Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-09-29


through playmate accidentally running
a knife into it.
John Mitchell, a farmer, so years old.
residing about four miles west of Cedar
burg, fell dead from a stack of grain
While assisting at neighbours threshing.
Olaf j. Decker, an employee of the
Fem Stone Company of Superior, COM
mitted suicide by hanging in emulation
OF a character in a stock company play
at the local theater.
Warren Allen, a cook in the woods
near Arbor Vitae, for the Ross Lumber
Company, drank one quart of lemon ex-
tract and died. He was 81 years of
age and has no known relatives,
Much feeling has been stirred up in
Almond because of the sign of the sa-
Icon in the building which formerly was
the village school. The signs says: ''The
Old School House Sample ROOM
Ellery Carlo, % years of age, was al
most instantly killed by a stick thrown
by fellow workman while they and
others were INDUCING in horse play"
around the Northwestern Lumber Com
pany's mill in Stanley
Julius Scheam and Charles Meyers,
both of Shawano, appeared before Judge
Goodland in Appleton, pleaded guilty
and were sentenced to one year at Wau-
pun. Scheam pleaded guilty to forgery
and Meyers to burglary in the night time.
The body of Emil Better who was
drowned in Lake Butte Des Morris, was
recovered by George Staples. A reward
of $50 had been offered by relatives. The
dead mans hands tightly gripped stems
of wild rice. He was % years old and
single.
William H. Foster, one of the pioneer
settlers, died at Luck, aged IS years.
He was the first supervisor from his
town, and his was the first marriage and
his was the first white child born there.
He located there in 1857, and for over
forty years he was a postmaster.
David Lewis, aged 80, a prosperous
farmer residing near Bangor, was found
in a starving condition in an old log hut
not far from his farm. He had been
there at least a week, having started off
on visit to a neighbor. He claims he
was overtaken with faintness and had
neither food nor water.
While running from the Lawrence uni
versity gymnasium in Appleton to the
football field the squad encountered
hornets nest at College avenue and
Union street There was no practice
that day. Sherger, the six-foot center,
and Wingender, guard, stepped into the
nest and before they could get away
were both badly stung.
Early on a recent morning burglars en-
tered or attempted to enter homes OF hve
leading residents cf Racine. At the home
of former Mayor Higgins a savings bank
was taken, and at the home of Attorney
Thomas Kearney jewelry was stolen.
The homes of Mayor Nelson, w. G. Git
tings and another resident was entered,
but nothing of value was obtained.
Passenger train No. SO on the North
western railway between Crystal Falls
and Stager had Il narrow escape from an
attempt to ditch it. A Polish miner,
whose name is not known, has been ar
rested in connection with the attempt
and is believed to be insane. A huge
pile of stones, crowbars and other tools
was found piled on the middle OF the
track by the engineer of the train who
succeeded in stopping just in time to pre-
vent disaster.
Paralyzed, speechless and blind, is the
condition of the little S-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. August Schmidt,
who suffered from being struck by light
ming in a storm which swept over Mani
towoc. The child was standing on the
porch of her home, when the bolt struck
the chimney of an adjoining house. 1t
glanced off, striking the supports OF the
Schmidt porch and making the child I'M
conscious. The little one has been IN
commissions and is not expected to 1--we.
Little damage was done to the house.
1t is believed in Appleton that uni
form attack has been planned on Gath
Ollie cemeteries in that part of the State.
Previous to the recent attacks made on
the gravestones in Oconto, Oconto Falls,
Peshtigo and Birch Greek, an attack was
made at the st. Joseph's cemetery IN
Appleton on a cross, which was totally
DESTROYED. The damage done amounted
TO about 500. Since the reports have
been steadily coming in from other places
if appears to be that the attack was
planned some time ago, and 1t IS oeileS-
ed bv Catholics in Appleton that unless
the guilty parties are detected IN their
work they will continue to deyastate
Catholic cemeteries in northern "lscon
sin.
The State of Wisconsin won an impor-
tant round in the back tax litigation
brought by the State to compel the rali-
roads to pay large sums claimed on ac-
count of erroneous reports of gross earn
ings filed by the companies with the
STATE railroad commissioners. The roads
admitted in previous litigation that tnelr
ranorts omitted items of earnings that
ought to have been included. but IN the
suits brought by the State they claimed
that hack taxes were the same as DEBTS
and that according to the statute OF llml-
ta+ions the State could recover for only
six years back, while the state coh'el,u-
ed that recovery could be mace LOT 'ne
LAST twenty years. On TINS point olie"A'