Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08

4 the w aSnDurn county bOaFd.
The residence of Albert Weisnewski
/ Menasha. was totally destroyed by fire
together with It's contents. Tie livery
barn of William Peterson was also burn
| ed.
| At the annual meeting of the Seymour
| Fair and Driving Park Association, ii
j. Van Vuren was elected secretary ant
+. Tubbs president. The next fair viii
be held Sept. %, 30 and Oct. l.
Mrs Anna Spiess, a La Crosse woman
worth 100000, was arrested, charged
with stealing wooden cranes from the
marble works of Hynne 4 Crosby. She
was released on her own recognizance
| Gen ROardman has issued letter to
| the State militia, in which he says the
| National Guard of the State will not so
to the st. Louis exposition This means
| the guard will go to Camp Douglas this
| year.
Peter Rosthe was killed aud James
| Collier fatally injured by a passenger
train on one of the principal street cross
| ings in Ashland. The men We're riding
OH a milk wagon and attempted to cross
| the track in front of the train.
The coroners jury inquiring into the
| death Of Miss Clara Brainerd of Osh-
kosh, who was found dead in st. Louis
boarding house, returned verdict that
death was due to iri'tant poison. Wheth-
er it was an accident or suicide the jury
could not determine.
William Kinney, it is said. shot and
killed Tom McCarty at Gable. Kinney
had row with another man by the
name of Taylor and he fired at him, but
the shot went wild and struck McCarty,
who was a bystander. Kinney viii have
his hearing April 49,
Michael and Christopher Baritone,
twins, aged So years, celebrated their
| birthday i'll Mantowoc at the home of
| their niece, Mrs. Pellet, wife of Sheriff
Pellet, on April /. Michael is resi-
dent of Manitowoc and his brother of
| Chicago Both are hale and hearty and
| in possession of all their faculties.
Had not George Schaumberg, who was
| killed in a saw accident at Seymour,
| tried to savea another man from death
in the same way, he might have been
| alive to-day 1t is learned that George
| Elck was struck by long pole rolling
| down from Il huge pile in the yard near
| the saw and Schaumberg, seeing this,
| jumped to hold Eicl from going over
| into the saw He lost his balance and
was killed.
Harold Stuart Peterson a graduate
of the University of Wisconsin and for
merly one OF its most popular students,
committed suicide by shooting himself
| in the head in his room in Milwaukee.
| He was % years old. The parents of
| the young man say that his act was the
| elimination of a strain caused by taking
up too much work at the university. Mr..
| Peterson had held the position OF organ
| list at All Saints Cathedral since the be-
| ginning of the year.
John Brink, aged % years. who is said
to have been the first white man who
saw Lake Geneva and gave it it's name,
has just died at Crystal Lake. Last
summer the spot on which Brink stood
when he viewed the sheet Of water
around which Chicagoans have spent
millions was suitably marked. This
pace is near Glenwood Springs. Brink
was one of the pioneer engineers of
northern Illinois, and as such surveyed
most of the land in that section. he
came West in 1881 and was carrying
chain when his work was interrupted by
the Back Hawk war, but he resumed
it in 1910.
Fire at Rhinelander, thought to be of
incendary origin, destroyed the large
barn belonging to Congressman w. e.
Brown, and contents, including four
horses, four cows, nine wagons and car
riages. four slelghs and several sets of
harness, valued at $4,000 The barn was
a roaring furnace when discovered. The
building was insured The incendiary
theory is borne out by the fact that no
fire Of any description was about the
premises. The same barn was entered
March II last year and 500 worth of
harness was ruined with Il knife. An in
vcstigation is in progress.
The famous Kenosha bribery case
came to a sudden close when former
Alderman John Caster surprised the oc-
cupants Of the Circuit Court room by
pleading guilty to the charge of accept
ing a bride in connection with the pas
sage of an ordinance granting fran
chise for street railway some two years
ago to Gustav l.. Claussen and Patrick
Haynes of Chicago. Caster took the wit
ness stand and acknowledged receiving
1888 from Gustav l.. Claussen He also
connected five other Aldermen with the
deal and told how the money was dis
tributed. His confession duplicates AL
bert Smith, Peter Piersch, Christian
Weier, John Seehorn, NJ. j. Scholey and
several others. These men are all bust
ness men, Caster was fined $500 and
500 for costs.
One of the strongest stories Of life
forms Il basis Of a divorce suit institut-
ed in Fond du Lac. The complainant is
Mrs. Pauline Keilman, who asks for a
divorce from her husband, Adolph Keil-
man. Mrs Keilman has a twin sister,
Miss Emma Xix. After Mr.. and Mrs.
Keilman were married eighteen months
ago, the sisters were not separated, but
Emma came and made her home with her
sister and brother-in-law. This arrange
ment finally led to trouble, for the hus-
band came to have the same regard for
the sister that he had for his wife. While
he and the sister were satisfied with this