Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-03-03

ger.
A scheme to stop patrons from COM
ing late to the theater has been inau-
gurated in Sheboygan. The stage man
ager will cut out the same time from
the performance that is required to seat
them.
Arthur Woods. who was sentenced
from Superior to Waupn for the MUIR
der of Conductor Ole y. Bendz OF the
Superior street railway, died behlnd the
prison bars. His life sentence is done
before he was past 24 years old.
The body of Anton Wulfrum. a Ger
man, aged 46 years, was found hanging
from a rope attached to Il hook III the
garnet of the American hotel i'll James
vile. He left 81 900 i'll bank there and
no motive is known for suicide.
J. Harrington. Wisconsin Central
conductor, was killed, and Brakeman
Charles Messlin fatally injured when two
ends of a broken freight crashed togeth-
err near Abbotsford. B..h men were
thrown on the caboose stove and badly
burned.
Moses Taylor, who died as the result
of chewing toothpick, was buried in
Appleton. He was IA prominent citizen
of Iron Mountain. Mich. An operation
failed to dislodge bit of wood from the
toothpick which had lodged in Mr.. Tay-
lor's intestines
Three deaths of diphtheria, those of
child, 16-year-old and a 12-year-old
son, have occurred within a few days in
the family of George Legman, an old
resident in Hurley, and there is but slight
hope for the recovery of two other strick-
ell members of the family.
For weeks past freight traffic has al
most been at Il standstill and the big
wholesale butter and egg houses at John
son Creek are losing heavily. Thousands
of pounds of butter and many cases of
eggs have been delayed in shipment. the
railroad company refusing acceptance.
Diphtheria has broken out in Odanah
reservation school and over 100 students
have been locked up to prevent the
spread of the disease. There are many
cases of sore throat in addition to ten or
more weli-defne9 cases of the disease.
The latter are kept i'll separate rooms.
Labor troubles may prove hindrance
to many large projects for building in
Manitowoc this spring. The first intima-
ton is a card published by the carpen-
ters' union in which notice is given that
the carpenter contractors have refused
to yield to a scale of 271a cents per hour.
A headon collision between the Port
age local passenger train and the Mil
| waukee and Chicago newspaper train oc-
CURED at the Rio switch. Brakeman Ro-
land j. Dickey of the Portage train was
| killed and several other trainmen, in
Guiding Michael McQuiney, were slight
| ly injured. Both engines We're wrecked
Officer Reed of Genoa Junction, at
| tackled by two tramps whom he attempt
| ed to land in the village lookup, used Il
| hOrseWhip to good effect and landed his
| men. AS he was walking between them
| toward the Jail, they suddenly both
bounced on the officer. using him badly
and making several bruises and cuts
Reed then applied a horsewhip which
| he was carrying and lambasted both
men so that they were hardly able to
walk
George Keiser of Keller, aged 40
years, was killed under a load of lum
Der which tipped over while he was
| driving from Dubuque to Eagle Point
The only injury to the body was a brok-
en- arm, and it is believed he suffocated
in the snow under the load. The body
was discovered half an hour after the
accident by a farmer named Sutter. y
coroner's jury returned Il verdict of acct
dental death. He leaves Il family of
nine children. His wife died a year
| ago.
| w. w. Shepherd, whose return from
the South after an absence of forty years
has caused a sensation in New London
several weeks ago, will return to Texas.
| Shepherd left shortly after the death
of his wife, forty years ago, leaving an
infant child with family in New Lon
don. This son has grown up, is married
and has a daughter, who has been mar
ried to August Freimuth Shepherds
fortune is written in six figures, it is de.
clared. a goodly portion of it was left
with Mrs. Freimuth and her husband.
The remains of Private John Tummit,
| a Menasha lad. who was killed in the
| Philippines several months ago, have ar
| rived and been buried in Menasha. Turn
| nit, with a few other soldiers. was
| guarding several prisoners while these
constructed a trench for target practice
on small island across a bay from
Manila In order to return the prisoners
| it was necessary to convey them to Ma
Mia in a launch While in the middle
| of the bay on the return trip the pris-
oners revolted. The soldiers were over
powered and were killed with the crew.
| Those of the prisoners who survived the
| fight were soon recaptured.
| Lying in pool of blood, her head COW
cred with snow. q woman whose name
cannot be ascertained was found on the
| State road few miles from Appleton.
| The discovery was made by small boy,
Will Anderson. who was so frightened
| that he ran three miles to Columbia Hall
| in Appleton before he stopped. A dance
was being held, but the boy was too
| frightened to tell anyone of the affair
until the dance was over The lad was
returning from an errand on the State