Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-04-12
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

VMCudSHd Is 10 erect several houses Tor
their employees on land purchased re-
Gently in West Menasha A $1,000
tract was secured for this purpose.
The Rev. C. H. Auerswald, tried for
seditious utterances, was found guilty
by jury in Menominee after the jury
was out a half hour. He was fined
500 and costs.
Arthur Thomas, % years old, of
Berlin, was killed when crane he was
operating in the foundry of the Case
South works, at Racine, dropped to
the floor, a distance of twenty five feet
and an iron rod pierced his body.
In letter to the Beloit board of
education, Supt F. e. Converse sug-
gests the adoption of a special course
of instruction for the colored boys and
girls of the city who are behind in
their work in the public schools.
Miss Lillian Iserman, one of the best
known young women of Kenosha SO
ciety, left for immediate embarkation
for France for Red Cross work. She
was formerly head nurse at the Vete-
rams Home in Milwaukee.
Nearly 1900 University of Wiscon-
sin students, now in war service, were
honored at a great convocation of the
university, at which an oak roll of
honor in a glass case, was dedicated
by Prof. Carl Russell Fish.
Forty thousand dollars is the
amount Racine and KenOsha counties
will expend in the construction of the
teachers training school at Union
Grove on a two acre site for which
the committees paid $4,000.
Nine drafted men, headed by Ivan I.
Spear, ex-newspaper man of Neenah,
and who volunteered for the service,
left for cantonment camp some
where in Oregon. They will be assign
ed to the coast artillery.
More than 700 Kenosha honor men,
ready to be called for army service,
enlisted for vocational classes to pre-
pare themselves for special army
work. Schools are to be maintained in
twenty different trades and many
prominent persons are to aid in in
struction.
The University of Wisconsin is I'M
dergoing a siege Of scarlet fever and
at present one girls dormitory, one
girls rooming house. and four fra
ternity houses are under a scarlet
fever quarantine One student, Ed
ward K. Hurley of Buffalo, has died of
scarlet fever. He was a Junior and a
member of the Chi Psi fraternity
A German reserviSt whose name
was not made public was arrested in
the vicinity of an automobile plant in
Clintonville, engaged in manufacture
ing cars for the government, and is
being held.for the department of JUS
tice. 1t is alleged the man has been
spying about the plant and making out
and forwarding daily reports of the
output of the concern.
When the train left Tomah, carry
ing Mike Granddaughter, an Indian, 10
years old, of Mather, to a cantonment
in the United States for training as a
soldier of his country, his parents sat
for hours on the track and muttered
sadly to themselves: Mike will never
come back" Now they are in posses
sion of cablegram announcing their
sons death somewhere in France"
The February death rate showed a
slight increase over January for Wis
c0nsin, according to reports compiled
by the state bureau of vital statistics.
Total deaths were 2,319, an increase of
ninety-eight, and the rate was 90 per
1000 population, as against SO in jan
uary. The northern counties have the
lowest rate, II; the southern counties
are next with 9.5 and the central coun-
ties have rate of 9.8.
Samuel A. Cook, ex-congressman
and pioneer paper manufactures, died
at Neenah after a prolonged illness,
brought on by complication of dis
eases. He was born in Ontario, Can
ada in 1849, and came to Wisconsin,
settling in Chiffon on the west shore
of Lake Winnebago, Calumet county.
in 1856. He moved to Neenah in 1881
and has made that city his home ever
since. He enlisted in the army with
CuSt0I > Cavalry oAu OCA VCO CA41O0SA
out the civil war. In 1876 he married
Miss Jennie Christie, Chiffon. At the
time of his death he was president OF
the Alexandria Paper company at
Alexandria, Ind, and treasurer of the
Wisconsin Northern Railroad company
and director of the Phillips Manu-
featuring company of Chicago. He was
a member of the Elks, commander of
the local G.. A. R., Modern Woodman,
knights of Pythias, E. F. u, and the
Neenah club. Mr.. Cook was Repub-
lican in politics and occupied promi-
nent place in the affairs of the party
in Wisconsin. He was elected mayor
of Neenah several times, the first in
1889, and was member of the Wis
consin legislature in 1890 and 1891. In
1892 he was delegate to the national
Republican convention in Minneapolis
and in 1894 was elected to congress
from the Sixth Wisconsin district,
serving in the Fiftyfourth congress
and declining a denomination.
The Grand Rapids city council has
made arrangements to permit people