Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-07-31

ease resulted from a cut on one OF his
legs.
Daisy Fries, member of a gypsy
camping party, was fined $50 ano
ordered out Oshkosh, on a charge OF
fortune telling.
Ernest Kunert. n, prominent busl
ness man of WATERFOWL is dead he
was born in Austria and came &c
Watertown in 1851. He organized the
Kunert Manufacturing Co., of which
he was president for many years. Mr.
Kunert had been blind for the last
eight years.
An insulator on the main transmls'
sion line of the Wisconsin Power ana
Light Co. near Harker, Wis, burned
out and the wires dropped to the
ground. Four cows belonging to Hor-
ace Bishop, Cobb, Wis, were killed
and fifth was so badly burned it had
to be killed.
Henry Charlier, August Charlier,
Peter Bovin and John Dudek, Coleman
farmers, have lost from SIS to $50 each
as result of meat swindler VINO
passed through Coleman, buying live
stock and issuing worthless checks.
The man gave the name of Brown ana
said he was from Oconto Falls.
An electrical storm set fire to high
tension transformer in the village OF
Oakfield. John Hanna, 70, seized
metal bucket full of water and threw
it on the flames. Part of the 1l,0OO-
volt current in the power line passed
up the stream of water and through
the metal bucket, stunning Hanna anC
throwing him several feet.
Motor traffic has practically doubled
in Rock county on concrete highways.
A traffic census recently completed on
July 4, 1924, a check on new highway
10; there were checked 1929 motor
vehicles as against 1868 on July 4,
1923. The check this year showed l.
499 cars from other states on the road
as against 1,647 from Wisconsin.
No trace has been found yet of
Robert Sterba, 49, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Sterba, Hillsboro,. who disap-
peared from his home in June. The
mother is near breakdown. Robert
is described as 5 feet inches tall and
weighs about 155 pounds. He has one
upper front tooth shorter than the
rest, and small gray spot back OF
the right ear.
Trying to rescue playmate who
had fallen off the raft on which they
were playing, Peter Swentcky, an IL
year-old boy, was drowned in the
lagoon at Anderson park, private.
park, at Kenosha. The lad was pulled
out of the water by John Anderson
only a few minutes later, but could
not be resuscitated. The playmate,
John Horocheena, crawled back on the
raft.
.Ienry E. Rohli, former head OF the
First National bank at Hayward, Wis,
will face a federal grand jury on
charge of embezzling 100000 OF the
banks funds at Superior Aug. 3, ac-
cording to word received from Stanley
Ryan, assistant district attorney at
Madison. Rohlf, arrested on federal
warrant in Portland, Ore, will be
taken to Madison and then brought
back to Superior.
Charged With abducting boy from
his home in Appleton, Frank Bra
brandt, 80, married, is in the Outa-
game county jail awaiting hearing on
charge of kidnapping. Brabrandt
was arrested at Marinette where he
had gone with Carl Roemer. ID, whom
he had enticed ii ON home with the
promise to take him first to the cherry
orchards Of Sturgeon Bay and then 10
ranch i'll Montana.
Armed with two boxes of .38 cal1ber
cartridges, which he threatened to use
on his divorced wife, and two bottles
of carbolic acid which he indicated
were for suicide purposes, w. z. NC
Farland, former taxicab driver, was
arrested in Oshkosh and is being held
for sanity test. Mcfarland, accord
ing to police, is wanted by authorities
at Fond du Lac, Oshkosh and Kaukau-
ma on worthless check charges.
Alfred Reinholz, 35, is lying at st.
Nicholas hospital, Sheboygan, prob
ably disfigured for life, as the result
of an automobile accident. The car
he was driving struck telephone
pole, glanced off and smashed sec
ond pole, which broke off near the
ground. The pole swung out suspend
ed by the wires, and back through the
car. hitting Mr.. Reinholtz in the face.
His companion, Henry GuelzoW, ~,
was uninjured.
Five thousand cherry pickers are
now employed in the orchards In the
immediate vicinity of Sturgeon Bas
and other northern points on the pep
insula. The pickers were recr%lte0
from all parts of the state, also 1tortP
ern Michigan, Illinois and Iowa. The
harvest is now in full swing. The
trees are heavily loaded with fruit
and it is of choice quality. The Mar
tin orchard is employing upward OF
/ 200 pickers. The season will con-
tinue for rs days. The early cherries
will be followed by the Montmoren-
cies. which are now turning RED.
Large shipments of the fresh fruit II
being made and the plant OF the Fruit
crowarc Canning Co is now operat-