Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-05-27

gree for having killed his father.
| A new Jail building will be erected
| in Richland Center this summer 1t
| will cost in the neighborhood of $780,
600
Sneak thieves entered st. Roses
Chu1c.l = Racine and stole a gold chal-
ice, the property of Rev. Father Thomas
B. Johnson.
cidental1y severed two arteries of his left
thigh while whiting a stick Of wood
with sharp jackknife. He may die.
Alley Hcke, while trying to board a
freight train at North La Crosse, slipped
and fell under the wheels. Both his legs
were cut off between the ankle and knee.
The stockholders of the Kimberly &
Clark Company met in Neenah and de-
cided to rebuild the paper mill burned at
Kimberly last year at a cost of between
100000 and 100000.
Emma Hopp, a daughter of John
Hopp of Franklin and her sister were
thrown from a buggy by a runaway
team. Miss Hopp fell in such way as
to fracture her spine and will die.
The English Lutheran mission has
been organized in Cedarburg, as con-
gregation under the name of the Church
of the Advent. The sermon was preach
ed by Rev. w. X. Frick of Milwaukee.
Milwaukee officials, against whom in
dictments were returned charging brib-
cry, must stand trial. A demurrer i'll
the case of Alderman William Muir
ply vas overruled by Judge Tarrant in
the Circuit Court.
The strike of the lumber showers in
Marinette has been settled. The union
accepts the offer of the lumber carriers
association, which is so cents an hour.
They asked for 521A cents and had
been out for two weeks.
AT a meeting of the officers Of the
Richland County Agricultural Society
held III Richland Center, it was voted
to expend $4,000 for improvements on
the fair grounds. The fair this year
will be held Sept. "a to 81.
DIR. II. G. Werner, an Oshkosh real
estate agent, formerly of Rib Lake, has
been made defendant in three acti' us,
the damages of which aggregate $1,000,
the plaintiff in each case alleging fraud
in a real estate transaction.
Two men robbed the grocery store of
Arthur Lamacchia in Kenosha. The
proprietor, who lives in the rear, was
silenced at the points Of two revolvcrs.
The burglars took all the cash in the
till and a watch and chain.
The planning mill and lumber sheds of
the George e. Wood Lumber Company
at Woodboro were destroyed by fire. The
loss is several thousands of dollars, fully
covered by insurance. The head Offices
of the company are in Chicago.
Burglars broke into the saloon of
Peter Nelson at Gordon and secured
$130 in cash. $500 in bank checks and
about $1,000 in notes. They entered the
building after cutting ii panel out of
the back door and blew open the safe
with nitroglycerine.
Frederick Burhop aged 81 years one
Of the oldest residents of Sheboygan
County, passed away in the town of
Herman He was born in Germany,
came to this country in 1876 and settled
at Milwaukee. The following year he To-
Gated where he had lived ever since.
Given poison used to kill chicken
lice, instead of the powder prescribed by
a physician to cure a cold, nearly caused
the death of Edward Taylor, a resident
of Corliss Mr. Taylor had been i'll for
some days and was taking the powder
prescribed. The poison was given him
by mistake.
While excavating for a new residence
near Manning, human skeleton was
found encased in heavy oak box. There
were also two knives and two coins
bearing the dates of 1S47 and 1868. One
of the knives had been driven between
the ribs. In early days outlaws infest-
ed the Kickapoo valley and murders
were frequent.
An effort is to be made by the city Of
Racine to. purchase the plant of the RAJ
cine Water Company in 1906. or five
years previous to the expiration OF the
company's franchise, and the Common
Council will appoint a committee to visit
the next session of the Legislature and
endeavor to have q bin passed which
will empower the city to create fund
to purchase the system.
The giant dog of John Maurer of APP
pleton caught a burglar trying to get
into the store and held on to his over
coat. The man escaped by removing
his coat. The dog was chained to the
barn and nearly pulled it to pieces in
his efforts to get NJ the man, VINO olo
not notice him till he was caught. Short
ly before this, Rhodes grocery was en-
tered and ransacked. Seven burglaries
have occurred in the city and vicinity
and are all laid to the same man or gang.
John Roeski asked the Kenosha police
to take steps to have his son. John
| Roeski Jr., aged IA, sent to some in
stitution for reform. He claimed that
the boy was suffering from a mania for
theft The father brought the police a
number of things that the boy had
stolen He states that when the lad is
seized with the mania he acts as if in n
trance. In his rational moments the boy
| is never able to tell where he got the
property.
Catching suckers and carp in the East
| and West Twin rivers at Two Rivers,
| is at present proving a very profitable in