Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-02-12

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branch house i'll Tony caught nre, de-
stroying two carloads of beer. The loss
is about S2,oOO
West Allis stores have experienced ilu-
merous visits from burglars the past TWO
months. OF late the town has averaged
one burglary week
r. Slocum. a wood chopper. is living
in 4 common tent pitched in the woods
near Mazomanie. Mr.. Sloculn says he
finds it very comfortable.
At the sale of State lands in superior
hut thirteen pieces We're sold ~ OF
about $50 descriptions offered In no
case did the bid exceed the appraised
valuation.
Tbe granting of divorce to Emma
Reed from her husband, Curtis Reed, on
the grounds Of cruelty and drunkenness.
has occasioned a sensation IN Alenasna
society circles.
The school board at Racine voted on
Il resolution to employ two extra teach-
ers to whom dull pupils should be as
signed for special training. The resoiu-
ton was referred.
Fire broke out in Carlstrom & BaKNes
grocery store in Mellen, threatening the
total destruction of the whole town. Inc
building and stock were destroyed, fully
| covered by insurance.
Hans Louis Jensen, aged 81, died from
inhalng the fumes used in what IS
known as the dry cleaning process Tor
| fine fabrics He was employed at the
! L. z. Gillen laundry in Oshkosh.
| The mill dam at Whithall went out
A. I hp IL
out lights until spring. The -four mill OF
| James Larson will also have to stand
| idle until the dam can be repaired.
Miss Laura Mosher of La Crosse was
severely burned on the hands and head
and will be partially bald as result OF
the ieniting Of two celuloid side combs
which she was wearing i'll her hair.
Kankauna people have just received
copy Of the 1900 United States map
and are much wrought up TO find that
their city is not on the map, although
many smaller towns near by are marked
Charles Pilger of Sheboygan was NJ
raigned in the Circuit Court in Manito-
] woe and sentenced to three years at Nau-
pun OH a charge of breaking into sa-
loon at Sheboygan. The prisoner is o6
| years of age
| Delaield trustees. it is said, are being
urged to order the killing of every dog
in the village owing to an epidemic OF
hydrophobia 1t is said twenty-five dogs
are affected, and every dog in the VII
| lage is chained up.
| A sale of 100000 feet of white pine
| has just been made by the Hines Lumber
| Company at Duluth to a Toronto firm to
go to England and The Hague. 1t is
to be cut at Hayward next summer from
logs near Superior.
After his wife had been in a drunken
stupor from Thursday until Monday af-
ternoon Valentine Duszynski, at Milwau-
kee, took handkerchief. looped it
around his neck and hanged himself to
the post Of the bed on which she was
| lying.
Mrs. Edith ]. Raft of Denver was
given verdict Of $1,000 in the United
| States Court of Appeals at Milwaukee
! against the Northern Pacific Railroad for
! injuries received in n collision, although
| Mrs. Raft obtained her ticket from
scalper.
Julius Severson. aged Is, Il trapper.
| brought in to La Crosse Il fox hide from
! Coon valley and received the bounty of
So The fox has been feasting on the
| farmers hen coops for years. but no eff
J fort to capture him has ever before been
| worked to success.
II seems likely that the question Of in
| cooperating Washburn will be holly CON
tested at Il special election March IS.
The present township form of govern
ment includes more than seven govern
ment townships with a population of over
1000 people considerably more than
5000 heiHg in the village proper
John Krofski, Howard Kelman Gus
Hoff and Joseph Skotski were arraigned
in Kenosha on a charge of burglarizing
the home of Anton Depske. The gang, it
is alleged, has robbed store in Racine,
hurglariZed Il private house in Kenosha,
and stolen quantity of liquor from Il
saloon Kellman stated that they plan
ned to hold up large number of the
girls employed at the Chicago Rockford
Hosiery works, but lost courage at the
critical moment.
Several of the officers of the town of
Pike Lake have been arrested on the
complaint of the president of the Bank
Of Wittenberg, r. w. Roberts, OH
charges Of forgery. For several years, it
is alleged, these officers have carried on
a system of collecting money from differ
ent parties on illegally drawn town or
ders Recently about 5000 of these or
ders fell into the hands of the Witten-
berg bank for collection, when an inves-
tigation showed them to be worthless.
The bank brought suit against the town
for recovery. but Judge sSilverthorn held
that as the orders were forgeres the
town was not liable and upon that de-
cision the arrests We're made.
Charles Brandon and John Fletcher,
who are supposed to have robbed a jew
elry store at Neosho and secured Il large
amount Of jewelry. We're arrested on the
blind" end of the Watertown passen-
ger train when it pulled into the Allis
station. they We're armed and each car
ried a lot Of the iewelry supposed to have
been stolen. The Chicago police have
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