Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-10-06

Sunday.
w. Hood, 4 travelling man, was acct
dentally shot in the leg at the Fountain
his coat revolver in one of the pockets
fell to the floor and was discharged.
An epidemic which veterinaries pro-
nounce to be a form of cholera has brok-
en- out among the swine in the western
part of Dane county. The disease has
made great ravages among the herds.
Charles Leindecker, son of Edward
Leindecker of Potosi, while working with
a threshing crew on the straw stack,
fell, striking upon shalp stick upon
which he was impaled. He died the fol-
lowing day.
A Miss Belmont, in making a balloon
ascension at the county fair in Jefferson,
descended in a pasture filled with Hol-
stein cattle. She wore red tights. Her
subsequent troubles were numerous, but
she escaped serious injury.
George Childs of GAINESVILLE has set
the pace of unique weddings. His daugh-
ter at her marriage wore gown Of sky
blue silk made by her father. Thirty-siX
guests sat down to a fine wedding break
fast prepared solely by his own hands.
The annual class cane rush between
sophomores ard freshmen of Beloit col
lege occurred in the city park before
hundreds of citizens. The freshmen car
ried the canes to the battlefield, and were
victorious, as the class is the largest the
school has ever had.
The store owned by M. +. Koch at
East Harrington was entered by burg
lars and the safe broken. They got
$40 and some clothing. One of the money
tills was found a block away with a lot
OF valuable papers in it. The job was
undoubtedly the work of amateurs They
left stick of dynamite lying by the
safe.
A camp of itinerant fortune tellers in
Greenfield was attacked and the Occu-
pants so roughly handled that one wom-
an sustained serious injuries and an
other woman and a man were hurt.
The attack grew out of trouble between
the fortune tellers and a man named
RAINBOW. Two men who planned the at
tack have been arrested
At the Oshkosh high school Princi-
pal O'Neil is endeavoring to untangle
Il case of breach of discipline. The foot
ball team previous to game with the
Normals refused to rule Capt. Black out
of the game as requested by Prof. Lewis
Anterior, the faculty coach. Black was
played in the game, and consequently the
matter is being given serious attention
by the faculty.
The Jury in the damage case of Mrs.
Annie g. Kittredge against the Wiscon-
sin Central railway at Oshkosh has re-
turned a special verdict finding both con-
tributed to the accident The verdict is
believed to be virtually victory for the
railway, as the jury assesses her dam
ages at $500 should the court decide she
is entitled to recover. She asked for
$4,000 damages.
Frank G. BigelOw's life insurance
policies for 100000 and stocks former
~ owned by him Of par value of ST.,
100000 were sold at auction by the
trustees in the~+ctubroom Of the Pfister
Hotel in Milwaukee. George Pick of
Chicago paid $4,000 for the insurance
policies, which have a cash surrender
value of $4,000 The stocks were APP
praised at 100000, but brought only
,OUO Tor the creditors.
AS result Of newspaper story Cora
Aversion, who claims she was deserted
by her foster parents in Madison the
other day, has again joined her mother,
Mrs. Bert Shaw of Roscoe, ILL.,. who has
searched for twelve years for her daugh-
ter over four States and spent thou
sands of dollars When the mother was
i'll the father placed Cora and two other
children in home school at Chicago.
In an effort to find Cora, Mrs. Shaw
was divorced from her first husband.
The other two children were found years
ago.
Joseph Porter was found dead beside
the road in Caledonia. Porter was 81
years of age and his residence is I'M
known. For the past thirty years he was
a fisherman and trapper He would drop
into communities along the Black river,
remain a few days and then journey on.
He came to Galesville recently for the
first time in five years, and in a feeble
condition. The old man refused to go to
a hospital and went his way to a farm
ers near the city to remain over night.
The next morning he remarked that he
hadn't long to live and thought he would
take a dose of rat poison. The follow
ing morning he was found by the road
side. In his pocket was a package of
rat biscuit.
An attempt of the Manitowoc Water
Works Company to open a river intake
pipe during test of the plant precipi-
tated riot, in which citizens offered
armed resistance to the plan. Mayor
Stole, who is charged with having been
responsible indirectly for the move made
by the water works company, and who
insisted that the test continue after he
had been informed it would be necessary
to open the river pipe was assaulted by
bystanders and knocked down. City
health officers had issued orders against
the opening Of the pipe and in seeking
to enforce the order Health Officer Max
Staehle was injured by being struck in
the face by a heavy iron bar used for