Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-07-08

Burglars broke into the 500 depot a;
Osceola. After ransacking the office the,
secured but so cents in cash.
Louis Ikert killed fox with n clug,
in the residence portion of La Crosse,
not far from the business district.
The e. J. yodrneil Canning Company
ut Two Rivers will begin the seasons OBJ
erations within a few days. They are in
need of 200 hands
The Nj. Ziegler Brewing Company's
icehouse and barn in Mayville burned to
the ground. Loss about $4,000, partly
covered by insurance.
The first annual commencement exer-
cises of the Wood County normal were
held in Grand Rapids, twenty-five young
ladies' being graduated,
1t is reported in La Crosse that the
slayer of Sheriff Harris of ST Croix
County escaped through the picket lines
| in the darkness and was seen in the
fields near Holman.
A wind and hail storm passed over La
Crosse. A building at the Interstate
fair grounds was wrecked and huge trees
in Myrick park were uprooted. The
damage to crops will be heavy.
Albert c. Babe, former supervisor of
the Seventh Ward in Milwaukee, plead
ed guilty on charge of petty bribery.
He was sentenced to pay q fine of $500
or serve six months Imprisonment
A well-dressed man with notebook
marked Henry G. Brandt supposed to be
from Chicago, committed suicide by
jumping from the dock into the river at
Sheboygar. A paper in his pocket reads:
! MY wife, Meta, Chicago"
Robert Henry, an 11-year-old Kenosha
boy, saved John Petersen, a child of 3
years, from drowning in Lake Michigan.
The little boy fell off the breakwater
| and was carried far out by the surf.
Henry leaped into the lake with his
clothes on and saved the child.
Fred Billings, who recently left Man
itowoc TO take up his home at Sterling,
has been left fortune of $25,O00 by
George Keller, deceased, whom Billings
befriended. Keller owned the house in
which the Billings family resided and
was cared for as ono of the family.
When August Hussmann of Seymour
was coming out of his barn, he was stop
ped by Charles Uecke, who is slightly de-
| mented, and who wanted to know why
| he was telling lies to the priest Be
| fore Hussman had time to answer Uecke
| pulled out revolver and attempted to
shoot. Hussman grabbed him and held
him on the ground until Uecke's mother
| appeared. She was able to pacify Uecke.
A broken collar bone is the result of
| Henry Bitter, a 10-year-old Appleton lad,
| trying to initiate the bicycle feat per-
| formed in Ringling's circus. The young
| lad in company with several playmates
constructed an incline, leaving gap
at the bottom over which they were to
| jump and make landing below. Young
| Bitter started down the construction on
an old velocipede. Ee failed to clear
the gap.
| Mrs NJ Robersman of Madison was
| found unconscious in her room Mt the
| Sherman House in Chicago. Two ply
| scians were summoned, but after work
| ing over her for more than an hour she
| died A bottle which had contained med
| icine was found beside the woman. 1t Is
| not known whether she committed sui
! eide or took an overdose of the medicine.
| When the physicians asked her she said
| it was nobody's business but her own.
The vacant icehouse of the Knicker-
|
| discovered on fire late the other hight.
The flames spread to the Chicago and
Northwestern freight house, half dozen
freight cars, ]. II. Moore's horse car
n marble shop, small residence, the
Standard Oil house. and stock yards, all
OF which were destroyed. The loss will
be $4,000, with practically no insurance.
| II is believed to be the work Of an IN
cendiary.
Believing that he was the victim Of an
attempt to murder, Joseph Prosec mas
communicated with relatives in chicago
with the view of procuring money TO so
back home, to give the police evidence
which may lead to the finding of the
murderer of his mother. Prosec claims
he was bound and brought to Fond Gu
Lac from Chicago, on freight train the
other night, and also on reaching the
city he was thrown off the train While
crossing the Fond du Lac river and near
ly drowned.
The largest personal injury verdict
over secured Mt the head of the lakes
was that obtained in the federal court IL
Superior by Dell See. who was awarded
500 900 against the Brown Hoist Com
pany Of Cleveland. He sued for Soo
600. He was working on coal docF
where the company was installing ma
chinery for unloading boats and was
coneht in a camshell bucket and los
both legs below the hips He gets
oround now by riding on cart which h'
pushes with spiked sticks.
John l.. Mitchell, former United States
Senator. is dead at his home, Meadow
mere. in the town of Greenfield. I'M
end, which was not unexpected, came III
ter forty-eight hours of Inconsistencies
Death was due to intestinal trouble Sen
otor Mitchell was i'll since January an'
in March underwent an operation. ~
rallied from this, but experienced suo
den relapse heart failure complica'in'
the original trouble. His family was
tbe deothbed. Besides the widow, ther'
are Captain William Mitchell y. 5. a.
David ferguson Mitchell, John l.. Mltcn
ell ~. and the Misses Martha, Janet