Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-16

cate.
A program of marking all historic
sites of the state is being carried out
by the landmark committee of the
State Historical society The last
site to be marked was that of the
Blue Mounds fort, which served as a
refuge for settlers during the Black
Hawk war.
w. E. Barber, chairman of the Wis
consin conservation commission, was
elected president of the American
Fisheries society by reclamation at
its annual convention in Allentown,
Pa, according to word received in
Madison. Madison was selected for
the next annual meeting place of the
society.
To aid the tobacco growers of the
state in saving their crops from dam
age by frost, officials of the United
States weather bureau are preparing
to send out daily frost warnings
These reports, according to E. r.
Miller, in charge of the Madison bu.
reau, will be sent to % localities
where tobacco is extensively grown.
After five protracted sessions and
examination of more than score of
candidates for chief of police of Eau
Claire, the police and fire commission
selected Christ Laursen of Racine.
Laursen has been on the Racine force
Il years and in charge at night for
three years. He will succeed Elmer
Sundby, who was fatally shot by
bandit here last July.
Industrial conditions are reflected
in an increasing number of app1ica,
lions for positions with the state, the
civil service commission announces.
1t reports that where last year there
were five applicants for each position
there are now Is. Nearly 5000 per-
sons are employed by the state in
its various departments and institu-
lions, including the university and
normal schools.
John Frank, farmer living in Ma
rengo county near Ashland, recently
shot large wildcat on the shore of
Lake. The cat stood two feet
high. Frank presented the hide to
County Sheriff Quirstorff and collect
ed a bounty of Sc, the first paid in
long time. Wildcats are uncommon in
that part of the, country They are
very destructive of small game, such
as partridge and grouse.
Judgment has been entered in cir
cult court at Manitowoc by Judge Kir-
wan, in the case of the j. F. Rappel
Co. against that city, awarding the
company 11,498.95 with interest from
July 1. The decision is based on the
special verdict returned by a jury two
months ago. The case came as re-
suit of damage suffered by the Rappel
company to stock and the basement
of its warehouse caused by flooding
in the spring in 1920. 1t was held
that the city was negligent in per
hitting a sewer which passes through
the Rappe1 property to become block
ed with refuge, causing the water to
back up and break through the ce-
ment floor in the company's basement
Lightning, for the fifth time within
two weeks, caused fire that destroyed
farm property in Manitowoc county
The barns on the Michael Gallagher
farm in the town of Maple Grove were
burned to the ground. The seasons
crops and farm machinery, together
with the buildings, valued at $500,
were burned. Horses and other stock
were saved. Never in the history of
the county have there been so many
fires and heavy losses. Nearly $4,000
has been lost by the owners of the
five barns, crops, machinery and cat
tic destroyed by fires caused by light
ming
What is believed to be the tallest
corn raised in Wisconsin was grown
near Brentwood on the farm of II. p,
Nelson, owner of Eden Hall Deer
park The corn measured Is feet in
height and was otherwise normal. The
entire field averages IL feet. Tbs
northern Wisconsin corn crop this
season will be one Of the largest evet
according to farmers, and
unless frost arrives may surpass that
of any past season. The potato out
look is encouraging and the harvest
will commence within two weeks. The
second hay crop will be extremely
light and in some cases too light to
cut. The grain crop was a failure
this year in that part of Wisconsin.
Mrs. John Koscielny, who confessed
burning her daughter ANDY two step
children in barn at Lublin, Taylor
was sentenced to twenty years
by Judge Risjord in circuit court at
Ashland. After an investigation made
by Dist. Atty. Andersen, Taylor coun-
ty, and Charles Good, state fire mar
shall, Mrs. Koscielny was arrested for
firing the barn, in which Eleanor
10, daughter of Mrs Kos
cielny, and Katherine, II, and john,
8, children of Mr.. Koscielny by a for
mer marriage, were burned to death.
The woman was taken to Medford he
fore the justice court, where she con
fessed firing the barn with the inten-
ton of burning the children to get
revenge on her husband. who she said
mistreated her.
Raffaele Roppa, an italian section
laborer employed by the 500 line at
the Stockton station, died at hos
pital in Stevens Point from eating
toadstools, which he mistook for