Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-06-07
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

Warner Lake, 81 years old; w. S.
Carr, so, and A. ]. Calkins, 81, Grand
Army men, were in the Memorial day
parade at Amigo.
their cages at Villas Park zoo and
stamGeded most of the 5000 Dane
county school children, who were at
tending a field day celebration.
frankie Schipteck, residing near
Conderay, found a dynamite cap and
investigated by pounding it with
rock. He lost two fingers of his right
hand. He was taken to the hospital
at Rice Lake where the two fingers
were amputated
For two weeks a valuable cow
owned by Charles Harris of Norwalk,
was unable to rise to its feet, and
after a consultation with veteri-
narians the owner called butcher.
When the butcher reached the barn
YARD gate, the COW beloved once, rose
to its feet for the first time in two
weeks, and is now as well as ever.
"A lump of solid copper weighing
nearly four pounds was unearthed by
0. G. Brink, farmer living near Wash
burn while he was blowing. Several
other specimens of same nature have
at intervals been found in this region.
The deposits have never been found
sufficiently large to warrant mining
operations however.
A snake, five feet long, the largest
ever killed in Burnett county, was
killed by Chris Christensen, Grants
burg, who found the reptile in his
dooryard He first attacked it with
a shovel, but dropped this weapon in
favor of shotgun when the snake
coiled itself like boa constructor and
showed fight.
A large black walnut burl which
was on tree cut by Harry Parfrey
near Blue river was recently brought
at Richland Center. The burl is near
ly three feet in diameter and three
feet long Small burls are common,
If finely figured they bring high
price on the market, some having been
sold for veneer purposes as high as
$4,000.
Carl Laemmle, former Oshkosh
clothing merchant, now one of the
magnates of filmdom, head Of the
Universal Film Manufacturing Co., in
a visit to Oshkosh discussed plans
with friends for the erection of a mo-
ton picture and vaudeville theatre
that would seat $500 persons He
said he might decide to build at Osh-
kosh, because Of his fondness for his
former home town.
Mrs. Frank Warren, lola, former pa
tient at the Northern Hospital for the
Insane, slashed her throat with a bread
knife at the home of her sister, Mrs.
John Swendsen, with whom she had
been staying. Mrs. Swendsen strug-
gled with the maniac and got the
knife away, but the woman cut her
self with other knives she picked up
in running through the house. Neigh
bors assisted in subduing her, and she
was taken to the asylum. She is ex-
pected to live.
The Bayfield, County Holstein Breed
ers' association will hold a consign-
ment sale of Holstein cattle at the fair
grounds in the village of Mason on
June II, at which time about twenty
five head of pure bred cattle will be
offered for sale, including registered
cows, calves and young bulls, and
several high grade cows and heifers.
This organization has succeeded in
placing large number of this breed
of cattle on the farms in Bayfield,
county, and is doing a lot towards adj
vancing the dairy industry in the
county.
Richard Susans, trapper and farmer
at Patzau, short distance south Of
Superior, had narrow escape from
female bear whose cub had been
caught in one Of his traps. The bear
attacked Susans as he was about to
remove the cub from the trap. He
home and slamming the door in the
face Of the bear, which was only a
few feet behind him. Later, Susans
accompanied by his brothers searched
for the bear, but failed to locate it..
They brought the cub to Susans farm,
where it is now romping at the end
of a chain.
A hemorrhage following upon fight
between brothers in Racine, nearly re-
suited in the death Of Andrew Brosko,
attacked by his brother John, while
intoxicated Attending physicians say
that Brosko lost more than two quarts
of blood as a result of the hemorrhage
While Brosko was slashed on the
right cheek bone with sharp knife
by his brother, the loss of blood was
not from that wound but came from
his nose. The fight between the two
brothers occurred, it is said, when An
drew tried to put his intoxicated
brother to bed. John Brosko has been
placed in jail with bail fixed at $4,000
on the charge of criminal assault.
Papers of incorporation for COM
pany intending to raise and breed fur
bearing animals for commercial pur-
poses were filed with the register of
deeds at Marinette. The company is
composed of Philip Koeneke, Ida
Koeneke and Gates Sterling. The
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