Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-06-26

James Kommerstad, n wealthy resi-
dent of the town of Hale, hanged himself
He was insane.
George Dale. farmer of Whitehall
dropped dead of heart disease. He was
40 years of age
William Hopper had his thumb and
one finger cut off while working in
Bolle's mill at Pound.
Archie Felix aged IS, and John Me-
ner, IT years old, drowned in the Eau
Claire river at Chippewa Falls. while
attempting to cross.
A contract has been let by the Hazel
Green Mining Company for n $4,000
concentrating mill on their land three
miles west Of Benton.
The life-saying crew found the body
of Andrew Bartleson floating in the Root
river at Racine. Bartleson committed
suicide He was II years of age.
The Jacob Skinner sawmill at Pine
River caught fire. from some unknown
cause. and was destroyed. The loss is
about $4,000, partly covered by insur-
ance.
The unsanitary conditions in the vii
lage of Corliss are causing alarm, and
the State board of health will be called
upon to insist that the drainage be inn
proved.
The body of H. w 1bbings of Madi-
son was found near Ashland. Ore. He
had been a student at Rush Medical Col
legc in Chicago. 1t is evident that he
was murdered.
4 valuable letter was found on the
street at Appleton by DR.. W. Fl. Chill
son. 1t contained a draft for S42T which
had been lost for a week. II belonged
to -. W. Dean * Co.
Matt Aubrey. formerly a son-n-law of
Chief Justice Fuller and at one time
resident of Chicago, was sentenced at
milwaukee, to serve four years in the
State prison for forgery
Arthur Everson. aged IS, from North
st. Paul, attempted to jump from a NOV
ing train in the yards in Glenwood, and
must have his left leg amputated below
the knee He will recover.
Burglars entered the store of Wilter-
ding q Westcrtield at Hatley, blew open
the safe and carried away the money
box, which contained about $3.50 in cash.
Four men were in the gang.
Miss Coda Thomas eloped with Roy
Kincade from Pound. They drove to
Menominee. Mich, and were married
there. The bride is a girl Of 16 and her
parents were strongly opposed to the
match, but they made no chase.
John Woletz, Il runaway from the
Waukesha industrial school, was captur-
ed at Bass Creek. His father is under
arrest on a charge of aiding him to es-
cape. The lad had been allowed to go
home to attend the funeral of his mother.
The Western Wisconsin Modern
Woodmen Picnic Association held its an
nual picnic ut Trempealeau and it was
decided success in every particular Ad-
dresses were made by District Attorney
Cowie of Whitehall, Senator Gaveney of
Arcadia and Attorney Donovan of La
Crosse. The baseball game between
Galesville and West Saleh resulted in
victory for Galesville by a score of
8 to 3.
An attempt to wreck the Chicago and
Northwestern train was made the other
day The train struck pile of ties and
heavy planks north of Brooklyn. The
trainmen went back and found the south
bound track piled with the same mate
timber, it having been again placed on
the track. A third attempt was made,
but the trainmen saw the obstruction in
time to bring the train to a standstill.
The State board of control has an
nounced the following new teachers i'll
the State school for the blind at James
vile next year: Tavern Brooks, a gradu-
ate of Lawrence University; Principal
Boetz of the Albany schools; Miss Liz
zie McGrath, and Miss Elizabeth Kor-
rer of Fond du Lac; Frank Froelich of
the Oshkosh normal; Miss Helm of De-
troit. Superintendent c. r. Schowal-
ter was reappointed. Ten of the old
teachers will remain,
Joseph Barber, reputed to be an es-
capped convict from the Iowa State pris-
on, was arrested at Neenah. after
struggle with Chief of Police James
Brown, Andrew McCabe, an Oshkosh de-
tective, and Barber nearly lost their
lives. In attempting to take Barber
from houseboat on which he was liy-
ing the officers were pulled into Lake
Whine ago and it was only after a des-
perate struggle that they were able to
overcome Barber and place him in
naphtha launch. Barber is wanted in
Oshkosh on charge of larceny.
The assistance of his Scotch collie dog
saved Frederick Williams, Waukesha
farmer, from being killed by an enraged
bull While he was crossing a field Will
lams was attacked by the animal, which
fortunately had been dehorned, but which
was making short work of him until his
collie interfered and made such a fight
that, injured as he was, Williams was
able to climb a tree. The dog kept the
bull busy for several hours. but could not
drive it away from the tree, where the
farmer remained until his hired man, re-
turning from town, found him. Three of
Williams ribs and one arm were broken.
Another bandit of the Holzhay type
has showed up. Nine men employed in
Camp 81 of the Yawkey Lumber Com
! pany at Hazelhurst were held up while
returning from Tomahawk lake by 4
| lone highwayman. who commanded them
| all to throw up their hands. One man,
| Charles McElhaney, was slow and the
| robber shot him through the foot with
| his Winchester. The men were COM
| handed to turn their backs to the bandit