Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-01-27

| was smoking in bed, and he was sor;o,,s ,,e
burned. io'sly
Newton Van Dalsen, a well-knou, oil
ucator and manual training Instructor &C
Chippewa Falls, has rendered his ros;r,
nation there, and will accent the snner-
lntendency of a newsboys' home at p;tts-
burg, Pa. US
Leonard Cook, night foreman At Tho
GAINESVILLE sugar factory, while assis+;no
in mailing up some barrels swalloYrn5
two single nails. He is in torrh1a
agony and an operation will probably
be necessary.
The Fox River Valley Band Assoo;o-
,lon Is new organization that will be
launched in a few weeks. It will in
clude Fond du Lac. Oshkosh Noonab
Menasha, Appleton, Kaukauna. Denera
and Green Bay.
Inc large agricultural implement ware
house In Arcadia belonging to John G.
MUIR was burned to the ground, together
with all the contents, consisting of
large stock of farm machinery. The
building was tWO-Story frame structure
Richard hershaw, son of a prominent
resident OF Racine, was not murdered at
Clyde, ia. as reported. He is in Flor
ida, letters having been received from
MN. The body of a man murdered was
found near Clyde, and the description
Tailed with that of Kershaw. who was
at that time missing.
Henry Schley, county treasurer of Cal
umet county, dieu of heart disease at
Chiffon. He had taken his children to
school and shortly afterwards his wife
saw HIM drive into the barn at his home
She went out to the barn to meet him
and found him dead in the cutter. He
was HI years Of age and had held his
office but two weeks.
a. H. Wagner of Merrill Park has
been appointed to succeed J. NJ. Sexton,
deputy bookkeeper in the State Treas
urer's office. and Clinton Wilcox,
nephew of the State Senator from Apple
ton, has been appointed to succeed Dep
uty Clerk Wescott. He is law student.
Arthur Pugh of Racine, head bookkeeper
it is said, will be retained.
John r. Davis of Chicago and w. L.
Davis of Eau Claire, both formerly oil
Neenah, have been cited to appear in
court and show cause why they should
not file an inventory of the property OF
the late John r. Davis, ST., of which
they were made the executors The elder
Davis died in 1885 Benjamin w. Davis
of Phillips, Wis, made the application.
The estate involved $3,25O,OO0
The family of the late John +. Potter,
Congressman of this State, has presented
to the State Historical Society the bowie
knife the fighting badger proposed to
use in a duel, to fight which he was chal-
lenged by the fre-eating Roger A. Pryor.
Potter had the choice of weapons and he
stipulated sharp bowie knives at close
range. Pryor backed water on the
ground that such weapons We're not the
kind used by gentlemen of the South.
Frank Schils was arrested charged
with threatening the life of Charles
Roenitz, prominent manufacturer OF
Sheboygan. About a month ago Schils
was arrested on Similar charge. At
that time he is said to have demanded
$500 from Mr.. Roenitz. He was re-
leased as Mr.. Roenitz would not prose-
cute. However, he took an oath before
Judge Giblin and Father Thill of Holy
Name church not to modest Mr.. Roenit;
again.
Henry J. Boyle. Jr., of Sheboygan, dis
appeared a few days before the day OF
his marriage to Miss Ella Moffert. Ar
rangnments had been made for the wed
din. to take place on Jan. 5. Miss
Moffert had resigned her position in To-
cal department store and had prepared
everything for the wedding. Mr.. Boyle
was supposed to have been looking for
house at Milwaukee, as they intended to
reside there. Failing to return on New
Years eve, Miss Moffert went to Milwau-
could not find her lover. She returned
to Sheboygan and has been unable 10
learn ANYTHING of the mans whereabouts.
The old dreams of fortune have been
awakened again by an Application TO the
County Court of kenOsha county, asking
that an administrator, de bonls non. DE
apDointed for the estate OF the late Sen
ator Charles Durkee, and attorneys at
Rockford. ILL.,. are to make another enorl
to collect the fabulous Durkee claim
from the United States. Inc claim
amounts to nearly S2OO,OOO,OOO 1t is
said that more than 10000 people nave
purchased shares of stock IN the CON-
pany pushing it. Mrs. Durkee' VINO -
now in feeble health, has declined TO ana
in the contest, and says that II her nus
band had the securities referred TO- she
knew nothing of it. An administrators
has been appointed in Utah, where MI
Durkee died.
For fifteen years William ana Jonh
Pixley have been missing from tnelt
home in Fond du Lac, and every eHorl
TO locate them has been futile Several
months ago the grandfather OF the TWO
brothers. Weynard Lingenfelter, dled IN
the town of Lamartine leaving an estate
valued at several hundred dollafs' 10 pe
divided among surviving relatives. Inc
other day William put in an appearances
and $50 was paid over to INN its nis
share Pixley says that when he anu
his brother left Fond du Lac they were
about 10 years old and entered the NH
waukee Industrial school, when the lI "u-