Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-01-17

spell.
The four months old daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Fielder, Park
Falls, was found dead in bed by heI
mother. The child had smothered to
death in the blankets.
Robert Tennison, 10, of Sheldon,
pleaded guilty to charge of robbing
a cash register in a Cornell store. He
was sentenced to one year in the
Green Bay reformatory.
P. H. Hammer was elected president
of the bank of Prentice to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation OF
P. E. Reedal. Phillips. Other business
connections made it necessary for Mr.
Reedal to resign.
The feet of Herman Obrantz, a
woodsman near Atkins, froze so Sc
verely that amputation probably will
be necessary. The man was lost in
the woods for several hours with the
temperature "a below.
Fred Hungerford, owner of sum-
mer resort at Edgewater, near Birch
wood, who was found guilty of assault
and sentenced on June 9, 1923, to one
year at the state prison, has made ap.
plication TO Gov. Blaine for a pardon.
Gas from defective lighting sys
tenn caused the death of Reinhard E
Falkenburg, 46 years old. He was
found dead in the barn which housed
the system at his farm near Chippewa
Falls BIZ his son, Carl. He had been
dead several hours.
When he was returning from the
cemetery at Trade River after bury
ing his father, Clarence Johnson, rid
ing in an auto with other members of
the family, was killed. The car turned
over and crushed him. The others
escaped with minor injuries.
ly sold. Looking closer, he found that
he had bought back his own COW. The
price he paid was $50 higher.
Gustav Golbec6 was taken to the
Wausau hospital suffering from the eff
fects of drinking moonshine. When
left alone for a few minutes he slash
ed his neck with penknife and bled
to death. The body was taken to
Sparta, his former home. for burial.
WilliaIn Reetz, truck driver for the
Hettinger Lumber Co., Appleton, leap
ed for his life when his truck stalled
on railroad crossing ahead of a pas
senger train. Reetz was almost on the
crossing when he saw the train aD-
preaching. He stepped on the accel-
eratos, killing the engine, and the car
stalled on the track. He jumped as
the train hit the truck and escaped
unhurt.
William Wehrz, who lives just
across the line in La Crosse county,
sold a fine COW to the manager of the
sales pavilion at West Salem. Wehrz
attended the last sale at that city and,
seeing a COW which looked good to
him, bid it in. On taking it home he
was surprised to see that the cow
went directly to the water tank, then
headed for the barn and easily found
the place of the animal he had recent
John Carley, a settler near the Wis
consin state line in Villas county, kill
ed four black bears within the last
few months Mr.. Carley says the ami
mails were far from being fat, an I'M
usual condition at this time of year
when bears generally take on a sur
plus of fat before alternating. Many
bears were driven down into Villas and
other northern counties last fall by
the forest fires in northern Michigan.
Losses which may amount to $4,000
were discovered and Allen Ridgeway,
81, was arrested as suspect after
an investigation by Sheriff ". A. Ha-
green into the robbery of large num-
Der of summer cottages at Scion
Springs, Wis, 80 miles south of SUI
perior. Seven cottages in the sum-
ner resort colony had been entered
and valuable articles of furniture,
money, clothing and bedding had been
taken. The thieves had broken down
the doors.
After falling from the top of the
fifth floor of the Piper hotel, which is
under construction at the north cor.
ner of the Capitol square, Madison,
William Schaus, %, sat upDin bed at
the Methodist hospital and declared
he wasn't hurt But attendants said
he would be confined TO ward fol
the day to have several abrasions on
his head dressed. Cchaus slipped off
the scaffolding at the top of the fifth
floor, struck it again on the second
floor and dropped to the ground. he
was conscious all of the time.
Mystery surrounds the disappear
ance of J. C. Hagen, farmer who for
many years lived north Of Chief Lake,
10 miles north of Couderay. Dec. 18
he left home to walk to Couderay with
the intention of taking the train for
Park Falls where he was to have some
dental work done, but when he did
not return his neighbors started to
make inquiries and learned that he
never reached Couderay, nor has he
been seen elsewhere in the locality.
It is now thought that he fell through
the ice while crossing Chief lake, as
his road led across the lake and. the
ice in many places was thin.
Martin C. Lancy. former city clerk
of Racine and for many years auditor
for the Klinkert Brewing Co., died