Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-04-23

/ issued Al -hOWItZer Held piece from
/ the arsenal at Rock Island, III. The
cannon will be placed in the city park.
William Luedtke, SO, died at Me
nominee hospital as result of being
kicked by cow at his home in Pesh-
tigo, Wis. Luedtke was kicked be-
i tween the shoulders. The ribs were
split and his backbone and spinal cord
/ injured, resulting in paralysis of both
/ legs.
/ Provisions for an increase in salary
for all county officials, beginning with
/ the next term of Office, and blanket
raise of 10 per cent for all employees
of the county, are included in resolu-
/ tons adopted unanimously by the
/ Douglas county board. County officers
are given a raise of $500 to $500 a year
wit the exception of the county judge.
wkJ was raised from $4,000 to $4,000
a year.
E. L. LawIer of Beloit and Phillip
i Bardell of Freeport, both students of
Be1oit college, packed up their tooth
brushes AMI donned old suits prepare
/ tory to tl.cir "vagabond" trip around
the world. The students plan to work
their way, going first to England.
They will carry credentials from the
| college, showing their trip is for edu-
cational purposes. They expect to be
gone at least Is months.
John A. Freudenburg, Markesan
physician accused of causing tho
death of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Nettia
i Duties, through the use of mustard in
/ jections, was set free when an order
wa issued by Court Commissioner HI.
A. Price releasing him from custody
and the $4,000 bond. Prosecutor M.
J. Paul of Green Lake, declared that
the state would not press the charges
because of lack of evidence.
While Motorcycle Deputy Charles
Jensen was patrolling the concrete
road at the north limits of Racine he
was attacked by bull dog and suf-
fered severe injuries to his foot and
leg, the gashes extending to the bone,
| according to a physician. The dog has
been attacking vehicles of every ma
ture for some time. Shortly after
Jensen was injured, other motorcycle
deputies drove to the scene and killed
the dog.
No longer will Superior's lounge
lizards" be able to lounge about soft
drink parlors until morning. An ordi-
nance passed by the city commission
orders that all places dealing in one
half of one per cent of alcohol drinks
must close their doors at midnight anG
must keep them closed until o'clock
in the morning. According to Mayor
Baxter, the ordinance is aimed at the
"hangouts" suspected as breeding
places of vice.
4 With official and complete returns
from all but IL counties in the state,
the standing of the candidates in the
Republican delegate contest stand:
La Toilette slate: Thompson, SO ,696;
Blaine, 95,O42; Gross, 81 ,489; Krumrey,
90,164 ITninstructed slate: Philipp
6O,752; Hatton. 54,095; West 1862;
Bosshard, 1886 Independent slate.
Schultz. 1895; Strange, 1858. La
Toilette delegates also received sub
stantial leads over the uninstructed
slate in practically every district dele
gate contest.
Cora Doubleday. 20, daughter of Al
bert E. Doubleday, Madison carpenter,
of promise suit in Omaha against
Thomas j Brown, former student at
the university. The girl alleged Brown
was the father of 2-year-old Katherine,
whom she is now working to support
on farm near Minneapolis. The ro-
nance started at Madison three years
ago when Brown was a student, &C
cofding to Mrs. Doubleday, Coras
mother. Cora was employed in a
home where Brown was frequent
caller.
Results of the vote on the two con-
stitutional amendments, one permit
ting the legislature to vote itself an
increase in salary above the $500 now
allowed and the other amendment au-
thorizing the legislature to Increase Or
decrease the number of judicial dis
tricts, are slow in coming in, but the
official returns on about half of the
/ counties of the state point to the de-
feat of both. Milwaukee county voted
41,321 to 18.443 to favor of the first,
while the judicial amendment reviewed
36,143 against 1871, but the meas
ures lost out in nearly every other
| county.
Holding that the testimony showed
| the plaintiff guilty of contributory
negligence. Judge Edgar " Werner
abruptly dismissed the $4,000 damag
suit started at Appleton by Miss Fer1
Lambie, nurse at Outagamie county
tuberculosis sanatorium, just as the
case was to go to the jury. An appeal
is to be taken to the supreme court
! it was said Miss Lambie alleged that
/ she was seriously injured when her
automobile was struck by street car
owned by the Wisconsin Traction
| Light, Heat and Power Co, defendant
in the action. She asserted that
sudden blast of the street car whistle
unnerved her to such an extent she
/ was unable to control her auto
School children of Chippewa Falls
High school cast an almost unanimous
| ballot in favor of daylight saving for
/ the beginning school at 1880 a. m. and
closing at 1870 p. m. If the parents