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


dial Lumber company.
The sum of $1,000 for q broken
tooth and an injured lip is asked IN a
claim filed with the city OF Oshkosh
by Margaret Panlick, who alleges she.
suffered such injuries by falling on a
defective sidewalk.
Joseph Adams. 70 years old, one of
the most prominent residents OF the
town of Summit, died at his home
there. Mr.. Adams was born in 1910 in
England, and came to Wisconsin in
1856.
The sixty-seventh anniversary of
the founding of the Congregational
church of Menasha was celebrated on
Feb. II, when Rev. Fl. A. Miner, pas
tor of the church years ago, deliverd
an address.
A calf having two we'll developed
heads, two backbones, two hearts or
bones was born on George Browns
farm, near Bloomer. 1t died within a
short time.
Physicians who make a wrong dag
nosis and permit favored families to
escape quarantine although harboring
cases of dangerous communicable dis
ease, have frequently been reported
to the State Health Department this
winter. Where evidence is obtainable,
prosecutions will be brought under
the state health laws, according to an
official.
Cadet Harry Wolf of Sheboygan
miraculously escaped death at the
Richfield aviation school. Waco, Tex,
when his aeroplane collided with an
other machine in midair, 400 feet from
the ground. Both machines crashed
to the ground and Louis G.. Burrel1
of Charleston, w. Va, was instantly
killed, while Wolf escaped with minor
bruises.
Belief that the words ITO H
With the KAISER" painted in large
letters on a barn in Oshkosh is an ex-
ira fire hazard, has caused a mutual
fire insurance company of Winnebago
county farmers to ask that the build
ing be reinsured at higher rate. It
is feared that some pro-German will
set fire to it. How the sign was paint
ed or who painted it is not known.
James Hessian, GAINESVILLE, sentenc-
by Judge Maxfeld to five years in the
had his sentence suspended and has
been placed under the state board of
control for that time. The change was
taken by the judge as a result of the
evidence which Hessian gave relative
to the selling of liquor to soldiers who
come to GAINESVILLE on Sundays and
holidays.
An agricultural high school main
tanned by the county or jointly hy
several towns and villages is recon-
mended by J. w. Morgan, a member
of the committee on common schools
for Douglas county, as a solution to
the problem of keeping the farm boy
and the farm girl on the land. Manual
training and other subjects might be
taught at such a school, he suggests.
Douglas county has power to maintain
such school,
The number of milk cows on Wis
consin farms on Jan. / is 1,785,000,
compared to 1,750,000 a year ago, or
an increase of per cent during 1917,
according to the joint livestock re-
price of milk cows per head is esti-
mated to be SIS, compared to $65 a
year ago. The number of cattle other
than milk cows on Wisconsin farms
on jan /, is estimated to be 1,394,000,
compared to 100000 year ago, or
an increase of per cent.
Included in the list of victims of the
Tuscania disaster, who have been bu-
ried on the coast of Scotland. are re-
ported twelve Wisconsin men whose
bodies were washed ashore and identi-
fed. Their names and home addresses
are: Raymond Butler, New Rich
mond; Charles e. Swanson, Roth
schilds; Homer Llewellyn Anderson,
Cumberland; Russell F. Bennett,
Plainfeld; janet P. Hawley, Neenah;
OtLO sMOWICy, hCHUSLd, SldlIO McI1-
enbauer. Chippewa Falls; Alvin N.
Collins, Markesan; Otis Hutchins,
Whitehall; George N. Casper, Milwau-
kee; Fred A. Rudolph, Milwaukee.
Congressman Irvine l.. LenroOt OF
Superior, is Gov. E. L. Philips first
choice for United States senator to
succeed the late Senator Paul O.
Husting, in the event that the legis-
iature, which meets in special session,
gives him power of appointment. Gov.
Philip made this known at a melting
of the republican state central COM
mittee, which, with a majority pres
ent and without a dissenting vote,
adopted a statement indorsing the ap-
pointment idea. Although several
members, including some administers
ton men, say they will stand out for
a special election because the people
demand it. LenroOt's friends say he
would accept the senatorial appoint
ment.
Two Stout Institute goods were
badly injured when bobsled, upon
which they were coasting, collided