Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-06-13
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

M In 4CbESoN A0ANAO ~
of industries is a large boiler works
to be erected by Messrs. Bruce and
Hess. The plant will be in operation
by Oct. 1.
John W. Brown of Stevens Point has
been elected great commander of the
Maccabee order of Wisconsin for the
ninth time. He was chosen after
twenty-four years of continuous serv-
ice.
The Menasha Chamber of Com
merce organized a building company
to undertake the immediate erection
of thirty homes to relieve the house
shortage. The company is to be cap
italized at $4,000.
The Heiney Chimney Co., Chicago,
has begun the erection of a new 155
foot reinforced concrete chimney at
the Wisconsin State prison at Wau-
pun. This stack will replace the two
high steel stacks now in use.
A. J. Charlesworth of Stevens Point
was killed by a train at Kilbourn.
After attending the state Maccabee
convention at Madison he left for Kill
bourn to visit his daughter. The acct
dent occurred IS he stepped from the
train.
Provisions of the will of Mrs. Caro-
line Strauss, Watertown, were set
aside by Judge Kirkland and all but
one-eighth of an estate of about $4,000,
willed to aliens residing in Germany,
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property.
All buildings and contents of the
Great Northern Nursery, Baraboo,
owned by M. F. Foley, together with
three horses, were destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at 100000 with
insurance of about $4,000. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
Plans have been perfected for the
laying of five miles of new highway
between Bangor and Sparta, to com
plete a modern highway between the
county seats of La Crosse and Mon
roe counties, a distance of thirty-tWo
miles, on the trans-continental auto
mobile route.
DR.. Gregar Smedal, A. widely
known surgeon, died at his home in La
Crosse of pneumonia. He was a ma
tive of Telemarken, Norway, and a
former officer in the Norwegian army.
He was a graduate of the University
of Christiania and of Rush Medical
college, Chicago.
The proposed increase in coal
fr0;rh4 ~o4or of about 60 n00 nnn onp1,
ally. which was about to be ordered
by the director of the railroads., will
not go into effect until ordered by the
interstate commerce commission, &C
cording to information received by
Carl D.. Jackson, chairman of the Wis
consin railroad commission, Madison.
Stabbed one-sixteenth of an inch
below the heart, George F. Welsh, of
Superior, cook on the Gopher limited
of Great Northern railway, was report
ed to have a fair chance of recovery,
although physicians in charge of his
case had moi expected him to survive.
Welsh is said to have been stabbed by
a colored waiter on the train, follow
ing a disagreement.
In the Manitowoc circuit court, the
jury in the case of Esther Meier VS..
Oliver Thornton, for damages for the
loss of an eye through a stone thrown
by the defendant, awarded Miss Meier
$1,000 damages in a special verdict,
but absolved the defendant from in
tent to do injury. They held him gull
ty of negligence. The accident hap
pened on the play grounds.
A circular in the State Historical
library, Madison, issued during 1880,
county lands, seems to be a genuine
record of current prices. After prais-
ing the lands that could be bought
from the government at $1.25 per
acre, the report concludes: Madison
is the only town, and is a delightful
| situation. 1t contains two stores,
three public houses, three groceries,
one steam mill, and in all, t~hirty-fve
buildings. Prices the past season
have ranged as follows: Corn, per
bushel, $1.25; oats, 75c; potatoes 81
per bushel; butter, 37h to 62h cents;
| eggs, 371a cents per dozen; pork and
beef, from Z to IL cents per pound"
Gen. Joshua Hodgins, quartermaster
general of Wisconsin for ten years
and chief of the Marinette fire depart
ment, passed away Unexpectedly at
his home, at the age of So years. He
had been ill for some time with heart
disease, but had been feeling unusu-
ally we'll and cheerful on the day of
his death. Gen. Hodgins was born in
Kincardine, Canada, in 1856 and came
to Wisconsin with his parents in the
late sixties. He was educated in the
public schools of Appleton, and later
attended Milton college at Milton
Junction. He came to Marinette in
1873 and engaged in the hardware
business. He was a member Of the
Marinette fire department for more
than 40 years and was chief for nearly
20 years.
A grindstone upon which Henry F.
Stauffacher, Monroe, was grinding a
sickle, bursted, and Mr.. Staffaucher is
now at the Deaconness hospital with a
i broken arm and bruises about the
body. A piece of the stone tore it's
way through the floor of the barn lift.
Peter Grob, Kenosha linen agent,
who was arrested and indicted on the
charge of selling stolen automobiles,
has been released from Jail under 81
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