Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-16

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Lyle Bones son of Supervisor Court
land Bones of the town of Caledonia.
fell from wagon, and it is feared he
sustained fatal internal injuries.
An old deserted shack in La Crosse,
the rendezvous of a gang of boys, has
been raided by the police and proved to
be veritable breeding place of crime.
While in anger, it is alleged. Victor
Fauver threw a barrel stave at Jacob
| Lindsdau in Neenah, striking him in the
right eye, the sight of which is totally
| destroyed.
| While backing in on some cars in the
Milwaukee yards in GAINESVILLE Brake
man William Copeland of Chicago lost
one of his legs and part of one hand
was cut off.
In Fond du Lac a verdict was return
ed in the case of Nicholas Kuhn, finding
him guilty of passing Il forged check for
$14.75. May Mitchell was the complain
ing witness.
John Miller of the firm of Miller &
! Reimer, of Racine, while running a corn
shredder, had his left arm torn off on
the farm of William Braid and may die
| from the shock.
While w. n. Bailey of Davenport,
Iowa, and r. W. Davis of Madison were
hunting on Lake Kegonsa the boat upset
and they were three hours in the water
| before being rescued.
Miss Nellie Masters, aged %, was kill
| ed, a younger sister was fatally injured,
and two other sisters hurt seriously when
their carriage was struck by a Wisconsin
| Central train at Weyauwega.
Mary Fiala, aged 81 years, of Milwau-
kee. is dead and her father, Joseph Fiala,
and sister Rose are precariously i'll from
eating raw chopped pork. Trichinosis
was the cause of death and illness.
Theodore Hapke, the GAINESVILLE beet
sugar man, has incorporated the Dane
County Beet Sugar Company, which is
| to erect factory near Madison. The
capital is 100000 and the factory will
| have a capacity Of 800 tons of beets
| day.
Hattie Kennedy, aged Is, saved the
lives of Mrs. Barlass, II years old, and
five children, in a fire which destroyed
the $4,000 residence of David McLay,
horse importer in GAINESVILLE. The Ken
nedy girl carried Mrs. Barlass down a
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she stepped from the last step, and then
rode in her nightgown to neighbors for
aid in putting out the flames.
The police force are searching to find
| the mysterious incendiary whose crimes
have thrown the property owners OF the
residence district of La Crosse in terror.
| They believe the several fires in the past
| few weeks. which have destroyed thou
sands of dollars worth of residence prop
erty, were set by crazy woman, dressed
i'll mans clothes. Such character was
seen escaping from the Osborne resi-
| dCnce.
Judge M. F. Gibson, president of the
| State tax commission, has given an opln-
| ion declaring the election of Herman
| Stein Of Mishicott as assessment super
visor of the county illegal and void, be-
| cause Stein was a member of the county
board at the time Nels Haugen, another
member of the commission, sustains this
opinion and holds that the county board
has no right to hold special election in
view of the statutes providing that the
office must be supplied at the original
| meeting.
The charge against former Alderman
| Charles s. Havenor of the Fourth Ward
| ir Milwaukee concerning $500 involved
| in an alleged transaction with the Kun
| dle-Spence Company regarding special
| privilege requested by this company OF
the Common Council and affecting its
property in the Fourth Ward, has been
dismissed by Judge Tarrant of the Cir
cult Court in accordance with motion
made by District Attorney Bennett, who
| has found that the alleged act took place
more than three years ago and is conse-
quently outlawed.
The deepest mystery surrounds the
murder of D. A Doyle, prominent citi-
| zen and real estate man of New Au-
burn, who was murdered by an unidenti-
fed person. Sheriff Ackley and District
| ATTORNEY Cook have returned from the
scene and state there is not the slightest
clew to throw suspicion upon anyone.
The citizens of New Auburn are planning
to raise a reward TO assist in the capture
of the murderer The people of New
| Auburn are much aroused over the muir
de-, which was discovered by Frank
| Nagellberger Doyle was shot while milk
ing a COW, the bullet being fired through
a barn window.
Four years in the penitentiary was the
punishment melted out to Hugo Donners-
tag by Judge Paris of Rhinelander for
killing his father, Louis Donnerstag. He
was found guilty Of mausiaughter in the
third degree on evidence offered by mem
bers of the faraily. Q-!srrels between
father and son over the I6esence of Sadie
Slack in the household !csl to the muir
der. Once the cider De2r erstag is said
to have chased har from s1e house with
n butcher knife. He effected to his
sons attentions to the sOman. Don
nerstag was killed the after part of
September at HIS home il he wilderness
near Manson lar.c Ss.'ie Slack and
Clara Donnerstns were~ss ken into Gus
tody on suspicion of ha ing knowledge
of the supposed murder The defendant
was arrested at Woodboro While awaiting
q letter from his sister. The elder Don.
nnrStac was shot and his head mutilated