Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-05-03

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made a marked reduction in the town
taxes.
J. W. Guthrie. accompanied by his
son. both Of B0dinPs. Pa. arrived III La
Crosse. Wis, in reply to an answer to
his advertisement for Il wife. Mrs. Mary
\. Baker, 7O3 Pine street. La Crosse
is now Mrs. ], W. Guthrie, the cere-
uony having been performed in the
LONE Of C. IL Baker. a son of the bride.
Thertupon Mr. Guthrie looked about
liked the town. purchased grocery store
and is now dealing out sugar, coffee
ct al.
The famous snake den i'll Harrington
township near Mount Vernon, Ill, was
attacked by q party OF snake hunters,
who succeeded in killing 400 reptiles, IN
Guiding every variety Indigenous to
southern Illinois. Dynamite was used to
rout the snakes from their hiding place.
and at the explosion of the charge huge
ball of snakes was thrown high in the
air Many of them were not killed and
a fight followed. The most of the snakes
killed were rattlerS.
After devoting his life to the study
Of medicine and himself being afflicted
with Il great number of maladies, DR..
Elton B. Crowell died at his home in
Minneapolis, Mimi, of Bright's disease
and heart failure. By his special re-
quest his body was the subject of
a post -mOrtem examination by the Uni
velsity of Minnesota medical school, in
the interests of science. Dr.. Crowell
1869. and graduated from the Eclectic
Medical institute in Cincinnati i'll 1893.
Arthur E. MOsher of Adrian, Mich,
was granted a divorce from Sarah Com
fort MOsher for alleged cruelty of an I'M
usual nature Shortly after the mar
rage he claims his wife wanted him to
enter into suicide agreement, but ne
declined. Later they occupied separate
bedrooms, and one night, he testified, she
came into his room after he had retired
and uncovered the magazine OF the coal
stove so the gas would escape. Another
time. while out driving, he said she want
ed him to drive III front of an approach
ing train. Both are Quakers.
Student pranks with a corpse may re-
suit in several suspensions from college
at Hiram. O. Medical students have
been amusing themselves with the corpse
of James Burke They dragged it
through the streets and suspended it in
a coffin i'll the arch of the main entrance
of the college. The college buildings
W
Ietin boards and at the homes of the
professors appeared this notice:
Closed in memory of James Burke. No
classes today Attend memorial services in
chapel at SID. We will all sing:
Here lies the body of Jimmy Burke,
Killed and dissected for lodging work.
Here he lies and will always lie,
Farther from heaven than you or l.
Quentin Roosevelt, the baby of the
white house family, went to the Masonic
fair at Convention hall, Washington. He
arrived at Z o'clock in charge OF an at
tendant, and presented himself at the
director generals office with the an
nOuncement:
I've got 50, and I'm going to blow it
all in"
He fulfilled that ambition. He visited
the fish pond and museum, was asked to
judge the cake walk, but declined,
laughed at a cartoon of his father in the
hall of fame, and had his picture taken
half a dozen times.
Master Quentin had orders to be home
at o'clock. When he got back to the
white house, dead broke but happy, it
was $50.
Spinsters in Danville, Ill.,, are
urging the city council to enact an ordi-
nance for the taxation of all single men.
In counter petition the bachelors ask
an ordinancve providing fine OF 500 for
every unmarried woman who rejects a
proposal of marriage. They also ask
that the council formulate some plan by
which the unmarried women will be
forced to meet the bachelors and give
them an opportunity of pressing their
suits.
Mayor Leyman. who is unmarried;
John Terrence, more than 80 years old,
Il candidate for city clerk on the Repub-
candidate for city attorney on the Dem
ocratic ticket. are being singled out by
the SpinSters as targets.
persons never know what they will
do for the ones they love. If | thought
it would benefit my baby any | would
walk twice the distance again"
This was said by Il small, frail woman
as she sat in the Helping Hand institute
at Kansas City, Mo. She is Mrs. Mabel
Henderson of SedaIia, Mo. She was
the police. She was carrying blind
baby. She had walked all the way from
Sedalia-1OO miles-here in search of
work. and was unable to find friends
in this city whom she was hunting. She
was tired, but wouldn't own it.
Il had to keep up for my baby! 1t has
lever known what it is to see, but has
Known want. My husband LETT me SIN
months ago
What the Women's Civic club of New
Haven. Conn, found in investigation of
local theaters they told in reports of the
committee of exploration. Miss Alice
Bacon. the president of the club. said:
Il have investigated Nathan Hale as
played at Polls Biiou theater. | didn' t
see anything immoral, but l think that
it is against public interest to let a
short. fat man take the heroic role of
Nathan Hale. No fat man should be cast
IL patriotic roles Her report was
turned over to Police Chief Wrinn the
theatrical censor of the town, to act
upon.
Miss Annie Nelson. who visited two
other theaters. said: I'VE started our in
-'eStiga ton Il week too soon. 'Sapho' and
Camille are coming next week.
1t was decided to postpone the rest of
the investigation till then.