Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-09

ISdTeu.
Mayor James German of kenosha.
who is barber. has been arrested for
practicing his profession without Il State
license.
John T. Wentworth, Il well-known RAJ
cine attorney, was run down and serious
ly injured by an automobile While nd
ing Il bicycle.
Mrs. Annette Parsons, 60 years OF age,
has arrived in Chippewa Falls from Hol-
combe. 1t was her first experience as
passenger on any railroad.
The body of Leo Stroebel a laborer,
who has been missing since Sept. 20, has
been found hanging to a tree, one and
one-half miles west of Reeseville.
4 portion of the charred remains of
Richard Kern, a hermit, who resided i'll
a little cabin three miles from Babcock,
was found by a neighbor in the burned
ruins of his hut.
Prof. Frank HI. Chase, doctor of phil
osophy and graduate of Yale SO, has
accepted the chair of rhetoric and Eng
lish literature in Beloit College, to sue
coed Prof. Wallace.
Allie Razook, who owns two candy
stores, was held up by two thugs in
GAINESVILLE and at the point of pistol
succeeded in throwing both to the ground
and making good his escape.
Fire destroyed the big department
store of David Setpyan in Wittenberg,
and caused a loss estimated at $4,000.
This was one of the most disastrous fires
known in the history of that village.
T
restaurant, was assaulted i'll the business
district by thugs, who rified his pockets
and left him apparently dead, while on
his way home from work. He will proba-
bly, recover.
Believed to have met with death in
the northern woods, and reported SUI
eide, Frederick Schlender surprised his
relatives when he entered their homes III
Racine Schlender had gone to northern
Wisconsin to purchase Il farm.
It has been announced that Frank c.
Engel deputy collector of internal reTe-
nue. at Racine, will be retired on Jan. 1,
and that e. o. Jones, an old soldier, will
be named to fill the place. Mr.. Engel
has held the place for six years.
Henry Weismann, an attorney of
Brighton, intends bringing suit for $1O,-
600 damages against John l.. Tigh, An
ton Daniels and James r. Ward, the
election inspectors, April Z, 1903, charg-
ing that they accepted his ballot, but tore
it up.
Within twenty-four hours four resi-
dences have been entered by burglars in
Racine. The houses were all entered in
tue same manner. windows being pried
open. The burglaries were committed
early in the evening, while the families
have been away.
Anna Ehrike, the Appleton domestic
who a few days ago was sentenced to
four months in the county Jail for lar
ceny, was released Herman Falk of
Marietta paying her fine of $50. Ac-
cording to Miss Ehrike, Falk is anxious
flat she become his wife.
According to reports compiled by the
register of deeds, there were 1,19O more
children born in Milwaukee county in
the ten months of the present year than
in the entire year of 1903. The deaths
for the same period We're greater by 333
and there were fifteen more marriages.
Inc La Crosse police have made no
progress toward the solution of the mys-
terious fire which partially destroyed the
vacant residence owned by r. E. Os-
borne. The building was twice set on fire
within a week, and a damage of $4,000
was done. Evidence of incendiarism is
plain.
The Northern Wisconsin Fair Associa-
ton reports receipts last season were
over $4,000, an increase of about 81 per
cent above last year. The county board
has made a special appropriation of ST.
600 for the erection and improvement of
buildings on the fair grounds in Chip
pewa Falls.
Superior sawmills have ended their
seasons run before the freezing up of
the bay for the first time in many years,
The harbor has been open unusually late
and although freezing weather has set
in, there is little prospect of ice enough
to interfere with vessels before they are
ready to tie up.
Although the Racine county board had
fixed the salary of the supervisor of as
sessments at 80 cents a day, yet when
the election was to be held there were
three applicants for the position and
Peter Nelson, former member of the
agent, was elected
This is going to be mild winter, ac-
cording to hunters who have come into
Milwaukee, Dan Stocking of Fort At
kinson said that he had never seen the
muskrats build such low huts as they
have for this winter and their fur is
unusually thin, two signs that have never
been known to fail.
Rev. Father Joseph Albers, aged IS
years, chaplain of st. Mary's hospital i'll
Racine, and member of the first class
to graduate from the Catholic seminary
at st. Francis, died at the hospital after
an illness of many months He was one
Of the oldest, if not the oldest, of the
Catholic priests in this State.
An effort is to be made by members of
the Racine county board to have the
municipal court abolished and a police
court created, as the present system is