Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-08-30
WISCONSIN news
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

CHRISTIAN Weston, go years old, Port
age, lost his balance while crossing a
bridge at Columbus and was drowned
His body was taken from the river by
his son.
Mrs. Emily Froehlich, Sheboygan, 81
years old, died in ST. Nicholas hospital
as a result Of injuries sustained when
she fell down the cellar stairs of her
home
A large number of Winnebago far
mers met at the courthouse at Osh-
kosh to fern an organization of a
county union Of the American Society
OF Equity.
While walking on the tracks of the
Northwestern road in the nothern
part Of this city, William Perkins, Be
lott, was struck by train and in
stantly killed.
Ray r. Dalton Of La Crosse, for ten
years a leading travelling salesman in
tie northwest, was victim OF the tor
| nado at Tyler, MINI. His son Tim
othy, who was riding in an automobile
with his, escape.
In alighting from the east bound 500
limited at Hawkins before the train
had stopped moving, Matthew James.
a 13-year-o1d Ladysmith boy, was
thrown to the ground, sustaining a
broken left shoulder
A Rhinelander meat market which
had refused to contribute to the county
patriotic fund, has been given coat
OF yellow paint. This is the first time
citizens of Rhinelander or the county
have applied yellow paint.
Joseph Whackett, aged As, while
threshing near Randolph, slipped and
fell into the cylinder of the threshing
machine. His body was taken out ter
ribly mangled. He leaves a wife and
seven small children
Charles H. Mohr, Jr., of Portage, ar
raigned in United States court at
Madison on charge of violating the
espionage act thru alleged disloyal ut
terances, was bound over to the grand
jury in $4,000 bail.
Owing to the scarcity of policemen
and fremen at Neenah the commits
sion has changed it's bylaws SO as to
permit the hiring Of men who have
not been residents of the city for three
years as was formerly reQuierd.
Grand Rapids City Engineer A. T.
Thompson has received information
that his brother, Lieut. M. T. Thomp
son, was killed in action July Is, prob
bJ11 +jaa 6oL.f;vo tho Marina
although details cannot be ascertained.
Irwin and Herbert Hoops of the town
of Speaker are twin brothers, born
Aug. 4, 1897. Both registered in Wau-
sau for the selective draft under the
recent order. Herbert at once volun-
tarily enlisted for service as a machin-
list, and will leave soon for service.
An injunction restraining the city
OF Sheboygan from proceeding with
the paving of North Thirteenth street,
has been served on the city officials by
property owners who object to the
paving at this time because of the al
legged excessive cost
DIR. d. j. Twohig, Fond du Lac, re-
vealed to the medical world sue
cessful method of treating gangrenous
appendicitis. A soft rubber tube in
serted in the intestine through the ap-
pendix stump has been used with sue
cess by DR.. Twohig in over 200 cases.
Three weeks after losing her hus
band, who died OF disease, Mrs. Elmer
Christensen, formerly of Neenah, sui
fered the double affection OF seeing
her 4-year-old daughter Lucille killed
before her eyes when a severe storm
wrecked their home at Tyler, Mimi.
When Mrs. Michael Lange of Mad
ison received word from the war de-
partment that her husband had been
killed in action, Mrs. Raymond Nichols,
her cousin, rushed to console her.
While in the Lange home Mrs. Mich
OILS also was notified that her husband
had been killed lover there
A honor roll tablet to accommodate
at least ], 900 names will be erected in
the Watertown downtown district.
The matter is now in the hands OF
Aid. w. +. Beurhaus, following fight
carried on by the Watertown News for
the city to build such recognition to
the fighting boys. There are already
600 Waterfowl men in France or IN
camps in the United States.
Mrs. Nora Kosterman, "a, OF Racine,
was probably fatally burned when an
automobile in which she was seated
caught fire while the gasoline tank
was being filed. Her body was en-
veloped in flames, which were extln-
guished by her husband, who had both
hands and arms burned. Both are in
a hospital Physicians say the woman
cannot live.
His two sons, Werner and Helmuth,
in active service in France, Rev. John
G.. Runge could not resist the call OF
his country and has resigned ais pastor
of the Lutheran church in the town OF
Sheboygan Falls to enter the service.
He preached his farewell sermon last
Sunday and among other words said
that he felt his country needed him
more than his congregation.
Lieut.. Col. John B. Schneider, who at
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