Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-05-03
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

william ri. Mann or BdfdDOO, Well
known engineer of the North-W estern
road. died suddenly Of apoplexy as his
train was nearing Tomah.
Departure of Company e, First Wis
consin National guard. for the war
with Spain twenty years ago, was Gel
ebrated at Beloit by veterans of that
company on April 25.
Nick Gallo, Barron, who killed his
brother last fall, pleaded guilty to MUIR
der in the second degree before Judge
Ross at Superior, and was sentenced
to fifteen years at Waupun.
June s is the date set for the open
ing of the new Elks' clubhouse at
Manitowoc. At meeting of the Elks'
Club company reports showed that
$68,696 has been spent on the new
building.
The Entering Wedge and the Pepin
County Courier, the two Durand (Wis.)
papers have been consolidated. Both
the proprietors of the Pepin County
Courier, Bardell brothers, are going
into the army.
Chicago and Northwestern railway
employees of the Ashland division have
subscribed more than $14O,950 to the
third Liberty loan. Of this amount
$118,050 was subscribed under the
North Westerns plan.
At meeting of the Waukesha coun-
ty defense council, Chairman Howard
Green announced that $1,006,000 worth
of bonds had been taken. The coun-
tvs quota is $1,OO0,000. All but four
towns have gone over.
August, Fall Creek, and other north
ern Wisconsin villages which gave
Victor L. Berger, socialist candidate
at the recent election a substantial
vote, were among the first to oversub-
scribe their Liberty bond quotas.
The Parent Teachers association of
| the Washington school, one of those
in the public system at La Crosse,
passed resolution calling for new
school building, the present structure
being a firetrap, so it was alleged.
The BeIoit Liberty Loan committee
passed resolutions, demanding that
/
be abolished, petition to that effect
| being generally signed. German is
taught only in the Beloit High school
a picture of Robert M. La Toilette
was cut from it's frame, where it hung
/ alongside the pictures of Washington
and Lincoln in the high school at
Genoa Junction. and was found pinned
| to telephone pole on the main square
| The yellow heart, which was painted
On tie picture, was pierced with
] Enife
The first Junior Volunteer company
| of Wausau. has been organized with
| boys under q years of age as mem
Eers. The purpose is to bring a feel
| ing of cooperation with the govern
ment, in every possible way; keep
| up home spirit, and to prepare the
| boys for military duties in the future
| If needed.
Members of the First District Wis
| consin Federation of Women's clubs
| In convention at Racine unanimously
| adopted a resolution offered by Mrs.
| A. B. West of Milton, pledging them
| selves to eat no more wheat until
| after the next harvest and to urge the
women of their respective commune
| ties to do the same.
The first Great Lakes transport built
| under government supervision for
service on the Atlantic ocean, was
launched at Sturgeon Bay before a
| huge crowd. Miss Eleanor Wolter,
| daughter of one of the builders of
the vessel, christened the transport
the sturgeon Bay" The vessel is 261
| feet long and has been in the process
Of construction for over nine months.
The Wisconsin committee of ma
tional defense, medical section, of
which DR.. Rock Sleyster, Waupun, is
secretary, sent out an appeal to physi-
clans for enlistments. Wisconsin al
ready has given literally of her med
ical men. The state stands second in
| the nation in the number of physicians
enlisting in percentage to population.
| Pennsylvania being the only state with
a better showing.
After heroic battle by firemen at
/ EAU Old1I6 Lu0 1IC1Q Sldl1 1OOOC, OAC
of the city's two largest hotels, was
saved after $4,000 damage had been
done to it in 2. $175,000 fire. 1t was
| the worst blaze in forty years. The
| fire originated in and completely de-
stroyed the Continental clothing store.
The origin of the fire is mystery.
Guests i'll the Eau Claire house were
driven from their rooms in night
| clothes.
Mrs. Eliza DeMunck, 81 years old,
was arrested at Kiel on warrant
| charging first degree murder, follow
ing the death of her husband, Abra-
ham DeMunck, 81 years old. De-
| Munck, a farmer, died at Greenbush
at the home of his son, William De-
Munck. Distinct traces of poison were
| found in his stomach by Sheboygan
| physician, according to Charles
Weight, district attorney of Sheboygan
who conducted the investigation.
Explosions of dynamite caps during
a fire at the Morley Murphy Hard