Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-03-18
A grand jury to investigate county
and city affairs has convened at James

the offense punishable by Il fine OF s. or
ten days imprisonment. An anti-smoke
measure also was adopted.
Miss Frances Wadsworth, private sec
rotary to President Van Hise Of the Uni
versity Of Wisconsin, has been taken to
the Mendoza asylum, suffering from tenn
porary insanity due to oyerwork.
Fred Mol, well-known citizen of
Cylon, was run down by a locomotive
on the Wisconsin Central near the Emer-
aid station and received injuries from
which he died a few hours later.
The body of a dead infant was found
/ in Il satchel at a house in Watertown,
where young woman named Anna
Schulz was staying over night. The
child had evidently been dead more than
| two weeks.
John II. Thayer died Of paralysis at
Sparta. He was high degree Mason
and had Travelled many years for Smith,
| Thorndyke q Co. Of Milwaukee. He
leaves his wife, one son and three daugh-
ters surviving.
Two WISCONSIN Central freight trains
came together head on between Hewitt
and Auburndae Three trainmen were
|
man Kelly and Brakeman Burt McCar-
ty, who were killed, lived in North Fond
| du Lac
| The Pewaukee postofllce, large barn
| and several small buildings were de-
| stroyed by fire. They were all owned
by William Jones and valued at $1,000.
| The contents of the postoffice were saw
| ed, but five valuable horses were burned
| in the barn.
| Sam Woods who resided seven miles
| south of Baldwin. committed suicide by
| cutting his throat with a razor at the
| house of his daughter, Mrs Dwight
| Bowen, while she was standing behind
him in the same room. He was buried
at New Centerville.
James Cawley, the Oldest resident in
Racine County, is dead. On April 20 he
would have been 101 years old. He was
born in Ireland and came to this country
sixty-two years ago. He was the first
man to open the road leading between
Racine and Milwaukee.
Reports have been received from Win
sted, Wash, stating that Mrs. Addie
Downs, wife of Rev Thomas Downs,
former pastor of the Methodist Church
Oh Idclue, mas clOpeu NliH NJuIl al
word n blacksmith residing at Win
look, Wash She met him at a cantata.
both taking part in the performance, and
a week after that they are said to have
eloped. She deserted husband and five
children and he deserted a young wife.
The postal authorities are trying to
locate several pouches of valuable mail
which were either lost or stolen one night
recently on the Northwestern road. The
regular train was blocked by snow near
lshpeming and a special was sent on to
take it's place The special had no mail
car. but picked up the pouches at the
various stations and put them i'll the
baggage car. One sent from Marinette,
containing several thousand dollars III
valuable paper, is gone, it is said, and
several other pouches are missing.
\ coroner's jury, sitting in tie case Of
Mike Whisky, an old n>ln found dead in
his home about six miles from Augusta
decided that he had been murdered The
mans head had been crushed in and the
house had been set on fire. Vernon
Whisky, aged Is. was arraigNed, charged
with numbering his father. The evil
dence indicates that the deceased was
beaten on the head and shot twice and
that the house was set on fire. The half
burned body was found i'll the ruins. The
boy pleaded not guilty and the eXamina
ton was adjourned.
The courts Of Racine are to decide as
to the question of ownership of the set
of furs valued at $40, claimed by par
ties prominent in society. The furs are
now in charge of the city marshal who
rcplcvined them on demand of Miss Mat
tie StolfeI. when they We're i'll the pos
session Of Miss Addie Williams. 1t APP
pears that at n dance given in the city
some months ago, furs belonging to Miss
Stoffel were taken from Guild Hall and
some weeks later a writ of replevln was
issued and the furs in the possession of
Miss Williams were taken Miss Stoffel
believing that the furs belonged to her.
John Eggert, a farmer of the town of
Center. failing to get ncighbors to shoot
an old horse which was useless and not
daring to do it himself, tied dynamite
around the horses neck and took the
animal to a field. After attaching the
explosive he touched off the fuse and
started to run. The horse started to fol-
low. Eggert had not thought of this
and was terrorized, expecting to be blown
up any moment. He reached wire
fence in his wild scramble, crawled
through it and ran about two rods, when
he heard a terrific explosion behind him.
Looking back, he saw no horse ana no
fence and the ground was torn up for
yards around.
The jury in Whitehall found Olaf 0.
Aabakken guilty of manslaughter in the
second degree He was charged with
the murder of John Wellan, q farmer
aged about 60 years, on the night of May
80, 1903, ut the home of Isabel Borst,
a widow, few miles from Whitehall.
Mrs. Borst testified that AGbakken had
made threats to do his son-in-aw, Ole
Brown. Aabakken was boarding with
Mrs. Borst at the time of the killing of
Wellan The body of Welan was found
a few rods from the house with a gun
shot wound in the abdomen, evidently
fired at close range. Aabakken made no
attempt to escape and after the holding
of the coroner's inquest was placed UNI
,lar arrast According to Aabakknn'S