Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-10-27

Mrs. A. Dickson, aged co. of Shell
Lake, was to be examined for her SAN
ity when she died of apoplexy.
What is believed to have been an at
tempt to burn the city hall in Sturgeon
Bay was frustrated by the city night
Waterman.
A fire in a big barn next to the Hotel
Marinette created panic among the
seventy or more guests and endangered
the hotel and other property in Mari
nette.
Mrs. Henry Zitmer, wife of Racine
farmer, was fired upon while driving to
her home. Her team ran away. The
shot struck Mrs. Zitmer on her right
arm and breast.
Frank D. Greene of Walworth and
married in Chicago They were school
mates in Walworth, but Miss Pierce left
several years ago.
While he was waiting for train at
the Union station in Chicago n. e.
Brown of Excelsior was robbed of a
satchel containing $4,000 worth of non
negotiable abstracts and deeds.
CONSERVATION was caused at Bertha
Messengers wedding in Durand when
nearly fifty guests present were taken
sick after eating pressed chicken, and
to this their illness is attributed.
Diphthera is causing alarm in Mani
towoc county, Two Rivers having TWEEN
ty-seven cases of the disease reported to
the health authorities. Every precaution
is being taken to prevent spread.
Otto Wagner, New Richmond farm
Wagner asked Miss Schrunck to dance
with him and she refused, it is alleged.
This wounded his feelings and he "cuss-
ed'' her roundly. 1t cost him $235O.
An anti-spitting ordinance introduced
in the Sheboygan City Council provides
a Jail sentence for violators. Owners of
theaters and public halls must provide
sufficient cuspidors or suffer a penalty.
While feeding live stock Mrs. Henry
Wildfang of Neenah was kicked by
horse The animals hoofs caught in her
dress. She received a fractured skull,
three broken ribs and dislocated shout
der, and will die.
GAINESVILLE butchers arrested by State
Food Inspector Moore have received
word from the Chicago packing houses
they purchase from that the Chicago
firms will fight the cases and send law
yers to GAINESVILLE Monday when the
cases are called.
Twenty-one hundred acres of marsh
land owned in Portage county by N. G.
Dougherty, the Peoria banker, were at
tached by the board of school inspectors
of Peoria. The land is valued at $780,
al Of ,I,op no %
was made in 1903.
After offering a donation of $4,000
to North La Crosse for d public library,
Andrew Carnegie, after the city had
complied with the conditions, has refused
to give the money for the library. Mr..
Carnegie gives as his reason for a change
of mind that the city of La Crosse now
has a good library and that it is tho
duty of the city to provide library facili'
ties for the suburbs
Firemen forced their way through the
locked doors of hair dressing parlor
and living room in the second story of
north side business block in Eau Claire,
and there found six lighted candles stuck
in small pieces of board, set close to
paper saturated with kerosene. The fire,
which had started in several places, was
extinguished. The woman who occu-
pied the rooms was visiting at Augusta.
Three victims of hunting accidents
were brought to the hospital in Chippe-
wa Falls the other day. Lloyd Reck-
ard aged 10, Of Stanley, was hunting
with an Indian on the Jump river, when
a deer ran between them. The Indian
fired his rifle and the ball passed through
REGARDS body three inches below the
heart. He may die The other two vic
tins are Otto Ruch of Thorpe and Otto
Wire of Bloomer. Both received bullet
wounds in the legs accidentally.
Frank S. Komp of Chicago, former
president of the Kenosha State bank,
was sentenced to two years in the peni-
tertiary by Judge Belden of the Cir
cult Court He had been convicted of
perjury, but judgment was suspended
for two weeks pending decision on his
motion for new trial, which finally was
denied. The accused man broke away
from his attorneys when he realized that
he had lost irrevocably and personally
appealed to the court declaring his inno-
cence, and charging the jury with pre-
judice.
Mrs Bertha Beutler of La Crosse,
charging her husband with desertion,
may herself be prosecuted for bigamy
The sudden turn comes from his unex-
pected defense that she was married be-
fore to one J. Brownwell and was never
legally divorced. Her testimony on the
point was that she gave the judge at
Merriam $50 and after six weeks re-
ceiyed divorce papers separating her
from Brownwell and that the papers
were destroyed in a fire. AS there is
no bench at Merriam further investiga-
ton will be made.
An apparently bottomless pit accident
ally discovered on the right of way
near Cooperstown has seriously delayed
grading work for the Northwestern ex-
tension between Manitowoc and Green
Bay. The spot is soft, spongy earth
and all efforts made thus far to secure