Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-05-14
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

The Simmons company of Kenosha,
manufacturers of brass and metal
beds, are about to increase their cap
ital from $2O,000,000 to 100000, 900, it
was learned there.
A. Johns, A. Biel, Edward Garvin,
e. Nico and J. Hepp, five farmers,
pleaded guilty to the charge of deliver
ing milk to cheese factory in I'M
clean milk cans and were fined SIS
and costs each at Beaver Dam.
Edward Hazen, 40 years old, was
killed, and five other men of Oconto
were seriously injured, when the auto
mobile, in, which they were riding,
struck telegraph pole, and turned
turtle. There were nine passengers in
the car.
John Archer Van Cleve, first mayor
Of Marinette, died at his home there.
Mr.. Van Cleve was born in Michigan
in 1876. He served as mayor from
1887 to 1892 He also was the first
county clerk of Marinette county. He
is survived by wife and two sons.
The decision of the state Supreme
court that marriages outside of the
state are legal came as a relief to
hundreds of Wisconsin couples who
have been married in Illinois, Mich
igan and other adjoining states. Since
the ruling of Milwaukee circuit
iadge that such marriages were illegal,
many were placed in Quandary as
to just what their status was.
Jealous of his girl wife who left him
two months ago after less than a
month of welded life, Walter Kono-
potski, "a years old, waylaid her and
shot her down on the street in Mil
Waukee and then turned the gun on
himself, crying, We'll both die to-
gether." Neither of the shots were
fatal, however, and at Emergency hos
pital where they were taken, it is said
that both may recover.
Owing to the continued shortage of
teachers for the rural schools of Mari
nette county, it has been decided to
conduct a summer session for the
training of teachers. 1t will be held
in the training school in Marinette be-
ginning July 5, and will continue for
six weeks. The instructors will be
Prof. E. Morton and the Misses Eliza
beth King ard Mary Dalziel of the
training school faculty.
A thirty-second degree Masonic
watch charm and solid leather trav-
cling bag were presented to C.eE. Ur-
bahns, retiring division superintendent
of the 500 line at Stevens Point, on
the eve of his departure for Mime
apolis, where he becomes general SUI
perintendent of the 500 system. Five
hundred employees united in present
ing the gifts to Mr.. Urbahns and also
remembered Mrs. Urbahns with a gold
wrist watch.
Herman Monte, farmer near Mon
Zoe, was arrested upon warrant
sworn out by an adopted daughter,
Leona Mowley, charging him with as
sault. The girl who is Is years Of age,
states that for ten years she has made
her home with the defendant and his
invalid wife and that in the last two
years he has repeatedly subjected her
to indignities. Monte and his wife
and the girl and a younger sister sleep
in the same room.
The Knickerbocker estate was.
awarded damages to the sum of $4,000
in their suit against the Milwaukee,
Racine & Kenosha Electric company,
"a subsidiary corporation of T. M. E.
r. & L. Co., by jury in the circuit
court at Kenosha. The suit was the
result of an accident in which Mr.. and
Mrs Cora Knickerbocker were killed
on Armistfce day in Racine. In its
verdict the jury decided that the OPP
orator of the car had been negligent.
Sam Slinde, SO, registrar of deeds of
Dane county and for ten years treas
uyer of the town of Westport. died at
the home of lis parents in Waunakee.
Mr. Slinde had been in poor health all
of his life and since he was 6 years
old had made his way about on
crutches. He was believed to have
been suffering from tuberculosis of
the bones. He was elected in January,
1918, but was forced to leave his desk
at the courthouse Nov. /, and since
that time has been confined to his
room.
A decision of Importance to Wiscon-
sin railroads has just been handed
down by the United States Supreme
court in case which originated in a
Brown county municipal court. Under
the decision railroads are virtually re-
auired to provide box cars with lad
iers which workmen may use in
descending from the side door to the
ground. The action on which the de-
cision is based is that of Herman
Vande Vando against the Northwest
arn line. The plaintiff jumped from
the side door of the box car and re-
eeived an injury to his hip joint. In
Green Bay municipal court jury in
Judge Monahan's court awarded dam
ages of $500 to Mr.. Vande Vando and
his has been sustained by the SUI
preme court.
The state board of education has an
aounced that the student soldier bonus
will be continued for the summer ses-
sion at the University of Wisconsin.
ALI summer session students, old and
new, must enroll at the university not
later than June %, or forfeit 81 day.
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