Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-06-07
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

Conductors and motor men on the
Eastern Wisconsin Electric companys
lines in Sheboygan have been granted
a wage raise of one cent an hour.
Rack county's war chest drive rails
ed $165,00O to pay allotments for Red
| Cross, Knights of Columbus, Young
| liens Christian association, and 9TH
| er patriotic activities
Winnebago County Beekeepers' as
ISOLATION, formed to increase the pro-
| duction Of honey, has William Nelson
of the town of Omro for it's first vice
| president. III. E. Greenwood. Oshkosh,
was elected secretary treasurer
| Heirs-at-law of the late Mrs. Johan-
ma Booker, Sheboygan, will share half
eciving only SIS each, and Mrs. Sell
ma Mueller, an adopted daughter, will
receive but half, according to the SUI
preme courts decision.
Official notification of the death of
Edward Gerl, Manitowoc, in the sink
| ing of the steamer Moldavia in the
English channel, has been received
| by his parents. Gerl was former rail-
way mail clerk and left Manitowoc
with the contingent in October.
| Reports on file at the state board Of
control show that 374 Wisconsin boys
have been returned from cantonments
because they were affected with tu-
berculOsis The record also shows
that $50 additional have been returned
to date because mentally defective.
| Wisconsin knights of Pythias are to
hold their annual convention at She
boygan on June II, Is and 10, instead
of Eau Claire, the change having been
made because of temporarily limited
hotel accommodations in the latter
| city.
/ A silver jubilee celebration, COM
memorating the twenty-f1fth anniver-
sary of the ordination to the priest
hood of the Rev. j. B. Hauck, pastor
| of St. Mary's Catholic church, Wau-
sau, was given on Memorial day I'M
der the auspices of the pupils of St.
Mary's school. Thirty-fi1e visiting
priests were present
Grace Lusk, Waukesha, is guilty of
murder in the second degree. This
| is the verdict, after four hours DELHI
GRAFTON, of the twelve men who have
sat on the judgment seat before her
for two weeks during her hAart-grip-
ping trial for the Staying of Mrs. Mary
Newman Roberts, wife of DR.. David
Roberts. former state veterinarian.
The Sheboygan common council
| adopted formal protest against pass
| age by congress of the Randall lamend-
| ment to the food stimulation bill. The
resolution was introduced by Alder
man William Brockman, saloon
| keeper. The amendment seeks to pro-
hibit use of foodstuffs and fruit in the
manufacture of beverages.
/ Sixty men, class / registrants yet
| to be called to war service, began
training at Oshkosh to operate army
motor trucks. A number of local
concerns donated use of their heavy
| trucks for practice. Other classes for
registrants at the Beach school are in
| electricity, stenography and type
writing, carpentry and radio work.
| At a massmeeting in West Algoma,
| called to discuss the Punchoqua school
| problem, action was taken to show
| that the patrons of the school want a
/ larger building than originally pro-
| posed, favOring an eleven room struc-
Eure. The council has been standing
but for smaller school than the ma
jority of the school board recommend
| ID.
| Aggressive patriotism of North
| American Indians was responsible for
a Liberty Loan record, which may
not be surpassed in the United States
| 1t was officially announced that Odan-
| ali, an Indian reservation village in
Ashland county, subscribed thirty-five
times its quota. The quota was $4,000
and the total subscription was $780,
900.
| Conservation Warden Graves has
crew of men at work in the Bibon
swamp near Drummond, Bayfield, coun-
ty, blowing out the beaver dams in
| that vicinity. The beavers are pro-
tected until 1920, and during the past
few years have multiplied in great
numbers and especially in the Bibon
swamp, where their great dams have
backed up the water to such an extent
| that in places it is flooding the county
| highway and part of the timber pre-
serve of the Rust-Owen Lumber COM
pany.
The industrial commission in a ia
BILE shows the number of industrial ac-
| cidents in tie state during the past
three years. About 40,98O cases were
| reported, SIT of which resulted in
deaths. The total working time loss
because of the accidents is 5,951, 1888
| days or between $12,00O,OO0 and $15,-
100000 in wages. Only 10 per cent of
the accidents were caused by ma
chimes and a larger number of acct
! dents by handling objects Other
causes were from falls, falling objects,
hot substances, cranes, derricks and
hoists.
An increase of ten per cent in wages
has been granted to policemen and