Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21

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BRIEF NC TIES OF {
; GENERAL INTEREST )
Because her husband. by his own ad-
mission, had not spoken to her for more
than six months. although living in the
same house, Mrs. Josie Rausenbach.
without breaking her own silence. filed
a suit for divorce in St. Louis.
would not run H. e. Hille of st. Louis
deliberately burned the machine at Bill
town, ten miles east of Terre Haute. Ind.
lie boarded train here later Tor st.
Louis. He said he was on his way from
indianapolis, and that as the machine
would not work he would render it val
ueless to any one who tried to take pos
session of it.
Thrown or fallen from the Pennsyl-
vania New York Chicago nineteen hour
flyer, a 2-months-old boy baby was
picked up in the weeds and bushes east
of Lima, O., in perfect health and I'M
injured, having alighted in soft clay and
marsh lands. The babe was gowned in
costly linens, marked in French mono
gram, and is being cared for temporarily
by good family until an investigation
can be made.
Although he never took a bath, Aaron
c'BHnd'O Williams of Goshen, Ind,
lived to be 80 years old. He died last
week: lie was known throughout north
ern Indiana and southern Michigan as
the man who had probably walked a
greater distance than any other man liv-
ing. Williams was a man of wonderful
physique, standing 6 feet 3 inches.
SeWed in an undershirt was found S14
i'll bills and another small sum of money
was found in his room.
William HigginSOn of Meriden, Conn.,,
aged 60 married Mrs. Lucinda Boards
ley, widow. Higginson's two daugh-
terS were married recently to Mrs.
Beardsley's grandsOns. Friends who are
trying to figure out the various relation
ships have given it up in despair. Grace
Higginson married William Stone and
shortly afterward Sadie HigginsOn was
married to Harry Stone, Williams
brother. Mrs Stone, mother of the two
bridegroOms, is the daughter of Mrs.
Beardsley.
Rev. s. Y. Williams of La Porte, Ind,
who was deposed from the pastorate of
the Christian church in that city because
of his sensational confession of indiscre-
tons, has written from New York to
friends that he has become a resident
of that city, buried his identity, and is
seeking menIal labor that he may do
penance for his sins until again com
manded by God to preach. Mrs. Will
liams has left him. tie says he will
not again be heard of until he feels
he has been forgiven.
Between the steps of train and the
entrance to the union depot Dr. 4.
O'Brien of Greeley proposed to and was
accepted by Miss Wilma Merrill OF Ben
ton Harbor, Mich, at Denver. BY the
time a cabby had driven the couple to
a hotel DR.. O'Brien had secured the
consent of Miss Merrill to an immediate
at once in st. Leos Roman Catholic
church by Rev. Father Carey. The
bride has been teaching school at Mis-
soula Mont. She met the doctor casual
ly year ago, but there had been no
courtship.
To ascertain whether Julius Wolfe
of Wilkes-Barre, Pa, has been driven
insane by his fascination for the skid
doc" figure ''23" and the unlucky num-
Der "13' the court has postponed his
trial for theft in order that his mental
condition may be investigated. His at
tOrney, Charles 3. Lehanan, found him
figuring with ''23" and 49, and refus-
ing to answer any questions and re
quested a continuance of the case. Wolfe
was arrested OIL August %. His case
was twenty third on the list, and in
group picture ct female orchestra
Which he claims as his there are twenty
three women.
Boomers have been suggested as the
proper apparel for Marion Ohio school
teachers. The suggestion was made by
II. II. DickersOn, president of the school
board. Whether President Dlckerson
expressed the idea as Il joke or whether
he was really serious is left a matter
of conjecture. But, whatever his mean
ing may have been, the teachers are eX-
ceedingly indignant.
The suggestion of the board president
came as the result of protest which the
teachers, headed by II. L. Frank, super
intendent of schools, made against the
use of oil on the floors of the school
buildings. The teachers complain that
the oil soiled their dresses.
''They can't teach such doctrine here
so long as l am superintendent OF
Schools" SAID SuDt. Jordan of Mime
apolis, in discussing the action of the
Indiana state board of health in pla-
carding public schools with orders
against kissing on the mouth because of
danger of microbes. DR.. Jordan is
thorough believer in and advocate of the
old-fashioned way of OSCILLATION. DR..
Jordan had just finished reading an ar
ticle in a weekly publication on Indl-
ana's crusade when he threw the paper
from him with disgust and made the re-
mark quoted above. Il guess good
smack on the mouth is worth all the
risk of bacilli," he remarked as he
walked away.
The singing of Mary Weathers was
too nod even for the county iail at OS-