Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-02-03

have been stolen from the Tomah depot
of the Milwaukee road
Harold Ellis, years old. of the town
of Delona, died as the result of accident
al discharge of rife in the hands of a
playmate.
The Northern Pacific road is trying
to introduce a new coarse cereal, emmer,
Il Russian grain, into the northern coun-
ties of Wisconsin.
r. w. Cheever. the senior proprietor
| of the Clinton Herald. has secured po-
sition at Madison and will take up his
duties next week.
| While coasting, Alice Bergin. the Is
year-old daughter of John Bergin. the
Shell Lake city marshal, broke her leg
| just above the ankle.
Prof. c.. E. Lamb, who has been prin-
| cipal of the Clinton high school during
the fall term, has resigned and secured
a position at Delavan.
Mrs. Ellen J. Hixon and son. Frank
p. Hixon have presented the La Crosse
hospital with $4,000. the amount remain
ing due on its Indebtedness.
Ted Alberts. wanted at Appelton
for breaking Jail. where he was held on
| a charge of burglary, was recaptured at
| Neenah and taken back to Jail.
John Worrell. who left home in Me-
nomonie month ago without notifying
his family as to where he was going
has returned, having been to San Fran
| cisco.
| Fish are being taken from the Manito-
woe river at Hayton in large numbers,
| because of Il break in the dam which
carried them out into the shallow, open
water of the river.
Anton Aigner, farmer residing near
Glidden, was struck by a tree which he
had felled and instantly killed. He was
IL years old and is survived by widow
and eight children.
The 5-year-old daughter of Hans A.
Strand of Rice Lake was instantly killed
by 500 logging train. She was on her
way home from kindergarten, and slipped
on the icy crossing.
| Henry Gamer lost $4,000 in fire at
his general store in North Freedom. He
had only $1,000 insurance on his big
stock of goods, losing with the rest a car
! load of -four just received.
Edward Mcclure. recently clerk at the
Schlitz Hotel Milwaukee, and at the
Hotel Marinette in Marinette, has been
married to rich and beautiful Mexican
woman in the City of Mexico.
Frank Lense, who was charged with
| the murder of Paul Demonkas at All
meek last summer. was acquitted by the
| jury in KeWeenaw Circuit Court. No
| case of recent years caused excitement
| in that section that this particular one
| did.
Cora NJ Clark of Belot is suing her
| husband, George l.. Clark, for an abso-
lutte divorce on the grounds of cruel and
| inhuman treatment. She alleges that her
| husband nearly froze her to death and
| threatened dire punishment if she touch
| ed the stoves during his absence. She
states in her complaint that in the morn
| ing when he went to work he would fix
! the fires and forbid her to touch them.
Mr.. Clark is ACTIN, as his own attorney.
District Attorney A. e. Buckmaster of
kenosha county has begun a searching
investigation into the murder of John
Wren, the Manitowoc man who was
murdered near the village of Trevor on
Christmas day. NJ. J. Schumacher, Pc
ter Schuma cher. his son. Dug Barthyte,
John George and John Bolton are now
held by the sheriff pending further in
vestigation. Schumacher owned the sa-
loon in which Wren was seen Il few
minutes before his death.
Walter Brandt, the 13-year-old son
of A. w. Brandt of Faithorn Junction,
had battle with a large wolf near his
home The animal had been killing chick
ems and the boy undertook to trap him.
One morning the trap was gone, but the
tracks of the wolf were visible i'll the
snow The boy followed them and came
upon the wolf crouched in a hollow, and
without warning it sprang upon the boy,
who fought the animal off with the butt
of his gun and finally shot it.
Word has reached Manitowoc of the
death of George Ferris, a youth sent to
the Green Bay reformatOry in 1901 from
Mantowoc for hold-up and robbery. Fer
ris, whose home was in Ohio, came to
Manitowoc early in the year and was
convicted in June. During the time he
was in Jail he was married to Grace
Huffner of Manitowoc. the ceremony TAX
ing place the night before Ferris was
taken to Green Bay. He was released
in November, 1908, and very shortly af-
forwards was taken i'll, his death result
ing recently.
Brookfeld junction was practically
wiped off the map by Il fire that started
in Kehl Brothers butcher shop from
a defective stove. The flames We're
rapidly communicated to the Brooktield
House, a hotel built about eight years
ago, and owned by ex-Sheriff William
A. Scholl of Waukesha. From the hotel
the flames were spread to Mr.. Scholls
livery barn and from there to Wirth's
general store and postotfice, which was
entirely destroyed. The flames gained
rapid Roadway and caught the warehouse
of IT. W. Wirth, and went from there to
the general store of Fred Bolter, which
was also entirely destroyed. The only
buildings remaining at Brookfeld june
ton are the Milwaukee road depot Au-
gust Eichstaedt's hotel and a potato
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