Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-04-08
NOTES OF INTEREST

MITES OF INTEREST.
Inc largest baby ever horn - W..
icy county, Indiana, and believed ~ ~
the largest ever born in tho s+a+a ~ pe
r rd at the home of Mr. 90 ar
Me- Moore of Ormas, a few " dnrs mrs
~ pounds. ecdles at just
:, Nepoft was made to the nos+,,o,+o.
Ia III VIEW Hartford. Conn. thai 1'F b .ea
Of thu ihlnpeued the delivery of mail on one
~ ~ me rural routes out of This +o ole
t me other day. John Scanlon- tba cor romn
i,"u Just started on his route when .
no go I9h out from farmhouse near hy
2I6c'ieu nerself among the mail haos n
i 1mo wagon box, and laid an egg SEQ
baif p n'' 4d the egg and drove on. hnt
H. S Sn hollr later looked back and fonnd
cnnnoTa LII sun following him. He was
AZ npelIed TO turn back and hand over
the egg and the hen to the farmers 80
I oelore ne could go on with his work
G. Inc late Mrs. ]. Freyel of ST Martin
otteafnS county, Mimi. better known &c
6randmother FreveI,'' whose remains
We're consigned to their last resting nlace
ffeiGen1ly, surprised her relatives and
trends not little after her death in the
matter Of personal property. The AGED
woman left will, in which she he
queathed 1880 in personal nronertv
mostly money, to relatives, and this was
Delley 5, to be. the full extent of her
worldly possessions. 1t was found. how
ever, mat she carried in a belt around
llef D0qy sum Of almost $11 900. partIv
III gold pieces and partly in bills The
woman dld not lead a life of penurv. hut
lent helping hand wherever she conId
Attacked from behind by a savaga
6yena which had escaped from it's cage
capt. Snlder, an animal trainer with q
circus IN winter quarters at Oxford. Pa,
was rescued by lion, whose affections
he mad won by kindness. The big lion
Gagged close by, although supposedly I'M
tamable, having a record of killing two
Keepers, saw the attack by the hyena.
ana made strenuous efforts to get ont
When he found this impossible he sprane
violently against the side of his cage, up
setting 1T upon the crouching hyena and
plnning it to the ground.
Whlle stopping at the Burmeister no.
tel in Winona, Mimi, fifteen wears AGO
Mrs: Mort Morrison had a purse con-
tanning SO and a set of gold earrings
mysteriously taken from her room. A
package was delivered through the regu-
lar mail channels to her the other day
in which was the purse a S. gold piece,
the earrings and the following note:
Dear Madam am sorry ! have
waited so long to send this. but it done
me a heap of good when I took them
L always thought of you and said l
would send them back. If l knew that
you needed the money | would send
you more" The note was anonymous
The package was postmarked Water
town, 5. d.
John Cahill, aged q, by his plea for
double sentence to the Mansfield state
reformatory, saved his brother Robert
aged IS. from doing time in the Ohio
intermediate prison on conviction OF the
theft of box of oranges from a freight
car.
Il want to take a double sentence and
save my brothers time" John pleaded
before Common Pleas Judge Babcock
Il want him to go back to Toledo and
support our mother. We have four
brothers there. all too little to work.
l am older than Robert and more to
blame"
81 hear many pleas aimed to impress
themselves on my sympathies," said
Judge Babcock, but yours seems sin
cere. You agree to take your brothers
sentence if | would let him go. That
being the case, I'll let you so, too. 60
and get job"
The youths, beaming with joy, left the
court hand in hand
One dogs devotion to another was
shown in Henryville, Ind, recently
when a shaggy shepherd belonging to
Ed Gray, a wealthy farmer living south
of here, saved the life of its mate, after
the animal had been held a prisoner i'll
steel trap for ten days. The two dogs
were on a rabbit chase fortnight ago,
when one of the animals stepped into
mink trap that had been placed IN the
snow near creek by boys. None heard
the bowls of the dog, as 1T tried III VAIN
to extricate its paw from the steel teeIn.
The more fortunate animal tried time
and again to attract the master to the
spot Finally, after an expiration OF ten
DAVIS. a farmer living nearby followed
the dog to the secluded spot where he
found its mate weak from hunger and
exposure The dog that had saved IT'S
commanders life Wagged its tai Joyfuily
when the farmer bound up the wounds
and carried the MANNED animal to Its
master.
John 2. KILLERS neighbors in Luray.
Va. are talking of a strange suicide OF
one of his cows after she had moufned
the loss of calf which had been con
vnrted into veal. With other cows she
was nastured in field in which there
was IN old well containing several feet
of water Persons who heard the COW
uttering plaintiye sound saw her iooh
into the well. then walk away apou1
boen firmly made up, she walked dellber>
otely TO the opening and plunged into 1t,
head first
ROCKEFELLER'S PHILANTHROPY.