Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-02-22


Fire swept over the village of Ban.
croft, destroying the post office and
FIVE business houses. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
Michael Gaffney, IS years old.
wealthy former of Racine county, com
mitted suicide at his farm in the town
of Dover, by shooting.
Rev. Howard E. Snyder, pastor of
Luther Memorial chapel, Madison, has
left for Great Lakes, ILL.,, where he will
serve as jackie chaplain.
John Schaub, % years old. an cleo
trician at the Fairbanks, Morse & Co.
plant, Beloit, was instantly killed
while handling live wires. He had just
been married.
Official announcement has been
made by the tax commissioners that
William Landraint of Ashland would
not be reappointed income tax assess
or for that district.
IT. K Loomis, pioneer resident OF
Wisconsin and for number of years
secretary of the Wisconsin Cheese
makers association, died at Sheboy-
gan.
Winnebago county roads are to be
patroled this summer. Men are being
hired whose duty it shall be to tend
to thestate roads and keep them in
repair.
Fishing off Sheboygan was resumed
after a tieup for four weeks. Nets
that were frozen in the ice and car
ried away by the ice foes, has resulted
in a heavy loss to the fishermen.
Supt. C. w. Schwede, Grand Rapids,
rendered his resignation to take effect
at the close of the school year. He will
pursue a course of study along spe-
cial lines in psychology.
John Mazzaro, 80 years old, is being
held at Madison without bail for pre-
liminary examination on charge of
having murdered Policeman Grant
Bosch two weeks ago.
Because of the serious sugar short
age, the Indian and white settlers near
Brentwood are planning to greatly in.
crease the supply of both maple sugar
and maple syrup.
Gov. Philip paroled Thomas KRAFT
ochvil of Chippewa Falls, from the
state prison. Kratochyil was convict
ed last October of forgery and was
sentenced to two years.
P. v. King, a Lafayette County far
mer, had his entire lower lip bitten off
by horse. Mr.. King was shoveling
snow in front of the animal when sud-
denly it reached forward and nipped
him.
Probably the oldest resident of Wis
consin, Mrs b. Dwyer, 107 years old,
died at her home in New London. She
was born in Queensland, Ireland, in
1911, and came to the United States
in 1843
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Noel of Port
Edwards received a cablegram from
their son Frank, amounting his ar
rival in England He was rejected by
the United States and joined the Ca
madam forces as orderly.
The Wausau city hall was filed with
workingmen at the Lincoln week pa
triotic meeting held to boost the sale
of Thrift stamps Speakers talked on
patriotic topics Manufacturing plants
presented employees with Thrift cards
and stamps.
Members of the Kenosha lodge OF
Elks, unanimously voted to turn over
all dormitories of their new 100000
club for the use as a barracks for
soldier officers stationed in Kenosha,
for the period Of the war, and have
notified United States officials to this
effect.
Exactly 399 members of the faculty
of the University of Wisconsin signed
the protest against those utterances
and actions of Senator Robert M. La
Toilette which have given aid and
comfort to Germany and her Allies in
the present war; which was recently
circulated on the campus. This num-
Der represents SO per cent of the facul-
ty members, of the rank of instructor
or above, who are in residence in Mad
ison at this time.
Permission was granted by the Wis
consin supreme court to G. M. Sheldon
of Tomahawk to begin an action to as
certain whether Gov. Philip can be
mandamused to cali special election
in the United States senatorial vacan-
cy. It was ordered that leave be
granted to Sheldon to commence and
prosecute an action of mandamus on
his own relation against the governor
and that the question be brought UP
for argument before the court on
March 5.
William Gessert, Sheboygan county
farmer, convicted in United States
court at Milwaukee of violation of the
espionage law, was sentenced to serve
five years in Fort Leavenworth prison
by Judge Alfred Anderson. Judge An
derson delivered singing arraign'
ment of all foreign born whose hearts
are not with this nation in the time of
war Gessert was convicted on three
of seven counts in the indictment at
tempting to obstruct the operation of