Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-11-19
LITTLE BOY KILLS
GIRL PLAYMATE
CHILDREN HAVE FATAL GUN
PLAY AT APPLETON.
RAILROAD MUST PAY TAXES
Omaha Loses Expensive Decision in
Superior Circuit Court-Norwegia
Lad Alone and Without Food in
New York City-La Crosse Man
and Wife Jailed.

! Appleton, Wis, Nov. 14.-While
playing together in the town of An
gelica yesterday, gun in the hands
of Charles Hotgaveges, the S-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Hotgavages, acct
| dentally discharged, the load striking
Rose Sagleska. the 7-year-old daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs G. Sagleska, kill
ing her instantly.
Frightened by the terrible accident
! the lad took to his heels and made for
/ the woods.
1t was some hours before a search
! ing party found him concealed among
i the brush.
! Three Days Without Food.
La Crosse-Three days lost in the
city of New York with scarcely a
thing to eat and unknown to anyone
was the experience of Martin Rosen-
dahl, 14-yearold boy who reached
here from Norway. The lad has
practically been an orphan since he
was years old at which time his
mother, a widow, came to America
and settled in the town of Holmen.
| this county. Recently she married
and the boy was sent for Young
Rosendahl left Norway with nothing
in his pocket but a steamship ticket
that carried transportation to Gales
vile, Wis. In Castle Garden, he
wandered away and found himself
! among a lot of Polish emigrants. who
could not understand him. For two
days the lad was without food and
was nearly famished when a Norweg-
ian woman found him. She hunted
up Norwegian missionary and sent
him to the boys relief. Young Ros-
endahl was given a sum of money
| and started for this city, where he
was met by his mother.
Omaha Must Pay $3.50 Taxes.
Superior-According to a decision
by Judge Vinje of the circuit court
the Omaha road must pay city and
county taxes on it's Itasco elevator
property to the amount of $3.50.
| The Omaha road entered suit to
! prevent the sale of tax certificates to
, the amount of $685. issued as a re-
! suit of assessments in the total sum
of $150,000 levied against the elevator
property in the years of 1901 and
1902.
The plea was entered in the suit by
the Omaha people that the elevators
were a necessary adjunct to their rail-
road business and were taxable only
under state levy. The county and
city maintained in opposing the argu-
ment that the company had access to
several lines of elevators in Superior
which were constructed previously to
the building of their own, and that
the ltasca elevator being thus a COM
| petitive feature in the grain business
was not essential to the railroad bust
i ness. The decision will be appealed
to the supreme court.
old Couple DisIikes "kids."
| La Crosse-A lifelong aversion to
children, which has been the cause of
years of trouble to Mr. and Mrs. Will
lam Mohl, an old couple, has resulted
IN both being sentenced to the county
jail, the husband for five days and his
wife ten days. The man was charged
with firing shotgun at number of
boys who tormented him, and the
woman with assault. The old couple
are both over 20 years of age, and
have resided in almost every portion
OF the city, having moved from time
to time to escape the torments of the
children.
Left in the lurch.
Sheboygan-Three Poles, giving Mil.
waukee as their home and unable to
speak English coherently, were given
lodging at the police station. They
claim that an employment agent at
Milwaukee to whom they paid $40 for
transportation engaged them for work
in the northern woods. He accompan-
led them to Lake Shore Junction.
where he quietly left the train as they
learned on their arrival here, where
they were put off, the tickets handed
by the alleged employment agent
iSoNiAS W ohCDCy gan OuIys lH6y 0dQ
sufficient funds to return to Milwau-
kee.
Accident Causes Men Trouble.
Manitowoc-Three brakemen of the
crew of the freight train which derail.
ed car in the yards of the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway company here
have been summoned to report at divi-
sion headquarters at Kaukauna to ex-
plain the accident.
Urges Sons Insanity.
: Marinette-John II. Mclaughlin, Jr.,
former assistant corporation counsel of
New York, son of John H. Mclaughlin
of this city. superintendent of the Mari
nette & Menominee Paper Mills COM
pany, has been sentenced to two years
Imprisonment for an alleged participa.
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