers are now on
their trail.
William Youcum was killed in Keno
sha by touching an electric wire He
died almost instantly. Youcum was in
specSor of streets and sewers, % years
OF age and unmarried.
The monotony of the opening of school
was broken in one of the La Crosse dis
tricts by one little boy objecting so siren
uously to going that he had to be carried.
kicking and squealing, in his fathers
arms to his seat
Dedication services for the new Meth
odist Church at Olivet occurred Sun
day with very large attendance. Rev.
Mckibbin, who built the church, will not
return to his pastorate again, as he has
larger field in view.
convict serving life sentence In
Waupun prison escaped while the gang
were loading a car in the bull pen" He
made direct for a cornfield about mile
distant, but was captured after short
hunt by Clerk Campbell and Deputy
Warden Harvey.
The southern fever seems to have
struck Tomah and vicinity, as several
people have decided to locate in Tennes-
see. Among thoae who will permanently
reside In that State are: w. r. Lock
wood. George d. Bigelow, H. A. johnson
and II. r. Weaver.
Mrs. w. O. Carpenter, wife of Chi
cago lumberman, had narrow escape
from death while out driving in Mari
nette. a runaway team dashed on her
carriage and the tongue of the wagon
was driven through the side of the car
riage, just missing Mrs. Carpenter.
After a faithful dog had saved the
family of William Graf, Milwaukee,
from death by gas he was shot by a
policeman as mad. Anna Radke, u SER
want. was found dead from the gas when
the barking of the dog aroused the fam
lily and saved them from a like fate
BY an explosion of sodium with which
he was experimenting, Max A. lusse-
witt was injured in the face and eyes
and may lose his -eyesight. He is in
structor in chemistry in the State normal
school in Milwaukee and while alone in
the laboratory met with the accident.
Sheriff Ackley arrested Eddie Heff
aged II, at his home at Madison on a
charge of attempting to wreck the Wis
coIrsin Central limited at Albertsville a
month ago. Heff was held for trial with
out bond in the Circuit Court. Young
HeG does not deny his guilt, saying that
lie committed the deed to get even" with
the. company for putting him off a train
a Northwestern passenger engine
hauling heavy train left the track just
south of Cudahy, bumped along on the
ties for 100 rods and then tumbled into
the ditch Although the train was run
ming toward Chicago at speed of fifty
miles an hour, no cars left the track
and no one was hurt. Nothing can be
found wrong with the track and the en-
CINE seems all right.
William Smith, rich cattle dealer and
an old resident of Waukesha County, has
appealed to Sheriff School for protection,
claiming that he has been threatened
with death unless he pays $1,000 to an
unknown person within a few days. The
threat was made through the medium OF
an anonymous letter Sheriff School has
appointed a special deputy to guard Mr..
Smiths home in Pewaukee day and
night.
Harry Stoker of Brooklyn. n. Y, en-
ployed as night clerk at the Williams
Hotel in Manitowoc some time past is
under arrest on a charge of burglary,
having been caught in the act of rifilng
the room of the manager of the house.
His capture and arrest was made only
after long chase in which the fugitive
sought to escape on freight train in the
Wisconsin Central yards He is % years
of age and was recently discharged from
the employment at the hotel.
Miss Lillian Bredritch of Chicago has
| the houors for the most remarkable
catch that has been recorded in Wiscon-
| sin during the fishing season. In the
neighborhood of Horlicks dam, at Ra-
cine in company with her fasher, she
hooked what at first was supposed to be
fish Of unusual size. When brought
to the surface. however, it was found
that she had pulled up dilapidated
looking pair of mans trousers. The
rockets were searched and in them was
found SS.13
John Schmitt, a butcher of the village
of Pleasant Prairie, swore out warrants
for six prominent men of that place.
charging them with pouring hot tar over
his head and body. Schmitt had trouble
with some of his neighbors, and it is said
they took this method of getting rid OF
him. When they went to his place they
told him that if he would leave and not
come back they would do him no harn.
When he refused they produced pail or
hot tar and bag of feathers. Ihey
poured the tar down his head ana PACK,
The mans screams brought relief and
his assailants fed.
A bad wreck happened on the Chr
cago. Milwaukee and st. Paul halfway