Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-02-14

The Kenosha Electric Railway Com
pany will complete the eight miles Of
track necessary to complete the system
between Milwaukee and Chicago early
this spring. The right of way at Wau-
kegan has been secured.
Haugen Ellerson was arrested at La
Crosse by the sheriff charged with steal
ing valuable horse owned by Exon
gresham Frank Coburn. He was found
to be a former inmate of the Mendoza
asylum. He was sent back there.
Arthur Frankenburg, aged II years,
shot himself in the temple Despon-
dency, caused by his parents objection
to his sweetheart, is said to have been
the cause of the act. He is a son of
prominent merchant at Greenwood.
Hugo Suhm, it is alleged, waylaid Mrs.
Lizzie Wetzel in Kenosha and struck her
several times with stones. She was seri-
ously injured, but will recover. Suhnl
is in love with a girl friend of the wom-
an and he claims Mrs. Wetzel told the
girl to have nothing to do with him. The
man has disappeared.
A gang of burglars, thought to be COM
posed of home talent is operating in Ra-
cine. They entered the home of John
Harness and stole gold watch and
chain, and from Herman Fritz, who lives
next door, they stole seven gold rings, a
diamond brooch and some other jewclry.
They left the doors locked and nothing
was known of the burglary until morn
ing. The police have not been able to
trace the stolen property,
H. r. Charles, superintendent of the
Walworth County insane asylum; Mrs.
H. r. Charles, matron, and William
Rehm, second assistant, have resigned
from the institution as the result Of the
investigation by the State board of con-
troll, following the complaint of the rela-
tives of Melbourne HOLSTER, an inmate,
that he was being cruelty treated. The
only charge proved was that corporal
punishment had been used in HOLSTERS
case.
A wildcat attacked Miss Jennie Foss
in the school house at the Washburne
settlement. The animal entered the
school house during the night after an
encounter with a porcupine, in which the
cat was covered with blood and its skin
pierced with porcupine quilts. Miss Foss
kept the animal at bay with an umbrella
while she backed to the door, when
Hayes Bailey, who had been hunting in
the neighborhood, happened on the scene
and shot the cat.
Mrs Elizabeth Clifford, aged Sc years,
domestic servant employed by Mrs.
Hamilton Utley, of Racine, but whose
home is in Chicago, died suddenly under
mysterious circumstances. She took q
drink of water from a glass standing
on a table, and after remarking that it
was bitter finished the contents of the
glass Within a few minutes she was
dead. When the coroner arrived Mrs.
Utley had washed the glass and no analy-
sis could be made. The doctors are not
agreed as to the cause of death.
Mrs. Peter Franks rare presence of
mind saved herself from being burned to
death at Kaukauna. She set can ct
mixed paint on her kitchen stove to
warm up, it being rendered thick from the
cold weather Almost Immediately it
took fire and was blazing with terrific
heat, when she threw it out of doors,
terribly burning the right hand with
which she grasped it, and setting FER
clothing on fire from head to foot. She
Immediately threw herself on the ground
and rolling in the snow smothered the
blaze. Her arm and one side Of her face
are badly burned, but her physician Gays
she will recover.
Thirteen Lawrence University students
at Appleton have been suspended for
two weeks for participating in braWl,
in which the freshmen used axes to
break down doors leading to the dome
Of the main building, and almost sutfo-
Gated six sophomores, who were impris-
oned there, by burning sulphur. Those
suspended, the majority Of whom are
sons of Methodist ministers, are: John
Dufer, Ashland; George Joliffe, Ocono-
mowoc: Claude Paris, Waupaca; +.
Reynolds, Robert Walters, Appleton;
Roger Adams, Marinette; Blythe Gar
net La Crosse; A. Young, Ashland;
Clarence Becker, Eureka; Lawrence
Johnson. Brandon; S. Filings, Green
Bay; Charles Karnopp, Stevens Point,
and c.. Wingedder, Hudson.
Justice Barnard of the District SUI
nreme Court in Washington has granted
a mandamus directing the Secretary of
the Interior and the commissioner of
Indian affairs to pay John B. Bigboy,
an Indian of the La Pointe agency, GER
tain moneys deposited to his credit in the
Northern National Bank of Ashland. The
court held that an Indian agent had no
right to refuse to countersign the In
dams check for the money, that act be-
ing a ministerial one, and that Bigboy
has all the civil rights of citizenship
SO far as property lawfully allotted to
him is concerned, subject only to such
conditions and trusts as may have been
expressly named in the allotment, patent
or contract of sale. The case involves
about $4,000, said to be held by the
Indian bureau for the several hundred
La Pointe Indians.
By majority of one the Supreme
Court reversed the order of the Ailwau-
kee Circuit Court vacating the temporary
injunction restraining the Chamber OF
Commerce of Milwaukee from expalllng
or suspending Bartlett, Frazier Il Go. OF
Chicago and MilN aukee from member
shin for alleged violation of its rules.
Judge Dodge and Winslow dissented
from the majority. The opinion Is writ
ten by Justice Marshall. 1t reviews the
case fully, the contention being over
deal made by Walter E. Brown, a clerk