Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-03-19
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Callen.
Two tractors, one of them of the
caterpillar type. have been bought by
Langlade county to be used by high.
way patrolmen in maintenance work
on three sections of federal trunk line
and two of state road
Class room teachers of Oshkosh to
the number of 100 have organized a
branch of the American Federation of
&Teachers, affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor Temporary Off
GERS have been chosen.
Authority to start business has been
granted by Commissioner of Banking
Marshall Cousins to the Dairyman's
State bank of Clintonville. The cap
ital is $4,000 The incorporators are
Charles Bohn, A. L. PEPPER and Max
Steig.
The death toll of the explosion in
the plant of the Aluminium Goods Man
ufacturing company at ManitoWoc was
increased to six, when Miss Emily
Becker died. The young lady was ter
ribly burned and suffered much. -Four
girls remain at the hospital, and their
chances for recovery are favorable,
physicians say.
GAINESVILLE will be the terminus for
three auto bus lines. One will operate
between GAINESVILLE and Beloit, anoth-
er between GAINESVILLE and Edgerton,
and the third will be for the convent
ence of employees of the Samson
Tractor company whose plant is on
the outskirts Of that city George
Flakes will operate them.
The largest amount ever paid into
the treasury of Racine county as an
inheritance tax was received when
the Farmers Loan & Trust Co., New
York, administrator of the estate of
Frederick Robinson, sent draft for
s95,13O, the tax on the Robinson es-
tate valued at s2,50O,000. The estate
is to be divided between the widow,
a son and a daughter
Mrs. Stanley Blomski, Sugar Greek,
Wis was found guilty of murder in
the second degree in Circuit court at
Rhinelander, in connection with the
death of her 6-year-old son, and was
sentenced to serve a twenty-year SEN
tence in states prison She is al
legged to have beaten her son, causing
his death. Her husband, who was also
on trial, was acquitted.
Matt Arland is serving a sixty day
term in the Iron county jail after hav-
ing been found guilty of devoting
money collected for the cause of the
l. W. w. to his own use. He was
arrested by Hurley officers while so
Letting funds to help pay for the de-
-ense of l. w. w. members charged
with Arm1stice day murders in Cen
tralia, Wash When arraigned in mu-
nicipal court at Hurley he pleaded
guilty to spending the money
Seventeen passengers were injured
and eighty lives were endangered,
when an intelurban car, carrying men
from work at North Fond du Lac,
crashed through the Scott Street
bridge at Fond du Lac. When the car
had reached the center of the bridge,
it buckled, letting the rear end down
into ten feet of water. The front end
hung on the bridge, permitting the
passengers to climb upward and to
escape through the windows.
Arnt Gudmundsen, prominent resi-
dent of Washington IslaEd has re
turned from a trip to his DOs-hood
home in Iceland, after an absence of
forty-seven years. He says the eoun-
try has advanced along about the
same lines as has the United States.
Island, Door county's
island township, may rightly be called
large percentage of its inhabitants are
descendants of people of that far
northern country.
The little son of John Wooderick
Wautoma who had been having throat
trouble for months was found to have
a button lodged in his throat when ex-
amined by Fond du Lac physicians.
The button had been there for year.
The high cost of dying was added
to by the Racine cemetery commt5-
sion when it was decided to increase
the cost of grave digging by 81 for
each excavation. 1t was said the in
crease was necessary in order to meet
the demands of the cemetery employees
for higher wages.
Killed by a bullet from revolver
OF an unknown officer shooting in self
defense and in the discharge of his
duty was the verdict of jury at a
coroner's inquest to determine the
cause Of death of Barney Sekat, killed
when federal and local officers raided
Sekat's saloon at Racine. The federal
officers, testified that Sekat shot first,
and though his revolver was not dis
covered, his father, Mike Sekat, who
came to the sons help is credited with
the statement that the revolver would
not be found.
Former soldiers attending the Uni
versity of Wisconsin and other schools
of the state under the provisions of
the Nye Educational Bonus, led in
practically all branches of study, ac-
cording to recent reports. Five thou
sand have so far applied for the edu-
cational bonus.
For taking indecent and improper
with the person of Elizabeth
Malone, under Is, Patrick Tanning,
80 years old, of GAINESVILLE, was SEN
fenced by Judge George Grimm in the