Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-06-04

At Arcadia, the body of James
Campbell, farmer with two bullet
holes in the head and with the skull
battered in, was found in the river.
Grant Owen, town of Caledonia
farmer, was struck by lightning while
he was standing before mirror comb
ing his hair. The mirror was shat
tered. Owen will recover.
| kenosha Methodists will tender a
reception to Bishop Joseph C. Hart
zell, missionary bishop of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, prior to his de-
parture for Africa, June II.
Andrew Brady. so, town of Mukwan-
ago, died after a long illness Mrs.
Brady, 50, while gazing at his dead
body, was SO severely Frustrated that
she died few hours later.
At Boonton, n. j., because their
principal has been forced by the board
of education to resign, $50 boys and
girls of the high school have gone on
a strike and refuse TO go to school,
Word has been received at Racine
that John Peterson, aged 40, was MUIR
found in ditch outside of small
Mexican town, with bullet hole
Through the head.
At Marshfield, a divided verdict is
the result of the coroner's jury in the
matter of the killing of Matthias Gros-
beir by his wife, four of the jurors
voting self defense, and the two
Louis Kindt, 20 years of age, dra-
matte writer, and one of Wfsconsin's
most talented scenic painters, and
Mrs. Barbara Becker of Saginaw,
Mich, few years the junior of Mr..
Kindt, were married at Kenosha
John Josie, alias John Philips, living
at Tomah, Wash, who eleven years
ago, married Cavina Smith in Chippe-
wa Falls under the name of Philips,
has acknowledged that twenty-eight
years ago he escaped from the Kings
m. Ont, penitentiary after serving Q
nine years of life sentence for MUIR
dering a woman. Josie is now suf-
fering from cancer and cannot live.
At Middleton Eugene B. Quick, for.
January with several hundred dollars
of the city's money and the funds of
an Odd Fellows lodge. will return
from San Francisco to settle the
amount of his defalcations.
AT Racine. Owing to the inability of
witnesses to be present, the case of
Charles T. Wright versus the Union
National bank, to recover $4,000. was
adjourned. About ten years ago he
was tried in Michigan for killing a
deputy sheriff, and sentenced to prison
for life. He was recently pardoned.
At Racine, Court Commissioner
Wentworth heard arguments of attor-
neys inthe case of the state versus
George Elnolm. charged with en-
bezzling $1,000 of the funds of the
Belle City Sash and Door company,
when he was interested in the corpora
ton and acted as its treasurer. The
commissioner discharged Elholm.
At Prairie du Chen Adolph Polon-
dona, 8 years of age, accidentally
swallowed collar button and died of
strangulation before medical aid could
be summoned. The child had been
playing with the button held between
his teeth. The boys father tried to
dislodge the button, and in his agony
the child almost bit off his finger. An
examination showed that the button
had lodged in the lungs.
At La Crosse the little daughter of
Louis Selke states that on the night
Thomas Cain of Brownville disap-
peared, she heard cries from the di-
rection where his upturned boat was
found. This, with the discovery of
mems footprints near the boat and
the fact that he had just drawn $500
from a bank, gives rise to the theory
that he was murdered and his body
thrown into the Mississippi river.